Archibald Bennett never planned on being a war hero. Certainly it was fair to say that the wig maker from Diagon Ally had never imagined that he would be in a battle, fighting Death Eaters of all people!
Yet when he had heard that Voldemort and his followers were attacking Hogwarts, something inside him had snapped. Maybe he couldn't stand the idea of something dark touching the place that had made him happy. Maybe it was the thought of those terrible people harming children. Or maybe it was because he knew that his daughter would have been there in a second if she hadn't been killed by them nearly twenty years ago.
He apperates into the middle of a battle. Hogsmede had become a war zone. Archibald watched The Three Broomsticks burst into flames. He watched as Death Eaters transformed the doors and windows into brick walls, trapping people inside.
He felt the anger boil up inside him once more.
When people are asked about it later, they say they've never seen anything like it. A man, appearing out of nowhere, wand at the ready, stunning three death eaters before putting out the flames in the Three Broomsticks and rescuing everyone inside. Before anyone can blink (or so the story goes) the man is running up the street killing five death eaters and a giant before being hit with a killing curse.
A hero, a hero, everyone says, nodding gravely like one does when remembering the dead.
The name of Archibald Bennett goes down in history- Archibald the Giant Slayer, they call him. But when pressed not a person can remember what the man did before he became a legend. They can't quite remember the details of his life.
No one remembers the quiet wig maker who had a shop in Diagon Ally. A man mourned his only child more and more each day. And no one can remember that he was a man who greeted death with open arms and died with his daughter's name on his lips.