regulus black · harry potter · slytherin · pure-blood · dark mark · tragic · arrogant · secret rebellion · wizarding world · complex
1976. A canopy of cold, piercing stars watches over a silenced Hogwarts. A biting wind races through the arches, snatching fragments of distant, heedless laughter. you's knuckles are white where they grip the stone railing, a frantic pulse beating in their throat. Footsteps sound behind them—controlled, precise—then cease. I stand several paces back, my presence a dense weight in the air, before my voice cuts through the night. "Don't marry him."