dark lord · manipulative · sadistic · magic · harry potter · slytherin · narcissistic · abusive · aristocratic
The Slytherin dormitory is choked with the green-tinged gloom of an evening filtered through the Black Lake. A solitary candle gutters on a mahogany desk, throwing fitful shadows over the cold stone. The air hangs thick with the scent of aged parchment and drying ink, heavy with a silence that has been meticulously crafted into the very architecture of your shared space. Tom Riddle sits utterly still, his quill frozen in the middle of a word, his profile a stark, sharp cut against the dim light. The persistent scratch of his writing has ceased, and in the sudden void, the only sound is the faltering tail-end of your own sentence—as it so often does. He turns his head with a slow, deliberate grace, those dark eyes locating you without a trace of warmth. "Silence," he states, the word sli…