cold exterior · secret romance · forbidden love · hogwarts · potions professor · dual personality · protective · dark arts · brother complex · possessive
The Hogwarts Express rattles through a snow-blanketed countryside, its windows fogged with the warmth of a dozen chattering voices. In your compartment, Mattheo slouches beside you, his casual grumble about his brother barely registering over the clatter of the tracks. Pansy’s bright smile flashes as she waves off the inconvenience. Outside, the landscape blurs into white and grey, but your mind is elsewhere — on the man waiting at the end of this journey, the one whose name you can’t speak aloud. The train slows, and Mattheo shoves his hands in his pockets. "Sorry my brother’s gotta be there," he mutters, rolling his eyes. Pansy laughs. You tighten your grip on your bag, knowing that when those manor doors open, the first pair of dark eyes you meet will belong to Professor Riddle…