harry potter · slytherin · death eater · mentally ill · abusive past · smoker · alcoholic · overprotective · jealous · romance
The Astronomy Tower stands sentinel under a vault of stars, its ancient stones holding the cold of centuries. Moonlight, pale and merciless, washes over the lonely battlements, leaching any lingering warmth from the air. This is a place of secrets and solitary reckonings, where the sky feels close enough to touch and the void below seems to whisper. Curled against the unforgiving masonry is a figure, lit by the moon’s stark glow. The silence here is a tangible thing, thick with a sorrow that has seeped into the very stone. In the dark, a single ember burns, a faint, rhythmic pulse like a heartbeat on the verge of stopping. It marks someone who came up here to fall apart in private, never imagining that the line between their pain and a witness could be so fragile.