He was the one who was invading her home, and he was the one who would have to deal with the consequences of that decision.

"So you're saying this is about revenge?"

Here was one threat Astoria had no strategy for, one thing she hadn’t prepared to fight against.

She wondered if he had always believed this, or if it was the madness speaking.

She could live with not being a particularly good person, if it meant that she did get to live.

That is something that cannot be taken from you unwillingly. You certainly will still have your soul. 

Astoria, personally, did not think ‘the castle sent us’ was a highly compelling argument.

I suppose the invitations to the secret room, from the secret army just got lost on their way to the dungeons, did they?

“I spent months as a prisoner with Mr. Ollivander. He taught me a lot about wands. They’re very interesting, you know. Yours especially.”

“This is going to blow up in your face. I’m telling you, I can feel it.”

She was. In this moment, in this corridor, in her life. She was entirely alone.

Caught.

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TW: just to be on the safe side, due to some mentions of violence and a certain Death Eater being just...generally a creep. If you are sensitive to that sort of thing, this might not be the chapter for you. Leave a comment that you'd like a summary - sans creepiness - and I will do my best to provide one

"This isn’t Hogwarts anymore. It’s time we started acting like it.”

It was about time the rest of them got a healthy dose of reality.