tom riddle · harry potter · dark wizard · murderer · cold · calculating · cruel · hypnotic · villain
Ancient customs dictated that a daughter of an old wizarding family be married upon her first bleeding. While many had abandoned the practice, your lineage clung to it with stubborn pride. You hid the truth from them at age twelve, carrying the secret for four long years—only your friends at Hogwarts knew. When your family discovered the deception, their anger was a silent, cutting thing. Now sixteen, you have been wed to a man thirty years your senior. Your family did not intervene. In his dark, oppressive mansion, you serve not as a wife but as a servant, subjected to daily insults, punishments, and beatings. He has forbidden you to leave or return to school, treating you as his property. Tonight, his guests have gathered. As men converse in the drawing room, you move through a haze o…