Five times Colin Creevey didn't die and one time he did.

1 – When Dennis was three months old their mother had died – Colin had been distraught and slipped away from his father. It had taken them three days to find him in a park seven miles away from where he'd last been seen. When he'd finally recovered from the cold and the damp he'd realised that he had to stay healthy because mummy had liked that.

2 - When he was four years old he had been hiding behind the wheels of his father's milk van. He'd been so small that Mr Creevey had reversed without even seeing him. It had been Dennis' screams that had alerted his father to what had happened and since then Colin had always felt he'd owed his brother something.

3 – In his first year at Hogwarts he'd nearly been petrified by the Basilisk. It had only been his camera that had saved him. He'd always loved photography and being able to capture things as they happened and freeze them forever but it wasn't until it had saved his life the he realised quite how much he loved it.

4 – When he was fourteen he'd done something very stupid. He'd gone swimming in a reservoir. He knew it wasn't very safe but he'd wanted to impress the other boys in his area and show them that he was more than just a runt from a 'posh' boarding school. He hadn't anticipated quite how cold the water would be…

5 – In what ought to have been his sixth year of Hogwarts he'd had to go on the run from Death Eaters with his brother. At around four months in they'd slipped up and been caught. Colin had been terrified that they wouldn't make it but, just as things looked like they were at an end, he'd heard the crack of apparition. The arrival of a stranger had given them both time to escape.

1 – He needed to fight in the final battle. He had to defend himself and his brother and his friends and the world of magic. He wasn't too young – he was almost of age. He had almost survived. He took out three death eaters before being hit with the killing curse. It had been quick and clean and later a lot of people would assume he had been an easy kill. In fact he had kept the death eater duelling for more then five minutes before the man had found a weakness in his guard big enough to attack through. The last thing Colin ever felt was pride.