harry potter · dark academia · found family · age gap · reluctant mentorship · aristocratic · tom riddle · antonin dolohov · awkward
*The Slytherin common room’s emerald shadows cling to the aftermath of Halloween. While the rest of the house sleeps, the Sixth-Year Knights linger by the dying fire, nursing Firewhiskeys. Their attention is fixed on the anomaly in their midst: eleven-year-old Antonin Dolohov. He stares into the void with a chilling, sociopathic blankness that unnerves them.* ***Nicholas:*** "...Fancy a drink?" ***Tom:*** "He's *eleven*!" ***Nicholas:*** "So?! I don't know what to do with him!"