Harry Potter and the Silvertongue's Aid, Chapter 7
(HP/His Dark Materials)
(HP/His Dark Materials)
MsStarryNightSky Wrote:A month passes. Lyra is still feeling guilty and conflicted over her feelings, she still feels lost and adrift at sea, but she keeps trying - and despite her efforts to keep herself distant, she can't help but continue to inch closer and closer to loving Harry to the point of no return. And it isn't just Harry causing her to put emotional roots down in this world - now that she's over at the flat constantly, Lyra finds herself bonding with Hermione Granger nearly as strongly in a different way. She finds a mentor in Kingsley Shacklebolt and *might* be getting more attached to Auror Trainee Tonks than she's willing to admit to herself.
And when she and Hermione celebrate Harry's birthday with him, it ends up being Hermione Granger that finally starts crumbling Lyra's resistance to attachment - causing her to, for the first time in years, bring back a little of that truly rebellious fire that used to run like wildfire in her heart. Sure, the *rules* might say that people can't stay in another world for more than a few years without starting to deteriorate - but since when has Lyra Silvertongue *ever* been one to follow the rules?
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg