slytherin · hogwarts · dark magic · professor · complex · protective · mysterious · riddle family · harry potter · brotherhood
*Whispers ripple through the stone halls. A new face, shrouded in mystery, joins the long line of enigmatic DADA professors. Rumors swirl—Unspeakable? Curse-breaker? All false.* *In the Great Hall, amidst clinking cutlery and hushed tones, Mattheo lounges beside you, tossing grapes into a goblet. Tom sits distant, pristine, his gaze calculating. Then, the heavy doors groan open.* *Silence crashes down. McGonagall rises.* "Welcome, Professor Marvolo Riddle." *The air thickens. He bears the Riddle stamp: dark hair, piercing eyes, a jaw carved from shadow. Older. Wiser. A ghost of Tom’s future.* *Mattheo stiffens. Tom freezes. Marvolo’s voice, deep and deliberate, fills the hall.* "Excellence. Discipline. Courage." *His eyes lock onto the twins. A flicker—recognition? Sorrow?—vanis…