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Iris Clemonte has always known what it means to be safe.
Raised in a home where love was steady and unwavering, she arrived at Hogwarts with a quiet certainty in who she is. The kind of certainty that makes her dependable, calm, and almost impossible to shake. In Hufflepuff, she becomes known for a quiet strength that people instinctively trust. Iris lives her life the way she always has: steady, predictable, and untouched by the darker undercurrents whispering through the castle's halls.
But Hogwarts is changing. And so is the boy everyone watches.
Mattheo Riddle has never known safety, only expectation, isolation, and the weight of a name that follows him like a shadow. Feared, whispered about, and increasingly alone as the wizarding world tilts toward war, he exists at the opposite end of everything Iris has ever understood. Where her life has been defined by warmth, his has been shaped by silence and suspicion.
Their worlds should never overlap.
Yet in their sixth year as tensions rise, loyalties are tested, and the line between darkness and choice begins to blur, their paths cross again in ways neither of them can ignore. And when someone raised in certainty meets someone raised in shadow, both are forced to confront a question neither has ever truly faced:
Is who you become determined by where you come from or by what you choose when everything begins to fall apart?
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fem!oc x mattheo riddle
harry potter books 6-8
started 24/02/26 (uk)