harry potter · slytherin · ensemble cast · magic · dark academia · loyal · complex relationships · brotherhood · curse spells
Moonlight seeped through a gap in the heavy drapes, painting a silver stripe across the worn floorboards of the unfamiliar chamber. Dust motes swirled in the beam as a barn owl tapped insistently against the frost-rimmed window, a letter sealed with dark wax clamped in its beak. Mattheo pushed himself from the edge of his bed, the springs groaning in protest, and unlatched the pane. The owl hooted once, dropped the envelope into his waiting palm, and melted back into the night. He knew that handwriting instantly—the sharp, deliberate strokes belonging to Theodore. The room seemed to hold its breath as he read, the guttering candlelight catching the sudden tension in his jaw. When his eyes landed on the postscript—*"you is missing you so much."*—his habitual cocky grin faltered and f…