The Truth In Your Ink

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I read your diary—I didn’t mean to,
But when you left, I didn’t know what to do.
We’d escaped together; you were safe at Shell Cottage,
But then you vanished, like words on a page.

I felt like I was going out of my mind,
Trying to find answers, anything I could find.
Then in your diary, I found the truth—
A world beyond this one, hidden from view.

Who would believe this world was made for me?
That everything I knew was just a story?
Dumbledore’s words, and the strange things you’d say,
Made it all clear in a different way.

You once told me your favorite memory was in that room,
When we first met under the bath's soft bloom.
At first, I thought you meant it in thanks,
But now I see it was our start, unplanned.

I never saw the change; I thought it was you,
Thought time had just shifted, as it tends to do.
But when you woke up, with those different eyes,
You looked at me like I was despised.

It hurt, that look, like a sudden cut,
But now I know I was missing so much.
Those eyes weren’t yours; that look wasn’t you—
You were carrying burdens I never knew.

—Harry James Potter (His Memory Of Her, page 13)

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