Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned
by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books,
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"Beauty"
by Christine Anderson
aka Lilly Malfoy
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No one's ever seen it when they look at him, not that he'd expect them to.
He sees beauty everywhere except staring back from his mirror. He's the last person anyone would expect to be aware of such things, but he is. He knows how beautiful the world is, how beautiful this place is that he has risked everything and lost so much to protect.
Others think of beauty as being clearly defined, easy to see- flowers, a woman's face. He sees it in these things, but in many others, too- in weeds struggling up towards the sun through cracks in pavement, in the faces of his students and his friends after their battles, bruised and bleeding but still standing, still breathing.
Life is beauty, and it's everywhere.