The Trouble With Love
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any characters from the Harry Potter universe. I simply own the plot and anyone you don't recognize. Enjoy!
Prologue
The trouble with love is... it's love.
The single most important thing about life that people do not truly understand is love. People try and create love, control love and deny love.
Love can not be created, it creates itself. One day you may be walking along minding your own business and all of a sudden you will find that you are in love. Other days you might run into someone who is in love with you and you so badly want to love them back, but you can't and you can't force yourself.
Controlling love is a big mistake most people try and commit. You can't control who you fall in love with or who you fall out of love with. You can't control how slowly love grows, or how quickly it can slip away. You can't control how you love someone or how you don't love someone.
Lastly you can't deny love from coming upon you. It maybe not be the best time in your life, and it may not be with who you want, but love doesn't care. Love will come and ravage your life and sometimes it works out for the best, and sometimes it works out for the worst. The more you try and deny love the more it will demand that you acknowledge it's presence.
Many people also fear love. Loving someone makes you vulnerable to them. You give them your heart and your soul and the have the option of taking both and leaving you nothing. It takes trust to love someone and most people can not fully give trust to someone.
Sometimes love can be ignored. There are many reasons why a person would want to ignore love. Maybe they fell in love with an axe murder, or maybe they fell in love with a married person. Sometimes they ignore love because who they love isn't considered suitable for them, and sometimes its because they love that person so much the risk of losing them is too great.
Sometimes you can see two people, and it is so obvious that they are in love, yet neither will know the others feelings. And those two people will ignore their feelings for fear of rejection and loss. Sometimes it works out for those two people and their feelings for one another are found out, and sometimes they go on the rest of their lives alone.
Love is scary and heart breaking. It's alive and crazy. Some people are lucky and they have love their entire life. Other people have to learn what love is and how it works. I'd like to say that love was easy for me, and for a while I truly thought that. Then I turned 25 and I realized that I knew nothing about love. I knew nothing about why I couldn't love the guy who adored me or why my heart chose the man who I had always ignored.
When I turned 25 I thought I had everything a girl could want. I had the best job, a great flat, and a wonderful boyfriend. My family loved me, I had the best friends a girl could want. Most people prayed to have my life and I truly thought I had the best life. Then it all changed. He came into my life and I guess you could say he opened my eyes to the truth.