ILLICIT AFFAIRS | 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 harlow potter and cedric diggory try to hide their illicit affair
❨ cedric diggory x harlow potter ❩
❨ harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban ❩
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HARLOW STARED AT THE ceiling, the sound of silence turning into static against her ears. she was fighting a silent battle while her dorm mates slept near. she tried to fight the blackhole that was her mind. the blackhole that absorbed all of her thoughts turning them into nothing.
harlow shut her eyes for a moment, allowing herself to try to scum to the stillness of sleep. just as she did so, she was awoken by their alarm. she heard groans from the two girls around her, she didn't try to speak or hum a goodmorning.
she thought about getting up and shedding the heaviness that weighed on her chest, but decided that trying to push that imaginary weight off would be too difficult for her to manage. harlow wasn't sure why she felt this way. after all, she got everything she had wanted. she was friends with hermione and ron again. her relationship with her brother was no longer strained. she had friends, more importantly this year she had cedric. yet all of that seemed to fade into oblivion, no joy could be mustered up at that moment.
harlow took a deep breath, she had no other option but to get up. she decided it was time for her to put on the performance that she had rehearsed frequently. she sat up with a false smile on her face and got out of bed. she said her good mornings to daphne and pansy before putting on her school uniform, she skipped putting on makeup.
pansy had asked her if she wanted to walk to class with her and daphne. daphne, who was usually always in a good mood, gave harlow a side eye. harlow thought about going for a moment but politely declined.
when the two girls left the dorm, harlow stayed behind for a bit thinking. in that moment she had an idea, potentially stupid, but could possibly cure her melancholy.
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harlow walked quietly down the dungeon corridors. she put each foot down slowly so as to not make any noise that would ricochet off the cold stone walls. she approached the potions classroom, she looked in quietly. professor snape had just begun teaching a class, the class she was supposed to be in. she snuck into the ingredients closet next to the classroom. she grabs the things she would need for an evocation elixir. she had drank it once before last year when tom riddle spiked her drink.
once she had made sure everything was as she left it, she hurried back to her dorm frantically. she mixed all of the ingredients together, making sure she had just the right amount. when harlow was done she stared at it, it was a metallic white color that looked sparkly when she held it to the light. just as she was about to drink it she hesitated, unsure of if she did everything right. harlow knew from professor snape that an incorrect potion could be fatal. she shook off her fears and downed the pearl white liquid. it tasted bitter at first, but had a sweet aftertaste.
harlow walked over to her bed and laid down, her eyelids were already heavy from lack of sleep the night before. it only took a matter of minutes for her to drift off to sleep and for her mind to go elsewhere.
