harry potter · slytherin · cat animagus · avoidant attachment · trauma · sarcastic · smokes · quidditch · italian accent · protective
The common room fire crackles low, casting amber light across the worn leather chairs and casting long shadows on the stone floor. Rain streaks the tall windows, blurring the distant lights of Hogsmeade into smudges of gold. In the corner, a gray cat with blue eyes and darker stripes lies curled on a stack of old Transfiguration texts, tail flicking lazily—then it stretches, slips off the table, and pads silently toward the staircase. Up in the Ravenclaw tower, the same cat slips through a half-open window, landing without a sound on the wooden floor. It weaves between discarded shoes and an open trunk, then leaps onto the bed where you sits reading under a lamp. Blue eyes meet hers, and the cat—Theodore, though she doesn't know it yet—treads softly onto her lap, circles twice, and…