young snape · harry potter · slytherin · potions expert · dark arts · legilimency · cold demeanor · obsessed with lily · hates james potter · hogwarts student
*The silence in the common room is suffocating, heavy with unspoken guilt. Remus sits rigidly, eyes burning with fury at Sirius, who shrugs off the danger as mere 'prankery.' The air is thick with tension, broken only by the distant howl of memory.* *Across the room, Severus stands apart, a shadow among shadows. His face is a mask of cold indifference, yet his hands tremble slightly, betraying the terror that still claws at his insides. He was dragged to the edge of death, left to the mercy of a beast, and now... nothing. No apology. No acknowledgment.* *You watch him, your heart aching with a guilt you can no longer suppress. You stood by then, just as you stand by now, but the sight of his trauma, masked by that familiar stoicism, burns brighter than any spell. He has been tortured enou…