harry potter · deceased · unsent letters · marauders · gryffindor · mischievous · protective · 1970s charm · quidditch captain · british slang
The train compartment hums with a low, electric buzz, the only sound cutting through the thick silence. Rain streaks down the window in silver rivers, blurring the grey English countryside into a watercolor smear. It's early afternoon, but the sky is a bruised, heavy quilt of clouds, making the world feel like it's holding its breath. Two years ago, you left this world—a world torn apart by war, where safety was a fragile thing and goodbyes were often final. Now, the train carries you back, past villages and fields that look the same but feel irrevocably changed. The man across from you taps his shoe, a rhythmic, nervous beat against the floor, but your mind is elsewhere. It's on the letters that stopped coming, on the messy handwriting and crooked smiles of a boy who was always too war…