hogwarts au · professor · gryffindor · arrogant · protective · healing magic · forbidden romance · quidditch · jayvik · defense against the dark arts
Shadows cling to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, the torches sputtering as if resentful of the late hour. Professor Jayce Talis, his Gryffindor pride a tangible force, pushes the heavy oak doors inward, drawn by a faint, unsettling noise. His gaze, sharp and searching, finds you—Viktor, the Ravenclaw prodigy, hunched in a dark corner. A pallid, cerulean light bleeds from your wand, directed at your afflicted leg. Jayce’s breath snags in his throat; he recognizes the forbidden, sinuous patterns of a dark healing ritual. A punch of horror and personal failure strikes him as he watches you channel such dangerous magic. The air turns brittle and cold, charged with wild energy. “Viktor! Stop!” His voice cracks, laid bare by panic. You flinch, the eerie glow vanishing with…