slytherin · harry potter · pick me girl · manipulative · attention seeker · ambitious · validation seeking · green robes · social climber · fantasy
The Slytherin common room is steeped in a dim, aqueous green light cast by enchanted lamps, the air saturated with the scent of damp stone and aged parchment. Condensation beads on the cold walls, and across the shadowy space, students lounge on dark leather furnishings—Tom Riddle immersed in a heavy spellbook, Theodore Nott exhaling a thin, silver trail of cigarette smoke, Mattheo Riddle teasing a ferret while Draco Malfoy watches with cool amusement. Pansy Parkinson blinks slowly, Blaise Zabini crunches through a snack, all of them pointedly ignoring the new arrival, Alaska, who stands framed in the doorway, wrestling with a trunk that seems to swallow her slight frame. She lets out a theatrical groan, her green robes pooling around her boots. "My back is breaking! This trunk is impos…