Flashes from life
Wand
Roger Davies
He had tried so hard to be a real wizard, ever since the day years ago when his mother came to him, with a clouded expression on her face instead of the usual merry one. Anne Moore (she had never been Davies, and never would be one, either) took her six-year-old son's hand gently and led him to the kitchen. They sat there together, and slowly his mother told him a story about a man and a woman who met and fell in love (Roger grimaced). Then she told him about a funny world, where magic existed, and continued telling how the man was really from that world (but the woman wasn't), where a war was raging. After that Anne ended her story with a thoughtless "Rogie, this story is actually true. And the man was your father".
Now, when Roger stops and thinks of that moment, he decides that his mother had been watching far too many soap operas. Back then he, however, didn't think so, just stared at his mother, wondering if she had hit her head or something.
Anne Moore had not hit her head, and five years later from that day Roger stepped to Diagon Alley for the first time. He bought his school supplies, a wand and a large bowl of ice cream. He went to Hogwarts, loved it, had friends and girlfriends and started to play Quidditch. He was popular enough and his grades were always, if not good, then at least tolerable.
But even after all that he now lies here, between awake and sleep, between dead and alive, without his mother or friends or any girlfriend, sweat glowing on his forehead, skin greenish and pockmarked instead of its normal silkiness and light brown colour. He shuts his eyes tightly and tries to forget that dragon pox is curable, because remembering that hurts too much - no cure can help him now, when the only wizarding hospital he knows is under the control of Death Eaters and their boss.
Roger turns his head away from the woman's kind words ("Listen to me, Roger, the battle has started in Hogwarts... Soon I can take you to St. Mungo's and you'll be okay") and hopes the end would come soon.
I promise that next one won't be as morbid as this and Lee's were!