"Why are there two of you, Daddy?" The day comes where George tells his son about his uncle. DH spoilers.
“I love you,” he tells her. The words, she now knows, are soft and sweet but deceitful and empty. Tom had made her whole. Tom had broken her. She wants to hate him.
She pretends it doesn't hurt. He pretends he doesn't want to hurt her.
When Narcissa is told that Sirius is dead, she blinks and simply says, 'I see'.
Stone walls in Azkaban, thoughts lingering in the foggy inbetween. Bellatrix can't remember how to smile.
Hermione is inflicting a different kind of pain.