[ he gently wipes her cheek, and just looks at her for a moment. ]

I almost did something terrible once too, some nights...I still have nightmares about it. But when I told Jim about it, do you know what he said? He told me - that the fact that I feel so bad about it proves that I'm not a monster, that I could never be the kind of person who's capable of doing those kinds of things. Our guilt is a badge of honor - it's proof that we care. But...it doesn't mean that we can't cut ourselves a little slack. You deserve happiness, Hermione, you deserve to know that you're a good person, who just was put in so many unfair situations and did the best you could.