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"When a Slytherin says 'I trust you,' what he really means is 'I know how you would betray me, and when, and for what gain, and I believe that I can keep you from doing it.' This is, perhaps, a greater statement of faith than it sounds, and it allows us to form alliances among our own kind on our own terms."

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Andromeda brings with her the way Bellatrix used to laugh, the way she still sometimes does when she is with her sisters, all energy and potential and that fearlessness only Bella has. Andromeda could never in a million years laugh like that, with all of Bella’s daring courageousness ( Read more... )

then her eyes look at me, love breaks my
bones and I
laugh.

Thrice she considered the ease with which she might kill him. Each time it was as he slept, arms spread like a cross, palms up, fingers curled, the rise and fall of his chest shallow and quiet. She watched him sleep and bending over him placed her fingers one by one against his neck, like wings to frame the breath in his throat. I could kill him, ( Read more... )

I will pretend
That I don't know of your sins
Until you are ready to confess
But all the time, all the time
I'll know, I'll know
And you can use my skin
To bury your secrets in
And I will settle you down

[Fiona Apple, I Know]