Exposing 5sos

the concept: no time travel! the chamber of secrets occurs in the golden trio’s fifth year instead of their second year, and this time, harry does not stop diary riddle from consuming the soul of the diary’s victim (who is not ginny!). sixteen year old tom riddle is reborn, and he returns to hogwarts posing as a transfer student from durmstrang. 

will riddle become a second dark lord, or will he instead become the order of the phoenix’s secret weapon? 

perhaps if tom riddle was taught how to love and be loved, he would be saved from the dark path. 

I first thought of this fanfic idea back in 2021 and couldn’t get it out of my head. It remained untouched all of last year, but I’ve finally decided to begin publishing it on AO3. Before I do, I wanted to preview it here and see if anyone was interested. I expect that no one will even see this, but here goes nothing. 

Chapter One: Harry, Ron and Hermione’s fifth year had been absolutely horrid. No one believed Harry’s story from their previous year about the graveyard or Voldemort’s return, so Harry had been shunned as an attention-seeking lunatic. Then, Professor Umbridge, that toad, had taken over and Dumbledore had been forced into hiding. She had passed decree after decree, slowly taking over the school and squashing anything and everything that made life at Hogwarts fun. At least 

Harry had finally mastered occlumency, after one terrifying afternoon where he had seen a vision of Voldemort torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries. He had broken into Umbridge’s office and contacted Sirius through the fire, only to find him sitting in the kitchen, completely unharmed and berating Kreacher for injuring Buckbeak. 

To make everything even worse, a secret dungeon deep within the school called the Chamber of Secrets had been opened for the first time in over fifty years. Muggle-borns had been petrified left and right until finally the board of governors decided that the only person who had a chance at stopping all this was Dumbledore, and Umbridge had been removed from the castle, her bags thrown unceremoniously out of the doors behind her. The last week of term had been joyous: Dumbledore had returned, the attacks had ceased and the victims had been un-petrified. The castle had been celebrating wildly and even the professors joined in with the revelry in the common rooms. However, everyone, caught up in their delight, had promptly forgotten that the culprit responsible for opening the Chamber may still be walking among them. 

On the very last day of school, a group of second-year Hufflepuffs’ excitement over the approaching holidays was dampened only slightly by the mysterious absence of their friend, Harper Greenford. Her bed had appeared untouched when her dormmates had woken up for breakfast (which was odd, as she was not known to be an early riser), and nobody had seen her since.

Oh look!1! I ship so hard!…1!1!

im fucking yELLIGN!!!!!!!!!

Bryana is going to Australia in September

It didn’t even cross my mind to send this in my bad lmao

2. Don’t cone at me without knowing the full story hun :)

3. Don’t you dare tell me to get over it. Don’t invalidate the way I feel cause its not important to you.

4. This is going to be the 2nd time we have gone over this so I’m not gonna wasting my breath on a person who clearly doesn’t learn shit.