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    Harry is sold at auction to a man who is clearly in some kind of disguise - Lord Riddle isn't as charming as he looks, and the way he looks at Harry...

    A Regency AU inspired by the magnificent artwork of @StolenViolet (art linked in notes) for the Reverse Tomarry Bigbang.

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    07 Dec 2024

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    His eyes glazed over as the images came to him, unbidden. Harry, arms chained above his head, writhing, naked. Delicate and pale, except for the red marks from the restraints and Voldemort’s teeth. Harry mewling, moaning in bliss. Tears dripping like pearls from emerald eyes as he entered his beauty’s body, watching Harry cum on his cock, over and over –

    “H-hey! What sinful thoughts are you having, demon?”

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    Looking up as the view over the mountainous path ahead of him finally starts to reveal those spiraling dark towers hidden amidst snowy white peaks, Harry reflects again on all the other little moments of his life that have led up to this one, and whether there was anything he could ever have done differently to end up someplace else. He wonders what awaits him in the sunless days ahead and whether all of the hardship he endured on this journey will have been worth it by the end.

    What is possibly most damning of all is that he is not thinking of his parents right now as he trudges alongside his companions up to Voldemort’s eerie castle. He is thinking instead, as he often does, of a name that burns too brightly on his wrist in the pre-dawn light. He is thinking of what could have been, what has never been, what will never be.

    He is wondering if somehow the fruitless tugging on his heart means that somewhere, some way, Tom is watching over him. He wonders what his faceless ghost would think of him if he could see him now.

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    06 Dec 2024

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    “What you have done to young Harry,” Dumbledore’s shade intones gravely, “is deplorable even compared to the worst of your past crimes.”

    Lord Voldemort raises his cup to his old nemesis in a mocking toast and winks at him before taking a sip.

    The date is September 1st, 1996. Lord Voldemort is about to get everything he's ever wanted.

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    06 Dec 2024

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    It seems laughable now to think that he could ever have been destined for more than this. From a boy so lucky to be alive they gave him a lofty title to match, to the supposed savior of humanity, to tawdry spoils of the very war he lost. It is a new kind of bravery Harry must hold onto these days, if he is to get through this with any of his sanity or self-respect left intact.

    He won't just give up on living though, on hope. Somebody has to be here, after all, to take care of the girl, so if not for himself, then he'll at least do it for her. He can suffer any indignity thrown his way if it means that just one child born into this endless, bitter cycle of longing and loathing will grow up loved.

    Sometimes, a ray of sunshine will break through the storm clouds even when it's always raining.

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    06 Dec 2024

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    Harry does not give up the Horcrux when he dies.

    Can goodness be a hero’s tragic flaw?

    Moved by compassion, he embraces it instead.

    Can forgiveness be a gift unconsciously granted?

    What follows next, he could not predict. He’s not sure he ever really had a choice in the matter.

    Can love exist, even flourish, in a heart that does not give its consent?

    The world Harry wakes up to is not like the one he remembers.

    This is a horror story.

    And his captor is neither the same as he was, nor as different as he would like.

    This is a love story.

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    04 Dec 2024

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    “Fine, let’s pretend for a second that one of the dozens of paranoid scenarios running in your head is halfway close to being realistic and I actually do manage it somehow. Where would I even go, Tom?”

    Harry clenches his fists tightly until his nails bite into the skin of his palms. “My friends work for you now! You twisted and broke and stole the only people I could ever really trust to have my back. Don’t act like them suddenly knowing I’m alive is going to change fifty years of careful maneuvering and conditioning on your part…you’ve…they’re…they…”