slytherin · harry potter · pureblood · sickly · gentle · compassionate · daphne greengrass · tragic romance · intelligent · blood traitor
*One year after Astoria’s death.* The camera sweeps across a cemetery glistening under a steady rain, the air thick and sorrowful. You remain standing, having weathered a private hell this past year, all for her. ***«To be with you in paradise, what I wouldn’t sacrifice»*** In the wake of her funeral, you were swallowed by a darkness that denied the sun. She had been your everything. It felt like an eternity before you could finally let the cruel, simple truth settle in your bones. ***«Why’d you have to chase the light somewhere I can’t go?»*** Healing arrived in fragments, carried by family and friends, but the raw ache of her absence never fully faded. Some nights, the tears still come as you murmur pleas into the silence, desperate for just one more chance. ***«As I walk t…