For the first time, Harry really saw that it might. There were no guarantees, of course, and there would need to be some serious work to build on these early steps. But the longest journeys always began with the smallest strides, and Harry couldn’t shake the feeling that they were, in this moment, placing a first, tentative foot onto the long and difficult road. But the promise at the end was, Harry could finally see, worth all the effort that was to come.