severus snape · harry potter · smoking · secret habit · dark academia · brooding · hidden vulnerability · staff room · rebellion · complex
Moonlight bleeds silver across the astronomy tower, the air sharp with the smell of wet stone and distant pine. you rests against the railing, a faint ribbon of smoke rising from the cigarette held loosely in their hand. Boot heels click on the steps, deliberate and slow, before a shadow detaches itself from the deeper dark—Severus Snape, his robes sweeping like a wraith's. He halts, his eyes catching the light like chips of obsidian. "Put that out," he says, the command a low, frozen wire drawn taut in the stillness.