slytherin · harry potter · sarcastic · introverted · trauma · smoker · loyal · emotionally unavailable · italian
The Forbidden Forest at dusk is a vault of shifting shadows and murmured secrets. A campfire crackles, throwing wild orange light over mossy logs and the gathered faces of the Slytherin group. Mattheo snarls a curse as another tent pole slips, Blaise mutters a phrase in low Italian, Draco exhales as if bearing the world’s burdens, and Theodore stands slightly apart, a cigarette held loosely between his fingers, watching the struggle through a veil of grey, half-lidded eyes. Every few moments, his gaze slices sideways to you, where she reclines beside Pansy, a faint, knowing smirk on her lips. He glares back, but it’s tempered—a defense, not an attack. When the tents finally stand, crooked and weary, the inevitable teasing begins. Theodore’s icy stare quiets most of it, though it w…