underdog

the most famous boy at the trap house

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...yes.

[𝑎𝗇𝖺. @mortaalcoil]

just curious, no ulterior motive. did you eat the apple?

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the quiet one.

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are you going to remind me of this every day now?

i didn’t do anything strange today. https://t.co/CtKC8xNvmU

[𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑴. 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒔 . @D0EEYESX]

— @thecurepotion

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always waiting for me to return.

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proof of her betrayal of blood purity, her ban from returning to the magical world, her small curse, her child.

a child it always hurt her to look at.

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⠀
⠀⠀mother
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and as if understanding this, the father only grew more furious at her arrogance and condescension. and yet they were bound by the echo of former love, and with it, the realization that there was nowhere else to go, shame, and... severus.

[/J\ @_joulian_]

"Memory of Skin" by Chiharu Shiota, 2001

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he looks at the apple left for him, a little confused by this whole encounter, but that doesn’t stop him from carrying on with his oddities.

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typical know-it-all, typical ravenclaw. though perhaps a little less self-absorbed.

indeed, it hadn’t been wise to make an enemy of snape. quiet as he was, he wasn’t known for his gentle nature.

[𝑎𝗇𝖺. @mortaalcoil]

unsettling sights don’t particularly bother me. i’d say they’re part of my daily life.

but no, i have no intention of psychoanalyzing you. i'd find it intolerable if someone attempted the same with me and, admirable as curiosity may be,

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his teeth are uneven, with small protruding canines.

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⠀
⠀⠀headcanons
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his bag and pockets are always full of junk because he constantly picks things up off the ground in case they might be useful later.

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...severus.

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there’s no need to dissect my head, it will be an unsettling sight.

[𝑎𝗇𝖺. @mortaalcoil]

statistically, people are far less predictable than their principles and far more consistent with their impulses—

forgive me, i'm already turning a simple observation into an analysis. they’re just words.

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he didn’t know how to play pranks — he only knew how to take revenge.

“why do you like it?”

snape obviously saw more reasons to hate this job than to love it.

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severus was certainly not the easiest student to deal with and often found himself at the center of noise and incidents, but everyone at school knew his attitude toward "pranks" and "mischief" because of the gryffindors who terrorized him.

[𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅. 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐎. @SLYTHERINZHEIR]

“ oh. Something as doing mischief and other nonsense. ”

tom said, starting to get some strucute on his own desk. then, the words seem to make the professor stop. He was thinking ─ actual thinking about the question he just got.

“ ... honestly? sometimes i enjoy my work,
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