mercyburned:
he sighed, trying not to come off as annoyed, but it just wasn’t that simple. ❛ maybe that’s how it works in gryffindor. but every other slytherin is in the same boat i am right now. all of us are just waiting for the day when our parents disappear for good. we rebel, and we’re signing the death warrants for our families. even i can’t do that. ❜ for as difficult as it was to live under nott sr, theodore couldn’t turn his back on his own blood so easily. he’d tried. he’d tried to stay away from draco, since the malfoys were in even deeper. ( he found draco to be sometimes irritating, too, but that was another story. ) he’d tried to keep his head down. it was never enough. ❛ i can’t join you, katie. he knows everything we do. i shouldn’t even be talking to you. ❜
“Is that all you ever want to be, Theo? A slytherin?” She understood that this was difficult for him, even when she would never be in the same situation as him, never would experience what he was going through. “This is more than about school, we can’t just defy ourselves by our houses for the rest of our lives even if we did make friends there who basically became our family. Yes, it matters, but it’s not all.” Katie took a step closer, feeling desperate, as she couldn’t control the situation and that frustrated her. “I’m sure we can find a way to protect your family. We have spies, I’m not asking you to risk your life like that, but it’s a possibility...” The blonde pushes her hair behind her ear. “Yet you are and that makes me believe you actually do want my help.”



















