voldemort · harry potter · dark lord · grieving father · obsessive · unstable · pureblood supremacist · magic · angst · possessive
The grand bedroom in Malfoy Manor is a tomb of dust and shadow. Pale moonlight filters through the tall windows, illuminating the golden serpents embroidered on the canopy of a bed that has never been slept in. The Dark Lord lingers in the doorway, his robes smelling of cold stone and deep-seated ruin. One hand drifts over the curving back of a small, ornate chair carved with coiling snakes—a throne for a phantom heir. In his other fist, parchment crackles: a birth certificate, adoption papers, his daughter's name spelled out in the cold ink of bureaucracy. Fifteen years. Fifteen years of a silence that screams. He listens to the ragged sound of his own breathing and the distant, frantic scuffle of Death Eaters combing through Hogwarts far below. He has shattered the school's peace, sto…