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Hated by the world, killed by his enemies- Tom Riddle pieces the shattered remnants of himself back together and more.
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- Part 1 of Diverging Paths Series
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Vanishing after obtaining precious treasures he stole from a cooling corpse, Tom Riddle begins his study of the Dark Arts by taking a tour into restricted, forsaken, and abandoned territories. Just dipping his toes into a journey he originally thought to be the safest place to start, Tom makes a minor deviation in a fork-in-the-path that leads him into the arms of something far more primordial than time itself. Something from between the seams, beside our existence, and beyond the dark.
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Raised in the Great Nation, Harry believed from childhood that he was meant for little more than average domesticity. Though as his sixteenth birthday crawls around the corner, he's forced into a world of wild and terrifying magic. Armed with only the remnants of his late mother's trinkets and uncanny dreams of a boy with red eyes, Harry seeks out his heritage in the Elden Realm.
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Tom Riddle does not believe in prophecies. He does not believe in destiny, love, or any of the soft-headed nonsense his peers cling to. He believes in power, in control, in himself.
But Tom Riddle is also fraying at the edges—burdened by exams, his housemates’ endless war gossip, and the whisper of a prophecy he never asked to hear.
Either way, he vows never to believe in fate—until fate itself arrives at Hogwarts on a godforsaken Friday in the form of a transfer student whose name echoes his greatest fears and whose eyes silence every thought beneath Tom’s perfect head of hair.
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09 Jul 2026
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10 - peverels presence is driving tom bonkers, he has a nightmare of the bombings as the summer looms ahead. harrys arrival is revealed.
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Harry thinks he's doing an amazing job blending in undercover as a normal student. Everyone is absolutely terrified of the monster wearing human skin walking among them.
title from Hozier — Angel of Small Death & the Codeine Scene
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- Part 6 of we should just kiss like real people do
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02 Jul 2026
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4 harry is seen as a horror to those around him, he's having an okay time adjusting. Tom is frazzled and starting to get ambitious with who he believes Harry is death itself.
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He falls into a daze, idly watching his shell shift colour every time he turns it, from blue to pink to green, and shifts slightly.
Hum.
He pauses, staring but not seeing. His head frills twitch. Had he imagined a sound?
Hum.
It’s a deep, echoing vibration. The pitch is unlike anything he’s heard.
Should he answer it? He can’t even discern its intent. But he's so curious.Or: Mermaid!Harry finally escapes humans and is free to roam the ocean. He sets to search for a forever pod, hoping to find a place to belong and keep it. However, life doesn't always go as planned, and he ends up encountering a creature he knows he should avoid.
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20 Jun 2026
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6 the reef is attacked by humans, harry flees. harry and voldemort finally meet, voldemort is 'possibly' building a nest for his would-be mate.
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After the war, Harry Potter won. Then he lost everything.
Years of fighting for a world that threw him away the moment he became inconvenient. Years of watching good people die while the Ministry shook hands with the very enemy trying to destroy them. Years of grief that hollowed him out until nothing remained but rage and a single, desperate question:
What if I had done it differently?
A forbidden ritual. A second chance. A body that is no longer his own and a mind that remembers horrors no fifteen-year-old should ever know.
He knows what's coming. He knows who is responsible. And he knows that the Boy Who Lived cannot save anyone.
So Harry Potter will not try.
He will do something far more dangerous.
The future hangs on a single question:
What happens when the Chosen One stops choosing to be good?
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04 Jul 2026
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23- harry shares his past with remys and sirius.
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His shirt was soaked through with blood as his hand moved uselessly, trying to cover the wound. A low groan slipped past his lips. The heat of the surrounding flames lashed against his skin, weakening him with every passing second.
He clenched his teeth. With the weight of those red eyes fixed on him, he forced himself to rise.
He hadn’t fallen yet. He would make sure those eyes gleamed with satisfaction.
On July 31, 1980, the Potter family welcomed twins into the world: Elian Cassian Potter and Rowen Fleamont Potter. However, the rigid traditions of the wizarding world and the Dark Lord’s desire to train the heirs of the Sacred Twenty-Eight pushed Elian into the background from the very beginning. Rowen, born just two minutes earlier, had already secured his place as the family’s heir. The lack of attention and the harsh treatment he endured fed the ambition within Elian—an ambition that would, in time, grow into a deep and consuming obsession.
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23 Jun 2026
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8 Elian is on the list Voldemort has seen, Rowan has bragged about killing the creature, his parchment has been taken and the death eaters are acting strange. He was suspended and dipped out.