Child_OTKW

(If you didn’t watch the show, the summarize is basically: the series follows Sabrina Spellman, a half-witch, half-mortal teenager struggling to balance her normal life with her dark destiny as she turns 16. She’s forced to choose between signing the Devil’s Book of the Beast and losing her freedom, or staying mortal.)

Hmmmm it's definitely got potential!

I'd play it as:

James and Lily died, and Harriet got raised by Remus and Sirius, who are taking the role of the aunts.

She goes to the human school, has her collection of friends, and is maybe dating someone (I'd have to see what canon characters best fit these roles).

Following the rough beats of CAOS canon, when Harriet was a baby she was sworn to the Dark Lord (who is our boy Riddle), by her father - with Remus potentially acting as the witness? As her sixteenth birthday swings around, the pressure for her to pick is building. Remus is pushing for her to sign the book - partly to cover the truth and partly because he knows what it's like to be caught between worlds (wolf vs human) and doesn't want Harriet to face the same struggle. Sirius, meanwhile, would be more like Hilda, and wants Harriet to have the choice.

Either way, the tension keeps building, until it ends with Harriet telling everyone to fuck off and that she'll be both.

From there, I'd probably focus a lot more on the connection between Riddle and Harriet. Riddle wants her to submit and is intrigued by her resistance, while Harriet is clinging to her agency and freedom by the skin of her teeth, but still helplessly drawn to the darkness.

It'd focus on the twisted obsession and fascination between them - and how the deeper Harriet sinks, the more she begins to change.

Of course Bellatrix would be acting as Wardwell / Madam Satan, and Hedwig would absolutely be Harriet's familiar - and she would be as terrible as Salem and be able to speak since I still can't believe they took that gremlin's voice.

Orrrrrr

Maybe a version where Grindelwald is Lucifer, and Riddle is Caliban because damnnnnn boy and Harriet is like "maybe being the daughter of satan isn't so bad??" and all her friends are side-eyeing her horniness.

Please, just imagine the scene --

Tom: I'll take the lashes. Harriet: What? Why? Tom: You are the Queen of Hell, I will not have you debased in such a way...[blah blah something about being made of clay blah]...besides, you're too cute for scars.

*Warning: this post mentions bullying, assault and suicide*

I don't think the world would be ready for pretty, petite, shy Maria Ciro to be injected with Harriet Potter's soul.

For this AU, the general bullying of Maria would likely be a touch lesser, in this case. The Wizarding World mirrors old noble mentality quite a lot, so a female bastard would be seen as less threatening than a male one. Might even be considered an asset in some ways, for marriage prospects / alliances.

That's not to say Maria wouldn't be bullied or treated horribly at school though. She'd still be a Slytherin, and Slytherin isn't kind to anyone that doesn't fit the perfect pureblood mold.

Simon would still be an absolute little prick, though overall I think Maria's circumstances wouldn't be as dire in his eyes. He's still the male heir. The Ciro name is still his. Maria would eventually be married off and made to take her husband's name, so she's not as much of an issue.

Maria likely saw her future marriage as her only escape from the cruelty of Britain. She's been raised to always assume she's going to be a wife and mother, so she wouldn't have thought to question that. Maybe she was even angling for Benedict to hurry up and engage her to someone overseas so she could get out and away from the scrutiny.

And maybe Simon, because any spark of happiness from his sister was unacceptable, still orchestrates the attack and assault, hoping to 'ruin' her. No husband would want used goods, after all.

With all that, Maria would still try to take her own life after the assault, and Harriet would eventually be placed in her body by Death.

And that's where things would go off the rails.

Because Harriet? Oh yeah no, she doesn't adhere to the expected behaviours of a young witch. She's angry. She's rough. She's down to fight at a moment's notice.

Harriet was raised violently, in a violent world, where everyone wanted a piece of her - and she's long learnt to have diamond skin.

She takes Hogwarts by storm, and though the taunting would be more brutal (as a woman who has been 'ruined'), Harriet would be even more willing to retaliate as she searched for a way home.

I'm tempted to say this AU would be Orion/Harry, or maybe even Orion/Harry/Tom.

I’m new to Tumblr and made this account just to follow you!! I discovered your fanfics for the first time on TikTok this Friday when I saw an edit of Nathan Ciro. After reading the comments, they made me curious enough to start reading you belong to me (i belong to you). I’m currently on chapter 9, and I’m literally stalling because I don’t want it to end so quickly 😩 Then I started reading Consuming Shadows too (because I have a hard time doing just one thing at a time, and I was so curious that I couldn’t wait 😂), and now I’m obsessed with the way you write and create those worlds and AUs!!!! Honestly, I love HP and I’ve read so many amazing fanfictions, but no other fanfic has captivated me quite like yours. Your stories are incredible!!! Is there going to be an update for you belong to me (i belong to you) soon? My birthday is in August, and I’m hoping I’ll have another chapter to read before I turn 26 😂 But there’s absolutely no rush of course, I know you have a life outside of Tumblr and AO3 😂 Anyway, I hope you’re having a fantastic month and year!!

Here’s the edit that got me into reading your amazing works:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYydEVC/

Hello darling! Welcome to tumblr! I've seen a few tiktoks floating around about ybtm. I'm not on the app, but it's always very sweet to see people making things about it!

I've got the next chapter plotted out and half-ish written, so hopefully I can update again soon. But I'm also planning for my rapidly approaching wedding so I'm a bit of a frantic mess atm 😅

I’m re-reading YBTM (IBTY), and since Tom is still young in this fic, and there’s a chapter where he’s looking into purebloods — I doubt he knows about Horcruxes yet. So it got me thinking about Consuming Shadows. CS!Tom is immortal, but I don’t remember if others knows about it, like his inner circle. I know he tells Sirius that Hadrian wouldn’t be able to kill him, and Sirius clocks that he’s immortal, but I wanted to know if anyone else knows about his Horcruxes. Or what his plans are for the future, like centuries later. Because besides being a vampire, wizards being immortal is uncommon. So can you tell me, if it’s not a spoiler, how the world will react when they see he’s still around or isn’t dying? And my final question: are his Horcruxes the same as in the books, like the diary, Gaunt’s ring, the locket, Helga Hufflepuff’s Cup, Rowena Ravenclaw’s Diadem, and Nagini?

Hello darling!

In CS, no one knows about his horcruxes. He's given a few of them to followers, but not told them what they are, just that they are super important and must be hidden and kept safe.

As for his plans for the future, Voldemort will lean into the immortality once it's obvious that he's much older than a wizard should be. He'll probably start planting the seed of 'he's a god' once he's nearing 100, so that people are even less likely to challenge or resist him.

The world will definitely be uneasy once it's revealed - particularly outside of Britain. A Dark Lord is dangerous enough. A Dark Lord they can't just wait out? Yeah, there would be a lot of nervous eyes on him after that gets made public.

His identity as Riddle would also just be changed whenever he feels like it - if he still wanted to have an identity outside of Voldemort. He'd just make a new cover, name and backstory, and occupy it however he likes.

He only has the five horcruxes in this story: diary, ring, locket, cup, and diadem.

As for the questions, you’ve answered already that you didn’t plot the AU too much, so you can sit on them if you don’t feel like giving an answer. But here they are:

1. In Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort assigned Draco the task of murdering Dumbledore. The mission was designed by the Dark Lord to set Draco up to fail, since it served as punishment for Lucius, who had failed to retrieve the Prophecy. But in the movies, Voldemort is not very sane in the brain LMAO I know you write him differently from his movie and book versions — I wanted to know if in ILYWT he gives Draco the same mission? You did answer another ask saying that the Death Eaters do attack Hogwarts, and that Barty is the one leading them, so I wanted to know how differently the attack happens in this AU?

2. In Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore avoids and ignores Harry due to the connection he shares with Voldemort, and because he also wanted to prevent Tom from using Harry as a spy. By minimizing their personal contact, he hoped to reduce the incentive to use Harry’s mind as a weapon. Also, because of the Horcrux, Voldemort was able to possess Harry. So I wanted to know if in ILYWT the same would happen? Like, does Tom use Harry’s mind like that? And possess him?

3. This question is related to question number 2, and it’s also about their connection. In some snippets, Tom could feel Harry’s emotions, so I’m wondering if he can feel what Harry feels physically? If he does, how does he react to the blood quills that Dolores uses to torture Harry? And how does Barty react to knowing this (if Tom tells him about it, of course)?

4. You made a snippet once, I think it was about the AU where Harry meets CS!Riddle, and he explains to Harry that after attacking the Potters and Lily escaping, he realized he wasn’t sane and decided to absorb one of his Horcruxes back. Does the same happen in this AU? I know you write your Tom very differently from his movie and book versions, and he is more sane than those versions, so I’m curious about how sane this Tom is? And if he did absorb one of his Horcruxes like CS!Riddle?

5. This question is about all versions of Tom, actually — and it’s about his ability to feel and love. In canon, it says Voldemort is incapable of love because he was conceived via the influence of a love potion. But it’s obvious in the way you write your Toms that he does love, even if you answered an ask once saying that being loved by Tom Riddle isn’t safe — which is true LMAO JKR once said that it’s more a symbolic way of showing that he came from a loveless union, but that everything would have changed if Merope had survived and raised him herself and loved him. So to me, it means that everything in his life was loveless, even his parents’ relationship. So I wanted to know what do you think about this? And how do you go about it too?

You’re absolutely fine to keep asking me questions! I’m slow at responding, so don’t be disheartened if I take a while to answer!

1. I don’t know if I’d have the Draco mission in this AU…on one hand, Lucius does fuck up with the prophecy, but the Ministry events go a bit different since Barty is the one leading the charge. The target is less the prophecy and more securing Harry and seeing if he’s a horcrux—which they do. So it’s possible that Voldemort doesn’t bother with Draco this time around. Maybe Voldemort still wants Dumbledore killed, and Barty is the one to loop Draco in but only to weaken Dumbledore? He’s not expected to kill him, he’s just needed to sneak some poison or cursed objects around to prepare their entry to Hogwarts. The attack on the school still happens, with Barty leading it, and Dumbledore is still killed by Snape. Death Eaters escape, but this time it’s Barty that confronts Harry at Hagrid’s hut?

2. Voldemort definitely knows Harry is a horcrux after the Ministry attack, so he’s 100% planning on leaning on that connection. Harry is inundated with dreams and emotions from Voldemort, seeking to weaken him and make him easier for Barty to nab.

3. I’d say he doesn’t get the physical sensations unless he’s fully submerged in the connection, so he’d feel the burst of fear and anger from Harry that Umbridge brings out when she’s torturing, but he’s trying not to be obvious and alert Dumbledore of how deeply he’s connected to Harry. I’d say Barty is the one to get the story out of him once Harry’s captured, and is the one to tell Voldemort. Barty would instantly slate Umbridge for death, but he wouldn’t act until Voldemort gave the go-ahead.

4. I’m not set on how sane or reasonable I’ll be making this Voldemort. I could swing it as the more time he spends in Harry’s head, the more sane he grows due to proximity to one of his horcruxes? And once Harry’s captured, that sanity continues to grow. It would add an element of Harry’s reluctance to escape – he’s bonded to Barty, obviously, but his presence is literally keeping Voldemort sane. Harry’s sacrificial nature would pretty much ensure he wouldn’t dip out even if he had the chance.

Now AU for an Au because I can not stop thinking about it:

Lily tells Sirius to either get out or kill her when he manages to slip his cell. He doesn’t but her own words can’t stop circling. Albus does reset her cell, but sh can still use her own magic on herself.

And Lily light witch she might be, read the same books as Hadrian and knows just as much about dark magic as her son. So she sets a trap, because she desperately wants to go back to her baby, but she also wants him safe. And at this point she doesn’t trust Albus to not use Imperius or something like it.

He does and he gets the signal and he forces Lily to do the ritual and for a moment thing look perfect and then they are not.

Lily Potter made herself a suicide bomber to protect her baby and when the ritual started tune she burned into her body activate. Runes if protection directed at her son. Runes that have one goal only: do not let Hadrian loose himself to the whim of Albus Dumbledore or ANYONE who might try and force him todo anything.

And it works. She only wishes that she could hold her baby one last time and tell him how sorry she is.

In Hogwarts Hadrian gets of Kaiser just for a massive wave of magic to hit him and then ghostly pale and see through and so so cold Lily Potter is before him. Smiling while she is crying holding his face so softly and looking at him with so SO much love.

“I am so proud of you Hadrian. I am so sorry Hadrian for all I did, als I didn’t do. I love you Hadrian. I love you so much!”

And then she fades.

The official funeral is held a month later in France, but there is a secret funeral later on in Godrics Hollow where Lily Potter is put next to her husband.

Tom stands over the grave and can not decide if he should be smug, thankful or feel remorse. Lily Potter died due to Dumbledores actions making sure that France is on his side (smug) after all Dumbledore just killed a french citizen to enslave another. Lily Potter sacrificed herself for Hadrian leaving him protected(magical sacrifice magic aka the protection from canon) and she made sure Hadrian wouldn’t be put under the spell (thankful). Remorse comes from the fact that he can no longer hold Hadrian and her failure over her head.

(He might just be grateful because Hadrian choose to return to Britain due to his mothers death, Sirius Black is now fighting on his side (Hadrians side but semantics) to avenge Lilys death and oh the rage in Hadrian is just so so delicious.

Yeah basically a what if Lily sacrifices herself and Hadrian get his protection magic 17 years late.

I might just write that btw!

Glad CS is still fucking people up 😂

And god, yeah, that AU would have technically been a much happier ending than what I've got planned.

Poor Hadrian would always be left without closure, and Riddle would have to balance his triumph with the knowledge that Lily Potter and the easy manipulation lever she used to be are now a big DO NOT TOUCH trigger for his partner.

But on the plus side, Hadrian has picked him over everyone and everything, and the only person with a similar level of influence over his partner is Raina.

Riddle would have to accept that Raina is the only line in the sand Hadrian has. She's untouchable. With Lily's death and sacrifice, Hadrian would cling to Raina even tighter, until they're essentially one entity.

Raina comes for bi-monthly visits, and she and Hadrian run around Riddle's estate like chaotic cats. The Death Eaters have to grow used to the sight, and everyone knows that these two are the only people alive that the Dark Lord would burn the world for. Hadrian, for obvious reasons, and Raina because Hadrian would be sad if anything happened to her.

Oh god, Obsession terrified me on such a fundamental level.

And you're drawing some very real and heartbreaking connections there - because the compulsion is such a soul-deep violation.

Hadrian's not in for a good time when he finally gets free, because he's done and said some things he'd never have without someone else driving his actions.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51627817/chapters/130503022

love love love "you belong to me (I belong to you)" btw I am going to try and find a fic like it for the rest of my life probably, and probably fail miserably and just happily re-read it every other month, I am literally never going to stop thinking about this fic and you should be immensely proud of it if you aren't already <3<3<3

Hello darling! Welcome to the hellscape with the rest of us 😂

Thank you for the kind words, you're very sweet!

It's been a while since I've really read some tomarry stories - I don't tend to read that many HP stories anymore (I'm currently cycling back into Supernatural with Sabriel, Stranger Things with Steddie, and Hazbin Hotel with radioapple).

But if you're new to the tomarry space and looking for authors, I simply must recommend:

CS it'll be Tom.

I'd say it would still be Raina - those two are in their own little bubble, regardless of gender.

That said, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHAP 23 GO BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR THAT SHIT WAS SICK.

Also, imagine Orion drops the Simon and Alcolyte deal after his meltdown. Needs to diverge the attention from his feels. Or maybe he does it somewhere he doesn't want Harry to destroy to oblivion. I vote in the Ciro house, in front of Simon himself.

I'm so glad the scene with Harry and Orion hit so well 😂 there was a lot going on in it haha

I absolutely love that Harry's favoritism is so obvious, haha. Even Orion, in the middle of revelations of a lifetime, can be all "I know you like me more than Riddle ›:)". I hope he holds this over Tom for the rest of his life.

Hello darling!

Glad you're enjoying it!

The biggest difference between CS!Voldemort (Riddle) and his canon counterpart is that Riddle stopped at five horcruxes, and was never blasted apart at Godric's Hollow.

He was able to retain a good hold of his sanity, and the more time that passed, the more his soul was able to 'recover'. He's not complete by any means, but a lot of his madness has been tempered by time.

Those first few years of him in power were brutal, and more close to what canon saw - but again, time had an impact on him. The stronger his hold got, the weaker Dumbledore became, the less vicious Riddle had to be.

He won. Even with Harry Potter acting as a loose thread, Riddle still won. And that notion of victory was very beneficial to his mental recovery.

Which meant he calmed the fuck down from all-out genocide to creating a functional, if heavily regulated, political sphere and society. It's a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy, and all high-ranking political people are firmly in his pocket, but Riddle understands the importance of the illusion of choice, so he's cultivated a more 'reasonable' facade.

Which means that the more the Order bucks, the more tolerable Riddle looks in comparison.

He's not running around attacking people. He's not the instigator. He's the keeper of the peace.

And after almost 15/16 years in power, most people aren't so questioning of his methods or control anymore.

Riddle has implemented what, on the surface, looks to be a more accepting and tolerant society than the one that came before. Muggleborns are integrated early into their society, given to pureblooded families to raise (or raised in well-cared for orphanages that essentially do the same). Dark creatures have more rights. Light magic is still accepted and widely respected. Light families are not targeted or treated as lesser.

For most people, it was better than what they would have expected - so the resistance isn't as strong as it should be.

I've admittedly not explored the political ramifications of Riddle's regime too heavily - but that's largely because the plot hasn't been focussed on that.