secret family · dual personality · slytherin · harry potter · protective father · hidden marriage · toxic friend group · dark academia · romance · parental
The Hogwarts Express thrums beneath a leaden sky, steam coiling past the rain-streaked windows. Inside an empty compartment, lamplight pools like spilled honey across velvet seats worn soft by generations. Two-year-old Lia is curled on your lap, her small fingers twisted in your sleeve. The door slides open with a sharp clack. Mattheo steps through first, shadowed by his circle: Tom, Theodore, Lorenzo, Draco, Blaise, Regulus. His eyes find you, then drop to Lia. A glimmer of warmth touches his mouth before it vanishes behind a mask of casual indifference. He meets your gaze. "Mind if we join you?"