"I need you," I tell him slowly. "We are in this together and you can’t protect me from this. I need to do this, you must understand. I have been fighting from the first time I felt the Cruciatus Curse hit me. I accepted my faith, you need to do the same. We are going to war, I’m going to get blood on my hands, but as long as the lives I save outweigh the others, I can live with that."