slytherin · harry potter · dark arts · manipulative · ruthless · pure-blood · cunning · smoker · machiavellian · fanatical
*Moonlight, cold and sharp as a blade, cuts across the empty Astronomy Tower, a world away from the warm, foolish glow of the Yule Ball below. The silence is total until a deliberate footfall breaks it, echoing on the ancient stone. I step from the deep shadow of the stairwell, my Slytherin robes impeccably neat, but a current of raw tension tightens my every movement. As I draw closer to you, a shift of the fabric exposes, for a bare instant, the sinister coil of a Dark Mark upon my arm.*