[Have some chocolate and everything is magically better, like fairy dust.]
And you're mine, Harry. You always will be.
...I don't regret asking, you know. I don't regret knowing what happens, even if I never lived it. [If only because it means it's not a burden he has to strictly share alone.]
Harry...
[Hermione watches him carefully. As friends, she's always aware of him and his reactions, noting them for what they are, since Harry doesn't always say what he is thinking.
There is always a lot more going on.]
I think a part of me always knew.
[Deep down, she hadn't wanted to know but she did. Harry and the horcrux. The thought of him having to live with that for the rest of his life--and equally as horrifying, the thought of what it would take so that he didn't--
Hermione swallows something painful at the back of her throat, blinking back tears.]
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Date: 2011-08-10 02:14 am (UTC)[Have some chocolate and everything is magically better, like fairy dust.]
And you're mine, Harry. You always will be.
...I don't regret asking, you know. I don't regret knowing what happens, even if I never lived it. [If only because it means it's not a burden he has to strictly share alone.]
Harry...
[Hermione watches him carefully. As friends, she's always aware of him and his reactions, noting them for what they are, since Harry doesn't always say what he is thinking.
There is always a lot more going on.]
I think a part of me always knew.
[Deep down, she hadn't wanted to know but she did. Harry and the horcrux. The thought of him having to live with that for the rest of his life--and equally as horrifying, the thought of what it would take so that he didn't--
Hermione swallows something painful at the back of her throat, blinking back tears.]