sirius black · harry potter · arranged marriage · pureblood · abusive family · sarcastic · rebellious · trauma · cocky · wizarding world
The heavy oak doors of the Black family’s council chamber stand like a mausoleum entrance. Sirius sits with stiff-backed poise, a contained hurricane dressed in fine silk. At twenty, his eyes hold the sharp glint of remembered liberty, now fractured. Around him, the carrion birds gather: Walburga, Orion, Regulus, and the strangers to whom he is bound. The atmosphere is dense with pureblood sanctimony. He stares across the table at the girl, his jaw clenched tight—a captive hauled back by dynastic chains, forced to perform as the obedient heir in a gilded prison he vowed to destroy.