You Know How Dark Magic Made Voldie Go All Snake Like. So Imagine A Dark!Harry Au Where Dark Magic Makes

My roman empire is the scene in the fifth Harry Potter book where Dumbledore talks to Harry about the prophecy and how Harrys pain shows him that he is still human and Harry is starting to scream in anger, hurt and frustration and starting to throw things around the office, screaming at Dumbledore that in this case he doesn‘t want to be human, he wants it to end, he wants the pain to go away.

And instead of giving that boy, that child, a hug and telling him his feelings and his anger are valid and justified, Dumbledore sends him back to the Dursleys, while everyone, characters and readers, expect him to instantly get better and be able to fight against Voldemort again.

This book is so long and this is the conclusion that was made?

You are a superhero known for wearing a signature ring. While everyone believes it to be the source of your powers in reality it actually dampens them, allowing you to safely use your powers. Today you woke up and could not find your ring.

draw me after you (let us run), chapter 61, and i'm c r y i n g

harry: *absentmindedly petting nagini as he writes potions notes*

tom, silently hyperventilating: i want him in a way that actively threatens the survival of humanity

So, as you know, or don't, an employee got fired from Starbucks and they posted all the recipes online =)

part 1

Harry: I’m going to need a human skull, and you can’t ask why.

Tom: Only if you also don’t ask why. *pulls out four pristine human skulls from his bag*

Harry:

Tom:

Harry: This one will do.

btw can we talk about harry not being concerned that Tom's about to kill someone, he's only concerned that people are watching????? Character grooowwtthhh

The closer they get to each other the better they understand the others motives and change their views, most notably in Tom's behaviour because his personality is pretty wild to begin with but seeing Harry change and adapt and being able to make decisions other people in his life would not let happen is pretty neat <3

They know each other extremely well at this point. And Harry has admitted before that he doesn't necessarily want Vee to change-- but rather be better. Live up to his actual potential, as it were.

It will come with a bit of angst, of course, because Harry has to come to grips with the fact that he essentially gave Voldemort the green light to kill someone-- even if it was to kill someone dangerous that would continually try to kill them, etc-- and that he might do so again in the future.

Harry is good, at his core, and taking life feels contradictory to him, especially considering the mild success he's had in sort of... reforming or rehabilitating Voldemort on this journey (not fully, but enough that Voldemort has clearly changed the way he is behaving on behalf of and in regards to Harry)-- plus, just the idea of what his parents might think if they were alive to witness all of this unfolding when they died fighting the man he's growing to love in order to protect Harry. There's a lot of tangled up feelings there, but Vee has a way with words and with twisting them around to make Harry realize things he would otherwise beat himself up for.

This scene comes to mind for what's to come, for instance:

“Lovely thing,” Voldemort mutters, breath hot on Harry’s skin. “You’ve just secured another night free of the bogeyman. The monster that witches and wizards tell their children about.” Harry lets out a wet sound. Maybe a sob. Maybe a laugh. He clutches at Voldemort’s shoulders tighter. “There’s no need of guilt, Harry Potter,” Voldemort says, pulling him closer, kissing at the sensitive spot just before Harry’s ear. “Not when you are the only thing that stays my hand.”

Love being power and Harry falling in love with Tom Riddle/Tom falling for Harry but it doesn't make Tom a good person.

It makes him so much worse

I know people tend to like the angst, power imbalance and dark in tomarrymort, which I understand but for me it would always be that part where they are wholly, irrevocably devoted to each other — the part where two unloved orphans would find each other and go like “i see you, I understand.” The part where they would be loved and love in return the way they never were. Because, they know how it is to not be loved, they understand pain. So they love like they fight, they love like they have been starved for years, which let's be real they have been — and love like the world will end tomorrow.