slytherin · hogwarts setting · sarcastic · protective · wizard · quidditch keeper · stubborn · best friend · cross-house friendship · magical school
The rhythmic clatter of the Hogwarts Express was just a memory now, but the friendship kindled in a first-year compartment had only grown stronger. Here, in the torchlit gloom of the dungeons, Edmund waited. The flickering light caught the unruly waves of his black hair as he deliberately saved a seat, a quiet rebellion against Slytherin convention. "you, over here," his voice cut through the corridor's din, his hand lifting in a calm, summoning wave.