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Harry Potter/Tom Riddle.

At first I was WTF.

But then I was holy parallelisms, Batman!

Ooh that's neat. They really do fit together in a sick, twisted sort of way.

Yeah. It would be next to impossible for them to be happy together, unless one of them or both compromised a big part of who they are for the sake of the other. But I can see them being drawn to each other for their similarities, plus, on Harry's side, perhaps an attraction to danger, and on Tom's side, a desire or curiosity to corrupt or break Harry.

It would require some serious AU'ing to put them both in a situation where they would want to pursue each other, though.

DA

Fuck, now I want to write this.

NOT EVERY YOU READ HAS TO BE A PROMPT, SELF. I PROMISE.

~~AAAAUUUUUUGGGHH~~

Do it. You know you want to.

There is a surprisingly sizable following for the ship, if fanfiction dot net is to be believed.

It's Harry Potter... why are you surprised?

I thought it was a very rare pairing when I first stumbled upon it. I thought that Harry /Draco, /Ginny, /Hermione, /Severus were most of it.

Oh hi, this is me.

Except I ship Harry/Voldemort too. But Harry/Tom was the gateway ship.

Bonus points if it's dark!Harry or vampire!Harry. I really just like dark!Harry, so I have a few ships where I'd prefer that, but this is one where it's kind of necessary. It's kind of hard to have them meet in the middle, other than maybe Voldy being slightly less of an asshole/pure-blood supremacist ~~but still trying to take over the wizard world of course~~.

...yeah, I have a lot of feelings about this ship...

I ship Voldemort/Harry too (gateway ship, indeed!), but Tom/Harry is my preferred one. (To be honest, it's mostly because I feel less creepy reading them.)

It's kind of hard to have them meet in the middle, other than maybe Voldy being slightly less of an asshole/pure-blood supremacist but still trying to take over the wizard world of course.

Have you read A Snake Named Voldemort? Somehow, the author made it look plausible there! (And it's complete, which is like a miracle for this type of story.)

Aya Macchiato / Athy / Athey likes to write dark/gray!Harry stories and it shows, but has the self-admitted terrible habit of not finishing most of her stories (and not self-admittedly, she does too much telling and not enough showing, but makes up for it with decent dialogue and the research she puts into folklore and other subjects for her stories).

Haha, I actually like the dynamics of Harry/Voldemort a little better now that I've mostly gotten over the squick factor.

Ooooh, I haven't! I'll have to look it up. I do like the idea of them meeting in the middle, I just haven't seen a lot where it's done well. Granted, I haven't read much HP fic in a while so.

I also recommend Future Imperfect (short, but shows a redeemed Voldemort that is somehow believable):

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4590039/1/Future_Imperfect

If explicit scenes between them don't squick you out, also check out "Freefall"

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7387895/1/Freefall

They somehow get together without Voldemort compromising his position and Harry, well, to get into more details would be spoileriffic, but it surprised me how the author did it.

And the old good Tom/Harry ones I like the best:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6592361/1/Words_Fail (time travel, very light on the angst and heavy on the characterization)

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5813358/1/A_Soulless_Solace (not time travel, but it's getting darker)

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5356546/1/Their_Verdict_of_Vagaries (time travel, scarily following canon, gets soul-clenching)

There is this one with a very unused twist in a very used premise: Voldemort returns back to his younger self to the timeline of Philosopher's Stone instead of Harry

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8225559/1/Twice_into_the_Abyss

It claims to be eventual HP/LV, but there have been zero hints of that as of yet (thankfully, considering the ages involved).

There is an annoying amount of typos, but the writing is generally good.

It's like every time I drag myself out of a ship F!S conspires to lure me back in.

Thanks? Anon.

Isn't it reassuring?

You can't escape.

This is a pretty rad community for recommendations.

Run.

You're welcome! :D

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anonymouslyyours - 2012-07-18 03:28 (UTC) - Expand

Thanks for the recs. This one ship I haven't read very much of, but I'm interested in it.

I've read a good Hermione/Tom Riddle fic that might fit in here... I wish I could remember the title!

You are welcome!

I've been trying to get into Hermione/Tom Riddle, and I've even found some interesting sounding fics, but no luck. I hope you find the fic again!

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(Anonymous) - 2012-07-18 20:35 (UTC) - Expand

Oh my gosh. Thank you, anon!

And I was going to rec something in return, but then I looked it up and the author is...Athey. Oops. I guess I'll just have to look through more of her stuff, then; I did really like what I read of hers, even if it isn't finished. Oh well. I have that problem too, ngl.

Ha ha, it's okay!

Check out her yahoo group (it's in her profile) if you haven't already; she has some abandoned fics uploaded there that are entertaining. (If you are okay with reading abandoned fics, that is.)

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Oh hi, same here. Like Harry/Voldemort even better than Harry/Tom, and really like dark!Harry, too. *g*

Oh yeah, I fell for them, too. After the initial shock reaction. *nostalgic sigh* Ah, those early days in internet fandom when a ship was still able to shock me... *G*

IKR?

New to the internet --> "But they're both mortal enemies! And Voldemort is in his sixties! How scandalous~!"

The only fic I ever read for that pairing was pretty shitty.

Got any good recs?

Do I? :D

(I'm copypasting some parts from other comments here.)

My top favorites (Tom/Harry) are:

Words Fail by Nea Marika

During the fight at the Department of Mysteries on OotP, Harry travels to Tom Riddle's time on accident, but in a twist, everyone in the past knows he is from the future, because the time travel took place in the Ministry of Magic and the Unspeakables got to him first.

This was before Sirius died, and Harry doesn't know about the Horcruxes, or anything that happens after that point in time in the books.

The characterization of, well, everyone, is incredible. The updates are super slow because life got in the way of the author, but the fic is not abandoned. I recommend it anyway.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6592361/1/Words_Fail

Soulless Solace

It's a divergence that takes place during Half-Blood Prince, where Harry sees the memories of the Gaunt family and feels sorry for Merope and Voldemort. And things just get a little more sinister from there.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5813358/1/A_Soulless_Solace

Their Verdict of Vagaries

The end of Deathly Hallows goes a little different, and Harry goes back in time to Tom Riddle's era. His real identity is a secret here, unlike Words Fail, though.

What I like about this fic, and what tortures me, is that for all that Harry is trying to be a good person, every single even in canon's backstory has so far come to pass.

But it's very well written, and it still makes you wonder what will happen next.

It can be very tl;dr, though, and I admit I have skimmed some parts.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5356546/1/Their_Verdict_of_Vagaries

Kind of a guilty pleasure, there is underXmyXumbrella

Their stories are... well, fairly self-indulgent (of the hawt yaois variety; that's why I prefer their not-porny fics), and very heavy on the sex, but some of them are interesting. Don't read them if you're looking for something deep, but sometimes they get into some interesting angles of the dynamic that Tom and Harry could have, so they're interesting for that alone. Sometimes Tom and Harry are only characters that have the names and share some personality traits but that otherwise resemble cliché porn stars, but some other times, they really are Tom and Harry. It's very hit and miss and YMMV. vOv

(I do not recommend, for example, All About Your Heart, because of the "sexual harassment is love" vibes in it, but outside of that one fic, the author does acknowledge that that sort of thing is bad. So, um, proceed with caution. I think the author puts warnings in all their stories, thankfully.)

(Warning: I just remembered, that the author has some NSFW...ish pictures as headers of their stories in the livejournal, so you might want to visit their AO3 account instead.)

http://rightonthelimit.livejournal.com/

http://archiveofourown.org/users/underxmyxumbrella/pseuds/rightonthelimit

The Most Resilient Parasite Is An Idea

This one takes a leaf out of the Inception book, but it's Harry Potter through and through.

Summary: "Harry Potter has it all – some great friends, a loving family, and a widespread support network. Now, if only those odd 'Order of the Phoenix' people would stop spouting their existentialist 'YOU ARE ONLY DREAMING' bullshit, life would be PERFECT. TMR/HP"

Unfortunately, the author is having a writer's block. :c

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6778133/1/The_Most_Resilient_Parasite_Is_An_Idea

Also from the same author:

How To Save A Life

Summary: "In which Harry is seven seconds too late with the basilisk fang."

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8139832/1/How_To_Save_A_Life

If you're interested in Harry/Voldemort, rather than Harry/Tom, I recommend:

A Snake Named Voldemort.

It's an AU during Half-Blood Prince where there is a change of plans, and Voldemort finds himself at the mercy of Harry Potter.

It is complete.

Freefall:

AU during Deathly Hallows. Harry is even worse at blocking out Voldemort from his mind, and things kind of take a turn for the weird when he finds himself feeling attracted to Voldemort.

It is better than it sounds, really. It has explicit content, so, um, beware of that?

It's notable because Voldemort never stops beings, well, Voldemort.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7387895/1/Freefall

Future Imperfect

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4590039/1/Future_Imperfect

This one is a one-shot, and not very long, but I like it so much. It ignores aspects of Deathly Hallows and has a different outcome of the final battle, but it otherwise sticks to canon.

The premise is that Voldemort won, but is bored.

Aya Macchiato / Athy / Athey likes to write dark/gray!Harry stories and it shows, but has the self-admitted terrible habit of not finishing most of her stories (and not self-admittedly, she does too much telling and not enough showing, but makes up for it with decent dialogue and the research she puts into folklore and other subjects for her stories).

Truth be told, her stories are more of a guilty pleasure; she has fun ideas, but has this tendency to repeat many plot points and ideas over and over in her stories, and sometimes they're too self-indulgent, but they're fun to read if you're not taking them too seriously.

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2328854/Athey

Twice into the Abyss

There is this one with a very unused twist in a very used premise: Voldemort returns back to his younger self to the timeline of Philosopher's Stone instead of Harry

It claims to be eventual HP/LV, but there have been zero hints of that as of yet (thankfully, considering the ages involved).

There is an annoying amount of typos, but the writing is generally good.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8225559/1/Twice_into_the_Abyss

The Portrait

I think this was somewhere undecided between Tom/Harry and Voldemort/Harry or maybe both, and the author decided to rewrite it so the updates stopped, but I recommend

"After the war, Harry discovers that Voldemort dabbled in more than Horcruxes. Slash. HP/TR. Post Deathly Hallows."

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6973877/1/The_Portrait

Memento Mori, Memento Amor

Despite the pretentiously clichéd title, the story is good.

When Harry realizes he is the Master of Death and that Voldemort is condemned to Limbo because of his Horcruxes, he's all like screw that, I'm saving Voldemort's soul too.

It hasn't updated in a while, so I don't know if it's still a work in progress or if it's abandoned.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/309225/chapters/494944

I also liked The Train To Nowhere by Pain Au Chocolat, but I got tired of it after the last few updates. This author's stories annoy me, to tell you the truth. I don't really recommend them. They have some skeevy things regarding sex and abuse, (like, in one AU story, Tom is basically sexually harassing Harry and Dumbledore approved/turned a blind eye to it because "their love would redeem Tom". I clicked that close button so hard, you have no idea), and the author has this tendency to delete stories or stop updating them because of drama/personal reasons, or make them only accessible through pdfs, and it's just not worth it.

...Sorry, I just really wanted to rant about that. I keep seeing their stories recommended and I always held my tongue, so this was a chance to get it all off my chest.

I also recommend scouring this tag on AO3:

http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter*s*Tom%20Riddle/works

I've found a few good one-shots and interesting drabbles that way.

(It's Harry/Tom and Harry/Voldemort combined, in function.)

If you're looking for stories of the lemon-y persuasion, there are some decent ones on adultfanfiction.net (hidden in the middle of, well, your typical aff dot net stories), but they tend to be of the dub-con or non-con variety, so I'd rather not go and search for them again, sorry. :(

also

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7517496/1/bHorror_b_Of_bOur_b_bLove_b

Tom's diary winds up in Harry's hands.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7450813/1/Hell_Hath_No_Fury

Harry does a crazy transformation to escape the Dursleys.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6651287/1/Captivated

AU where Tom goes to Hogwarts; he's a little older than Harry.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4345945/1/Mirror_Image

This one isn't slash, but the interactions between Tom and Harry are great. Abandoned, though. :(

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5874614/1/New_Divide

This one was... okay, I guess. I mean, at least it's complete. There are better stories, but, you know. Complete.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6787821/1/Penultimate

I'm still not complete sure what was up with this one, and it's short, but I liked it.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6028181/1/Enchantment_Series_7_Ink_Stained_Pages

The events of CoS never happened, and canon goes on as normal. But in Harry's fourth year, he finds Tom Riddle's diary, and finds someone to confess all his problems to...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2434468/1/Kiss_or_Kill

A copy of sorts of Tom Riddle travels to Harry's time. It was fairly good. Nothing extraordinary, but it's complete and it's a nice read.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1960698/1/A_Rush_of_Blood_to_the_Head

...This one comes with a warning for sexual abuse, and it's fairly dark, but it's well-written and genuinely scary/anxiety inducing, so there is that.

Sorry for spamming you but I just remember another decent one that I didn't have in my bookmarks.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4296783/1/The_Power_of_Obsessive_Love

It's a bit, er, narmy? at times, and I started reading it as a guilty pleasure sort of thing, but it surprised me with the effort the author put into it.

hey some more because why not

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8374370/1/Unexpected_Connections

AU where there is less of an age gap between Tom and Harry, Tom grows up to be less crazy and more successful, Harry still has a non-standard childhood, and the two meet.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7517496/1/Horror_Of_Our_Love

AU Neville is the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry feels lonely despite having parents, and Tom Riddle's diary makes his way into Harry's hand before his second year at Hogwarts. It's like a dark version of canon, in a way.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/367504/

AU shenanigans happen and Harry receives Tom Riddle's diary at a very young age. Tom is both a corrupting and a good influence on Harry.

http://archive.skyehawke.com/authors.php?no=68

The Soul Adores and The Semblance of Peace are HP/LV/SS stories, both complete.

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