Dawn

"Is that Nina?"

During the Triwizard Tournament, Nelson had once met Nina, who had still been Ludwig's girlfriend at the time. He remembered that girl—beautiful, tall, proud, and alluring—but he really could not connect her with the dying person before him. Beside him, Moaning Myrtle's mouth fell open in astonishment; the change of just a few short years had caught her completely off guard.

Nelson walked up to Nina and placed his hand over her forehead. He was silent for a long time before finally letting go and turning to look at Moaning Myrtle. In a stiff voice, he asked, "Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here?"

Moaning Myrtle's pale face quickly flushed red. Behind her glasses, her large eyes looked especially huge, taking up almost a quarter of her face, and she was still straining to open them wider, as if making her eyes big enough would keep her from losing in sheer presence. At the same time, she stared at him with all her might, trying to make out the color in Nelson's eyes at that moment.

But in the end, she failed. Compared with the complex colors she had seen when they first met in first year, Nelson was now wrapped in thick fog. She could not see the joy or anger beneath his calm expression at all. He seemed to have grown cold. After simply examining Nina, he did not mention her again. Moaning Myrtle watched helplessly as the girl's already weak pulse grew intermittent, yet in Nelson's eyes, it was as if she did not exist.

"Can't I even choose where I go myself?"

"Of course you can," Nelson said, nodding. He turned to look at Nagini, who was silently tidying the medicine bottles in the corner. "I still have things to do.