Prologue

Many don't know what love is or what love can become.

But I do.

I was in love.

But I was in love with the wrong person. Some call him the enemy. Some say he's just a basterd but I say he's mine. He is nothing that his mask says he is. The world chooses to see him as if he were his father. I, however, know the truth. He protects himself from those who would kill him by choosing to say he's on the dark side.

He and I are alike. We wish that there was no more war and we wish that we could have no part in what is going on.

That's why we fell in love. Because we are two halves of a whole.

After four years at Hogwarts, this summer I was beginning to see the truth about the war and the reasons behind it.

I guess I know love and what it can become.