chakotara
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
When sixth-year Tom Riddle suggests a fake relationship to silence Hogwarts gossip, Hermione Granger knows it’s a terrible idea—and agrees anyway. She’s tired of being a punchline. And if pretending to date the most untouchable boy in school will shut Ron Weasley up? So be it.
The rules are simple: act real, keep it secret, and never let it become anything more.
But Tom Riddle never intended to let her go. And Hermione?
She should have read the terms & conditions.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 113,251
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Comments:
- 502
- Kudos:
- 1,515
- Bookmarks:
- 378
- Hits:
- 44,979
Bookmarked by chakotara
12 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Tom Marvolo Riddle had only ever wanted simple things in life: immortality, world domination, a few Orders of Merlin, the extermination of filthy Muggles, and the refinement of wizarding blood. It was bloody unfair that Dumbledore and the rest of the world kept trying to get in the way of his simple wishes. Was it so hard to give an orphaned boy his due?
When Tom Riddle woke up inside his tattered diary, he endured Ginny Weasley's whining, accepted the painful truth that his Master Soul was incompetent, traumatized the Hogwarts Mudblood population, and decided to squeeze himself into Potter's hollow vessel and shake hands with the piece of his Soul lodged in there. It was, admittedly, debasing; still, if it would help him fulfill his simple wishes in life, Tom would take it.
The Mudblood wasn't a part of the plan.
(It worked out well enough anyway.)
Bookmarked by chakotara
09 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
An alternate universe where Voldemort never heard a specific prophecy and triumphed in the First Wizarding War, dismantling the Ministry of Magic and seizing control over magical Britain. The Order of the Phoenix was destroyed, and Albus Dumbledore fell early in the fight, leaving no one strong enough to challenge the Dark Lord’s rule. The Statute of Secrecy remains intact, but Voldemort’s shadow reaches into the Muggle world. The Ministry now serves him, Hogwarts trains the next generation of Death Eaters, and Muggleborns have been nearly wiped out—or so Voldemort thinks.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 315,290
- Chapters:
- 56/?
- Comments:
- 1,940
- Kudos:
- 2,285
- Bookmarks:
- 491
- Hits:
- 93,293
Bookmarked by chakotara
08 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"You’ve seen something," he said, very softly. "Something you should not have." Hermione didn’t away. Her pulse thudded in her throat, but she held her own.
"Or maybe you’ve spent so long hiding the truth that the idea someone else might see it terrifies you. I see you, Tom Riddle." Her voice cut clean through the air—cool, deliberate, unshakably calm. "You play the part well. Top of your class. Impeccable manners. Not a single blemish on that spotless record of yours. The perfect Slytherin. The perfect student. The perfect lie." Her eyes didn’t waver.
"But I know better. Lemon juice makes excellent invisible ink. All it takes is a little heat, and the truth bleeds through. You can smile, charm, and pretend all you like, but I see through it. I see you."
Tom’s expression didn’t shift, but his eyes sharpened—dark and calculating, like something ancient had stirred behind them.
"And I see you, Hermione," he said, his voice like velvet stretched over something venomous. The sweetness in his smile was practiced, polished, and utterly false. Tom leaned in slightly, just enough to make his words private. "Whatever you think you know about me," he murmured, "means absolutely nothing."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 261,848
- Chapters:
- 50/50
- Comments:
- 230
- Kudos:
- 399
- Bookmarks:
- 164
- Hits:
- 23,010
Bookmarked by chakotara
08 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Hermione Granger inadvertently helped Lord Voldemort win the war. And now she became his greatest prize.
(*animae dimidium meae: half of my soul)
Bookmarked by chakotara
08 Sep 2025