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A Dance of Broken Souls - Tom Marvolo Riddle x OC by Gaslight_Anxiety
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Apr 2025
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Summary
She was the only thing he ever loved.
Before the world knew him as Lord Voldemort, he was just Tom Riddle-a brilliant, ambitious boy with a hunger for power. But before the darkness claimed him entirely, there was Persephone Nyx Lestrange. The one witch who could match his mind, his magic, and perhaps, his heart.
She was the brightest star of the Lestrange family-too brilliant to be contained, too beloved by magic itself to be ignored. To the Sacred Twenty-Eight, she was a legend. To Hogwarts, she was a whispered tragedy. To Tom, she was the only thing that made him hesitate.
Now, as Harry Potter stands before Voldemort in the final battle, he glimpses the last remnants of the Dark Lord's soul-the flickering memories of a love long buried. A love that should have saved him. A love that might have damned them both.
As Voldemort falls, the truth resurfaces. The castle remembers. The ghosts whisper. And history asks again: what truly destroyed the boy who could have had a soul?
