"All this," mused the dark haired wizard, as he surveyed the destruction that surrounded him, "All this because of little boy, far too young to have borne the burdens of an entire world, was prophesized to save us all. A little boy who will only be remembered because of single lightening bolt shaped scar."

With those parting words, Severus Snape, now the most powerful wizard in existence, disapparated from a world that had been ravaged by one man's lust for power and a child who wouldn't let him have that power.

"That's all he was, a child; a child that was shaped by a world that was too sorry to defend itself and too stupid to understand the consequences of their actions. As I said, no one will remember Harry Potter, only a little boy, too young to die, with a lightening bolt shaped scar upon his forehead."

So ends the life of a wizard whose sacrifice saved the world, but was such a cost worth it? These thoughts would echo in the mind of Severus Snape until his very last breath. Could the wizarding world have been wrong? Was his death necessary? Many will tell you, yes it was necessary and worth it so that so many others would have the chance to live. Oddly enough, the one wizard who never thought much about Harry Potter and his powers, would be one of the few that would remember a happy, smiling, carefree boy who should have never had to face the life he did. Everyone else would praise him on his birthday each year, but soon they would forget that he too was human and that he was only seventeen when he was sacrificed to save the world. For the next many years before his death, Severus Snape, former Head of Slytherin, and Potions Master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, would think only of how wrong he was.

"A frightened, young, little boy with the burdens of the world and scar upon his forehead; that's all he was, a child with a scar."