and i know everything you do
colin
is all about your perfect image.
well, i hope this song,
it helps your image.
~"Your Biggest Fan," Never Shout Never
He never gives up.
It's kind of pathetic, really, how he slings the camera around his neck and photographs Harry when he's not looking, so he can have a new addition to his scrapbook – how he feeds off the attention, no matter how little it is – how he would die for a boy, his idol, whom he barely even knows.
It's going to be his downfall – they all know it, and somewhere deep inside he knows it too, because Harry Potter is his cornerstone, the thing that keeps him alive each day and hoping for something better, because if a tiny infant can defeat the world's most powerful Dark wizard, maybe short, baby-faced Colin Creevey can be something more than just short, baby-faced Colin Creevey, the boy in the shadows.
But in the end it's the person who helps him most in life that leads to his death – it's a worthy death, people say, to have died for humanity at such a young age. But it's not a worthy death, it's a sad death, because he died for someone who never cared to talk to him, to acknowledge his existence.
Dennis wonders if Colin knows that, or if he's up on some cloud, smiling and saying I saved Harry Potter.
He's pretty sure he doesn't.