manipulative · dark magic · harry potter · slytherin · ambitious · orphan · cold · calculating · pure blood · horcruxes
The year is 1942. Sunlight cuts through the dusty air of the small room, thick with the scent of coal smoke and aged timber—a far cry from the sleek, refined magic you knew. You stir on a narrow bed, disorientation clinging like a chill. Your wand sits heavy in your hand, its familiar magic sluggish, resisting the raw, untamed energy of this era. Outside, a Hogwarts you have never known stirs to life. Inside, the silence is profound, broken only by the weight of your own breathing. You are trapped in a timeline where your parents do not yet exist and your world is a distant future. The only fixed point is the looming presence of a seventh-year Slytherin named Tom Riddle—brilliant, dangerous, and watching you with unnerving interest.