  We explore the possibility that the excess neutral and charged current events
seen by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at HERA at large x and Q^2 could arise
from a hard charm component of the nucleon. While the symmetric intrinsic charm
hypothesis is unable to account for the HERA anomaly, a non-symmetric charm
distribution generated non-perturbatively, for which c-bar is much harder than
c, can produce significant enhancement of cross sections at the HERA
kinematics.
