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Everyone at Hogwarts knows Tom Riddle as the brilliant, intimidating Slytherin Head Boy — but Y/N knows the truth. Behind the perfect image is a sarcastic, secretly goofy boy who loves Muggle things, terrible jokes, and pretending he doesn’t care about anyone. When a seventh-year school project pairs Tom and Y/N together to look after a ten-year-old girl named Isabella for three months, they expect chaos. What they don’t expect is being given an apartment with one double bed, a child who immediately calls them “Mum” and “Dad,” and a crash course in becoming a family. As Isabella slowly breaks down Tom’s walls and forces him to embrace his softer side, Y/N begins to see the boy behind the reputation. Between late-night talks, accidental domestic moments, Muggle movie nights, and a child determined to prove they’re already in love, Tom and Y/N find themselves caught in a slow-burn romance neither of them can deny. Because sometimes the person who changes your life isn’t a hero or a spell. Sometimes it’s a ten-year-old girl who looks at two stubborn Slytherins and says, “You’re both idiots. You obviously love each other.”