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Quite Possibly Most Infuriating by ferocious_mermaid
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Aug 2026
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When Senior Auror Harry Potter is strongly encouraged into volunteering for an experimental Ministry time-travel program, he plans to spend his year in the past sabotaging Tom Riddle’s rise. Heroic, right?
What he doesn’t expect is a timeline where Tom, upon opening the Chamber of Secrets, finds piles of gold instead of a basilisk and becomes a billionaire. He still has plans for power… but they’re not exactly hostile.
Harry decides to lay low for the rest of the mission. Except… laying low has never exactly been his strong suit, has it?
Or:
Tom is handsome, young, rich, dangerously intrigued, and doesn’t take no for an answer. Also, handsome.
Harry is forty, poor, annoyed, and just wants decent crisps for once. And what does Tom Riddle want from him?
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- Part 6 of ferocious_mermaid’s crackfic collection
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Bookmarked by swallowtailshimmer
11 Jul 2026
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[11] light, funny!
[12] Harry shows off his wandless magic during their house date and Tom gets violently aroused and needs to excuse himself. Crochet snake is discovered.
[13]
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Harry finds himself in a parallel universe travelling into the body of his counterpart, who happens to be the daughter of notorious gangster, James Potter. James is embroiled in a long-standing feud with rival mobster Tom Riddle, and in a bid to end the conflict, they agree that Harry and Tom will marry. This arrangement serves as a guarantee for peace between the two families.
Having spent years as a battle-hardened war commander in his own universe, Harry is now adjusting to the unfamiliar life of a young woman in 1954. He is indifferent towards Tom Riddle and views the prospect of marrying him as nothing more than a bizarre and amusing inconvenience. On the other hand, Tom Riddle is confused by the insane behaviour of his supposedly demure wife. -
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Instead of opening The Chamber of Secrets and pursuing immortality, Tom Riddle spends his fifth year at Hogwarts crafting a ritual to find his soulmate.
He ends up more than fifty years in the future in a different dimension and sprawled at the feet of Harry Potter. Tom can barely begin to celebrate his success when he learns an unsettling truth. Another version of himself exists in this world and he'll stop at nothing until Harry is dead.
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Bookmarked by swallowtailshimmer
04 Mar 2025
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11 -- quite fluffy so far
[25] Harry and Tom are betrothed, and have just had the first breakfast back at Hogwarts. Draco is wondering who tf Tom is, and might get jealous of him?
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Tom Riddle is an enigma to all who meet him. Polite beyond measure, celebrated across factions, and incredibly composed to an almost ridiculous degree. Yet so little is known about what he's like outside of practiced smiles and reserved interactions. Truly, many see him as the epitome of a sort of outward perfection, a figure whose true thoughts are hidden away and unattainable to practically all who try.
And then a particular someone is injured, and the facade comes crashing down.
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Harry Potter has made it through his fifth year of Hogwarts alive and mostly intact. He has negotiated a marriage contract and peace treaty with Lord Voldemort, and knows he is one of his several remaining Horcruxes.
But no relationship is perfect. Especially not when your alpha is a homicidal Dark Lord who loves to play games and still wants to take over the Ministry.
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- Part 2 of Checkmate