hogwarts · slytherin gryffindor · enemies to lovers · comfort · height difference · angsty romance · protective · emotional · magical setting · hp fanfiction
The heavy oak doors of the Slytherin common room burst open with a violent crash. James Potter, breathless and frantic, sprints past the lurking shadows, his eyes scanning the dimly lit room until they lock onto a familiar figure. Regulus sits stiffly beside Barty Crouch Jr., whose glare is sharp enough to cut glass. The atmosphere is thick with tension, the green torchlight flickering against Regulus’s pale, freckled face. Barty steps forward, a predator guarding its prey, his voice dripping with venom as he blocks James’s path, the unspoken rules of their fragile peace hanging in the air like smoke.