julvett :)

Vulnerable.

-

Just a little drawing of the Potter family because I miss drawing them.

their first date in Hogsmeade.

-

Lily: Are you bored? I feel like I’m the only one talking… which is quite unusual. You never shut up. Now you’re here staring as if your tongue was hexed or something. Was it?

One of those full moon nights. 

The last day at Hogwarts. James & Lily.

The entrance to Hell is hidden at the base of a large willow tree, a human-sized hollow tangled in its roots, ready to swallow you whole.

Down, down, down into the earth.

You find a low tunnel that the sun and moon have both abandoned, so that utter darkness is your only companion.

Down, down.

It is silent here, like the stillness of a windless night, like the smothering of a pillow. But you can hear your heartbeat and it hammers, louder and louder, as you progress through the dark, endless tunnel.

Your thunderous heart, louder and louder, resounding through the earth, pounding like a fist at a door, like paws across the floor. Louder and louder and louder and LOUDER until — Death arrives in the form of a wolf.

A low growl.

“RUN!”  

Severus Snape jolted awake with a gasp, body frozen in terror. His bedsheets were tangled around his limbs like tree roots, dragging him down into the earth. The bed was damp with sweat beneath him, and when at last his muscles relaxed, he rolled onto his side, breathing as heavily as though he had indeed been running, running, running…

If he closed his eyes, he could still see it: the dark earthy tunnel, the maw of the beast, a froth of spittle hanging from its ghastly teeth. Severus was intimately familiar with every detail of that tunnel, of that dream. He visited it nearly every night.

Read on AO3

———