Disclaimer: I'm not entirely sure why these are needed since this is a fan fiction site and every story here uses stuff owned by other people. Any way, Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling and so is which ever brother of Ron's is thinking this.
I wish I could have known him. I mean actually have known him. Not just to be able to say "I've spoken to the Great Harry Potter before" but to be able to say I knew him. I wish I could have talked to him with more than a hello here and there. I wish I had sat him down, handed him butter beer, and talked.
Of course, I have no idea what we would have talked about. I suppose we would've fished for topics from anything from school to the war. I wish I could have just talked with him as I do with my brothers. Imagine everything one could have learned from a talk with him.
I wish I had known him better. I wish I had known who he was. What scared him the most? Who was the girl, or guy I suppose, he was crushing on at school? What were his favorite classes and least favorite professors at Hogwarts? I would love to have been able to tell you what he usually ate at meals. I would have been happy to be able to tell you any little tidbit of him I know.
I knew he didn't fear dieing, and he loved everyone he met. But I don't know how he would have lived his life had there been no prophecy or Voldemort. I also know I won't ever be able to ask him.
I stand in front of his grave at this very moment. I like what they wrote on his tombstone. It says Here lies the world's light, for every angel must return home. Very touching. I think he would have liked it too.
I wish I could have known Harry better. I wish I could have seen him for who he was sooner. I saw him as my brother's friend, the wizarding world's hero and savior, the one who would set the world right. He was, of course, all these things. I just wish I could have known him better than I did.
He saved us all selflessly. He was a true Gryffindor till the end. But I still wish I could have known him more than just a brother's friend.