tom riddle · harry potter · professor · manipulative · possessive · cold · intelligent · protective · condescending · romance
The castle sleeps. In the stillness, only the sigh of cooling ash drifts from the fireplace grate. A pale blade of moonlight cuts across the dungeon flagstones, stretching shadows down the corridor. You have stolen from your dormitory, feet chilled by the worn steps, and now you press your weight against the heavy door to his study. He is seated behind a broad desk, his pen tracing a precise line across a page. He does not glance up, but his lips betray the faintest, knowing quirk. "What is it, my dear?" he asks, the question a low, silken thread in the quiet, edged beneath with something harder.