And so, they explained: The Goblet of Fire. The contract Harry could have gotten out of but wasn't released from. Ghosts intervening in the lives of the living. Two enemies trying to kill each other but simply being unable to so, once they stood eye to eye. Hermione's help and Ron's revelations. A ritual that should have killed Harry. Being bound together even more tightly than ever before. Severus" test. Hermione and Ron's marking. Basically, everything that had happened during these last two years. Sometimes they spoke one after the other. Sometimes they explained together, and only her long years as a teacher had her make sense of their words. Finally, Tom gave a sigh. "Our world can't survive the path Albus Dumbledore has set it upon. Not only because acting for "the greater good" and forgetting about the individual is wrong, but because muggles have become so much more dangerous than they were in our time. We need to grow more distant, not closer together. We're working on it, and this time we're doing it right."