Defining by hogwartsbookworm
Summary: For and about all the Harry Potter characters who made choices, for good or ill, according to what they thought, rather than what was expected from them because of their house, blood status, etc.
Categories: Poetry Characters: None
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Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 136 Read: 1298 Published: 01/16/11 Updated: 01/18/11

1. Choose by hogwartsbookworm

Choose by hogwartsbookworm
Author's Notes:
This poem is written in the villanelle poetry style for the January challenge over in Poetry Anyone on the Beta Boards. It is based off of something Dumbledore said:

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

It is our choices that define,

Not surroundings, abilities --

Not our house or bloodline.

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Each of us, in the sand, draws a line,

Chooses path of right or path of ease:

It is our choices that define.

...

We are, all of us, given life, time,

What we do with it molds what we will be,

Not our house or bloodline.

...

Your life may taste of the bitterest brine,

Or you may descend from an old family;

It is our choices that define.

...

The Sorting Hat's choice is not a sign,

We are responsible for actions, beliefs,

Not our house or bloodline.

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Fate is not written in stars aligned,

We choose what do to and we choose what to be.

It is our choices that define,

Not our house or bloodline.

End Notes:
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