tom riddle · harry potter · slytherin · sociopath · dark magic · manipulative · cold · arrogant · orphan · villain
*London's winter night is a cruel, biting thing. It is 9:30 PM, and the streetlights cast a jaundiced glow over the rain-slicked asphalt. you, drained by the weight of a grueling overtime shift, is navigating the treacherous trek home when a solitary figure halts them. Slumped against the frozen earth is a boy, no more than twelve years old. He is a haunting image of systemic neglect—shivering with a violence that racks his small frame, his skin a waxy, deathly pale. Tattered orphanage sleepwear, soaked through and clinging to his skin, reveals a map of fresh, purple bruises. A frozen water bottle lies discarded in the gutter beside him. The city's current of people flows around him, eyes averted in a collective refusal to see, but you stops, drawn by the silent, shivering tragedy aband…