#dracotok

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who loves you so much, always wanting the best for you.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who calls you beloved.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who protects you. Anyone who speaks ill of you or upsets you being silenced by him.

You're bewitching, breathtakingly gorgeous, as he claims. It's inevitable for people to stare when you walk, to crave what's his.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who remarked nothing when he saw some Gryffindor oaf pathetically attempting to make advances on you, only for him to randomly disappear the next day.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who is ruinously devoted to you, he doesn't hesitate to burn all that stands in your way and to get rid of any obstacles in your path.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who drops to his knees in front of you, promising you the world and giving you a promise ring.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle isn't dating you, he's courting you.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who, upon overhearing a jealous girl at a Slytherin party insulting your intellect, instantly silenced her with a hex, making it so she couldn't open her mouth anymore.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who finds it unacceptable for anyone to breathe a word against you, making sure that girl’s reputation was utterly ruined by the next morning.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who looks at you with such intense admiration that it almost scares you while simultaneously making you feel like the only girl in the world.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who isn't liked by your friends. They all tell you that he's bad—framing your love as some messed up story where possession and infatuation is wrongly labeled as affection.

Boyfriend Tom Riddle who doesn't need to convince you to cut them off, you know they're all just envious of what you have.

summary: It happened with two ties, one red and gold and the other green and silver. It only took one mistake for all of Hogwarts to find out.

pairing: Mattheo Riddle x Gryff!fem!reader

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an: i got inspired by one of the 2020 dracotok trend, im sure y’all remember

The door creaked open and in strolled Mattheo Riddle, late as usual. He doesn’t bother to apologise, he just carelessly strode towards his place.

"As usual, Mr. Riddle, when you come in late I would—"

Professor McGonagall stopped mid-word.

The entire classroom fell silent.

Mattheo frowned. Glares, sure. A lecture, obviously. But this? Theodore was staring like he’d seen a ghost. Enzo and Blaise both wore half-hidden smirks, jaws slack with amusement. But the worse was Draco. He looked like he might actually combust, the scowl on his face twisted deep enough to carve stone.

Mattheo muttered, "What?"under his breath.

Then he saw it.


The red-and-gold tie draped loose around his neck. Not his. Yours.

He huffed a breath and before he could properly process what was happening, the door opened again.

You rushed in, a little breathless, freezing instantly when every pair of eyes snapped to you. Gasps rippled across the room. Enzo outright snickered now, Blaise bit down on a laugh. Draco’s disgust was loud enough to fill the silence.

"This is unbelievable." he muttered.

"Bloody hell." Ron breathed.

Confusion rolled thick. Sure, you weren’t normally late, you were actually one of the best students. But this reaction? It didn’t make sense. Until your eyes landed on Mattheo.

Your tie. On. His. Neck.

The world narrowed. For a second, neither of you moved. The silence was suffocating. Then, wordlessly, you crossed the room. He tugged the tie free at the same moment you reached for it, a lazy smirk flickering at his lips. No explanations. No excuses. Just a quick, fumbling swap. His Slytherin green for your Gryffindor red.

You knotted yours back in place, he draped his loosely over his collar, and without another glance, you both retreated to your seats.

The silence lingered like smoke. Professor McGonagall finally shook her head in disappointment and forced the lesson on, but the air buzzed with whispers and suspicion, the entire class trying to process what they’d just witnessed.

"Nice move you pulled out there." Blaise was the first to bring up the subject at dinner, smirk tugging at his lips as he demolished his plate of food.

"A total disgrace." Draco snapped, cutting across him. His voice was sharp enough to slice. "If you want to… slum it with Gryffindors, that’s your business. But walking in there draped in their colours?" His lip curled. "That’s pathetic. A disgrace to Slytherin."

Mattheo’s jaw tightened. He didn’t bite immediately. He let the silence draw out, gaze steady on his cousin until the air felt heavy. Then his voice cut through.

"Don’t talk about her like that."

Draco’s eyes narrowed. "I wasn’t talking about her, I was talking about you. Do you even realize how that looked?"

Mattheo leaned back, his facial expression softening slightly.

"Yeah. I do." A smirk curled at his mouth. "Looked like I just stumbled in after a long night with my girlfriend."

Blaise and Enzo burst into laughter, half the table gasped, and even a few Gryffindors craned their necks to see what the commotion was.

Mattheo just raised his goblet, utterly unbothered, like he, THE Mattheo Riddle, heir of Slytherin hadn’t just admitted to be dating a Gryffindor. Much to Draco’s pure horror

"It’s not that deep Malfoy."

Hey shifting community! You can call me verdict. U could say I'm part of the OG community that started on TikTok back in 2019/2020 and now I feel like an old granny.

Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble shifting back then, because the whole bubble was pretty full of misunderstandings and strict rules (always stay in the starfish position and don't move!!!!) . So the next thing I had to do with shifting was unfortunately just a lucid dream in which I stepped through a rainbow-colored portal and felt like I was being catapulted through the air. I was so shocked that I “let go”.

And after I started studying at university, I somehow put shifting aside and then forgot about it.

Thanks to Tumbler and the shifting community here, I have finally regained my courage, revised an old Hogwarts script, and will start a new attempt from now on.

I'm 19 now and have a much more stressful everyday life than I used to, but I no longer have strict shifting rules and am approaching the whole thing in a much more relaxed way ;)

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