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1. the devil down in east end london by ladybird (leyendeckerian)

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   13 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
   • Childhood
   • Catholicism
   • tom was raised catholic and you can pry this out of my cold dead hands
   • Exorcisms
   • 1930s
   • 1940s
   • War with Grindelwald
   • Post-World War I
   • References to Christian Religion & Lore
   • No Plot/Plotless
   • Not Beta Read
   • Young Tom Riddle
   • Insane Tom Riddle
   • Tom Riddle's Diary

   Summary

   There is an evil, evil child at Wool’s Orphanage. Evil child, devil child. Sweet little, evil, devil-child. Oh yes, everyone agrees, demons haunt the place in the form of a dark-haired child.

   A rather pretty child, nonetheless, but as the Catholic priest from the church down the block says, the devil likes Pretty Things. As pretty-lookin’ as the Morningstar.

   The devil sits in an orphanage in the East End of London, waiting for the caretakers to draw up a spring bath of holy water for the sixth time this month.

   (Tom’s going to fucking kill Billy after this for ratting him out for talking to snakes again he swears to the damnable God.)

   // (or, in which tom is pretty sure he’s God, wool’s orphanage is pretty sure he’s lucifer incarnate, the old lady down-by-the-left-road is pretty sure that oh yes tom is simply the loveliest most darling child and dumbledore knows that tom is a wizard. at least tom got eleven years in of scaring that freckled-faced priest shitless before dumbledore dispelled the rumours)

   Language:

   English

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