A day in the life of...

I was thinking, on this rather windy, wet, occasionally snowy day, what it would be like to have another person's life. Now, I don't mean a celebrity's life, I mean a fictional character's, and I started considering, who, for a day, I would want to be.

Of course, there are just so many books (many many of which I have neither read, nor heard of), so I am working from my own limited knowledge, but I came up with a sort of shortlist, of character's lives I would like to have for a day (an exciting, eventful day that is, not the day where they stayed in and watched TV or the equivalent in their world)...

-Harry Potter. He is a wizard. And the boy who lived. All round protector, hero, survivor, popular character (minus the few who hate him - I am referring here to He Who Must Not Be Named, the handful of Death Eaters, the Malfoys etc. But other than this, everyone loves Harry). Plus he goes/went (depending on which book you want to look at) to Hogwarts. I therefore conclude that there is little that is not great about Mr. H. J. Potter. (N.B. He is, incidentally, not all-time my favourite character in the books - my heart belongs to Sirius Black)

-Bilbo Baggins (From 'The Hobbit'/'The Lord of the Rings'). Adventurer, Hobbit, lives in the Shire (I SO want to live there), friends of dwarves, men, elves...owner of magic ring that prolongs life and makes one invisible (I'll skip over its corrupting powers, its evil and the potentiality of death associated with it)

-Mary Boleyn ('The Other Boleyn Girl') - her life may be quite awful in some parts, not to mention her awful sister (no offence Anne), but a day in the Tudor court? Yes please. Meeting Henry VIII (from afar)? Yes. Going to Hever Castle? Yes. Huge, extravagant jousts/parties/balls? Right on. Surrounded by men (probably in tights) prancing around and writing poems for you? Ok, well maybe not that bit, but you get my drift.

-Nick Carraway ('The Great Gatsby') friends with, Mr Gatsby, but turns out better in the end (if you've read it, you'll know what I mean), big parties, admittedly less swarve that Gatz but more genuine, less fixated with the past, lives in New York etc.

I know there are more, but times up (need to go and sort out my baked potato in the oven) - I'll add more when more come to me...