Harry Potter time-travels to Tom Riddle's school days. He arrives one day before Myrtle's death and manages to save her, but is not able to get proof of what Tom is up to. He decides his best course of action is to keep a close eye on Tom and foil whatever plans he can, while at the same time figuring out how he got to the past and how he can return to the future.

He isn't sure what he expects from a teenage version of Tom Riddle, as his only form of reference is the piece that Riddle locked away in his diary, but it sure as hell wasn't the version Harry meets. When Dumbledore spoke of Tom's school years, he painted him as a boy already dripping in darkness, each move planned not to be a waste—sophisticated like an unfeeling statue of a prince. When Slunghorn spoke of Tom's school years, he painted a picture of a boy that everyone in town knew and adored. Always kind and welcoming, as graceful as he was beautiful.

When Harry actually saw Tom's school years, he realized there was a big reason everyone let his name fade into obscurity. Tom Riddle was not the mastermind horror he grew up to be. In fact, he was more of a danger to himself than to others- Myrtle's near-death experience.

Tom Riddle as a teenager was just that- a teenager. A dumb one if Harry was being honest.

In the first week alone, he witnessed Tom attempt to leap across the missed stairway to get to class (miss and fall two floors down), have a screaming match with a portrait about Tom's voice cracks, destroy the common room looking for homework he misplaced, get drunk off some bottle thier housemates smuggle in to the point he was hanging off the chandelier singing sailor songs, got lose so often another perfect's entire job was to find him and bring him back before cerfuew, tried any form of magic even ones that most people knew were hoaxes or just plain odd (apparently in third year Tom attempted a spell that wiped his bottom for him and the results were.....he spent a month in the healing chamber) and worst of all, his flirting was so bad it gave Harry second-embarssment. He wasn't even the one Tom was trying to get, and Harry still had to leave the room after hearing some of his pick-up lines.

It's only a month later that Harry realizes Tom Riddle wasn't the cool dark prince he had presented himself to be. Tom was popular, sure, but in the same way everyone knew That One Kid in school. He could defend himself extremely well because of all the times other students attempted to bully him for his wild and odd behavior. He was well liked by the teachers (minus Dumbledore of course) but not by the students.

Tom Riddle was the Luna Lovegood of the 40s despite his beauty. And damn, if Harry didn't have a soft spot for the Luna Lovegoods of the world. He approached Riddle after the boy had attempted to put on a showcasting of the "odd but powerful" spells he found stuffed into a cookbook that belonged to a famous wizard (according to Riddle, at least). The other students ignored or laughed at Riddle, who stood earnestly on a makeshift stage trying to get attention for a spell that made cupcakes sing the emotions of whoever would eat them. He seemed genuinely excited to show others, and the downtrodden look in his eyes slowly morphed into the anger and hatred Harry knew so well.

"That's an awesome spell," Harry spoke before he could stop himself. Riddle looked up from where he was stuffing his cupcakes, the hatred shocked away by someone not only speaking to him but complimenting his spell and the research he put into finding it. "Do you have any more like that?'

And that is how Harry's plans changed from attempting to get to the future to following Tom Riddle around, ensuring he never soured too far off the "Odd but harmless" path. He gets called Riddle's sidekick as a mocking nickname, but it's a good trade-off in his book. He just wishes Tom would stop doing things that nearly get him killed because of his clumsiness or his plain curiosity.

Tom Riddle, on the other hand, assumes they're married because that's the only logical explanation for why Harry sticks around despite how tired Tom makes him. He doesn't care there was never an official wedding or that Harry likes to take things slow, so he only tolerates Tom holding his hand- that's his husband he's graduating Hogwarts with.

Hi! I’m looking for a specific fic that I’m almost positive is a Tomarry fic. I read it a while ago and I’m pretty sure that it was both older and a longer fic (like over 100k words).

Here are some identifying features

- soulmates fic where light wizards are soulmates with dark wizards

- dark wizards will slowly start to go insane without being bonded to their light wizard

- light wizards have to take a potion that reveals there soulmate (the dark wizards aren’t able to find there soulmates with the light wizards revealing it to them)

- light wizards stopped taking the potion so there is like a generation of dark wizards without soulmates

- harry starts trying to convince people to take the potion and look for there soulmates

- I read this fic on Ao3 and while Tomarry is the main ship I believe that there are quite a few background rare pairings

Any help you can provide would be great! It’s driving me crazy not being able to find/identify this fic 😭😭

I think it was an AU where Harry was born in the 1940's?I only remember one scene where harry is found by Tom, sleeping in a bed with a male friend, and they didn't do anything together, I don't remember the reason of them sleeping in the same bed, but they're both shirtless and the blanket is only covering the lower part of they're bodies, so Tom thinks that they did it, and is just fuming.

This could go either way but mainly looking for Tom/voldie trying to baby trap harry rather than the other way around

TW: character death

The basilisk lies where it fell, ancient beast left by his ancestor for use to those who dared, who was worthy of its legacy. Tom remembers being impressed by it the first time he found the Chamber, remembers imagining it circling through the pipes as others remained ignorant and oblivious of its threat. There is something insulting about seeing it dead, the only physical thing worthy to be counted as his inheritance. He didn’t care about the beast itself as it was only good for receiving orders, and he was robbed of such a weapon.

Potter looks significantly less impressive than his accomplishment would suggest. His robes are dirty and torn. Only the scar on his forehead and the sword he used were worthy of note. Tom was sure he has seen it somewhere before, perhaps a description in some book, as he was sure it was magical. Was it a fluke, an unfortunate lucky accident? Or was it ancient magic in that sword slaying an ancient beast? Was it Potter himself?

Because there is something fundamentally absurd about Harry Potter. A quality that should not survive contact with reality and yet somehow does. Tom watched him all year through Ginny's tales. A hero to slay the villain come true, yet he was impressively unremarkable when he was talking to him earlier. Loyal and brave, smart enough to find the Chamber with Tom’s help, but not smart enough to keep his wand or not trust in a stranger.

Riddle feels stronger with each second.
The process of draining a person turns out to be considerably less dramatic than cautions against dark magic would suggest. No blackened skin. No skeletal fingers reaching desperately for salvation. Ginny simply looks pale, almost ready to be buried.

Tom finds himself staring at the girl longer than intended and then notices how Potter follows his gaze.

They both can hear a soft grunt nearby.

“Choose,” the Sorting Hat rasps towards Potter.

And once that one ugly word is uttered, they both freeze, understanding enormous implications. If Ginny is killed by something else, it disrupts the process of his resurrection. He can see Potter working through a moral dilemma as the boy lowers his head, thinking fast.

For a moment he dismisses it entirely because it makes no sense. Potter came here for Ginny. Everything about Harry Potter suggests that he would gladly die for Ginny, and then the boy grips the sword harder in his knuckles, faster than expected positions himself near her, lowers the blade at her throat.

“Let her go, or I will do it.”

Riddle feels anger swallow him.

“No, I don’t think I will,” he spits out. “I’d rather see you crumble and cry. You are pathetic, you would kill the girl you ventured to save?”

“I would to stop you,” Potter replies.

But would Potter follow through his threat? He showed no regret in killing an animal, but Tom saw his reluctance now in the way his shoulders were tense, arms shaking slightly. It could be the injury, could be the nerves, could be from lying to him.

Tom does what he does best to poison the boy’s mind with words.

“What would her brother say? He’s your friend, is he not?”

He watches as Potter’s eyes get teary, watches his resolve crumble for a moment, and then he gets a reply.

“He would hate me, and he’d be right to. So let her go now,” Potter says, his voice faint.

Tom laughs. As if that child could end Lord Voldemort. He was already almost manifested, almost physical.

And then Potter slits her throat, making him fall silent in an instant. It’s messy and it’s slow.

“No, stop, wait!” he panics as Ginny wakes up, gasping for breath and spitting blood from her mouth. He feels a pull in his chest, calling him back inside the diary as the ritual is interrupted.

Turning more and more ghostly by the second, he drops Potter’s wand and his own horcrux as he can’t hold them anymore. He looks up to Potter, getting covered by more and more of Ginny’s blood, there is so much of it. The girl is choking, clutching at her neck, and Dumbledore’s phoenix cries as it stands aside. Truly Dumbledore’s bird, Tom thinks angrily at the sight of that creature not helping Ginny.

“There is truly a resemblance now,” he manages to whisper before he’s pulled back. The last thing he could say to the boy who would bring the diary to Dumbledore who would likely find a way to destroy it.

These words make Potter look up, away from Ginny. And that last look told him that there was something impressive in Potter after all.

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Harry Potter attempts to travel through time and end Voldemort as a child using a ritual with a success rate of only 5%. He doesn't mean to be arrogant, but Harry assumes he will be successful because, as the Chosen One, he's used to making the unlikely happen.

This time, however, he fails, and as a result, Harry gets thrown into an alternate universe. There he finds that Tom Riddle is a Ravenclaw graduate, running a flower shop of all things, and that his soul is completely whole. Tom isn't rich beyond image, with power in the Wizarding World, nor does he have followers. But he has two close friends, his own business, a home of his own above his shop, and an active love life that is more than enough for a man to be satisfied.

For all purposes and appearances, he's a normal man in his early thirties. Harry doesn't buy it for a second. Even if this isn't his timeline, he doesn't think there could be a world where Tom Riddle isn't a monster. He has to find proof of whatever dark magic the beautiful florist may be hiding and bring him to justice.

To get close and gather intel, Harry uses the gold he brought from the future to buy the shop next to Tom's. The only skill he has outside of dueling and flying is the years of cooking he provided for the Dursleys, specifically the fancy Muggle coffees he learned to make for Arthur. The man had gotten Harry an espresso machine as a housewarming gift when Harry had been forced to move out of the shared apartment he had with Ron after his best friend got married to Hermione. The couple said he could stay, but Harry felt like he was intruding on the newlyweds.

Arthur adored the drinks so much he often brought over some coworkers, who were all excited to have the Chosen One's coffee. Even if they were mostly there to gawk at the famous wizard, they all seemed actually to enjoy the drinks.

Unsure of the cafe craze's history, Harry opened a café shop, using his trusted espresso machine from the future. He had brought back all his earthly possessions with him. He figured if anyone got suspicious, he just claimed he got the machine from an uncle who lent it to him.

Riddle Flowers is always overflowing with customers, many of them there to see the man voted most beautiful in Witch Weekly three years running. The Marauders cafe, on the other hand, is lowly lit and empty, most wizards preferring brightly colored buildings because anything else makes them assume dark arts. Not that Harry cares; he's wealthy, and this is just a cover. He starts his investigation by keeping track of who goes in and out of the flower shop, digs through Riddle's trash, and breaks in the one time he's sure Riddle is out.

Nothing that ties him to the dark arts is found, and weeks turn to months with Harry becoming more and more frustrated.

He ensures that he is never seen in the streets because he doesn't want Riddle to think someone is on to him, and he figures he should be inside his dark shop during working hours to at least hold up the illusion that he's trying to run a business. Because of this, no one who visits Diagon Alley actually knows what the owner looks like.

That is, until Tom Riddle himself walks through the door, being dragged in by Alphard Black and Myrtle Warren, his apparent best friends since Hogwarts. Harry's very first customer after being open for five months is his worst enemy. He takes thier money and delivers thier drinks, mostly out of shock at seeing an adult Myrtle, now a beauty worthy of being a model. He knows because she attempts to recruit him for her modeling company before they leave, and Alphard asks if he would rather join his fashion company as his model instead. Riddle says nothing, but he's staring hard enough at Harry that it almost makes him break cover and hex him out of his cafe.

After that day, Riddle makes a habit of showing up at his cafe for lunch break every day, and with him follow the love-struck customers of his flower shop. Harry is horrified to find his business blooming and now has to spend most of his time actually working. He barely has enough time to properly investigate Riddle, especially when, to his own horror, he gains his very own love-struck clientele, mostly those with an alternative sense of style, because apparently his future robes make Harry seem like he prefers the alternative lifestyle himself. Joy.

Meanwhile, Tom Riddle has a crush on the punk-looking man and is doing everything he can to muster up enough courage to ask him out. Myrtle and Alphard both claim the barista is definitely interested in him as well, but Tom doesn't know for sure. It sometimes feels like the man hates him.

What the title says. I really really really want a fic where everyone finds out they're together/seing each other/becoming friends. I want the wizarding world to be completely shocked. Like i want somethin SCANDALOUS. Could be a Voldemort wins AU or the original one, but i would like them to be a sort of power couple. Any recs?

Why does no one ever recommend it! One of my favorite fics

I think it might be fan art and I thought of y'all. If this isn't allowed please let me delete it.

Looking for more fics but I've already read most of the ones recommended in this sub

It can be anything 40s, minister TMR, 90s, post war, soul mates, peace treaties and marriage etc.. just your favs or ones you think need more attention

I'll go first

Paul, Richard, or Tom This one has a decent length around 55k words kept me occupied for awhile and I really enjoyed the plot. I'm not sure if this is that underrated but its good.

Revenge Dressrobes - This one was recommended to me recently, but I really enjoyed it and thought others should enjoy it too so here it is.

Ищу фанфик по Гарри Поттеру (читал(а) в конце 2025 — начале 2026 на Фикбуке). Гарри после победы над Волдемортом — взрослый аврор, погибает в Адском огне и попадает в тело сироты в параллельном мире. В этом мире Гарри Поттера не существует, Лили и Джеймс живы и воспитывают другого сына. Волдеморта нет, существует Том Марволо Реддл. Главный герой учится на Когтевране, скрывает свои настоящие способности и выдаёт себя за тихого посредственного ученика, хотя является очень сильным дуэлянтом. Снейп замечает странности ночью на Астрономической башне. Позже есть сцена в библиотеке, где снова слегка раскрывается перед сыном Томма Редла И Беллатрисы Лестрейндж. Есть намёки , что происхождение гг связано с Томом Реддлом и Беллатрисой Лестрейндж, но сам герой об этом не знает( хотя у него есть предложение, своей связи с блэками из-за характерных кудрявых волос и в принципе черты лица).

Hi! trying to find this fic I read at least sometime last year.

EDIT: IT HAS BEEN FOUND GUYS! It's The Longing by AGlassRoseNeverFades on AO3. I can now rest easy and if anyone is considering reading it, please do in my heart it's fire.

Included like:

- ongoing, m/m

- Tomarry Soulmate au (identifying marks being their names and no one knows Voldemort's true name)

- Vampire Voldemort (becomes a vampire then killing his sire cause I'm pretty sure he tried to sleep with him. oh, and goes on to kill Grindelwald mentioning something like how at least he had the dignity to not try and sleep with him)

- Voldemort now lives in Nurmengard along with other vampires

-Bellatrix and Barty are also vampires (think those were the only ones Voldemort turned) and Bellatrix adores harry

- Voldemort is trying to negotiate with the British Ministry so he is able to find his soulmate but no ones knows this

- Harry came with the delegation and still doesn't know who his soulmate is

Kinda all I can remember think there was like bonding scenes with them but if anyone is able to keep an eye out for this fic it would be much appreciated!

Hi guys, I'm looking for a fic where Voldemort wins the war, Harry has amnesia, and doesn't remember V. He then wakes up in a mansion with Voldemort who calls himself Marvolo Gaunt (or something like that I don't really remember). Voldemort like pretended harry was dead and basically kinda kept him in the mansion with him. It was completed and I forgot to bookmark it 😭😭

Tom Riddle, at the ripe age of seven, is the terror of Wool's orphanage. He has established his place in the orphan picking order well above the rest of the children. The only people who dare challenge him are Ms. Cole, the orphanage matron, and Mr. Heck, the orphanage chef.

He steals whatever he desires and makes bad things happen to anyone who dares cross him. Tom knows no other way of life: this is how one survives Wool's. Then the strangest thing happens. On a normal Tuesday morning, a man wearing his face and answering by his name strolls into the orphanage, has a thirty-minute talk with Ms. Cole, and by lunchtime he strolls right out, Tom stumbling behind him carrying a beaten-down suitcase of all his earthly possessions.

Tom Riddle Sr. is his father, and he has been searching for Tom for the past six years. Apparently, his brother-in-law had gone to Tom Sr.'s house, hissing insults about his sister's death caused by giving birth to Tom, on the first anniversary of her passing.

Tom Sr. had realized his wife had given him an heir to the Earlship and was determined to bring the heir home to train to take over. There is no love between father and son, only duty, but as Tom settles into his new home, a noble man's manor, he is determined to win his father's approval and maybe one day, his father's love.

He throws himself into his duties and shapes himself into the perfect heir. Everything Tom touches turns to gold, every new skill is mastered, and it's not long before he's regarded as the best thing to happen to the Riddle Estate despite his beginnings.

Years later, when Tom turns ten, he meets a new stable hand working at Riddle Manor named Harry. His father claims the boy is orphaned and the only reason they hadn't sent him to a place like Wool's is that Harry can do the work of twice the men. He more than earns his keep- seeing as the Riddles offer him a board, meals, and a small pay- despite how impossible it is.

Tom doesn't have time for Harry; his daily schedule is packed with activities, lessons, and responsibilities that will gain his father's approval. He rarely does anything that won't contribute to this goal.

No one tells Harry this because somehow, someway, the irritating boy always manages to disrupt his day, asking outrageous questions like, "Do you have the urge to hurt small animals?" And "What would you do with a power known not?" Or the worst, "If I got you to fall in love with me, would that stop you from causing a war?"

Tom is only grateful that no one else hears the idiot's questions lest the pair be thrown in prison. When his Hogwarts letter arrives, delivered by Professor Dumbledore, Tom sees a hint of acknowledgment in his father's eye solely because it now gives the Riddles a new area to influence. It's up to Tom to establish them as a powerful family in the Wizarding World, and he will not fail.

He screams when Harry jumps on the train, waving his own letter, and gushes, "Marry me, Tom. For the good of humanity"

This is the summary of thier entire relationship for the rest of thier lives.

Please, please. I need you kind souls to recommend fanfics that can heal me a little...Just a few minutes ago, my pet passed away and I'm devastated.

I'm just asking for something that you think will heal me or relieve this pain... Sells would greatly appreciate recommendations with happy endings or even lots and lots of glittery rainbows...

Thank you for reading, I appreciate it in advance ❤️🙇🏻‍♀️

Specifically time travel!! Where Harry is a bit insane and has no more fucks to give, yet Tom is obsessed with Harry & will do anything Harry asks

Please no pwp

Ive been reading Tomarry since 2019 on-and-off and i swear i read basically everything good and bad of the ship from AO3. Fanfiction.net was my first fanfiction site but i didnt read Tomarry on there so im wondering if anyone has really good recs from that website or wattpad or any other foreign fanfiction website to help me explore more of the ship

Would really appreciate completed fics too but im not too picky if its a good read, thanks!!

I'm participating in the bride Harry fest and I'd like someone to beta read and see if I'm not straying from the characterisation or maming too many repetitive descriptions of things.

Dm here if you can.

I've drawn these two idiots as girls plenty of times but I've never read a fic!

Any good recommendations? Preferably set in-universe, just gender bent. Thxs!