And then Harry felt something unexpected, as all of Hermione’s turmoil over their current situation slammed into Harry like a sledgehammer. All her worry over angering and alienating him, all her concern for the two little girls she had spirited away and how they might drive a wedge between them, it all hit Harry as if he were seeing it through his wife’s eyes. He saw her fierce determination to try and save the innocent, no matter where they might have originated, and her staunch belief that Harry needed closure on his past to make his way in the future.