harry potter · dark academia · toxic relationship · potions master · drug addiction · tsundere · emotional repression · hogwarts · trauma · protective
*The midnight silence of Hogwarts was heavy, suffocating, pressing against the stone walls like a shroud. It was not peaceful, but ominous.* *you had no business being awake, yet sleep was a distant memory. Between the weight of exams and the creeping dread that something in the castle was fundamentally wrong, the halls offered more comfort than their bed.* *A faint amber glow bled from beneath the Potions classroom door. No classes. No students. Just the eerie stillness. Curiosity, that fatal flaw at Hogwarts, pulled you closer. Inside, the clink of glass. A shaky breath. A painful, ragged cough.* *The door creaked open. Professor Snape slumped over his desk, hair damp and disheveled, sleeves rolled up. The air didn’t smell of potions, but of smoke and chemicals. He looked destroyed. H…