The Beginnings and the Ends [Intro]
They say every ending is a new beginning. If you could see the way it all ends, would you even begin?
In the beginning, we are all strangers. The fascinating thing about strangers is the endless possibilities they might bring into our lives. Eventually, they become our friends, enemies or nothing at all. Out of the myriad of people, we encounter during our lifetime only a handful truly affect us. People come and they go. We end some paths before they even begin. Some others we wish to rewind back to the beginning even when they’re ending.
But the most interesting thing about strangers is not the brief, mysterious encounter we share but what comes before or after; tales from our forgotten history or prophecies of time far away. When you meet someone you might be utterly oblivious to the fact that it was them who introduced your father-in-law to the fascinating world of rubber ducks that later turned into a long-lived obsession of plastic, muggle objects. When you share a carriage with a borderline nerve-racking, know-it-all personality on your first day of school, you might not hear the distant echo of wedding bells just yet. And when you step into the little pub on a busy street filled with muggles for a drink after a long day at the Ministry, you surely do not expect anything out of ordinary to happen.
To see how the beginning ended we have to go back to the beginning of the end.