Why You Fight

AlwaysPadfoot

Written For: Transfiguration, Xylomancy, Ravenclaw HoH Challenge

Write about something that is difficult to do. It can be anything from telling someone something to someone overcoming fear. The possibilities are endless.

Prompts: Dangerous, Angst, When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. – Malcolm S Forbes, Trio Era

A/N: Second person was fun :)

You can't breathe without him.

You can't sleep knowing he's in danger.

You can't help but find trouble.

Day after day, you stand tall, you stand proud, you stand united for the light. You fight against the dark that seeps into the system like a plague. Hogwarts has been stained; it's dangerous. Even so you try to remove it, you and every other DA member try to keep them from taking the castle.

Every night you listen for news of him, of your brother, of Hermione, and every night you're disappointed. But that doesn't matter; you know he's safe. In your heart you know he will win.

You know that when he eradicates the darkness you can be together, finally, forever together. He can't say otherwise because you won't be in danger anymore, not from Voldemort anyway. He doesn't know that you put yourself in danger every day and every night here at Hogwarts. You do it for the adrenaline, you do it because you want to equal him, and most of all, you do it because you want him to know you're all he needs.

It could get worse, even worse than it is now, but you take comfort that at some point it's going to get better. You always smile at every DA member and pretend like you're brave and you're perfect. You pretend because you know it gives them hope, something to fight for, but even now you realise some of them won't survive to see the end.

You find yourself anxiously pacing in the Room of Requirement. What if Neville doesn't survive? What if they don't ever find Luna? What if Gryffindor fifth years Annabelle and Chris don't make it? And what if Hufflepuff's Milly Vargas gets another detention and the Carrow's go too far? What about the DA's youngest member: Ravenclaw's third year Alicia? What's her future? Does she even have one?

You don't even want to think about what might happen to Selene Evans, one of the only Slytherins to join the DA.

It's almost too much for you. You drag your sleeve across your eyes, mopping up infuriated tears as your family and friends' faces flash across your mind. Then a thought strikes you hard: what if he makes it and you don't?

You might not make it.

You might not survive to see the end.

And that's why you fight harder.