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A marriage between the greatest wizard of their age and the darling of the Black family - this was the destiny of Astraea Black as outlined by her parents. She would become the wife of the future Minister for Magic, whoever he may be.
Tom Riddle, a half-blood of unmatched power, vies for that title, just as he vies to cement his status among pureblood society. And he sees Astraea, the aloof, rule-abiding Slytherin prefect, as a perfect piece to complete his game board.
Astraea's loyalties, however, may lie with neither her family's toujours pur ideology nor Tom's radical plans to place her as a jewel in his crown. Her desperate crafting behind the scenes may even lay the groundwork for the destruction of both.
"The second-born daughter of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black was raised as a perfect offering to Slytherin House, and now here sits its heir, ready to collect." -
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"The butterfly wouldn't even know it was caught at first. It would land among the silk of the trap and drink from the strands, and it would rest. It only knew its fate when it tried to leave.
Henry's favorite part was watching its wings flutter uselessly as it became ensnared."
You knew nothing other than the kind orderly Henry Creel who watched over you, who saved you, but, at the same time, you couldn't shake the feeling of his hands covering your eyes. What was on the other side of what he let you see?
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Before he became the name the world would fear, Tom Riddle met a girl who looked too closely and asked the wrong questions. Then she disappeared without a trace, leaving behind nothing but silence and a boy who would spend years searching for what he lost.
This is a villain origin story.
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12 Jul 2026
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After the battle at the ministry, Voldemort changes tactics - ordering his Death Eaters to look into those close to Harry Potter hoping to use his loved ones as leverage. What happens when he looks too closely at the girl with golden eyes? What does he discover as he digs deeper?
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Bellatrix's torture of Hermione uncovers a long-kept secret. The young witch learns her true origins in a story that shows the beginning and end of the Wizarding wars as Hermione learns about her biological father and the blood magic he dabbled in that will control her future.
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09 Jul 2026
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Hermione Granger wakes in 1954 with a new name and a pureblood family she wasn't born into. Tom Riddle is across the table. Not a monster, not yet a Dark Lord. Dumbledore raised him here. Loved him. Maybe that changed everything. Maybe the thing she feared doesn't exist in this world.
She's starting to believe it.
Her new brother spends the summer teaching her to survive a world that would destroy her if it knew what she was. He watches her too closely for a man who calls her a duty. And Tom, who reads everyone in the room, has noticed she doesn't fit the patterns.
The dates are wrong. The history doesn't match. No one will tell her how she got here.Some choices are made. Others are engineered.
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She fled a world swallowed by darkness, carrying the future in her arms.
A year after the fall of the Light, Hermione Granger is one of the last survivors of a war that should have been won. With baby Teddy in her care and a new life to protect, she is thrust back in time to 1979-before the war, before the loss, before everything changed. Stranded in a world she doesn't understand, Hermione keeps to the shadows, hiding from those who might recognize her and the future she carries.
But the past is not kind to those who carry the weight of the future. And as Hermione finds herself drawn into the battle against dark forces once more, she must confront the fragile line between survival and sacrifice, all while keeping her son safe and her heart locked away.