"I don’t know," Harry groaned. Would learning of the letters earlier, when Hermione discovered them, have changed anything? Would it have made an already failing marriage, a dysfunctional family, straining under the public’s expectation of being happy and perfect and so stubbornly remaining not so, all the worse? "Regardless. They were a part of my past. My past. I had a right to know about them, and a right to decide what to do with them."