Hermione reached for Cho, and Dean seemed to get a sense of urgency. Hermione looked back to see that Kingsley had pointed his wand and freed Amanda Crespo from her restraints. The spell was on the tip of Hermione’s tongue. She could kill her now, end it all. But the spell might also kill her. The last time had been so much harder to recover. If she took Amanda’s life, she could be sacrificing her own as well. Six weeks ago, she wouldn’t have blinked an eye. She would have killed her. But now she had something different. She had a family. She had purpose again. Crespo and Shacklebolt hadn’t taken everything from her. 