Freedom
Your world is as big as you make it.
I know, for I used to abide
in the narrowest nest in a corner
my wings pressed close to my side.
I was leaving for Hogwarts Mum gave me a quick peck on the cheek, her emerald green eyes glistening with unshed tears. "Be a good girl Artemis and watch over your brother." She reminded me for the hundredth time. " Yes mum." I said as I hugged her. Father was a bit different in his farewells. "Don't fight anyone 'til you know how and Harry get better marks than Malfoy." Mum swatted him on the arm for that. "You better get going dears." She said gently. We got our trunks on the train just before it was about to pull out. "Bye Mum! Bye Dad!" We waved at them until the train went around the bend.
But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the sky-line encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity
Throughout Artemis third year at Hogwarts, she became more and more depressed. Each night she went to the Astronomy tower. Every night it was harder than the last to suppress the urge to jump off. But she couldn't do it without a guilty conscience. At Christmas time, she decided to stay at Hogwarts for the holidays. Nobody had known this information because her friends long ago stopped their attempts to make her cheerful. On the 25th of December she wrote a quick note to explain her actions as well as she could. She jumped. When the other students came back they were horrified to find the corpse of the Girl-Who-Lived at the base of the Astronomy tower. After searching for an answer to why she did it, her friends looked through her belongings and found the note:
I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease!