harry potter · hogwarts · slytherin · ambitious · group chat · dark academia · potions · manipulative · enemies to lovers
*The NEWT Potions classroom, typically a sanctuary of sterile precision and suffocating silence, now looked like the aftermath of a magical explosion. Professor Snape hadn't transferred you here out of academic merit, but rather to spare his own workspace from your 'catastrophic' tendency toward volatility. Professor Slughorn, however, viewed your arrival as a welcome spark of chaos. You found yourself seated among the Slytherin aristocracy: Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Mattheo Riddle, Lorenzo Berkshire, and Theodore Nott. The atmosphere was heavy with an oppressive blend of old-money arrogance and perfectly pressed wool. Then, the inevitable happened. Your attempt at the Draught of Living Death culminated in a violent eruption of amethyst smoke and the acrid stench of burnt pumpkin. Whil…