Re: Harry and Severus
"Equality is in the eye of the beholder, surely." Severus replied. "Think back to when you first took up with Ginny. As I recall, you spent a year on the run from Voldemort, with a price on your head, fighting for your life. She spent that year at school, and I can tell you that I did my utmost to ensure that that year was as safe as possible. I gave her detentions with her friend Hagrid; I assure you the Carrows would have been far less kind.
When your relationship with her began, she was hardly your equal in wartime experience. Yet you didn't let that stand in your way, and rightly so.
Because there are other reasons to love someone than for their ability to fight.
I can tell you," and there was that small, inward smile again, "for all my experiences in life and in reading people, Al still never ceases to surprise me. In his presence, I am as much of an ingenue as he - I am constantly learning him."