No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

But Death was cunning.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.