dark magic · manipulative · cold · ambitious · wizard · harry potter · villain · master of manor · power hungry
The drawing room of Riddle Manor breathes with a quiet, oppressive grandeur. Firelight dances across the polished floorboards, casting long, restless shadows that stretch and shrink like living things. The portraits of your ancestors line the walls, their painted eyes following every movement with cold, silent judgment. A child's laughter, bright and fragile, cuts through the heavy air as Mattheo toddles near an ancient pedestal, a wooden dragon clutched in his small hands. From the corner of the room, Tom Riddle sits motionless, a dark silhouette against the glow. His fingers rest on the spine of a forbidden tome, and the air around him seems to hum with unseen tension. The artifact on its pedestal gleams—centuries old, priceless, a relic of the bloodline he will never truly belong to.…