Emerald_Slytherin

Secrets and Masks

She wouldn't, in fact. Wouldn't bend to lower herself. She was strong, immovable in her beliefs.

She so rarely got to feel anymore. She'd witnessed so much death, seen so many bodies burnt beyond recognition. 

"Nothing brightens up your Tuesday evening quite like seeing a man fall to his knees in agony."

A pureblood, - one of Voldemort's most loyal followers - with a mudblood's spit across his face.

It hurt like hell; she tasted blood in her mouth, but she couldn't keep the smile off her face.

A brave, hot-headed Gryffindor to the very end. She wondered if McGonagall would have been proud?

"You are now bound together. Tied forever by blood,”

Hermione couldn't help herself. Before she realised she was doing it, she raised her hand, and slapped him across the face. As hard as she fucking could.

She realised, with a stabbing pain in her chest, that's all she was now; a soldier.

She wasn't someone's lover. Wasn't even someone daughter anymore.

"You can't seriously think I won't hunt you down in my own house?"

He threw her the most sadistic smirk she'd ever seen, and then disappeared through the new doorway.

"You're breaking,” he said, “and it's such a fucking pleasure that I'm the one to break you.”

If Potter was the face of the resistance, then Granger was the backbone, and they were falling apart without her.

Nott was strong now, powerful. He'd grown into his confidence, and adapted this deadly lifestyle

“Perhaps you're losing your touch, Theodore?”

That someone whose hands were soaked in so much blood could love someone the way Blaise so clearly loved Astoria. He adored her, there was no denying that.

Hermione painted for hours and hours and hours, and she so enthralled in her artwork, so transfixed as she covered the once cream wall in vibrant shades of blue and jade, that she never felt a pair of curious grey eyes watching her from the doorway

If Astoria was Blaise's heart, then Blaise was her blood. Both vital to one's survival, but unable to exist without the other. They 

Secrets and Masks

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