Memories

By Any Unborn Child

All of my memories keep you near.

In silent moments imagine you here.

All of my memories keep you near.

Your silent whispers, silent tears.

Harry only had his parents for a short while. Only for that one and a half year of his life before they were killed by Lord Voldemort---that bastard. The strange thing was that Harry wasn't killed. There was just …. something about him. Something that was embedded inside of him that prevented him from suffering the cruel fate that his parents suffered.

But in the moving pictures that Harry had seen of his parents, aged and immature alike, they weren't suffering. They seemed…happy. Happy, the word that everyone in the entire universe could relate to, the word that could be conjured in one's mind to make a Patronus, the feeling that everyone desired to be eternal within themselves. They were happy, without a care in the world.

Harry would see other children with their parents, like Ron for example. Sure Ron had a large number of siblings, like Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, and Ginny, to boss around, and be bossed around with, but at times Harry envied him. Ron was never alone in the world. Ron always had someone to care for and to be cared about.

And Hermione too. Hermione didn't discuss her parents as much as Ron did, but at least she had them. She had people in her heritage to take of her, even though in the trio she did most of the motherly duties, making sure Ron and Harry were cleaned up and wised up so they didn't do anything stupid. Harry loved Hermione for that, but she could never replace his own mom.

The Durselys never liked Harry. While they were kind enough to let him live in their household, in most ways, they treated him like a house-elf. He did most of the cooking, cleaning, and hid away when there was company. They never really liked him.

If Harry's mom and dad were still alive, they would have cherished him, and cared for him. Harry often wished that he would have been killed alongside his mom and dad, just so he could stay with them and be with them. But then again, if that did happen, Lord Voldemort would be at large, and the wizarding world would have been destroyed by tyrannical rule.

Was it fate that Harry's mom and dad, James and Lily Potter, had to die? Was it all just a cruel conspiracy just so the wizarding world would be saved? Did two have to die to save hundreds?

Harry wasn't sure. However, James and Lily Potter did not die in vain. The memories would still be there. In Harry's heart.

Fin