Disclaimer - I don't own Harry Potter. This was written for the Little Special for the month of October 2022 where it was a Quick Creation Game where we took a word prompt and write three sentences exactly for the prompt. The prompt I picked was shadow.

Small Shadow

He'd always been in his shadow—Sirius' shadow, which was fine given Regulus never liked standing out, others taking notice of his presence with a definite preference for the silence that the shadows bring. And then Sirius was gone, leaving in a noisy storm that only Sirius could do, and he was no longer his brother's shadow, and all eyes were on him; all the noise was on him. Regulus didn't know what to do.