Forever
Forever. Such an impossible, dangerous word. Nothing is forever. Everything is destructible – even the sun, even the strongest enchantment or curse. There is no such thing as a love or a commitment that lasts forever. A lifetime perhaps, but not forever. Of course, things are different in youth. Life seems never ending, there's no limit to anything. Everything is only beginning not ending.
When Antonin looks at the assortment of Hogwarts and early Organization photographs, he thinks that at seventeen or eighteen it's easy to believe that all that is needed for something to last forever is a little faith.
Always
Every time the Dark Mark became a little darker, Thorfinn always thought of the same thing: coming back to England, finishing what they started in the first war, and getting Tony out of Azkaban. Rowle always felt like he owed a lot to Dolohov for giving him a chance to be someone. After the Lord fell, Fin had gone to France and then Italy. He had not been in the Organization prior to the war nor was he very notable and nobody bothered to look for him. Now he had a duty to his comrades – getting them out of prison.
Never
There is one thing that Purebloods never do: give up. No matter what odds they face, Purebloods will never back down from their ultimate goal, they may retreat into the shadows for a while or concede a certain position, but they will never stop working toward their desired ends. Lucius had always known that Voldemort would come back, they all believed that. But Lucius had a wife unlike many of the younger lot, and his wife wasn't a Death Eater, unlike Roddy's. He had a son, an heir. Malfoy would have to lie in wait. But he never stopped believing.
Maybe
Fabian Goyle's son, Gregory, was born in November of 1979. Adolphus and Christina Crabbe were the Goyle heir's godparents. The two families were very close, and when Vincent was born that December, the Goyles were given the same honor. Maybe the reason why the two families were so close was because they had a bad "habit" of being in constant debt to the Malfoys who liked to lord themselves over other families. Fabian hoped that maybe Gregory would be able to break that tradition, to become his own person, independent of the Malfoys. There were many, hopes for the future…
Eternity
The blues of the sky darkened and condensed, becoming a deep purple that blackened over the minutes. There was eternity up there somewhere. Somewhere far beyond the stars there was so much space, emptiness, nothingness, that eternity materialized and became an actually substance.
Ashley could swear he felt the touch of that substance, that eternity of nothingness. Theodore said that was what people sometimes feel when someone they love dies, like a peace of the Otherworld materializing for a moment in the Living world to reach out and touch the bereft. That touch leaves a never-leaving mark on the soul.