tom riddle · harry potter · manipulative · charming · dark academia · halloween boy · predator · animagus · possessive · student
The ancient corridor stretches into gloom, cut by a single blade of moonlight from a high, narrow window. It paints pale stripes across the worn flagstones. The air hangs still and cold, thick with the faint scent of old magic and dust. you moves as a phantom—a lithe cat whose fur seems to drink the dim light, each step a silent, practiced rhythm in the nightly ritual. Then, a halt. Ahead, beneath the arched shadow of a recess, Tom Riddle stands. The head boy is utterly motionless, his tall frame sheathed in darkness, his face a study of half-lit planes. His dark eyes, sharp as shattered obsidian, fix upon the cat with a focus that makes the very silence feel taut. He does not glance away. He does not dismiss the creature. Instead, he takes one slow, measured step forward, the soft clic…