When Beau and I walked into her room,a small light was on next to her bed and the shades were pulled.She was sitting in her wheelchair,her back toward us,slouched over,facing the viewless window.
“There's just no point talking to a Petrified person, ” she said, and they had to admit she had a point when they'd taken their seats next to Hermione.
This is sleep-learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, and you're supposed to be learning from this.
She told me that when her husband would go to work, she would lay on the floor next to the empty crib and say to herself, " What can I bring to my family if I can't even wash dishes? "