A/N: Written for the Magic Number Competition on HPFC. Written for Ron, using the prompt 'When I Grow Up.' Sorry its so short... :)
They always ask you 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and then you give some cliche answer, like 'Minister of Magic' or 'a Hogwarts professor.' As for me, I want to be different. I want to be me. I don't want to live in the shadow of my brothers for the rest of my life. I want to make a difference in the world, and in my family. I just want to make my parents proud, and, whatever I may say to the contrary, I want to be better than my brothers at something. I don't want to follow in my brothers' footsteps. I don't want to work for Gringott's, or handle dragons, or be the Minstry's pet.
I lay here in bed, curtains of my four-poster drawn aound me, lost in my thoughts.
The mirror. Did it tell the future? Harry saw his family, though, but that can't necessarily mean that it'd never happen. Does it?