Eowyn

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I had my whole life planned out, and this... this was definately not part of the plan. I didn't want this.... I hadn't counted on this. And yet, here it was.

Things had always been simple for Riley Lestrange--that was, of course, until her world started crashing down around her. She was supposed to get betrothed, completely support the Dark Lord, and somehow manage to stay calm in the midst of a sudden. When she runs into Sirius Black, a former best friend and a current hated Gryffindor, she finds that things can change, if only she has the courage. But when it all comes down to it, will she choose the life she’s always known, or the life that could risk everything?

We never were really that complicated, you and I. ``Simplicity itself, I imagine.

It was a bittersweet love, wasn’t it? When you were alone and could pretend that he really loved you, but was too scared to admit it, it was heaven. But when you went back into the real world, just for a glimpse of him, you knew it wasn’t so. He loved her.

They do not know me; no one does. If they did, they would that their jealous looks and hateful stares do nothing to me in any way. I do not feel them. I hover somewhere between happiness and sadness in a state which I suppose one would call numbness. This state is rather pleasant on the whole, with no attachment to anything except you.

Lucius reflects on his wife, Narcissa, and explains why she reminds him of a white rose.