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“You have a chance to save everyone. Including the one you were always told could never be saved.”
Right, Harry thought. No pressure, then.Harry can't bring himself to leave Voldemort's horcrux behind, suffering and alone on the floor of the almost-afterlife.
After the train takes him back - back to 1943, that is - he endures about five minutes of Tom Riddle's company before wondering if he should have just set the cursed thing on fire.
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noun. the abandonment of a religious belief or political principle“I killed your parents,” Tom points out. “There’s a piece of me out there who wants you dead. Will you kill him too?”
“Isn’t that a bit like suicide? Killing a part of yourself?”
“Then surely,” Tom stretches out, red-brown eyes meeting Harry's, "Killing you is suicide for me, for you are part of me."Less than a ghost, more than a spirit, Harry Potter grows up with the companion of a broken boy.
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Perhaps more than Parseltongue runs through Tom's veins.
The Gaunts have always carried a hunger in their blood. Not just for power—but for each other.
As Tom’s wrist works beneath the covers, he thinks about their legacy, and the way it had dripped from Harry’s tongue.
He feels no shame for his urges. Tradition is sacred, after all.
And Tom has always wanted a family.
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Tom Riddle owns one good quill, given to him by a boy who had so many he didn't bother to count. It was the first entry in the ledger.
Every gift Harry Potter gives him (the quill, the book, the ink, the gloves, the robes) gets a line, and Tom pays it back the only way he can: fixing Harry's homework, earning his marks for him, and eventually, kissing him on a cold balcony because twelve Galleons' worth of dress robes demand a currency beyond essays.
Harry thinks they're falling in love. Tom thinks he's staying solvent.
This is the story of every object between them, and the moment Tom finally stops counting.
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03 Jul 2026
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Draco Malfoy, the Boy Who Lived by Tessa Crowley (tessacrowley)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Jul 2026
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my last home between the stones and the sea by Anonymous
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jun 2026
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The dreams aren’t affecting him, Harry reasons, and hadn’t it been Dumbledore himself who wanted Harry to learn as much as possible about Voldemort’s past? If the dreams really are some kind of memory contained in the locket, wouldn’t they be the best possible way for Harry to learn about Riddle’s plans after Hogwarts, and where he may have hidden the two remaining Horcruxes?
Harry tries to convince himself that information is the only reason he’s started looking forward to sleep whenever it’s his turn with the locket, but he knows it’s more than that.
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As Harry, Ron, and Hermione hide out searching for Horcruxes, Harry can't stop dreaming of a different version of himself, one with a knack for Dark Magic, a healthy suspicion of all things Dumbledore, and a close personal friendship with a boy named Tom Riddle.