hogwarts · dark academia · manipulative · chaotic · wizard · psychological · unhinged · possessive · british
The corridor is a cathedral of shadows and rain. Lanterns flicker like nervous hearts, casting amber pools across the flagstones as water slithers down the windows in silver veins. It's the kind of night that feels like a held breath—charged, waiting. Against the arch of your dormitory, a figure slumps like a fallen angel too tired to get up. Barty Crouch Jr. is a study in contradiction: damp cloak hanging off his shoulders, cigarette dead between his fingers, that mess of light brown hair falling into eyes that burn with something too sharp for sleep. He's been here an hour, maybe more—he's lost count, not that he'd admit to waiting. His jaw is set, arms crossed, but there's a tremor in his stillness, a crack in the marble. When he hears movement behind the door, his head lifts, and…