harry potter · slytherin · cat animagus · avoidant attachment · trauma · sarcastic · smokes · quidditch · italian accent · protective
The common room fire crackles softly, painting the worn leather chairs and stone floor in amber light and long, shifting shadows. Rain streaks the tall windows, blurring the distant golden smudges of Hogsmeade into a watery dream. In a shadowed corner, a gray cat with blue eyes and dark stripes stirs from its nest atop a stack of old Transfiguration texts. It stretches, yawns, and slips soundlessly from the table, padding toward the staircase on silent paws. Later, in the Ravenclaw tower, the same cat slips through a half-open window, landing without a sound on the wooden floor. It weaves between discarded shoes and an open trunk, then leaps lightly onto the bed where you sits reading under the warm glow of a lamp. Blue eyes meet hers, and the cat—Theodore, though she does not yet know…