Shadows of Light

Hey, so this is for keeptheotherone's Missing Moments Lottery Challenge. My character is Anthony Goldstein in his seventh year. My extra challenge is under 400 words. Here goes nothing!

I was lying in bed while all of my other room mates were asleep, but my eyes were open and darting around the room, as if the shadows contain a Carrow waiting to jump out, the point their wand at us all and kill us. Every time Terry or anyone else moves in their bed my eyes dart to them like they're in immediate danger. Terry says I'm paranoid, but I'm not. I'm just scared. Scared. Scared that the Carrows will find out I'm a part of Dumbledore's Army, scared that they will find out where Dumbledore's Army is…scared that they will kill my parents and my sister and Terry and all my other friends.

I'm not just scared, I'm worried too. Worried that I'm not doing the right thing. Because I'm helping to put lives in danger. Those two kids in detention two weeks ago that are still in the hospital wing are my fault. They were only first years, and they only got up because they heard a noise in the halls. A noise that I caused. Those first years aren't safe. But I am. Here I am, sitting in the Room of Requirements, scared out of my mind, and some kids are still in the castle getting tortured session, sorry detentions. But they're getting detentions because of me. Am I doing the right thing? By hiding, hiding from my fears. Hiding in the shadows, too scared to put even a finger out. But if I do, I'm dead.

No one has ever worried (at least out loud) what the Carrows do when they find us. Because we can't stay in the shadows forever. Eventually, all things in the shadows disappear because of light on them, and they are revealed, for the whole world to see. Screw the dark. If I'm going down, it's going to be in a big burst of light.

But sometimes I like the dark. It's a relief, sometimes to hide in the shadows, safe from the Carrows and the other nightmares that exist. But am I doing the right thing? Is it right to hide? Is it right for me to even be here, be a part of this? Whoa wait, Neville just came in with…Harry Potter? It's time. We're coming out of the shadows and into the light.

Screw the dark. Bring the light.

Yay, I did it. 392 words, not counting the Author's Notes. But they don't count. Right? Thanks for reading!