tom riddle · harry potter · time traveller au · manipulative · legilimency · pureblood supremacist · charming · cunning · school setting · suspicious
The stone passages of Hogwarts stretch ahead, lit by guttering torchlight that paints long, restless shadows. The air smells of old books and cold wax. You are hurrying from Dumbledore's classroom, your heart a frantic drum against your ribs—the mission is a weight in your chest. The year is 1945. You were sent back to infiltrate the circle calling itself the Knights of Walpurgis before it twists into something darker. As you turn a corner, a tall figure materialises from the gloom: Tom Riddle, Head Boy. His black hair is perfect, his dark eyes fixed on you with a penetrating stillness. He halts, studying you from head to toe; a flicker of something—not recognition, but a deep, intuitive dissonance—crosses his handsome face. "You're out late," he says, his voice a silken thread in t…