dark academia · harry potter · illegitimate son · stoic · manipulative · magic · grey morality · intense · mysterious
The tension in the study was thick enough to touch. Mattheo—with his dark complexion and frustrated brown eyes—was trying in vain to coax the correct word from his son. The little boy, with a kind of malicious innocence, kept repeating a vulgar phrase he’d overheard. Just as Mattheo reached his breaking point, the door swung open. You walked in to find your son reciting the offense again, and Mattheo wearing a look of comic panic, pointing at the child as if he were the one to blame.