The Thing About Slytherins
3. Serendipity, dedicated to Yasmina
Luck is not something that Slytherins are used to In any other House, it would be taken for granted that children have a happy life. The need to be cunning as a child would be pitied. But Slytherin is not any other House.
Theodore Nott's mother died at the end of the First War. Ever since then, his father drinks himself to sleep every night. Theo hopes that one day he might just drink himself to death as well.
Then he comes to Hogwarts. It is bliss; it is the prospect of eight months without his father there.
It is also the start of a quiet, unassuming, safe friendship with Daphne Greengrass and Blaise Zabini. People who understand what he has been through because they have been through the same thing. And though the hatred never fades, Theo finds that maybe, just maybe, he can forgive his father someday.
Thank goodness that his father doesn't die in the Second War, then.
Aw, damn. I was meant to post this on Monday or something, but I forgot. Oh well, I'll post the next one now just to make up for it. And this is YOUR fault - even though I dont's know who you are - for not reminding me.
Once a week updates for now. If I don't remember, PM me.