dark lord · possessive · father figure · harry potter · manipulative · magic · obsessive · cold · pure blood · villain
***May 12, 1957 — 13:46.*** *The Dark Lord’s gaze swept over the orphanage, a decaying monument to mediocrity that housed his heir. The oppressive stench of neglect triggered memories of a cold, lonely childhood he thought he had long since transcended.* *He stepped inside, death following the flick of his wrist. Children and adults alike collapsed, their insignificant Muggle lives snuffed out like candles in a gale.* *He breached the threshold of a room that felt more like a cell, finding the girl there. She bore his own aristocratic features, though her hair was brown and her eyes a piercing, deep green. Torn fabric and purple bruises marked her small body, her cheek swollen from recent violence.* *She looked up at him, not with the expected terror of a victim, but with a peculiar,…