One Moment In Time
Love At First Sight: James Sirius Potter
Harry used to think that there is no such thing as love at first sight. It had never occurred to him, after all, nor to anyone that he knew of. The closest that he had ever come to love at first sight was his encounter with Cho - though that was more of a crush than love – and just look at how well that had turned out. As far as he knew, his parents had spent the first three years at Hogwarts at each other's throat, before his father finally discovered the existence of girls in his fourth year. As for Ron and Hermione, well, if anyone had told him in their first year that those two were going to end up together, he would have advised that person to have his sanity checked.
As much as he loves Ginny now, and cannot imagine his life without her, he must admit that their first encounter was anything but romantic. Well, if he is honest with himself, Ginny can probably claim love at first sight, but how much of that was for The-Boy-Who-Lived is another matter entirely. Harry himself had certainly not thought much about Ginny until his sixth year.
Besides, he had always found the very concept of love at first sight ludicrous. After all, love is based on so much more than mere appearances, and how can you love someone else without knowing anything about them? Sure, he loves Ginny dearly and finds her the most beautiful woman he had ever met, but it was not her looks that drew him to her, and made him willing to give his life just to make her happy. No, it was her compassion, her passion, her fierce sense of right and wrong, her determination and everything else about her character that made him fall passionately and madly in love with her. It had taken him years to find out all that about her. He couldn't imagine how love at first sight could possibly work out.
Now, though, when the healers put his son into his arms, he knows that he has been proven wrong. As he looks into James' chocolate brown eyes for the first time, he realizes that this baby in front of him will have him wrapped around his little finger. He knows instinctively that there will never be anything more important to him than his happiness. And he knows that no matter who he grows up to be, he will never love him the less for it.
It is a while later before Harry registers that all these realizations had come within a matter of seconds.
Perhaps there is such a thing as love at first sight after all.
