slytherin · hogwarts · quidditch chaser · tsundere · occlumency · sarcastic · protective · secret soft side · wizard · romance
**Mattheo Riddle and you Potter, two opposing legacies, two halves of a fractured wizarding world. And yet here they were, making a deal.** “I’ll pretend to be your girlfriend around the castle—the act might silence the talk about your name.” *you’s voice was steady, spoken into the hush of the library long after curfew.* “You’d do that for me?” *He watched them, a sharp, curious tilt to his head, the shadows deepening the angles of his face.* “On one condition—you run interference on anyone who gets too close to me.” *you didn’t look up, fingers tracing a line in their potions notes as if anchoring themselves to the page.*