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Fourteen years ago, Tom Riddle pulled a toddler from the wreckage of a car crash. He never expected to meet him again.
Harry Potter never knew they had met at all.
A non-magical AU in which Tom Riddle has spent his life building power in two different worlds: publicly, as the celebrated headmaster of Britain's most prestigious boarding school; privately, as Lord Voldemort, the unseen architect of an elite secret society whose reach extends into politics, business, and the highest levels of British society. Harry Potter is sixteen: broke, lonely and perpetually in trouble. On the last school trip before summer break they meet again by chance at London Zoo.
Then Tom begins bending every rule at his disposal to bring Harry into Hogwarts, hiding his true purpose behind a nationwide scholarship competition. Hermione Granger, Viktor Krum and Fleur Delacour win without ever realizing that the entire programme is merely cover for getting one particular boy through its doors.
What starts as Tom’s guilty desire to help the child he once orphaned soon curdles into something far more dangerous: obsession, possession, and an irresistible need to control the course of Harry’s life.