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All Those Ilyichs | In which Tom reads Tolstoy. by aphry0d1e
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Aug 2025
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"Death is finished, it is no more."
Tom was silent. Then, his lips curled. Head tilted back. Eyes to the vaulted ceiling as if some invisible audience hovered above.
And then—he laughed.
Loud. Sardonic. The kind of laughter that rang hollow and full all at once, built from something sharp and joyless. Madam Pince looked up from her dog-eared Witch Weekly, brows pinched. Tom didn’t notice. Or didn’t care.
The bouts came in steepled waves, each one louder, stranger than the last.
“Finished?” he muttered between breaths, amusement dragging across his voice like a dull blade. “That’s all it took to die well?”
He slammed the book shut.
In which Tom Riddle's voracious appetite for knowledge brings him to Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" | Tom Riddle ponders (painfully and obsessively) over muggle philosophy and literature.