To Protect You

He turned his gaze to her and for the first time in a very long time, she saw him. Not the angry, moody, quick-tempered Harry of late, but the Harry she’d managed to befriend more than six years before. “I’m scared,” he said with open honesty. “I’m scared that if I let you in, you’ll be taken away. I’m scared that Voldemort will take you and use you to get to me. I’ve dreamed of that night at the Department of Mysteries, Hermione. He already knows how scared I am that something could happen to you, he’s seen it. I’ve tried to distance myself from you to protect you—”