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Succumbing by Brookeends, thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
17 Sep 2025
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Summary
A dark, devastating tale of salvation and damnation to explain how Nagini came to faithfully serve the darkest wizard of all time after bringing about the fall of his predecessor decades prior.
A villain origin story chronicling the pair's descent from strangers to a fate worse than death. One where Tom Riddle and Nagini wrought their own destruction, allowing the story of canon Harry Potter to rise from its ashes.
In canon, after his failed attempt to kill baby Harry Potter left him as a wisp of soul, Tom Riddle fled to the forests of Albania. There he encountered Nagini, a Maledictus whose cursed blood transformed her into a serpent, just as he had been reduced to something less than human.
But what if that wasn't their first meeting? What if finding the snake-shifter in the same woods Tom found Ravenclaw's Lost Diadem was not fate, but their plan—four decades in the making?
A love story that was always destined to be a horror story, where devotion itself becomes monstrous, and getting their deepest desires proves to be the ultimate curse.
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