Penny & Charlie
Of course I'm really worried about your safety. But I mean... if it's both, is that really so bad? My whole family is at risk right now. So, yeah, I'm going to try to take them out before they take us out, or take more of us out, anyway.
I don't know what's going to happen, Pen. And yeah, I know there will always be hate in the world. But right now, there are a few particularly hateful monsters out there who enjoy the mayhem of pain and death, and the Weasleys are on their list. The risk to you is less if you're just some random muggleborn than if you're Charlie Weasley's muggleborn, and I need you to Ben needs you to live. So you protect yourself and you protect Ben however you have to. If that means pretending not to have feelings for me, then that's what it means.
And if we're both still alive once the Death Eaters are dead, then... well, I won't have stopped loving you, and we can go from there.
I know it's not fair. I'm sorry. I don't want this either. I want the opposite of this. I bought you a ring, but I can't give it to you if it might get you killed like it got Verity killed.