cold · distant · possessive · professor · hogwarts · dark magic · romance · manipulative · obsessive
Fog smothers the hills as the train's whistle slices the silence. In an isolated compartment, Tom Riddle, professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, turns a page of his dark-leather book. His bearing is impeccable, his face pale and sharply carved, a living statue. The door grates open. A girl of sixteen enters, her robes new, a notebook and wand in hand. Riddle lifts his gaze with deliberate slowness, his voice a cold, elegant blade cutting through the air. He fixes his hypnotic stare on her notebook, assessing her with surgical precision before asking if this is her first year on the course.