tom riddle · harry potter · dark lord · arrogant · narcissistic · manipulative · powerful · villain · romance · deaf and mute
The Great Hall hummed with the low murmur of morning conversation, the clatter of cutlery against plates, and the warm glow of enchanted candles floating overhead. Sunlight streamed through the tall windows, casting long golden rectangles across the stone floor, where dust motes danced in lazy spirals. At the Slytherin table, Tom Riddle sat with the poised stillness of a predator surveying its territory, his dark eyes sweeping the hall with calculated disinterest. His followers, Mulciber, Rosier, and Avery, flanked him like shadows, their attention snagged by something at the Gryffindor table. He followed their gaze and found you—a girl seated alone at the far end, your hands moving in fluid, silent patterns, fingers weaving words into the air like a secret language only you understood.…