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But then he supposed he knew the same things of her. He knew her loyalty and her impatience and that exasperating righteousness. Her venomous streak and her occasional soft uncertainty. Her fondly irritated sighs. The fears she kept at bay. The crinkled shape between her eyebrows when she laughed.
He knew how her fingertip felt at the corner of his
lips. Somehow this seemed to change the rest.
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and this bossy, overbearing girl seemed nothing more than a cover, for a moment, for the girl who asked him questions that probed all the way into what he was, and never used the answers to injure him

get some rest, she said
but she looked at him a moment longer, because she wanted to remember the sight
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Clear your mind, said Bellatrix's voice, training him in Occlumency. Clear everything away. Close yourself to the world, to guilt, to doubt, to shame. He succeeded, except for one thing, which lingered no matter what he tried. Granger's face as she lowered the diadem onto her head, crowning herself, terrified and defiant.