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“I didn’t make plans past the war. Potter was never going to win, I always knew that. Falling for you didn’t change that—it just—it just—It just made knowing it worse.”

“Hermione, I’m tired.”
She looked up at him and saw it in his eyes.
The war had eaten him; there was so little of him left. The ghosts in his eyes, the war, it was almost all there was.

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“I would do it all again,” she said. “Every second. I would do it all again to save you.”
“You didn’t save me,” he said when he finally seemed capable of speaking at all. “You just put us in hell for two years.”

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"Draco—there has to be another way. I need you to live. You're mine. We said we'd run away together. Remember? Somewhere no one would find us."
"I would try to do anything you asked if I could."

“You—looked for me?” Her voice was shaking.
He looked back at her. “Of course I looked for you. I looked everywhere for you. Did you think I left you there?”

Everyone hanging from the Astronomy Tower was dead but Remus.
There was a flash of poisonous green light. As Hermione glanced back, she saw the Killing Curse sailing through the air. Remus finally went fully limp. The last of the Marauders.

All this death and it’s the reminder of the Marauders that makes me tear up 🥲