Expectaitions

Rating: K+

He wonders what life might have been like if their expectaitions had been different.

It was the end of everything for Harry Potter.

For over seventeen years now he had eluded Voldemort in his quest to kill him. He had battled evil wizards. He had discovered family he didn't know he had and lost them all over again. He had gone through triumphs and failure. He had found and destroyed nearly every horocaux that there was.

And now only two remained. The Snake.

And himself.

The entire wizarding world is expecting so much of him. They are expecting him to defeat the greatest dark wizard of the time when he never even got a chance to finish his schooling. They are expecting him to do whatever it takes to save them all, just as he had done unknowingly so many years ago.

They were expecting him to be the hero.

And now Harry Potter had no choice but to expect it from himself as well.

And as Harry Potter lifted the first snitch he had ever caught to his lips and whispered those words that sealed his fate, he mused to himself what life might have been like if everyone had expected him to be a normal wizarding boy who just wanted to live a little while longer.