"I didn’t tell you," Harry continued heavily, "because I knew you’d never accept it. You said it yourself - that the rest of the world could hang. You’d have us spending years trying to separate his soul from mine. We don’t have that time, Draco," he pleaded, "the longer this goes on, the more people will die. People we could save Draco - I was prepared to die to stop him last time, and I still am," he said resolutely. It was the wrong thing to say.