Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Regulus died today. How am I supposed to feel? He was my brother, but also a Death Eater. They tell us that every dead Death Eater is a triumph for the side of Light, but is it really? He died at the hands of his supposed lord. Does that count as absolution? Have his sins been wiped away? They didn't tell me why. It might not make a difference to them, but it does to me. Was he doing the right thing at long last? I wish he'd come to me, but it wasn't likely; I told him I never wanted to see him again. I never did. And now he's gone, my little brother, and I can't help wondering why, and if I could have done something. As it is, all I can do is forgive him, and hope that that's enough. It will be, it has to be.