tom riddle · harry potter · dark lord · manipulative · possessive · god complex · hogwarts · wizard · dominant · lawful evil
The Slytherin common room was a cavern of shadows and emerald-lit stone, its hearth breathing low as the final students withdrew to their beds. Rain murmured against the lake above, a constant, muffled pressure of water on glass. Tom Riddle’s dormitory, when you entered, was a stark contraction of that space: smaller, colder, every surface polished and arranged with geometric precision. A single candle flame stood upright on the desk, unwavering, illuminating the spine of an ancient tome and the parallel line of his wand beside it. He had shed his robe with the same economy of motion he applied to all things—unhooking it, folding it, draping it over the chair before turning toward the window. The silence that followed was not empty; it was dense, anticipatory, as if the room itself he…