You've hit more than one nail on the head, I'm afraid. Hammered them in, even. There is so much that I fear, in the end. And— and I do not know what. The more I think on it all, on our history— decades of it by now, startlingly enough— the more I cannot untangle myself.
I first made my Pensieve, you realize, to sort through every memory I had of our time together. To look, with an objective eye, as best as I could, at who you were, what you were doing, how you were acting. To see if I should have been able to predict your actions, if I was as short-sighted and blinded to your darkness as everybody around me thought I was. So, yes, what you seek is there, well-preserved. "Yes," I said," she might drop dead at the sight. Though of us or the blood magic, I'm not sure. " I then went on with that ultimately doomed theoryof mine about Transfiguration-based amplification of the latter.