First Times: First Failure
(HP/DC)
(HP/DC)
Quote:It’s what everyone had warned her would happen one day. It’s what she’s been mentally preparing herself for nearly a year to occur. None of that helps.
Hermione’s recent meeting with Agent Chase and the astronomers had been… certainly not intolerable. Part of the job, Hermione supposes. No worries. A routine patrol tomorrow, the makings of a good day.
It isn’t.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg