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They were still moving sideways, both of them, in that perfect circle, maintaining the same distance from each other, and for Harry no face existed but Voldemort's"Accident, when I decided to fight in that graveyard? Accident, that I didn't defend myself tonight, and still survived, and returned to fight again?" "\iAccidents!\i" screamed Voldemort, but still he did not strike, and the watching crowd was frozen as if Petrified, and of the hundreds in the Hall, nobody seemed to breathe but they two"Accident and chance and the fact that you crouched and sniveled behind the skirts of greater men and women, and permitted me to kill them for you!" "You won't be killing anyone else tonight," said Harry as they circled, and stared into each other's eyes, green into red"You won't be able to kill any of them ever againDon't you get it? I was ready to die to stop you from hurting these people - " "But you did not!" " - I meant to, and that's what did itI've done what my mother didThey're protected from youHaven't you noticed how none of the spells you put on them are binding? You can't torture themYou can't touch themYou don't learn from your mistakes, Riddle, do you?" "\iYou dare -\i" "Yes, I dare," said Harry"I know things you don't know, Tom RiddleI know lots of cartier watches important things that you don'tWant to hear some, before you make another big mistake?" Voldemort did not speak, but powled in a circle, and Harry knew that he kept him temporarily mesmerized at bay, held back by the faintest possibility that Harry might indeed know a final secret"Is it love again?" said Voldemort, his snake's face jeering"Dumbledore favorite solution, \ilove\i, which he claimed conqered death, though love did not stop him falling from the tower and breaking like and old waxwork? \iLove,\i which did not prevent me stamping out your Modblood mother like a cockroack, Potter - and nobody seems to love you enough to run forward this time and take my curseSo what will stop you dying now when I strike?" "Just one thing," said Harry, and still they circled each other, wrapped in each other, held apart by nothing but the last secret"If it is not love that will save you this time," said Voldemort, "you must believe that you have magic that i do not, or else a weapon more powerful than mine?" "I believe both," said Harry, and he saw shock flit across the snakelike face, though it was instantly dispelled