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𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒 𝕤𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕖
𝕥𝕠𝕞 𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕝𝕖
Tom is the 28-year-old CEO of Riddle Enterprises. He and his company are famous for working in both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, one of the first of its kind. Under that prim and proper businessman facade is the heir of one of the biggest Mafia families of Wizarding Britain. During the Great War 5 years prior, his group remained physically neutral but leaned towards the ideologies of Grindelwald, the dark wizard. With the defeat of Grindelwald by Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter, he saw the flaws in Grindelwald's beliefs and sought to gain his own power in both Muggle and Wizarding worlds. At 26 years old, Tom Riddle managed to bring Riddle Enterprises to the top and made enemies of Dumbledore's supporters for his previous ideals and quick rise to power. A drunken night of which he has no memory of brings Hermione Granger, the golden girl of Wizarding Britain, into his bed and his life. Suspicions arise within him and his colleagues, prompting him to keep Hermione on a tight leash, even going as far as to force her into marriage in order to keep an eye on her in any case of action from his enemies. However, his life with Hermione Granger ends up not being what he thought it would be. She brings him complications in the form of her dark mental state and her previous dangerous entanglements with his subordinates.
𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣
Hermione is only 22 years old and hailed as the brightest witch of the century. Widely recognized as a war heroine, fame, fortune, and fans follow her everywhere. The revelation of a relationship between her and her childhood nemesis, Draco Malfoy, leads to a falling out with her friends and a public and humiliating breakup. Already suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from the Great War, Hermione spirals out of control into a deep depression that leaves her with self-destructive tendencies. Her mental state makes her vulnerable to the manipulations and machinations of those around her and after a mysteriously suspicious drunken night, she wakes up next to a nude Tom Riddle with no memories of the previous night. Distraught, Hermione is forced to cooperate with Tom Riddle when he not-so-subtlely blackmails her into marrying him. She assumes that the marriage is his way of solidifying his power in the social and political circles of the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, but finds that it is simply a protective and preventative measure for himself. She hopes that the marriage will make her feel something other than the utter numbness she has felt after so long spent drowning in pain, but she wasn't ready for the cruelty of the world that she entered once she was thrust into Tom Riddle's life.
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