My Fears

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What do I fear the most?

Well, being a Gryffindor, bravery is one of my strongest qualities, second to intelligence of course! However, I do have a few fears and I'm not afraid to share.

My biggest fear now as an adult is that I won't be the mother my children need me to be. Yes, maybe there are a million books about parenting, but you never truly know what it'll be like until you experience it. Rose and Hugo are older now, but I still don't really know what to expect, I just want to be the best mother I can be.

And of course there's the fear of war. I couldn't survive another one, not while staying sane. The war already stole pieces of my heart and life from me, and now that I've rebuilt it all I don't want to lose it again. Never again. I can still hear the screams ringing in my ears, I still get nightmares, and I'm still scared.

In my youth I was a bit more frightened of getting a bad grade on, well, anything. I always strived to be the best at everything I took on, especially because I knew I could be. Anything other was completely unacceptable. Now I realize that a little bit of failure is okay.

But my ultimate, big time fear that I've had for years, is losing everything. Pretty vague right? Well I was lucky enough to be born with the magical abilities and to be welcomed into this amazing, magical, unexplainable world. Me, out of everyone else, I got this chance, and if I were to lose it, it would crush me. And my two best friends are everything to me, if I lost them, well, let's not even go there. I am so, beyond lucky to be here, to be a witch, to be loved by my friends and family, I have everything I could ever want and if I were to lose any of it...

However, if you were talking about a more common fear, I'm actually afraid of heights, one of the reasons I hate flying. I can though, but only when I must. I get dizzy just watching Ginny at her games, how she can go so fast being so high up is beyond me.

Thank you for your question and feel free to ask more, but please don't tell anyone about that last fear. How embarrassing!

 How embarrassing!

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