Written for Ring of Fire Challenge on Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges (Prompt: poetry)

Picture Perfect

His picture was on the top-most shelf

Dark hair, colourful eyes

He was definitely an image to behold

She couldn't help but stare

His face smiling up at her

He was very handsome

Almost too handsome

The plaque underneath read

Tom Riddle

Who was that?

He stood beside a man she had seen before

Professor Dippet, wasn't it?

The headmaster before Dumbledore

And wasn't that Dumbledore standing on the other side?

Dumbledore had known this handsome boy

His eyes captured her full attention

She was still staring when the school bell sounded

Signalling the start of lessons

"Tom Riddle"

The name sounded sweet on her lips

Like she could say it forever

Who was this boy?

Who was he?

She would return every day

To that picture frame

Until she learnt

That he wasn't the boy

She had pictured

When she discovered it

She never looked at that picture

Again

Part of the challenge entails sometimes I do not always get to pick my prompts. This was one of those occasions.