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1. where you don’t even miss the ocean by purplestormsnail

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   12 May 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Harry Potter/Tom Riddle
   • Harry Potter
   • Tom Riddle
   • Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale
   • Creature Fic
   • Creature Tom Riddle
   • selkie!Tom
   • Selkies
   • Sweet Harry Potter
   • Protective Tom Riddle
   • Fisherman!Harry
   • Yearning
   • Pining
   • Happy Mer-May everyone
   • Mythology References
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Pretty Harry Potter
   • The burn is both slow and fast
   • It takes YEARS for them but I mean the story’s under 10k
   • Happy Ending
   • Sexual Content
   • Top Tom Riddle
   • Bottom Harry Potter
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • I feel like selkies are merfolk in spirit

   Summary

   Harry Potter is a lonely orphan in a small fishing village. Tom Riddle is a selkie—a sealfolk, able to take human form only one night every seven years.

   Four encounters, two decades, and a love that only grows stronger with distance and yearning.

   Written for the Purge and Purge XL prompts “yearning” and “fairytale retelling”, respectively.

   Series

   • Part 6 of Purple Purges

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   English

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