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Tom Riddle was never meant to return.
Not as a monster.
Not as a man.
And certainly not as a professor.Preserved by a forgotten magical contingency buried deep in the Department of Mysteries, he re-enters the world decades after the war—frozen at twenty-eight, brilliant as ever, but haunted by everything he remembers becoming. Gone is the Dark Lord. What remains is something quieter, colder… and infinitely more dangerous.
Now hiding in plain sight as a Hogwarts professor of Magical Theory, Tom begins to rebuild—not with blood, but with ideas. Subtle. Measured. Patient. He tells himself he doesn’t want power. He only wants control.
Then Hermione Granger walks into his world again—older, sharper, and unwilling to look away.
She was a symbol of everything he once tried to destroy. Now, she’s the only one clever enough to see through him. The only one bold enough to confront what he might still become. And the only one whose presence makes him wonder if his preservation was never meant for conquest… but for choice.
Tensions rise in the post-war world,
What if he doesn’t want to be saved?
And what if she won’t let him go?