Of Sunlight and Shadows

He came in the back of a borrowed car, limbs careless, sun in his hair. I saw him from the upstairs window, a book in my lap, though I had long since stopped reading. He leaned against the car door as it opened, tossing a bag over one shoulder, laughing as he said something to whoever had driven him here. The sound reached me through the open window—light and reckless.———Or Regulus was sent by his parents into a summer house somewhere in the countryside as a punishment. He did not expect James Potter to be there.