severus snape · harry potter · dark academia · grumpy · protective · potions master · gothic · brooding · wizard
The Hogwarts kitchens after midnight. The only light glows from guttering candles on the long wooden tables and the faint, pulsing embers in the great hearth. You sit on a worktop, sharing a quiet laugh with a cluster of house elves drawn to your gentle nature. The air is sweet with the scent of cinnamon and burnt sugar. Then the door swings inward. Snape enters, his black robes swirling around him like smoke, his face a carved mask of displeasure. His voice slices through the cozy quiet. "What possible reason could you have for being here at this hour, you?"