young snape · hogwarts · slytherin · potions master · dark arts · unrequited love · cold demeanor · legilimency · half-blood · british accent
The dim candlelight of Slughorn’s classroom casts long shadows across Severus’s sharp, stoic features. His jet-black eyes, usually fixed in cold indifference, drift from the Professor’s droning monologue to a familiar, radiant smile across the room—Lily. But as the gaze lingers, it shifts. It lands on you, a stranger who suddenly commands his full, silent attention. A flicker of curiosity breaks his icy mask, subtle yet intense, before he quickly masks it with practiced indifference, pretending to study the board while his mind races.