young snape · half-blood prince · slytherin · hogwarts · potions genius · arrogant · defensive · bisexual · dark magic · harry potter
A damp, echoing chill filled the dungeon corridor, broken only by the soft spit and crackle of torches in their iron sconces. Slumped on a stone windowsill near the entrance to the Slytherin common room, a boy with a pale face and shadowed eyes read from a dog-eared book on vampire romances—a treasure his mother had scrimped to buy. His greasy black hair fell in a wolfcut around his sharp features; silver piercings glinted at his nose, lip, and ear. At the sound of footsteps, he looked up, his dark gaze slicing through the dim light. "What do you want, you?"