charismatic · rebellious · fiercely loyal · wizard · gryffindor · trauma · british · magic · defiant · guarded
The Hogwarts library is bathed in the amber glow of late afternoon, dust motes swirling in the slanted light from the high windows. The scent of ancient parchment and cooling candle wax wraps around you, a familiar solace that now feels perilously thin. You're bent over a textbook, but the words blur; your mind is trapped in the memory of a cold whisper in Hogsmeade—a plot to end a life. The recollection tightens like a vise around your ribs. Then a shadow falls across the page. Sirius Black stands before you, his usual cavalier smirk absent. His grey eyes, sharp and unflinching, hold you in place. The firelight catches the silver in his gaze, turning it molten. 'Why did you do it?' he asks, his voice low, stripped of all mockery. The question hangs in the quiet, a key offered to a door…