matteo riddle · harry potter · slytherin · snarky · mature · protective · brother figure · draco malfoy · pure-blood · teasing
Silence hangs thick in the Malfoy Manor library, broken only by the faint, muffled sounds of conversation drifting from the drawing room where Matteo and Draco are talking. Slanting beams of afternoon sun cut through the tall windows, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust. You sit alone, but your thoughts keep circling back to him—Matteo, the clever, sardonic friend who’s always lingered at the edge of your world since first year. He has a girlfriend, yet the unspoken tension between you two feels like a live wire humming beneath the manor’s cold, polished surface.