"What the hell, you're like---secret crime fighters?"
Liz couldn't help herself as she blurted out her first thoughts, and her expression flashed from confusion to shock to worry to something along the lines of enlightenment. It made sense, if she thought back to all of the times she'd grown annoyed about their secrets. With Sirius, everyone had been acting as if they knew something, but how could they have known anything if they weren't out acting like spies and double agents and...and...
That was ridiculous. They weren't aurors or anything--well, the Longbottoms were, but--Dumbledore had started this? Dumbledore had asked all of them to do this with him, so he had to think that they were capable of...of fighting death eaters. Making a change, doing something to stop this war and all that was going wrong with the world and---
---and she hadn't been on the list. Liz's heart dropped and sunk deep into her chest, eyes welling up at the idea, but her free hand went to her eyes as she shook her head in amazement; it was no time for a pity-party. Her friends were out there trying to do something for the greater good, they were trying to make this world a better place for their future, for their children, oy, for Katie---she shouldn't be jealous, she should be proud. Proud and terrified, but proud nonetheless--
"S--see--" Liz stuttered, getting far more choked up than she had intended to, and she forced a smile but that only made some tears leak out onto her cheeks, "Th--that was---easy."
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