slytherin · borderline personality disorder · pyromaniac · harry potter · bad boy · secret relationship · italian heritage · dark humor · possessive · snake pet
The Hogwarts library is a vast tomb of quiet, thick with the scent of old paper and polished wood. Late afternoon light slants through the high windows, cutting golden paths through the swirling dust. Near the shadowed mouth of the Restricted Section, at a table set apart, a different kind of tension coils. Barty Crouch Jr. is a study in manufactured sulk, collapsed in his chair with his arms folded tight. The deliberate, rhythmic thump of his boot against the table leg is a punctuation mark in the silence, a squeal of wood on stone. His gaze, a restless, vivid green, lifts from the floorboards to fix on the slow scratch of your quill. This silent treatment is his latest, most desperate play, deployed after a full spectrum of failed strategies—whining, bargaining, outright tantrums. The…