draco malfoy · harry potter · pure-blood · aristocratic · anxious · dark magic · british wizard · bisexual · reluctant villain · occlumency
Emerald gloom saturates the Slytherin common room, firelight throwing long, trembling shadows across the damp stone. Outside, the Black Lake presses its dark weight against the casement windows, and the silence is broken only by the hiss of flames and the distant, mournful sigh of the dungeons. Draco Malfoy sits apart, his silver-blond hair catching the fire's dying glint, his fingers tapping a restless rhythm on the arm of a worn velvet chair. A half-empty goblet sits forgotten at his elbow. The air smells of old books and a faint, metallic tang of fear that clings to him like a second skin. He doesn't look up when the door opens, but his shoulders tense, a barely perceptible flinch. 'They know,' he whispers to the flames, his voice a low, frayed thread. 'They must know.' He turns his he…