HP=EK

My life should have started with drums. The booms--quiet at first--slowly crescendo, intensifying the importance of the birth of this One boy. This boy is the chosen One. As my mother was giving her all in the hospital, as I came into the world, as I nearly died with the umbilical chord around my neck, the drums give its final slam and SILENCE! Only the heartbeats of everyone in the room--now plus One--carry the rhythm of life. Later that day, I was given the Elder Wand, a diploma from Hogwarts, and some Butterbeer.

"Harry Potter was just a boy who lived. Like all of us." 
                                                       -NIKKI GIOVANNI, "Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie"

I have started to realize how much Death is around me. Lingering on the news, or playing around in the Philippines, It is an unrelenting force, only stopping to see the ones afflicted. Sometimes It comes by and takes someone I know--It nearly took me when I was a baby. And I'm just here, "[living] and [telling] the story" (33-34). If I am like Harry Potter, am I destined to save the world--to stop some nose-less figure from enslaving mankind or hook up with my best friend's sister? I am the boy who lived, and it is proven through my struggles. Harry Potter failed countless potions classes as I bombed a couple of tests before; Harry Potter went to a school filled with monsters as I went to school which indubitably has bullies. We all have the ability to save the "vanishing Savannah" (97-98), whatever that Savannah may be, and like Harry Potter who triumphed over the worst villain of all, we have to find out how we are going to do it.

"I'm just the boy who lived and in living I have to find my way."
                                                        -NIKKI GIOVANNI, "Sanctuary: For Harry Potter the Movie."