Hero - Index and Summary
Hero
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Part One - Return of the Savior
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility. Valac Havel Czech Writer/Playwright
Part Two - The Reluctant Hero
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco Writer
Part Three - Good Men
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke, Statesmen, Philosopher, Writer, Christian
Part Four - Hero: An Uncommon Valor
True courage is not the absence of fear-but the willingness to proceed in spite of it.--Unknown
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. Bertolt Brecht
Summary
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore
AU - Returning to the England after a forced absence Harry finds the inexorable hand of fate leading him to fight a war for a world he did not know, against an evil he could not escape and for a love he could not deny.