Disclaimer: don't own it - wish i did!
a/n: just a quick note of explanation - this is from Dumbledore's pov, set during the war with Grindelwald, and is about Minerva McGonagall. Albus is surprised to find out just how good a soldier Minerva is...
I Didn't Know You At All
It shouldn't have taken this bloody war
To make me see you
Like I should have before,
To see that you were so much more…
I never really knew you at all.
I knew how you smiled
And I knew how you laughed,
How you rolled your green eyes
And said I was daft.
And I knew you were smart
And I knew you were brave;
I knew you were proper
And always behaved.
I knew your expressions,
Emotions and ticks
But those things I know now
Were all academic.
I should have realised a long time a go,
Should have given you space to grow on your own.
I've been playing the mentor and acted a fool:
I was beyond arrogance to think I knew you.
You've laboured through hardship
And watched your friends die.
You've killed and you've died for it,
Blackened inside,
And you're not that person
Who ever asks why;
You simply keep fighting
For what you know's right.
You've led and you've followed,
You've won and you've lost,
With equal resolve
And heedless of cost.
When I said you were brave
I had no concept of
The pieces of soul
Your valour would cost.
The woman before me
Is stalwart and true.
Though I knew of your love
and the sweet side of you
I stand here today
And like never before
I see you a woman
- Commanding a war.
And I know now
…I didn't know you at all
a/n - I just wrote this and for reasons unknown to me decided to post it. I know it's really rough, and if you're looking for something lyrical this isn't it, but I've got this idea for a future fanfic knocking around in my head and it led to this very depressing poem... sorry?
Aphelion