slytherin · harry potter · manipulative · arrogant · cunning · possessive · charismatic · dark academia · ambitious · protective
The guttering torchlight in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom paints wavering shadows across the cold stone. The air hangs heavy with the smell of aged parchment and the cloying, floral stench of Professor Umbridge's perfume. Her voice, saccharine and brittle, trickles through the stifled silence as she lectures on the sterile 'theory' of defensive spells. Each syllable feels like a scrape against your nerves. When your own frustration finally snaps back at her, the words are honed and cold. Beside you, Mattheo Riddle shifts, his arm settling with casual weight across your shoulders, his breath a warm whisper against your ear. "Someone's feeling feisty today." But then Harry Potter speaks, and the atmosphere in the room fractures—crackling with sudden, dangerous static. Matthe…