Boy
From the shadows or from under a guise of hatred I stare and watch. I stare and watch and take note of everything. Yes, now I watch almost everyone. I am a Slytherin; I know nobody can really be trusted. But I watch Harry most of all. I stare at him longest, keep the most meticulous notes on him and his behavior. He's truly a one of a kind being.
I realized from the first time we met in Madam Malkins' that there was something about him beneath the surface of a skinny boy in clothing too big for a football player, never mind a scrawny eleven year old. I knew that the most important people can come in the most unlikely appearance. I was always perceptive of people, but my status and father (him most of all) kept me from actually befriending all the people who I could tell were wonderful underneath the surface.
However even I was way off with my prediction. I never would have imagined that the malnourished child was actually Harry Potter. The Harry Potter. No one could've known. Unless they'd known Potter's father. I hear they look remarkably alike.
But to top it off he seems nonchalant about the whole affair. He knows what a big deal it is, and yet he wants nothing more than friends. And he genuinely wants to help people without asking anything in return. I'll never understand it. Though I suppose that would be why I am a Slytherin and he is a Gryffindor.
He's Dumbledore's favorite and he's always trying to keep up with the old man's expectations. He's great in all the classes and tries not to slip in the slightest bit (trying to make his parents proud I suspect - and prove to Snape, but that's understandable). He's the best seeker I've seen at this age level and yet I get this feeling he tries so hard sometimes because of his father before him. Yes, I have seen the trophy for one James Potter.
He's a hero to all the children, and a sweetheart to all the parents. He's simply amazing in the eyes of his friends, and too good to be true to all his enemies. Through it all it seems that he is constantly being separate people because it's what's expected of him. I have never once seen him do something that might actually be for himself.
Maybe, one day, after he's done being a hero (and a student and a role model) for everyone else, he'll be a boy for himself. A boy with pleasures of his own. Who doesn't worry what anyone else thinks about him, only about what he wants to be.
If that ever happens, then I think one day I can stop hating him so much. I think that I might actually be able to love him. But until he can be something for him, I'd only be loving the idea he represents and what everyone else wants.
He's been everybody else's boy maybe one day he'll be his own.
From the shadows or from under a guise of hatred I stare and watch. I stare and watch and take note of everything. Yes, now I watch almost everyone. I am a Slytherin; I know nobody can really be trusted. But I watch Harry most of all. I stare at him longest, keep the most meticulous notes on him and his behavior. He's truly a one of a kind being.
I realized from the first time we met in Madam Malkins' that there was something about him beneath the surface of a skinny boy in clothing too big for a football player, never mind a scrawny eleven year old. I knew that the most important people can come in the most unlikely appearance. I was always perceptive of people, but my status and father (him most of all) kept me from actually befriending all the people who I could tell were wonderful underneath the surface.
However even I was way off with my prediction. I never would have imagined that the malnourished child was actually Harry Potter. The Harry Potter. No one could've known. Unless they'd known Potter's father. I hear they look remarkably alike.
But to top it off he seems nonchalant about the whole affair. He knows what a big deal it is, and yet he wants nothing more than friends. And he genuinely wants to help people without asking anything in return. I'll never understand it. Though I suppose that would be why I am a Slytherin and he is a Gryffindor.
He's Dumbledore's favorite and he's always trying to keep up with the old man's expectations. He's great in all the classes and tries not to slip in the slightest bit (trying to make his parents proud I suspect - and prove to Snape, but that's understandable). He's the best seeker I've seen at this age level and yet I get this feeling he tries so hard sometimes because of his father before him. Yes, I have seen the trophy for one James Potter.
He's a hero to all the children, and a sweetheart to all the parents. He's simply amazing in the eyes of his friends, and too good to be true to all his enemies. Through it all it seems that he is constantly being separate people because it's what's expected of him. I have never once seen him do something that might actually be for himself.
Maybe, one day, after he's done being a hero (and a student and a role model) for everyone else, he'll be a boy for himself. A boy with pleasures of his own. Who doesn't worry what anyone else thinks about him, only about what he wants to be.
If that ever happens, then I think one day I can stop hating him so much. I think that I might actually be able to love him. But until he can be something for him, I'd only be loving the idea he represents and what everyone else wants.
He's been everybody else's boy maybe one day he'll be his own.