Tears are dripping down my face as I shake my head. "The only way to keep them and you, and everyone I love, safe is to be in the middle of it all. I need to be in the middle of the war and at the front of the battlefield to make a difference. Being engaged and eventually married to him, that is a sacrifice I need to make," I clasp his hands in mine. "I don’t agree with Dumbledore and how he tries to win, he tried to kill me and I will never forgive him, but there are so many innocent lives and I can help to spare a few of them, I can even take revenge on the people who deserve it."