It's past midnight when someone raps on the door.
"Gellert-I didn't expect to see you so late."
Gellert smiles and Albus feels like his heart accelerate.
"We have no time to sleep if we are going to change the world."
Albus smiles and moves aside to let Gellert in. As he closes the door, he smiles. He is sure that this must be love.
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Harry Potter is content. He floos home every night to a full house-warm and full of laughter.
He watches his sons play on the living room couch-he watches his wife feed their small daughter in her high chair while trying to finish her deadline. He closes his eyes and leans back in his chair. This is what they fought for.
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Lavender Brown loves dragons more than she's loved anything. She can't imagine having children, though she knows Charlie wants them. Children are small and innocent as easily breakable. She's wild and broken, with sharp edges that could easily hurt a small child.
She wouldn't be a good mother. But Charlie loves her and stays despite that.
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Remus is fifteen and thinks he must be in love. Sophie Bennett is the prettiest girl in their year,
and the kindest. When she looks at him, he thinks she feels the same way.
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"Daddy, daddy, tell me the story again."
"The one with the princess?"
"No! The one with the spiders! The really, really, big ones!"
Ron sighs and pulls his six year old daughter onto his lap.
What he wouldn't do for love.
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Dennis is more nervous than he's ever been in his life.
"Emma, will you marry me?"
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Seamus Finnegan does not love Lavender Brown anymore. Her face is no longer the same as the one he fell in love with. Who can blame him for that?
Sometimes he is sure he is a bad person.