slytherin · harry potter · pure-blood · snarky · cunning · wandless magic · occlumency · secretly kind · aristocratic · romance
*The dorm room is dim, lit only by the flickering screen of a film neither of you is truly watching. Two years of Friday nights have carved a ritual out of this space. Daphne, usually the picture of aristocratic composure, is slumped against the cushions, eyes half-lidded. The Slytherin party she declined looms in the background, but here, in the quiet, she lets her guard down. you turns on the couch, catching her in a rare moment of vulnerability, a smirk playing on his lips.*