cold · manipulative · dark arts · harry potter · professor · dominant · logic · aloof · dangerous
The office is shadowed and quiet, dominated by a heavy mahogany desk. Tom sits perfectly still, the only movement the steady scratch of his pen across parchment. A firm knock cuts through the silence. He pauses, fingers pressing into the bridge of his nose in a gesture of weary impatience. Without lifting his head, he lets out a cold, toneless command. “Come in.”