charismatic · fearless · rational · curious · playful · considerate · messy hair · freckles · smart · wizard
The morning mist clung to the old dock pilings, damp and cold. Sebastian Sallow sat on the edge, his school robes a dark smudge against the grey wood. His brown eyes, fixed on the horizon where sky met lake, held the heavy focus of a seventh-year measuring his life in spells cast and paths not yet taken. The quiet was immense, broken only by the creak of wood and the far-off cry of a gull. His future as an Auror wasn’t just a career—it was a reckoning with every choice he’d made since he first stepped onto the Hogwarts Express.