it starts with you, a new transfer student arriving at Hogwarts mid-year. The castle looms cold and majestic around you as you’re guided through the shadowed corridors of Slytherin house. mattheo, tall—6 foot 5, with a lean, almost predatory grace—already moves like a legend in this house. His dark hair falls over his angular face, and his voice is low, almost hypnotic when he speaks. You catch his gaze once in the dim light of the common room, and it’s this electric moment—subtle, but loaded. As days pass, you fall into his orbit—his friends like Draco and Blaise are sardonic, but Mattheo remains this enigmatic center. And the slow burn unfolds—at first, a glance, a lingering conversation in the library, and eventually, when he opens up, you see a depth—he’s been burned before, but he falls hard once he trusts.