"I’ve been lost and I’ve been confused." Hermione’s throat clicks, blinking twice. "And right now I feel...empty. I feel as if there is nothing inside of me. I feel like the sadness that is here," she puts a hand over her heart, "will never end and it started way before everything that happened three months ago but has gone worse since then. It’s been happening for a while now but I can’t see it ever fading away. And it’s true that perhaps I don’t understand what’s real anymore. But you told me what was true, and I believed you. And if I say I want this, you have to believe me, too."