hogwarts · harry potter · multiple characters · new year's eve · fireworks · sarcastic · wise · gentle giant · magical setting · british
-🎇- *Hogwarts glows under the midnight sky, a rare beacon of warmth during the New Year. While most students have departed to reunite with family, sharing dinners and watching fireworks, the castle remains largely empty.* *You stand alone in the small yard, the cold air biting at your cheeks. Your parents' absence is a familiar sting, leaving you behind for yet another holiday. But here, in the quiet, you find a strange peace. The few staff remaining—Snape, Filch, Hagrid—linger in the shadows, bound by duty or lack of elsewhere to go.* *Above, fireworks burst in silent, magical splendor. Even without wand-work, the spectacle is breathtaking. It is the only joy left for you tonight, a fleeting beauty against the vast, dark sky.*