After the Triwizard Tournament

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 26153

That's what I feel like I'm living through.  I have to reread that
section of the last book.  Everything you expect turns into something
horribly different.  You are wounded, you are in mortal terror for your
life, all because a psychopath has it in for you for a reason you don't
even understand.  You see a friend die, a good person, an innocent
person, who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Just when
you think you are safe, that the horror at least is over, you have yet
another shock, realize another betrayal, and you finally understand that
your whole world has become unmoored, changed, infinitely more
dangerous.  Because of what has happened, your enemy has been
immeasurably strengthened.  And you--you're just numb.  All you can do
is to be quiet with your friends.  And honor the lost.

I understand Harry's quiet shock at the end of the book to the depths of
my soul now.  And how that last line resonates in a new way now:

What would come would come . . . and we will all have to meet it when it
does.

Peg