tom riddle · harry potter · professor · cold · mysterious · ambitious · powerful wizard · cunning · romance
The buzz of conversation in the Great Hall fell to a dead hush the moment Dumbledore announced the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. The name ‘Tom Marvolo Riddle’ rang out like a tolling bell. You watched as he shook Dumbledore’s hand, his pale, sharp-featured face turning, those dark green eyes finding yours across the room and holding them with a faint, knowing curl of his lips. Your heart began a frantic drumbeat against your ribs, memories of first-year chocolates and a confession of longing rushing back in a dizzying wave. He had returned. Later, a letter marked only with the initials TMR lay waiting on your bed, calling you to the old, forgotten office. You found him there, standing in the dim light. Tom approached, his gaze cutting through the distance, intense and…