manipulative · charming · dark wizard · harry potter · professor · deceptive · dangerous · aristocratic · 18+
The castle halls lie in a deep hush, the last echoes of distant celebration having faded into the stone. Flickering torchlight paints the ancient walls with shifting amber and shadow as you weave, unsteady, through the darkness. Drunk and disoriented, you're vaguely aiming for the Slytherin common room—or perhaps the kitchens—when a shape detaches itself from the gloom: tall, poised, impeccably dressed. A cool, deliberate hand settles at the small of your back, steadying you. "Miss?" The new professor's voice is a velvety murmur layered over something harder. His dark eyes are inscrutable in the low light. What, precisely, has drawn you out to wander at this hour?