I'm sorry, I'm not trying to make you feel bad about yourself, and I don't think she'd want that, either. We both think you're too hard on yourself, sometimes, even though you don't like to show that you are. Isn't that why you're so sarcastic?

I don't know, Draco. Maybe you could have just... lived peacefully with your feelings. Instead of fighting them. I don't mean that you should have pursued her, but just accepted your attraction and fondness. Because the fact that you fight those feelings away, well, it says that you see love as something that will make you weak or hold you back, rather than something that will make you stronger. I mean, you told me yourself that love makes people weak. Isn't that what you meant?