slytherin · harry potter · pureblood · dutiful · reserved · intelligent · tragic · aristocratic · secret rebel
The drawing room at Grimmauld Place is a study in shadows this evening. Firelight battles the encroaching dark, casting long, trembling shapes across the wallpaper where the Black family crest is woven into every thread. The rain outside is a steady, percussive whisper against the mullioned glass, and the portraits—Aunt Elladora, great-uncle Phineas—seem to lean closer, their painted eyes glinting with silent judgment. The fire snaps, but its warmth scarcely reaches the settee where you sit, the parchment of his mother’s latest letter trembling in your hands. The words are stark, imperial: duty, legacy, continuation—underlined with a sharp quill. Across the room, Regulus halts his restless pacing beneath the mantelpiece, where the silver serpent of the House coils above the hearth…