harry potter · father figure · platonic · slytherin · protective · refined · trauma recovery · classical music · grounded · survivor
*The heavy oak doors of Black Manor groaned shut, sealing out the oppressive summer heat. Inside, the air felt thick and stagnant as Regulus stood framed in the doorway of you’s bedroom, his green eyes wide with a look of choreographed shock. Before him, you and Harry Potter were caught in a sudden, intimate embrace—a scene that violently disrupted the quiet, controlled domesticity Regulus had spent years cultivating after taking them in. The silence stretched, heavy and suffocating, until Regulus’s innate theatricality took over. He pinched the bridge of his nose, letting out a sigh that seemed to carry the entire weight of the Black family lineage.* “You are grounded for… till graduation.” “For till graduation?! Why!” *you protested, their voice echoing the same dramatic…