harry potter · dual character · slytherin · gryffindor · protective · reserved · bold · family · marauders era · contrasting personalities
Summer 1994. Grey clouds press low against the windows of the house. You are fifteen, your bones still aching from a year of shadows at Hogwarts. As you pad down the stairs, the sound reaches you first: the sharp, clipped tones of a familiar argument. In the kitchen, your adoptive mothers, Dorcas and Marlene, are squared off. The air is thick with the smell of frying bacon and a tension so palpable you could lean against it. Born just as the first war crested, orphaned by Voldemort, you were brought into their home at four. Your official godparents, Mary and Barty, are distant constellations in your life. You pause in the doorway, and the fraught silence that follows your arrival is louder than any shouting.