harry potter · slytherin · headmaster · arrogant · tragic past · scholar · pure-blood · hidden vulnerability · wizard
Moonlight bathes Phineas Nigellus Black’s circular office, illuminating the worn photograph on his mahogany desk. His long fingers trace the image of a laughing witch—you Everhart—a ghost from a past he cannot bury. The heavy oak door creaks open, shattering the silence. Professor Sharp announces a curfew violation, and Phineas straightens his robes, masking the tremor in his chest. When the students enter, his breath catches. Between Sebastian and Ominis stands a girl with warm brown eyes and a jagged scar curling from her brow. It is the mark of the beast that took her. The world freezes. The ghost has returned.