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When Merlin Asks About Love, I Respond With Cruelty by ppatatos
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Aug 2026
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Summary
Hermione Granger knows exactly what Tom Riddle becomes.
Thrown back in time, she has one chance to prevent that future: dismantle his immortality before it is complete and turn his hunger for power towards something that does not end with a ruined Hogwarts and a generation of graves.
But Tom Riddle is not Voldemort. Not yet.
He is brilliant, ambitious, ruthless—and far more interested in the witch who appeared in his world with too much knowledge and too little fear than Hermione ever intended him to be.
The longer she stays, the harder it becomes to separate the monster she remembers from the man standing before her. And as Tom begins to imagine a future built on influence rather than terror, Hermione is forced to confront a far more dangerous possibility than failure:
Perhaps Tom Riddle can choose a different path.
Perhaps she can, too.