In a dark and empty room, a man with blonde hair and grey eyes tearfully blows a kiss to a coffin, a final good-bye to his loved ones...

"Of the only two people he had ever loved... one was dead, and the other lost to him forever.
 
 
 

Draco is on his way back to the Slytherin common room when he runs into a brown-haired girl and ends up in a furious argument...

"...He saw that this was none other than Hermione Granger- Mudblood, top of the sixth year, and a Gryffindor who most passionately despised Draco."
 
 

As the students board the train to go home and Hermione steels herself to erase her parents' memories when she gets home, she says her last good-byes to the friends who will be left behind in the fall.

" 'Same thing for you, okay?  Stay safe.'

'Of course I will.'

Then she walked away, a sudden bitter taste in her mouth, trying to avoid the feeling that she had just lied."