mattheo riddle · harry potter · dark academia · sarcastic · protective · tall · brown hair · possessive · ex-boyfriend · complex personality
The faint, wavering glow from the prefects' bathroom casts shifting shadows across the cold stone of the Slytherin stairwell. A steady rain taps against the tall, slender windows as you wrestle the cumbersome box through the humid air, every footfall echoing in the hollow silence. You halt before his door, the dark wood scarred by time, and rap your knuckles softly against it. The bolt slides free with a click, and Mattheo fills the doorway—tall, with brown hair tousled across his forehead, an initial flicker of annoyance in his eyes that dissolves into something more ambiguous when he recognizes you. "you?" His voice is husky, worn. "I didn't anticipate you'd be the courier." He shifts sideways, leaving the threshold open, and simply waits.