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as someone who only recently started poking their nose into this, help i am so confused T-T do you have like a slythering boys 101 or something i am so lost on them and their personalities q-q

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I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK ME FOR A FULL RUN DOWN EHEHEHEHHWHEHE THANK YOU

okay so essentially the Slytherin boys consist of about 5-7 boys. Draco Malfoy(canon), Blaise Zabini(Canon), Theodore Nott(canon character, will explain), Mattheo Riddle(Fanmade), Lorenzo Berkshire(Fanmade), Tom Riddle(the third. Fanmade, not the dead one), and Regulus Black(Fanmade, again not the dead one)

You’ll typically see Draco, Blaise, Mattheo, Lorenzo, and Theodore being written about, but its not hard to find Tom Riddle and Regulus Black content either.

So like? Who are these people?? How did they come to be??

We already know Blaise and Draco, they frequent both the books and movies so i’m not going to spend a lot time talking about them.

Draco is just about canon Draco. I can’t think of anything that really changes about him in the fandom.

Blaise has a lot less book/screen time than Draco so a lot of people have taken it upon themselves to characterize him. I see him as a very posh, haughty, quiet person. I think he’s at least half Italian even if he doesnt speak the language, but that differs person to person.

Okay here’s where it gets a bit complicated so stay with me(if you need clarification on anything PLEASE feel free to dm me or send in another ask <3)

Theodore Nott

Mentioned in the books maybe twice, all we know is he’s a slytherin pureblood with some h e a v y ties to Voldemort. Because we have so little information on Theodore, all of it’s basically made up.

Basic information:

He’s fancasted as Lorenzo Zurzolo, and Theodore himself is Italian and completely fluent in the language. You’ll mostly see clips of him from the show Baby(netflix)

Most people agree that his mom is dead, but i’ve seen some fics where shes alive and just ill, and i’ve seen fics where shes alive and just absent. I characterize Theo as a total mamas boy, but again its up to the author.

His dad seems to be abusive or neglectful. Again, death eater dad who is pretty much besties with Voldemort. Daddy issues

I characterize him as best friends with Mattheo Riddle(explain later) because of their family ties, but they truly get along.

He’s an avid smoker with a pension for ciggies, but i’ve also seem him characterized a few times as the Hogwarts plug which i think is SO fun.

He’s this really quiet, observant, yet flirtatious character. He’s a ladies man but still a heart breaker. Everyone wants to sleep with Nott, and thats okay.

Mattheo Ridde

Mattheo comes from a draco x reader fanfic called Possesive by yasmineamaro. I think you can still find it on Wattpad. He’s completely fanmade.

Basic Information:

He’s fancasted by Benjamin Wadsworth, and you’ll mostly see clips of him from the show Deadly Class

He’s the son of Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange, and depending on if the author believes in Tom Riddle the Third, Mattheo is the second child.

Again, Avid smoker, also I see him as a heavy drinker. Type of guy to come into class reeking of pot and act like nothing happened.

Fights galore man. Imagine having the dark lord as your dad, no doubt he was fuckin traumatized as a child. Imagine Ominis Gaunt from Hogwarts Legacy, the Guants were FUCKED UP(Gaunts actually became the riddles so this tracks) and often used unforgivables on their own children for discipline. Cant imagine Voldemort wouldnt do the same.

He is angry, he is mean, he is actually really funny and sweet once you talk to him(can we tell i have a favorite?) but getting through that hard outer shell sucks.

Also depicted as a major playboy.

Tom Riddle(the Third)

Oh boy. No idea where he came from, and tbh I see him WAY less often than anyone else. Its really a 50/50 if the author follows him being… real.

Basic information

Okay i don’t really write for Tom so.. bear with me here.

He’s casted as… just Tom Riddle from the Movies. Its just him. I think Tom Riddle second actually got a new fancast but… i dont really care :P

Heir to the Dark Lord, oldest child(again, when he exists, so don’t be surprised to see single child Matty)

Really just copy/paste book tom riddle into a new, young character.

He’s scary asf, academic weapon, also a ladies man but will drop them IMMEDIATELY after he fucks em

Idk what else to say here tbh? Maybe someone else can explain Tom better 😫

Lorenzo Berkshire

No clue how this fucker came to be, I fucking HATE him. Fanmade and BITCHY. JK just got corrected he’s from a draco x oc on wattpad called Filthy by babynaomi

Basic Information:

Fancasted by Louis Partridge, you’ll most likely see clips from Enola Holmes.

Bastard son of Mr. Berkshire and Bellatrix Lestrange which relates him to the Riddles.

I see Lorenzo being this bestie little trio with Theo and Mattheo. But Matt and Theo are way more likely to hang out with eachother than alone with him.

Suppeeeeeeer bitchy. Someone had a DR scenario where he would fuck everygirl he could, write their name down in a little black book, and each girl was worth different points based on blood status.

This guy sucks fr.

Actually some people characterize him as really sweet and fluffy.

I am not one of those people.

Regulus Black

No ideas where this guy came from. He’s literally just dead regulus copy and pasted into an alive, younger regulus. Supposedly the child of Sirius Black and some random woman?

Basic Information

He’s fancasted as Timothee Chalamet, so is dead regulus, its really confusing.

I dont write for him. Really, I dont know what to tell you

I’ve seen him portrayed as an artist?? Erm… again, i really dont know

Sorry pookie 😫

Harry & Draco:

"Show him your loyalty bying aiming at the scar. "

“对准这道伤疤，向祂证明你的忠诚。”

Harry & Severus:

"There's nothing here for you to weep for but ruins and the bodies of trators. "

"这里只剩废墟和叛徒的尸体，还有什么值得你落泪的东西？”

Dumbledore & Grindelwald:

"Please accompany me through the final act of the killing. "

"请陪我演完最后一幕杀伐之剧。”

Sirius & Severus:

"Call me D.E. Hunter (death eater hunter)"

“你是我的猎物，食死徒。”

George & Fred:

"Even death cannot do us apart. "

“死亡也不能使我们分离。”

JKR: No, never. If he had, he couldn’t possibly be what he is.

The fact that people bring up these quotes as some sort of gotcha only shows how dumb they are.

Yes, she said this, and yet, the way she wrote Voldemort behaving towards Bellatrix can only be explained by attachment, as Christopher E. Bell notes in his essay 'Riddle Me This: The Moral Disengagement of Lord Voldemort'.

Usefulness cannot logically explain it, especially when you consider Bellatrix was more of a liability than useful, in the end, and when you compare his behaviour towards her to his behaviour towards other useful Death Eaters and Nagini. It's certainly not a good explanation considering his behaviour towards her was irrational and the primary source for the reading that Voldemort felt nothing for anyone is Dumbledore, a character Rowling demonstrates is explicitly and repeatedly wrong about Voldemort's inner life.

Clearly, this quote and what JKR wrote exist at the same time, so this isn't a contradiction, but it's easy for certain people to use it to dismiss evidence. A dualistic, simplistic, and superficial reading might take her words at face value but that won't account for all the evidence within the text itself that shows a clear attachment, so instead of subscribing to the simplistic reading, ask yourself what she means by this deliberate contradiction.

When Rowling says 'he never loved,' she's not saying 'he has no attachments, no one matters to him, and he's equally indifferent to everyone.' She's saying he can't love in the way we understand healthy, selfless, sacrificial love. He can't love like Lily loved Harry, but the TEXT shows he clearly has something with Bellatrix that he doesn't have with anyone else, which it shows through his extreme emotional reactions towards her that he has for nobody else, ever. She is clearly the person who's most emotionally important to him, the one human he feels most intensely towards.

His feelings for Bellatrix were introduced even before her own love for him! They share a unique intimacy and she makes him extremely happy. He is strategically completely irrational when it comes to her, as the Ministry rescue shows, which came at an enormous cost. He is jealous of her loyalty to her own family and deliberately isolates her from them, binding her more closely to himself through classic patterns of emotional manipulation, which reveals a very dark aspect of the relationship alongside his own need for her love. He trusts her with his soul through a Horcrux in her vault, which is different from the diary which was intended as a weapon. His reaction to her death is the most intense emotional reaction he ever has and it's not at all strategic. The sexual dimension is, of course, obvious. He is clearly attracted to her and they have a daughter the author not only approved but was planning long before Cursed Child, as shown by the foreshadowing in HBP, the Bellatrix-Tonks subplot, and the hieros gamos symbolism in Deathly Hallows. Rowling calls him her male counterpart, essentially her partner. The relationship is shown through literary techniques such as parallelism with the relationship of Voldemort's narrative mirror, and the allegory of their relationship in Tales of Beedle the Bard. Rowling even uses some classic romance tropes, and the Second Wizarding War is structurally bookended by Voldemort's emotional responses to Bellatrix's peril or loss. The relationship demonstrates Rowling's signature use of ring composition, which literary scholar John Granger has identified as a foundational element of her work. Rowling has, in multiple interviews, compared Bellatrix and Voldemort's relationship to Dumbledore and Grindelwald's, stating they have similar themes and motifs, and Grindeldore is another ship she hinted at in the books but wasn't explicit about because it wasn't relevant to Harry's story.

So the question isn't if this qualifies as capital-L Love but what IS this, and why does it exist only with her?

This is where Rowling's 'he never loved anyone' and 'they're counterparts' and the textual evidence all reconcile. He can't love in a healthy way, but he has the closest thing to attachment/connection that someone with his psychology can manage, and it's with Bellatrix. It's not selfless or sacrificial but consuming and possessive (he isolates her from her family, humiliates her in the meeting, has a great deal of power over her) and based on her meeting needs he won't acknowledge he has. It's whatever warped version of intimacy and dependence someone who's split his soul can experience, but it's there and it's unique to her, and it matters enough to provoke reactions we see nowhere else in the series.

A sophisticated reading would reconcile the apparent contradiction.

Notice how she says he couldn't possibly be what he is if he'd loved anyone? Clearly, that refers to a sort of love that's redemptive, which is how love is defined in the series:

“Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love.” - Tales of Beedle the Bard

This quote also supports the interpretation that she views love as redemptive:

MA: Oh, here’s one [from our forums] that I’ve really got to ask you. Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?

JKR: Yes, he has, which in some ways makes him more culpable even than Voldemort, who never has. Okay, one more each!

Here she says Voldemort has never been loved by anyone, even though he was loved by Bellatrix. She hesitated to describe her feelings for Voldemort as 'love' in a subsequent interview, but ultimately chose to call it that. Voldemort was the corrupting force in Bellatrix's life and it was precisely through his feelings for her, his acceptance of her darkness, that she was corrupted, so it could never be love in JKR's eyes based on that alone. Bellatrix, on the other hand, was not a major corrupting force in Voldemort's life.

So yes, he never Loved anyone but he loved Bellatrix and was extremely attached to her. Both statements are true, but they're describing different things. One is about what he's incapable of (Lily's kind of love, the magic that defeated him) and the other is about what he is capable of (attachment, need, whatever connection his fractured psyche allows).

Bellatrix is the closest thing to the bandage, the person who offers what his damaged psyche can actually accept: unconditional acceptance of his darkness, witnessing of his vulnerability, and mirroring of his nature.

Simple minds say 'but Rowling said he can't love!' and when they see the text showing unique reactions to Bellatrix, they conclude there is a contradiction and one must be wrong, but a sophisticated mind would ask what 'love' even means here and What IS he capable of. How do these statements reconcile when we understand the terms properly?

Nobody is claiming Voldemort loves Bellatrix in some Disney fairytale sense and I'm not even claiming it's healthy, but clearly, he has the capacity for attachment that exists within his psychological limitations and that attachment is uniquely directed at her.

That reading is nuanced and accounts for all the evidence without requiring us to dismiss either the authorial statement OR the textual moments.

When we apply Occam's Razor to this relationship, something interesting emerges. The usefulness argument, despite seeming simpler on the surface, actually requires an absurd amount of mental gymnastics to account for all the evidence. It requires dozens of separate ad hoc explanations to explain away each piece of differential treatment as somehow strategic or coincidental and still ends up with holes.

Erid’s best engineer who killed himself with his own ignorance and brought the stars down with him. The damage, complete and thorough in it’s cosmic destruction, was done.

adrian fully understands how into grace rocky is, but they didn't understand the extent to which grace needs/wants rocky until now. it warms their hearts, but it also breaks them specifically because of how much they must have had to endure together to be this reliant on each other. especially because, from what rocky has told them, adrian knows humans don't technically need anyone to watch them sleep like eridians do.

rocky introducing grace and adrian ft the rygos tuxedo tshirt