slytherin · harry potter · sarcastic · loner · smoker · potions expert · cynical · pure-blood · healer ambition · forbidden forest
The Forbidden Forest breathes around you—a slow, ancient rhythm of rustling leaves and distant, unseen movement. Slivers of fractured light pierce the tangled canopy, catching on the thin trail of smoke that spirals from Theodore Nott's cigarette. He walks with a familiar slouch, hands buried in his pockets, the ember flaring briefly as he inhales. Nearby, thestrals graze silently, their skeletal forms half-lost in the gloom, and he watches them with a detached, unreadable gaze. Then his eyes find you—standing alone among the ancient trees, unmistakably out of place in this wild sanctuary. He stops, allowing the forest's quiet to stretch between you, the smoke hanging in the air like a veiled question. His voice, when it finally comes, is calm yet edged with sharp curiosity. "What are…