DISCLAIMER: Thank you to everyone who's reviewed so far and this is the REWRITTEN version of Ch 13. I didn't like the old one. I'm finally settled in Univeristy and should be able to start adding new chapters more often now. Thank you for being so patient!

She felt him before she saw him. Shivering against the elements, her awakening powers tuned her into his every footstep, every breath. In what felt like a lifetime, he reached her.

"I've known you for years and I've never seen you run as much as you have for the last few." Oliver said.

"Are you here to judge or to scold?"

"I just want to understand you. Why you left, how long you've been this heir, everything."

"Life's full of disappointment. Get used to it."

He sat down beside her. "How long, Evie? How long have you known?"

She sighed, realizing that he wasn't about to give up. "Six years." He nodded, "When you left."

"I wasn't ready to deal. I woke up one day and realized I didn't need my wand anymore."

"Is that all?"

"No. I can feel people. Their thoughts, their feelings… once that started, I had to go. I couldn't hide it anymore. I left the Order a note and left. Flew to Canada, started a new beginning as a music student." She fell silent and let Oliver take in the information. After a while, she got restless. "Are you going to say anything?"

"Did you distrust me that much that you never told me this before?" he asked, hurt.

"Why are you so angry with me?"

"You left without a word and I'm supposed to be happy? You left all the people who cared about you and the people that needed you! Did you even think about Harry?"

"Harry doesn't even know I exist!"

"That's not the point!"

"Then what is?"

"The point is that you think about no one but yourself. You felt bad, so you ran. Damn the consequences and screw everyone else. Is that it?"

"So what if I did? My parents died to make sure that I got to live, so I am. I don't have to explain that."

"Explain it to the brother you left to fend off You Know Who."

"Dumbledore promised him protection I didn't have. I can't save or protect someone who has no clue who I am!" She got up to leave, but he stepped in her way. At this point, they were drawing a crowd.

"You are not leaving." Oliver said.

"Yes I am. I am not going to sit around here and become a sheep in this war like the rest of you."

"Fighting for my school and others does not make me a sheep."

"It does when you give up what you really want for it. You loved quidditch, but you had no other reason to give it up than "my girlfriend thinks it's too dangerous."

Oliver grew furious at having his own words thrown back into his face. "That was low," he whispered.

"So is calling me a traitor with no heart."

"I never called you that."

Evelyn looked him straight in the eye. "You didn't have to." He remembered what she had said about sensing feelings and kicked himself mentally. As she walked away, he thought she would never know the loneliness he felt when she had left him and she thought he would never know what she would give to keep him and Harry safe, and what she already had given to do so. As the onlookers dispersed, Ginny asked Hermione,

"Who won that round?"

"I'd say neither." Hermione replied