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This is pretty good

I don’t remember a thing about the first book so I’m just vibing and hoping for the best

"Sick with knowing England doesn't need me, or anyone like me, as much as I need you."

DRACO IS TOO PURE

"I know it must come as a shock to you that I am no less imperfect than your father. I suppose I'd hoped to keep that from you, selfishly, because I have been so very, very fond of being your hero." […] "The greatest thing I have ever been is whatever I was to you," Abraxas said.”

Oh Abraxas. That’s kind of sad

"I feel as if you leaving is a bit like losing some very crucial bit of myself.”

Ah, ouch

“She thought my god, I love you so powerfully, so consumingly, that it doesn't even matter if I never mean anything to anyone but you.”

"If you say their names three times you'll conjure them up from the netherworlds."
"Really?" asked Will, delighted, and before either of them could stop him, "HORTENSE AND THIBAUT, HORTENSE AND THIBAUT, HORTENSE A-"
"PEEVES," barked a voice from the corridor, followed by the swanning form of Hortense herself (much to Will's obvious glee). "I thought I felt a disturbance just now. Was it you?" she demanded.”

DEDDDD

"And if I don't love you back?" challenged Will, […].
"I will still love you," said Percy. "I will always love you, no matter what you do."
"Even if I tear all the pages out of my books?"
"Yes."

I don’t WANT a Percy chapter, I want a DRACO chapter

“She tried mindfulness and immediately abandoned it, finding her mind uninhabitable.”

Oof. That’s a mood, fer sure

"As I said, he isn't happy," Draco repeated, and then paused with his fingertips on her jaw. "But I," he murmured, "am very proud."

SO CUTE

“Tracey told me I'd forever be impossible to love because my heart's already been split into pieces," he commented. "I can't give all of it to anyone because so much of it already belongs to that sweet summer prince upstairs."
"And me," was Hermione's juvenile protest, to which Blaise's smile broadened.
"And you," he agreed.”

Ugh. I love well written friendships

"Where are *any* of the men, now that you mention it?" [Daphne] remarked, as if she'd only recently noticed her husband had disappeared into thin air. "Nott keeps insisting he's not part of the shrubbery but in fairness to me, it's unclear."

I’m dead

“The love between them was so rich and deep that there was a surplus of it somewhere, a fortune to be amply shared with someone else. *There is room for you here*, she thought to the baby her body couldn't give her yet, which she hoped it would give her someday, even if it wouldn't be today.”

“There is room for you here” hurt me deep. I don’t even want kids

"Have you ever noticed that daddy problems leave damage, but mummy issues create veritable sociopaths?"
"I…" Hermione trailed off. "I really have no idea what to do with that."
"The point is men are useless," Narcissa said. "They can't even destroy us properly."

*snorts* Truth

Not a fan of how Hermione is currently acting.

"You and Alex don't want children?" asked Hermione.
"He does, but—" She shrugged. "I'm not especially interested in the idea at the moment."
"Neither was I," Hermione pointed out. "You might change your mind."

Eww Hermione. You lost points just for saying that

"I'll have you know there's nothing untoward about my interest in any of your sex lives," Blaise said.”

DEDDDDDDDD

Rita be using the name “Hermione” FAR too often. It is “Your Highness”

“Harry: "Well sweetheart, Daddy's letting Uncle Blaise name him."
Jamie: "Why?"
Harry: "Because Uncle Blaise is our wise and benevolent patriarch."
Theo, to Jamie: "He's all of our daddies, if you will."
Draco, cheerfully: "How stupendously upsetting."

I’m dead

“with the air of a man who'd just shown his true colors and known he would get away with it. With all of it.”

I LOVE this not so subtle political reference

"Do not openly disrespect me on the table where we eat."
From Theo: "Excuse me? This is my house."
From Pansy, unapologetically: "Only physically."
Theo: "What does that mean?"
From Blaise, delighted: "I don't know, but ten points for intrigue."

DEDDDDD

"Though Pansy tells me we're not supposed to bring it up."
"Well, that's totally unacceptable and the worst," Hermione grumbled, "though why on earth would I bring it u-"
"Tell me whatever secrets you're ensconcing AT ONCE," announced Blaise, manifesting at Hermione's other side and startling her. "In fact, minus ten for not immediately summoning me at the point the conspiracy began."

DEAD

“Her marrying Draco had done absolutely nothing to stop him from playing some absurd form of lawless ping-pong in his office with Harry just last week.”

*snorts* Lawless ping-pong

"If you have changed my grandson in any single substantial way, it is the degree to which he challenges me. I will thank you for it one day," he added with a murmur of humor, "though I'm afraid it will not be for some weeks yet."

*snorts* Abraxas is so sassy