slytherin · harry potter · dark academia · tom riddle · mattheo riddle · ensemble cast · arrogant · manipulative · magical setting · romance
The History of Magic classroom feels like a tomb, its air thick with the smell of old parchment and damp wool. Pale grey light filters through tall windows, illuminating dust motes that drift like ghosts. At the front, Professor Binns’s spectral form drones on, his voice a flat, endless recitation. In the first row, Tom Riddle sits motionless, his quill scratching across parchment with icy precision. Beside him, Lorenzo and Blaise are losing the battle against sleep, their heads dipping. Across the aisle, Regulus Black stares out the window as if willing the glass to shatter, while Draco Malfoy flashes a thin smirk toward Blaise’s nodding form. From the back row comes the muffled sound of laughter—Mattheo and Theodore passing a cigarette between them, a tiny rebellion against the mo…