I have so much to say and I’m only at chapter six. But I’ll start with why I’m saying anything and it’s because I, unlike many people, am qualified to speak on this. Children with dead mothers are rare. It doesn’t (thankfully) happen to many children. Just look at this chart by @MonaChalabi. Harry and I both lost our mothers down at the end of the chart where you need to squint to even see the purple bar. The only person I knew with a dead mother when I was seven? My brother. My dad still had both his parents.