George Morris De'Ath: Well, Lydia is a very complicated character and I think to some she’s likeable but to others…not so much haha! She’s very much a Slytherin girl and fundamentally she is a sociopath, a fully functioning member of society sociopath. And I think to have her contrast with an actual psychopathic killer is an intriguing way of comparing the two. We’ve all met a Lydia Tune in our lives and sometimes we like them and sometimes we don’t, but there’s always that allure to them. Lydia is very cold and analytical and that’s served her up until the point you meet her in the book.

You know, she gets what she wants and doesn’t care what dirty tactics she has to pull in order to get what she wants. But when she’s somewhat confronted with emotions she doesn’t quite know how to handle in this story, she seems to kind of pull back a little. Lydia doesn’t know how to handle them and I think that’s interesting with sociopaths.

People tend to think they can’t love, that’s not true at all, it’s just their view of love and how they express and feel love is very different to typical neuro-functioning people. So that exploration of how she copes with those emotions and how she juggles that with getting what she wants I feel is fascinating. Sorry, I’ve rambled a lot there haha! At the end of the day I hope that people can find Lydia as a morally grey protagonist that is interesting and compelling.