AEB: Chapter Two

Chapter 2

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"

ACA: Chapter 1

A Constant Ache

Summary: Returning for his last year at Hogwarts, Draco has to suffer through an impending disability and endure animosity from his own House, feeling as though the weight of the world rests on his weak shoulders-until Hermione offers to share the burden that is.  HBP not compliant.

Note: Starts during their seventh and last year at Hogwarts. Harry supposedly defeated Voldemort during their sixth year after Draco let the Death Eaters inside Hogwarts. Dumbledore and Snape are both alive. The Weasley twins are both alive and well.

"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much, and power over nothing."

-Herodotus (Greek philosopher)

ACA: Chapter 2

Chapter 2

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
- Buddha

ACA: Chapter 3, 4

Chapter 3

“The human body can bear immeasurable pain and yet recover.
Wounds can heal.
But once your spirit is broken, everything falls apart.”

-Palden Gyasto (Human Rights Activist)

ACA: CHapter 5, 6

Chapter Five

“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.”

-          Albert Schweitzer

ACA: Chapter 7, 8

Chapter 7

“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.”
- Charles Caleb Colton (English essayist)

ACA: Chapter 9, 10

Chapter Nine

“Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much.”

~ Oscar Wilde

ACA: Chapter 11, 12

Chapter 11

“The dew of compassion is a tear.”

~ Lord Byron (Romantic Poet)

ACA: Chapter 13, 14

Chapter 13

“In the best relationships, there remain serious pockets of unresolved bitterness.”

~ Anthony Wolf (Author, Psychologist)

ACA: Chapters 15, 16, 17

Chapter 15

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

~ Mother Teresa

ACA: Chapters 18, 19

Chapter 18

“To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.”

~ Chinese proverb

ACA: Chapters 20, 21, 22

Chapter 20

“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.”
- Julius Caesar

ACA: chapter 23 and 24

Chapter 23

“He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.”

~Henry Taylor

ACA: Chapter 25 and 26

Chapter 25

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

~ James Baldwin

ACA: Chapter 27 and 28

Chapter 27

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

ACA: Chapter 29

Chapter 29

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

~ Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

ACA: Chapter 30

Chapter 30

“In true love, the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged”

~ Hans Nouwens

ACA: Epilogue

Chapter 31

Epilogue