"I did!" Harry barks back. "And the man that I was in that nightmare did not care. That was a man I might have been if my life had run a different course and it is not who I am now, and Mr Gray, I will regret what happened to you until the end of time."

He can feel the area around his left eye swelling already. He hasn't had a black eye since he was a child, and that was from an accident. Christ.