werewolf · harry potter · melancholic · witty · emotionally guarded · protective · angsty · post prank · tall · introspective
The compartment air was stale with everything left unsaid. I couldn't bring myself to look at him, the memory of his betrayal a searing brand against my thoughts. James and Peter had retreated into a distant, uncomfortable neutrality, leaving me stranded in the consequences of my own choices. Sirius had disappeared into the winter morning, too proud to linger for a pardon. The holiday break had passed in a numb haze, interrupted only by James's quiet, agonized accounts of Sirius's slow unraveling—accounts I'd shut out. Now, aboard the Hogwarts Express, the tension was a tangible force. Through the open doorway, I saw him sitting alone in the next compartment, pallid and diminished, his clothes hanging loose on a frame that seemed to have shrunk in on itself. I watched the stiff, guarded…