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Tom Riddle is a frightening coil of darkness, cruelty, and greatness, and changing him is Harry’s only hope for saving people he loves. Going back in time, he takes Tom from the orphanage, but his optimism shatters with every year they spend together.
Tom still longs for darkness. Tom stifles him in his possessiveness. Tom is fixated on him to the point of destroying the world just to keep him.
But Harry loves him. And the future changes.
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25 Jun 2025
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I have very conflicting feelings about this story. On the one hand, the writing style is absolutely amazing, 10/10 for sure. On the other hand, the end of the story was not it. I understand, in some way, how it got to that conclusion, but I don’t like it.
Harry’s actions have broken Tom more than thoroughly and I hated it. It’s just not something I liked seeing. I’m not talking about justification, simply enjoyment.
I did not like reading the end, I had to force myself.All in all I would recommend this story, but I would never reread it.
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you speak of the devil (like he's not your friend) by Amuria
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 May 2025
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Harry finds a Horcrux the summer before his sixth year. A deal is struck.
(Or, when Harry wakes a seventeen-year-old Tom Riddle from the Gaunt's Ring, it is to a world where his future self has achieved none of their goals except one. Harry is proof that he's a great wizard after all.)
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23 Jun 2025
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It’s a nice story, very nice even. It doesn’t particularly provide any new insights or ideas, but the story was written out in a great way and the characters behaved like themselves. All in all, would recommend, 8.5/10.
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Gluttony knows no end. This, Tom has always understood.
Since boyhood, hunger has followed him like a constant gnawing, a hollowed ache beneath the ribs. He has yearned for so many things: the Terry’s chocolate oranges clutched in the hands of children with mothers; the pale wafers pressed against his tongue during Mass; the blood drawn from Billy Stubbs’ rabbit, metallic and warm and power-affirming.
And yet—
Nothing has ever scorched through him like this.In which Tom Riddle finds himself increasingly afflicted by a most inconvenient obsession: Harry Evans.
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21 Jun 2025
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Great story. Nothing entirely new, but still a wonderful Time-Travel fix it variety that deserves to be read entirely.
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Harry Potter has been hiding in plain sight all his life, since he carries the soul-mark of Minister Tom Riddle on his arm—and a fulfilled soul-bond will double both partners’ power. His parents and godfather are fugitives, members of the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry is a junior Ministry official feeding the Order what information he can. No one, least of all him, expects Harry to come to the sudden notice of Minister Riddle, or be drawn into a dangerous game of deception.
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- Part 1 of Darkest Devotion
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18 Jun 2025
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Harry Potter has just escaped the clutches of Lord Voldemort. The Wizarding World is ecstatic, Harry is more famous than ever (much to Snape’s annoyance), and Draco Malfoy can finally catch a break.
Things would be back to normal, if it wasn’t for Harry’s continued dreams with a certain Tom Riddle. A young and handsome man who’s more connected to Voldemort than Harry ever imagined. Tom Riddle is a fantasy that’s far more alluring than Harry would like to admit.
What happens when Voldemort tries to convince Harry to return to his side willingly? What happens when Harry tries to find some good in Tom Riddle and change him for the better? Who will give in first? Who will change forever? Surely, the Wizarding World will never be the same.
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16 Jun 2025