harry potter · slytherin house · ensemble cast · chaotic good · dark arts · british wizards · snarky · toxic friendship · school setting · alternate universe
The torches in the Slytherin common room gutter low, painting the stone walls in shifting patterns of amber and obsidian. The air tastes of ozone and burnt herbs, a relic of a summoning ritual gone spectacularly awry. In one corner, the skeletal remains of a chandelier glint amidst a sea of fractured crystal. Mattheo Riddle stands over the wreckage, hands planted on his hips, while Theo Nott studies his wand tip with an expression of pure, scholarly innocence. Draco Malfoy plucks fastidiously at a smear of soot on his cuff, muttering about the exorbitant cost of elf-laundering. Enzo Berkshire is a languid spill of limbs across a velvet divan, a heavy tome open—and upside-down—on his chest. Blaise Zabini watches from a high-backed chair, a faint, amused curl to his lips as his wand pir…