After All This Time// Sebastian Sallow x Reader Hogwarts Legacy Fanfiction

As I read the letter, my hands began to tremble. 

Perhaps this is why Professor Weasley didn't want me reading any more of these. She knew if I read what he's been writing, there's no way that I could sit by and do nothing. 

My Dearest y/n,

I want to make clear my heavy disappointment in your efforts. If you were trying to keep your friends safe by ignoring me, you thought wrong. 

I already told you that I can get inside the castle if need be. There's more to this ancient magic than you have come to understand; you have just barely begun scratching the surface of what you're capable of. 

All I wish to do is show you, but you have to let me. 

Maybe we can come to an agreement. You start seeing me on the weekends (I understand you still have classes- I have a heart, if you were thinking that I didn't), and I teach you everything I've learned. In return, you pledge your allegiance to me. If what I had you do last time has upset you, I understand, but I don't wish to cause you any sort of harm. I just needed you to understand what happens when you break our little agreements!

So here is complete proposal:

-You pledge your allegiance to me. 

-I teach you things that you never dreamed you would be capable of.

-Your friends stay safe and unharmed.

Please consider this offer wisely. I cannot promise that you'll receive this level of diplomacy  again if you choose to deny me. If your answer is yes, meet me at the lake once more on Saturday night. I will be waiting for your arrival the moment the sun sets.

Much love,

Charles x

I sat down on a chair by one of the big windows and turned the letter over in my hands, debating what to do. 

I should take the letter to Professor Weasley. Perhaps they can set up some sort of ambush with Officer Singer and some other aurors, and catch him off guard. I want to help though, and I know they would just keep me out of it. 

Part of me just wants to use the unforgivable curses on him, and end this once and for all. I know that would be the most efficient way of handling this. 

But then again, I have so much baggage and trauma because of my use of those spells in the past. After my fifth year and what happened with Sebastian, I vowed to never use them again. Of course I've slipped up every now and again when I'm in a panic, but I always reap the guilt that comes along with it. 

With everything happening, I don't know if I could do that again. It just brings back way too many flashbacks, and it really sets back my progress of trying to feel okay again and get sleep at night. 

Most nights I was there by the window, looking out into the water when the common room was unoccupied, and others, I'd lay in my bed staring up at the ceiling. 

I knew it would be a major setback. But it would also deal with the threat once and for all. 

I knew what I had to do, but I wasn't sure if I was mentally ready to carry out the deed. I still had a few days to process this and come up with the best plan. If only there was a safe way to get a second person there with me. Then, I wouldn't have to worry so much if he brought extra men like he normally does. I felt that once I took Charles down, his men would be way less of an issue.