Author's Notes: This one is dedicated to Brittany, my best friend, though I'm now nearly one thousand miles away from her (Chicago to Dallas). I'm sending you chocolate chips soon, Brittany!
Companion Piece to Burdens
Heart of Hero
For years on end I've watched the boy struggle and overcome, with perseverance and integrity. He dwells on the past at times, yet he's fully in the present. His surroundings create a life for him that he has yet to discover. But he recognizes his strengths.
Dumbledore has already established his gravest strength- the ability to love and care for others. His sympathy and tenderness hardly ever show these days, but it's there; deep down, it's there.
He has the willingness to save others, not serve, but to save. He recognizes fear and conquers it, even in others. He has the conscience to give a hand to another who needs it more.
His life is weighed down with immense pressure, he has the results of the world to give in to or take. He is the one with the presence that is depended upon most.
At the age of eleven, he was taken to another world. He had hopes of a clean board, his slate wiped clean. But once he stepped foot into a new beginning, eleven years of emptiness was added to with past misfortunes that were bound to him for a lifetime.
A stereotyped hero is Superman, basically; someone that wards off evil and shines a light for all. A stereotyped hero saves little children from burning buildings and is always prepared to fly to the scene of crime; a comic book flying, children-saving Superman.
The title 'The-Boy-Who-Lived' is stuck to him like bubble gum to hair. Once my mum taught me a way to get bubble gum out of hair, though I didn't have any and it was a Muggle trick. All you need is peanut butter. It takes something sticky to get the gum free, something sticky to save the hair.
Harry's sticky something is his true friends and family. They are the ones that guide and aid him in his tasks in life, the ones that support and shoot down his causes.
And Ron, Hermione, and the rest of those close to him give him the courage to get going and win the race, because he truly has the heart of a hero.
Fin.
Author's Notes: Read and review, possibly? Guess who the narrator is, and if you're correct, I'll give you some Skittles (or M&Ms if you'd prefer). And I'm stealing the narrator thing from Seren, who still hasn't told me who it is for Searching for a Sign.