"Death smiles at us all...all we can do is smile back."
I died the way I wanted to. I had always been daring, to the point of being a bit reckless, so dying in battle was what I had always wanted. If not in battle, then somewhere that would make my death exciting. Something that would give me an adrenaline rush. I didn't want to die from old age, and I didn't want to die while I was asleep. That just wasn't me.
There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. It's worth dying for.
I never imagined that I'd die while duelling Bellatrix. Get hurt maybe, but not die. If I had known, or had even thought it was possible, I would've said good-bye. Not only good-bye, but I would've said all the things that were left unsaid. All the things I'd never be able to say again. To Harry, to Remus, to all those I cared about. But sometimes the things that really matter are the hardest things to say.
Looking back at my life, I have no regrets. I lived, I saw, I did it all. I had my share of laughs and tears. I made my mistakes. There are lots of things that happened but shouldn't have happened, and there are lots of things that didn't happen but should have happened.
I wouldn't change anything if I had the chance. Everything happened the way it was supposed to happen. I can say I enjoyed my life. Most of it, anyway. Being locked up in Azkaban isn't enjoyable, but nobody said life was going to be a series of laughs. Nobody said life would be fair.
Life wasn't fair. But, if you look at the people around you, you see that their lives aren't that fair either. The poor person on the street corner is unhappy because he's not rich; the rich person is unhappy because she doesn't have any real friends. Life isn't fair to everybody, so that's what makes it fair.
If you're a wizard, when you die, you're offered with two choices: you either leave an imprint of yourself to remain on Earth forever as a ghost, or you simply move on. To forever trap myself on Earth, with no future but to wander around aimlessly, wasn't the type of life I wanted. So I moved on.
Harry once told me that Dumbledore told him,"To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure."
I'm about to find out how well-organised my mind really is.