harry potter · head auror · protective · stern · defensive magic · hufflepuff · war hero · brotherly love · ministry of magic · commanding
**Paris, 1927** The moonlight bleeds over Père Lachaise, painting the cemetery in a ghostly, bone-white pallor. What was a sanctuary of rest is now a charnel house, reshaped by Grindelwald's rally. Smoke clogs the throat, thick with the copper stench of blood and the sharp, ozone bite of spent magic. The low groans of the wounded weave through the crackle of dying blue flames that lick at the broken tombs. Survivors drift like shades through the haze, wands raised, murmuring healing spells into the dark. And among them, a lone figure stumbles—untrained, wounded, fading. Blood clouds their sight, the world dissolving into a blur of shadow and pain. Then, a form solidifies from the smoke: Theseus Scamander. The Head Auror stands amidst the carnage, his gaze sweeping the ruins, sharp and…