They say in the second before you die, you see your whole life flashing in front of your eyes.
Have you ever wondered what you'll see? Does this second extend to the number of years you've lived or does your entire life, in the end, holds in one single second? How do you know you're living this moment or reliving it? How do you know you're the author of your own life and not a simple extra in someone else's memories?
What are you going to see in this second? What do you want to remember of your devastating, perhaps brief, passage on earth? The mistakes you made, the follies you did, the causes you fought for, the roads you took, the people you loved. You will see the choices made, you will see these times when you were truly the master of your fate. These things you will remember and be remembered for.
What will you leave behind when you sink into oblivion? What is going to persist of you when your heart stops?
They were ambitious and hopeless, manipulative and courageous. They were wizards, but that didn't keep them from being human. They had no idea they were going to launch the strongest revolution the Wizarding World has ever faced, that their boiling Gryffindor blood would win a war without them being around to witness it. She wanted to make a change in the world. He wanted to make a change in her world. She let him in and that's all it took.
The revolution was on its way.
In this last second, they saw each other's face.
Before death comes the living. This is what this story is about. Theirs is a story of why nots and let's.
He's not scared of death the one who's well lived.
Theirs is a story of taking chances.