I don’t remember the exact year. When a liking turns into an obsession, it almost feels as though it has always been there… like something that has followed you your whole life, simply waiting for you to notice it.

At some point I looked through the thousands of notes I’ve saved and realized that I’d already developed an interest in Tomarrymort even before 2023. And I used to think 2024 was when it began. Back then I was already fascinated by Tom, and by extension by the consuming obsession and the intrusive (and inescapable) connection he had with Harry, beyond the simple narrative framework of hero and villain. Which requires a level of understanding beyond the way the characters themselves perceive each other. And that obsession pushed me to want to understand Harry Potter himself much more deeply.

I was already fond of Harry Potter as a character (arguably more than half the fandom), but my interest in him deepened even further… and, ironically enough, the starting point for that was Voldemort! And it feels fitting. Harry only becomes the Chosen One because of Voldemort, so the fact that my deeper appreciation for him began there feels perfectly aligned.

Time Travelling 4D Chess Masterminds Father-Son Master-Servant Family Drama ft Snape & Voldemort

Voldemort - Time travels back to Tom Riddle Hogwarts years

Now Tom Riddle - Remembers how he dies, and what he knows about his Horcruxes, his enemy and esp his most loyal servant similar to him even sitting next to him in meetings straight up lying to his face because of pathetic love.

Tom: The audacity.

Tom - knows that said ‘most loyal’ servant’s mother is at Hogwarts with him.

Montage of seduction and planned marraige thanks to Abraxas Malfoy’s connection. Managed to bang the mom.

Eileen - Runs away pregnant from Tom Riddle, not because of him but because she was going to middle finger the pure bloods anyway and found Malfoy stringing this marraige along 'completely sus’ anyway.

Eileen - Oh yea, she pretended she died too to make sure she wasn’t being followed because Lord Voldie personality in Tom meant she knew he was dangerous. Too bad she hadn’t the same feeling for Tobias Snape just because she subconsciously looked down on Muggles with her pure-blood

Tom: What do you mean my darling wife (sarcasm) decides to die because of me? What did I even do to her?

Eileen: (sneezes) That man was just fishy. He was also becoming reptilian. I have better standards.

Tom: Was it because of how I looked? Well excuse me I didn’t want to die during those bombings and ensure I’m still alive??? The appearance is negotiable to my survival! Plus, I’m sure I still look coldly handsome.

Eileen: (meets Tobias) Plus, I prefer to be a bad girl. Blame the prejudiced Slytherin-ing.

Narrator: Which will become worse because Voldemort had to brag about Slytherin heritage and give it a bad name. Or there was more bias involved for no reason at all. Who knows?

Timeskip, like 9 years later.

Tom, in Cokeworth

Tom: I had to build up my powerbase especially after that damn scandal with Eileen, but I remember Severus being in Cokeworth. And that Mudblood too, I s'posed. I wonder if I can stage an accident.

Tom: Not because I’m petty that Severus betrayed me for her. For love like what that foolish Dumbledore preached. Certainly not because of that.

Tom - sees a young Severus and Lily together.

Tom -calculates timeline, knows that he impregnated Eileen, that Severus is definitely his mother’s child and he secretly did a paternity test. Spoilers, it passed.

Tom: Holy Salazar. What the hell, Fate?

Severus - Also time travels back to his first meeting with Lily, like it’s a catalyst

Severus: I’m going to protect Lily from that noseless bastard no matter what.

Tom - decided to make life more difficult being by being a definitely not noseless but certainly a bastard self to be neighbours with Lily.

Tom: I am Tom Riddle, nice to meet you.

Lily : Nice to meet you too, new neighbour. I’m Lily.

Severus : (along the ride) My .exe file ain’t running right. Did I inhale too many potion fumes and hallucinate?

Lily: What?

Severus: You heard nothing.

Tom: (Smiles) (Tries to Legilimency Severus)

Severus : (Shuts him down like the master he is)

Tom & Severus: (staredown)

Lily: I just love it how my new BFF and neigbour is getting along so well.

Tom: Oh yeah, say hi to your mother for me Severus. It’s nice to finally meet my son.

Severus : (actually shortcircuits) Wha-

Tom: That’s why I moved here, because there is so much I want to talk to with Eileen.

Severus: I… I will go get her.

Eileen comes, shocked that Tom actually dared to go to this Muggle hovel considering his pro-pure blood-ism and had to explain herself so that Severus knew he unfortunately landed himself in some freak AU where he is the going to be noseless in the future bastard’s son.

Eileen: Stay away from my son and my family.

Tom: But he’s also my son. Eileen, why did you have to run away?

Eileen: (inhales her drama fumes) Now you listen here Riddle…

Lily : (munches popcorn) Do you want some, Sev?

Severus: Do you even think I can even be calm when I had an apparently long-lost dad and my 'parents’ are arguing in front of us?

Lily: (nonchalantly hands over popcorn to Sev) Just inhale some of your theatre drama kid fumes too, Sev. It makes it more enjoyable

Severus - resigns to popcorn

Narrator: By now, despite Sev shutting Voldie down from the Legilimency attack, he just broke eye contact by having his bangs exquisitely covering his eyes at the right dramatic moment. So Voldie doesn’t know Sev time travelled. And Sev doesn’t know Voldie time travelled either, accepting the Occam razor logic of weird AU. Does not change his goals. Neither Voldie’s.

Severus - Will protect Lily at all cost and cut down the cancer that made her life miserable with the Mudblood propaganda made more radical with his power that pure bloods wish to have aka Lord Voldemort.

Voldemort - Will rule Britain once more, and sit on his throne (of not lies because he’s certainly not deluding himself) with only the most loyal of servants on his side and killing anyone considered a threat, his son unfortunately being one of them although he will observe his newfound son with this little espionage fun and to piss his wife off with that fake death scandal, because he’s petty like that.

Narrator: They will use all their time travel knowledge to gain the upper hand, with Sev trying to figure out Dumbledore’s cryptic words and remove Voldemort’s immortality while Voldemort goes about preparing some accidents of his detractors like the Marauders and fledgling Order of Phoenix members just to mess them up or better yet make them betray Dumbledore like how Severus betrayed Voldemort.

Narrator: Yes, man’s still petty asf. Until then, enjoy this family drama featuring:

Tom Riddle aka Voldie - The bastard father

Tom: At one point, Severus did betray me but that was another timeline.

Tom: He’s now my son and he still has the potential to be as powerful as ever.

Tom: I must never let him go, or else I will kill him if history repeats itself.

Severus: (sneezes) Someone must be planning my impending doom.

Severus: (shrugs) Guess I have to hunt down Vol-

Tom: What?

Severus: Why are you here?! You heard nothing. Go back to ignorance!

Tom: Yes son~

Severus: I am not your son!

Tom: (Feels a twang in his heart) Yes, I really do love teasing this little boy. It’s certainly not because I actually love the guy like a father.

Tom: I never had a good paternal figure to follow that example, after all.

Eileen Snape nee Prince - The so-done mother

Eileen: I am hap- OK, admittedly not happily married to Tobias Snape but have you seen my other option?

Eileen: Does Riddle think I’m so unobservant to what evil he’s doing while we were living in the same roof?

Severus: You didn’t care about that when living with Tobias freaking Snape.

Eileen: I subscribe to piss my parents off too. And Snape would piss them off more than Riddle.

Severus: (knowing his parents) So what if I start pissing you off now?

Eileen: Severus Tobias Snape!

Tom: You did walk into that one, dear.

Eileen : (prepares to inhale her drama fumes again)

Severus Snape (nee never because he refused to change his name to Riddle of all things) - The suffering son

Tom: But Severus Riddle has a good ring to it.

Eileen: If we are going to custody battle, he will just have to be Severus Prince because I can’t afford the money while being stuck with Snape and Prince carries off a lot of weight.

Severus: Why can’t I just stick to my first name?

Lily: You aren’t going to ask about the custody battle?

Lily Evans - Curious next-door girl wanting the best for her newfound best friend ie the one trying to rope Sev into schemes to get his parents back together that Sev does not appreciate which Lily interpreted as shy embarassment.

Lily: But c'mon Sev, don’t you think it’s adorable that Mr. Riddle is doing his best trying to get into you and your mom’s life. He’s such a nice man. I wonder why Mrs. Snape wanted to divorce with him in the first place?

Severus: (flashbacks to the VoldieWars)

Severus: Yeah, such a nice man. He’s just not the type.

Lily: (fell for Tom’s manipulations already) Sure…

Tobias Snape - A drunkard just there, who says 'F- it. I will just divorce the bish if someone else wants her anyway’. 'Coz 'he doesn’t like anything much’ so good riddance.

Tobis: ’S long ’s you can keep me drunk, then what do I care? Take my misery away from me.

Tom: (contemplates murdering this leech)

Severus: (wishes he can murder this scum)

Eileen: Why does that glint in both your eyes look so similar.

Tom: Really?

Severus: Hell no!

Petunia Evans - Wishes her sister would stop attracting weirdass trouble wherever she goes, especially with the latest gossip about the Riddle-Snape decable that’s making weekly neighbourly gossip mags for fun.

Petunia: Really, Lily! You have got to stop being involved with that riff-raff. I will never live it down that you got involved with the Floating Stalker incident. Some people are even calling you a witch!

Lily: But I am a witch, Tuney. And Mr. Riddle managed to convince everyone that he’s just a really good magician.

Petunia: Don’t you feel embarassed at all? People are calling my sister a monkey!

Lily: Hmm, don’t you think a monkey could be a nice assistant for both me and Mr. Riddle for our 'magic tricks’ then?

Petunia: Just put in my epitath that 'Petunia died of embarassment from her ungrateful sister’

Mr. & Mrs. Evans - Actually restoring Severus’ losing sanity coz of his parents and wishes out loud that they were actually his real parents, much to Riddle’s offense (certainly a bonus)

Mr. Evans: I am sure that Mr. Riddle will be a good father.

Mrs. Evans: And I know that Mrs. Snape is trying.

Severus: Family drama is only good on TV. But seriously, can you adopt me?

Tom: Over my dead body.

Mr. Evans: See, he cares.

Severus: No he doesn’t.

Albus Dumbledore - Actually surprised that Riddle has a son. Riddle be shielding his son even if he did betray him in another timeline from the old coot because a loyal servant was one thing, but his son going over to that old man?

Tom: (cat hissing) Never

Severus: (cat hissing back) Your not the boss of me!

Albus: (if he ever knew such an exchange) They truly are father and son.

Minor roles to the rest of Hogwarts staff and the Marauders if Sev ever survives the family drama and had to resign himself to being the mysterious Tom Riddle’s son aka the people in-the-know can and will eyeball him suspiciously.

Narrator: Will Sev and Voldie ever figure that the other time travelled? At some point. It will completely affect their relationship and it will be delish asf. Until then, they will play mind games and they will be similar to each other like father-son that will piss Sev off and amuse Tom because he’s too upper handy with his years, experience, Horcrux and being Severus Snape’s father. Severus decides to counter that with pure spite and he wins as much as he loses with Tom’s insanity.

If y'all like it and my 3am idea generator stumbles upon better stuff, then I may get pumping out a bit more. Tune in~

You are simply blind and tasteless.

Voldemort is SUBLIME. Not just a sublime man either. He is The Sublime.

Yes, except that Gaunts are more genetically accurate, while Targaryens are not only physically beautiful but also incredibly charming in both good and bad ways (yes, I am totally a Targaryen).

Have some Tom Riddle

For me, it’s simply because Tom has multiple diagnoses, first and foremost antisocial personality disorder. If only J.K. Rowling had been more thoughtful about crafting him, what a villain he would have turned out to be.

Empyrean Douceur, Sin With Me - Chapter 1 - illydiac - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

— Power Imbalance, Bondage, Pain Kink, BreathPlay, Unhealthy Relationships

Rating: E

Hunger, hunger, hunger, hunger — Tom’s one and only faithful companion, the vehemency that has pushed him into pursuing his every ambition with a tormenting thirst all these years. Hunger for control, for dominance, hunger for enslavement, devotion, power. Among the many things Tom would spend hours scrutinising and reading into and unraveling to possess its knowledge like its legitimate owner, hunger was not one of them — he knows it like the back of his hand, recognises its nature because it’s eroded in his bones, it calls to him.

plug ins for every outlet candles burning for longer than they even should WHY does my bathroom every other toom smell like DISGUSTING FOOD I COULDNT EVEN FUMBLE IF I TRIED ON PURPOS. I HAVE TAPE ON EVERY VENT WTF IS HAPPENING

Idk about you guys but I found this awesome and really funny

Burn with me, Nagini, believe:
We will open any door.
And even hell won’t do us part.
Those in whose eyes the fire is burning.

One of the things I love most about Bellamort is the unstable nature of their relationship. This obviously doesn’t mean I’d ever want a relationship like theirs, it’s just that I’m fascinated by the complexity of their united characters.

God, it’s been so long since I was here… I may finally post all of those ideas I had stewing inside my brain and computer docs.

it’s 3am and I’m in love with the Sirius Black characterization in I’ll burn the stars by Angelofer.

100/10 perfection; I cannot believe that my favourite Sirius fic doesn’t have Harry Potter in it, but there’s something so alluring about a confident, powerful and slightly bruised Sirius Black that’s still at the top of his game despite just having lost his Black heir status.

His real name. Lord Voldemort. I would prefer if you called him ‘The Dark Lord’, though.

Tom whispers something to Nagini in Parseltongue… Flirting, probably.😏

I am honestly a person who has read the whole Harry Potter saga thrice and in the process of (slow) reading the saga for a fourth time as I write my own fanfiction Back In Time. If you read closely (or just brush over it) you will realise everything so far is very much following the canon….with some changes here and there, of course.

The thing is, when I read it for the first time, I too thought that yes, there were clearly two sides - good and bad and stuff. I had mild opinions but it was from superficial readings.

People said I was wasting my time when I read the books again and again but thing is, reading it again makes you notice details that you didn’t notice before.

And reading them oh so many times doesn’t makes you am expert. It’s okay to forget key details too.

People in fandom should engage in reading and writing the long long posts written by someone cause yeah - that’s after multiple readings of the canon.

And you know what? They make sense most of the time. And sometimes they don’t (like the one I read about Ginny using a love potion on Harry) and that’s okay.

This post may feel useless but I guess I am just trying to say that all the Harry Potter characters are very complex in nature, whether you take Voldemort, Snape, Draco, Harry, Dumbledore, or any other character at all.

People should actually engage more in the deep study of these characters, especially the most misunderstood ones like Voldemort (or Tom Riddle), Harry Potter, and Draco Malfoy…..and maybe just stop giving special treatments to other characters who had a complex past story.

From the prologue

Somewhere nearby a beam collapsed with a hollow crack, sending a shower of sparks into the smoke. Her heart pounded with terror, anger, and a desperate, reckless determination. Because in that moment, wounded, bleeding, hidden beneath the ruins of the world she knew, Hermione Granger understood one thing with absolute clarity: if anyone was going to put the world back together, she had to live long enough to be there. 

She pressed her forehead against the earth, and the world went dark. 

The war ended that day.

Below: the cover art, made by me in Midjourney and edited

atenean abraxas x isko tom

will be digitalizing soon :)

Voldemort was written for a children’s book, and as a result, he was simplified as a villain to the point of making his motivations overly simple. Grindelwald, on the other hand, was written for an adult audience, almost a decade after the books ended. Voldemort is not weaker than Grindelwald or less political; he simply finds himself caught up in a children’s book and is only ever shown at the worst stage of his life through the eyes of the boy who is his mortal enemy. Furthermore, Voldemort is treated like shit in the films; they cut out all his memories, and they gave his unique ability to fly without a broomstick to half the cast. Voldemort is a victim of Rowling’s inability to write a good villain; he’s no worse than Grindelwald.