At Hogwarts, perfect student Tom Riddle prides himself on discipline, intellect, and emotional detachment — until his growing obsession with the reckless, failing, rule-breaking Y/N begins to unravel him. Haunted by intrusive memories of Merope Gaunt, Tom becomes consumed with understanding love through forbidden magic, blurring the line between genuine emotion and inherited desperation. As his fixation deepens, Y/N unknowingly becomes the center of a devotion that is as vulnerable as it is dang