"Harry realised that he was in love with you, without any blatant prompting," Lily replied. "It was like a veil had been lifted from him. I never said the words to him ... I never told him "you're in love with Hermione Granger’. I just asked him to look into his heart, to see which girl resided there, which one he cared and hoped for the most. I asked him to imagine a world without her, or if he would ever want any other girl to take her place in his life. He didn’t want either, passionately rebelled against both ideas.