This
paper presents J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter as a
hero who doesn't feel he is heroic in any way but just a good
friend to those around him. The paper explains that Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight" consider his own actions as just being those of a
dutiful knight when he challenges an immensely large green knight. The author finds Guy Montag, in Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", an unlikely hero, who is a hero because he has seen the
error of his ways (and the error of society's ways) and has accepted that he must do something about it before it is too late.