It would be nice, wouldn't? It seemed to be Professor Lupin's solution.
[For every dementor attack, there would be chocolate. It helped but it never fixed anything either.]
I think that's something, isn't it? All the unexpected chocolate, I always knew there was that.
[It reassures him more than he can put to words that she says it, and he looks over at her.] Really? [And then he nods, something twisting around in his chest.] That's good to know. I didn't want to-- I didn't want to give you something that would just hurt
[He didn't want to be responsible for giving her more pain.
And he closes his eyes at the sound of his name, swallowing back what feels like sickness and fire rising from his chest into his throat.]
I thought you might have.
I started really understanding it at the end, the visions, being able to speak to snakes, every time a horcrux was destroyed, I felt it too. It hurt me too. So now there's just this... dark thing inside of me.
[And won't that make a difference at some point? Does that--
It's something he thinks about a lot, but he remembers how poisonous those other horcruxes were to people, to good people.]
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Date: 2011-08-10 04:09 am (UTC)[For every dementor attack, there would be chocolate. It helped but it never fixed anything either.]
I think that's something, isn't it? All the unexpected chocolate, I always knew there was that.
[It reassures him more than he can put to words that she says it, and he looks over at her.] Really? [And then he nods, something twisting around in his chest.] That's good to know. I didn't want to-- I didn't want to give you something that would just hurt
[He didn't want to be responsible for giving her more pain.
And he closes his eyes at the sound of his name, swallowing back what feels like sickness and fire rising from his chest into his throat.]
I thought you might have.
I started really understanding it at the end, the visions, being able to speak to snakes, every time a horcrux was destroyed, I felt it too. It hurt me too. So now there's just this... dark thing inside of me.
[And won't that make a difference at some point? Does that--
It's something he thinks about a lot, but he remembers how poisonous those other horcruxes were to people, to good people.]