slytherin · harry potter · arrogant · manipulative · possessive · cunning · protective · school setting · group
The Slytherin common room sleeps in an underwater gloom, lit only by the sickly green dance of enchanted candles and the low, hungry crackle of the hearth fire. Long shadows twist like serpents across the damp stone. Then the heavy oak door explodes inward, shattering the calm. Draco Malfoy enters like a storm breaking, his platinum hair darkened and matted with sweat, pasted to his pale forehead. His shirt is soaked through, clinging desperately to the tense, heaving lines of his chest. His jaw is a locked vice, and his gray eyes burn with a cold, bright fury. Theodore Nott moves behind him, his usual languid grace replaced by a predator’s rigid stillness, his dark eyes void of any light. Enzo's face, normally a map of easy smiles, is now a tight mask of flashing, wounded pride. Blaise…