Title: Shadows and Light

Format & Word Count: Drabble, 100 words

Rating: PG

Prompt: For the rt_challenge August ficathon #7 chiaroscuro

Warning: Nothing.

Summary: They live in a world of shadows

Author’s Notes: I have no idea if this is what the world actually means, but one meaning from dear old dictionary.com is a sketch in light and shade. Which will do me!

There are few places more depressing, Remus thinks, than Grimmauld Place on a winter’s day. Shadowy corners, dank halls, dark shades obscure any trace of bleak winter sun, as surely as the weight of war pressing down upon them all. Every day Voldemort gets stronger is a day their world gets a little darker.

Until she arrives.

Even when she enters quietly, she cannot enter unnoticed. Not with her bubblegum pink hair, her neon t-shirts, electric youth crackling from every pore.

Her smile is warmer than any sun, and Grimmauld Place –and especially Remus Lupin – are brighter for her presence.