What was done was done, and leaving things the way they were still might be easier in the long run than trying to mend what they'd had. What he had broken. If their side won the war, he and Hermione would still have to face trials and imprisonment and being ostracized by the majority of wizarding society. It was easier just to leave it, he thought, thinking about what Nymphadora had said and acknowledging that yes, he was a coward but he couldn't do it. He couldn't.