💬 20 🔁 36 ❤️ 266 · the ao3 curse (m.r.) · Pairing: Mattheo Riddle x Reader Word Count: 13.6k Summary: Next time your favorite author tak
I am actually sitting here staring at my screen like. what do you MEAN.
This fic absolutely ruined me in the best possible way 😭
The opening alone already had me emotional — the childhood Potterhead experience, writing yourself into the world just to belong?? That hit way too close to home. I felt SEEN.
And while reading, I was falling even more in love with Mattheo with every sentence — like HOW is he real?? The way he cares, the way he exists in her story… I cannot.
Also, can we talk about how this whole fic gave me major Matilda by Roald Dahl vibes?? That sense of wonder, cleverness, and finding your own place in the world. And the Inkheart energy?? That magic of stories coming alive, of words opening doors… YES. All the YES.
Then the shifting happens and suddenly it’s not just a dream anymore — it’s real, it’s heavy, and it HURTS. Scabbers coming back?? I gasped out loud. The way this story refuses to let canon be easily “fixed” is so cruel and so brilliant.
The psychological toll on (Y/N)??? INSANE. Knowing everything, trying everything, and still failing over and over again?? The Cedric arc absolutely destroyed me. I was screaming at my screen because she TRIED. She tried SO HARD.
And Mattheo Riddle… oh my god. OH. MY. GOD.
The anomaly. The boy who shouldn’t exist. The only one who understands. That Astronomy Tower scene?? I’m not okay. The way he sees her, really sees her, when she’s at her lowest — that changed my brain chemistry.
Him killing Voldemort?? HIM BREAKING THE ELDER WAND?? The kiss in the middle of the battlefield?? I was losing my mind. That wasn’t just a happy ending, that was EARNED.
This fic isn’t just a Hogwarts fantasy — it’s about grief, choice, love, and finally letting yourself have a future that isn’t dictated by canon. I will be thinking about this for a LONG time.
Thank you for feeding us like this. I would read literally anything you write @cipheress-to-k-pop 🖤✨
Also… sorry if my thoughts are all over the place but I’m just TOO EMOTIONAL right now 😭💖
