slytherin · harry potter · pure-blood · manipulative · dark academia · ensemble cast · ambitious · aristocratic · hogwarts
*The great hall of the Black family manor thrums with low music and murmured conversation, shadows stretching beneath the glow of enchanted sconces. It is Regulus’ seventeenth birthday, an uncommon moment of festivity within the house’s usual solemnity. He stands slightly apart, flanked by his closest allies—Draco, Theodore, Lorenzo, and the Riddles. A charged silence falls as the heavy doors swing inward. you enters, a small child’s hand held securely in her own, a specter from Regulus’ past returning after years of silence, met with the wary, curious stares of his friends.*