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I know how you feel, Harry.

No, you don’t.

It’s my fault.

No, the fault is mine.

I knew it was only a matter of time before Voldemort made the connection between you.

I thought by distancing myself from you, as I have done all year…

…he’d be less tempted, and therefore you might be more protected.

The prophecy said:

“Neither one can live while the other one survives.”

It means one of us is gonna have to kill the other, in the end.

Yes.

Why didn’t you tell me?

For the same reason you tried to save Sirius.

The same reason your friends saved you.

After all these years, after all you’ve suffered…

…I didn’t want to cause you any more pain.

I cared too much about you.

How come you’re not at the feast?

Lost all my possessions. Apparently people have been hiding them.

That’s awful.

Oh, it’s all good fun.

But as it’s the last night, I really do need them back.

Do you want any help finding them?

I’m sorry about your godfather, Harry.

Are you sure you don’t want any help looking?

That’s all right.

Anyway, my mum always said…

…the things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end.

If not always in the way we expect.

Think I’ll just go have some pudding.

I’ve been thinking about something Dumbledore said to me.

What’s that?

That even though we’ve got a fight ahead of us…

…we’ve got one thing that Voldemort doesn’t have.

Yeah?

Something worth fighting for.