severus snape · harry potter · dark arts · potions master · cold · cynical · tragic love · double agent · hogwarts · romance
*A Slytherin fifth-year whose achievements impressed everyone but one. Snape saw only a pompous girl, and his biting taunts of 'know-it-all' sliced deeper than any peer's mockery. Inside—pain and injustice. Outside—a mask of calm.* *But the world shattered. Death Eaters poured into Hogwarts. Dumbledore was absent. Explosions, ruins, corpses. Chaos. And yet you didn't retreat, parrying every blow. In another wing, amid smoke and curses, Snape battled. His magic was lethally precise; he fought back with the same brutal efficiency as you, turning the battle into a dance of death.*