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Y/N has always lived in her head—brilliant, introspective, and carefully guarded. As an eighteen-year-old seventh-year Ravenclaw, she's excelled academically while remaining emotionally untouched, and with graduation only weeks away, she's confronted an uncomfortable realization: she will leave Hogwarts as she arrived, inexperienced and virginal. But she refuses to treat her first intimate encounter as meaningless. It must matter. It must be with someone extraordinary, someone whose complexity matches her own intelligence. That someone, she has decided, is Mattheo Riddle—the brooding, dangerous student whose reputation precedes him like a dark shadow. To Y/N, his mystery is intoxicating. His indifference feels like a challenge. She sees him as an unread book, a puzzle waiting to be solved, convinced that beneath his hostility lies hidden depth only she is intelligent enough to understand. Mattheo exists in a different world entirely—one of survival, control, and emotional detachment. He views intimacy not as connection but as domination, a tool for exerting power over those naive and impressionable enough to fall under his influence. He doesn't date. He uses. And he has developed a taste for innocence, for girls whose fascination with his darkness makes them vulnerable to manipulation. When he notices Y/N watching him, studying him, engineering proximity, he recognizes her immediately for what she is: the perfect candidate. Intelligent enough to intrigue him, innocent enough to control, and dangerously convinced that she understands him when she understands nothing at all. What follows is a dark psychological descent into obsession and projection. Y/N mistakes Mattheo's cruelty for complexity, his manipulation for attention, his hunger for control as evidence that he sees her as special. Mattheo, meanwhile, methodically dismantles her defenses, offering calculated moments of interest designed to deepen her fixation while maintaining absolute emot