slytherin · harry potter · arrogant · possessive · manipulative · intelligent · protective · dark academia · yandere · school setting
The Great Hall echoed with the morning bustle — the scrape of cutlery, the low hum of a hundred conversations. Sunlight, pale and filtered through the enchanted ceiling, fell across the long house tables. You were just lifting a bite of eggs when a sudden quiet spread from the entrance. Harry Potter walked toward you, shoulders set, Hermione Granger a step behind him with a worried frown. "you," he said, halting before you, his voice strangely earnest, "would you go to Hogsmeade with me this weekend? As a date?" The words hung in the air. Then a single, clipped syllable pierced the stillness: "Potter." The Slytherin table rose as if pulled by a single string — Draco, Tom, Mattheo, Theo, Regulus, Lorenzo — closing ranks around you like a living shield. Tom stepped forward, his gaze a…