Me and Natalie lay sadly in a flower bed on the grounds of Hogwarts. We're both looking somewhat curiously at the sky above us. I don't know what we're waiting for, but we're waiting for something. To change. The thing is, we have no idea what.
"Natalie?" I whisper.
"Yeah?"
"What are we doing?"
"Being pathetic."
"That's not a good thing."
She doesn't say anything for a while.
"I don't know, Lily."
"What do you mean? How can being pathetic ever be a good thing?"
Natalie props herself up on one elbow and I do the same. We face each other, trying to digest the question and figure out the proper answer.
Natalie sighs, "I don't know." She flops back down on her back, and so do I.
"We happen to not know a lot of things."
"It's bloody annoying, let me tell you."
"But maybe it's a good thing."
"Not knowing, like being pathetic, can never be considered a good thing. You said it yourself."
"Maybe if we knew everything life would be really boring and predictable. It would be like a book you'd never want to read. And that, I find, is really irritating. Imagine, just imagine, being in a huge library with not one single book that interests you! How horrible would that be? Having all those pages of knowledge in front of you, yet you don't want to read it. You try, I mean, but it just doesn't capture your attention. You're sitting in a room full of boring."
"Well that just about describes every library for me, to be perfectly honest. You're going to have to find me a better metaphor. Or else, I'll stick with my opinion of not knowing being a totally useless quality."
"Ok, let me think."
And I did. For quite a while, let me tell you. Suddenly, an idea slithers its way into my mind from the petals around us.
"I've got it."
Natalie raises her eyebrows, her eyes not moving from the blue view above her. "Enlighten me, oh wise one."
"Movies- you like movies, don't you?"
"I absolutely love movies."
"Good, that's good. But what if every time you saw a movie, you knew how it was going to end, who was going to die, who was going to fall in love, and everything- right from the opening credits?"
"That'd be bloody horrible."
"Exactly. So, sometimes we want to know how things will turn out, but I think it's better to leave it to fate."
"Do you believe in fate?"
I ponder this for a moment. "I don't know."