James Sirius Potter
Mirror
Most people, when they look into a mirror, see an image of themselves, and inevitably, they hone in on each and every flaw marring what should otherwise be a perfect face. They see themselves and what makes them unique, for better or for worse, but when he looked in a mirror he saw someone else. He'd never seen himself in a mirror. All he'd ever seen was the image of two men who were legends, larger than life, two men who didn't completely belong to the world of things you can see and touch.
He looked into that mirror and saw emerald green eyes staring back at him and messy dark hair that refused to stay flat, but really, that look had ceased being anything special a long time ago. He wasn't anything special. He was simply a replica of two of the most-famed men to walk the Earth. That was all he was.
Every day, people told him how much he looked like his father and his grandfather, told him that his eyes were the same color as Lily Potter's. They told him all these things as if he should be proud of them, as if he should somehow be proud that, by chance, in that mess of perfect chaos that scientists like to call genetics, he somehow ended up looking like two of the world's biggest heroes. He wasn't entirely sure why that was something to be proud of.
He wasn't entirely sure how he'd ever be able to live with himself if he grew up and his best and most well-known achievement was looking like Harry and James Potter.
He looked in the mirror, found his own green eyes, eyes that he really couldn't claim as his own because originally they'd belonged to a brave and beautiful woman who'd ultimately given up everything so the world could be better, and searched that familiar face for something different, even the minutest difference, some small, previously unnoticed characteristic that would set him apart from the magical world's heroes.
He didn't find it, and he sent his fist through the mirror. His hand came out bloody, and as he watched the blood stream down his hand, he wondered if maybe, he'd have a scar too, just like his father.