Eleven-year-old Tom Riddle boards the Hogwarts Express for the first time. While looking for a compartment, he meets Hermione Granger, the fifth year Gryffindor girls' prefect. At first, her motherly manner repels him—but very quickly he is won over by it. She has quite a lovely bottom, too.

At the age of three, Mary Riddle was separated from her twin brother Tom, to be raised by a wealthy, adoring family. Eight years later, she reunites with Tom on the Hogwarts Express, only to be separated once again. Where she is kind, he is cruel. Where she is in Hufflepuff, he reigns in Slytherin—and she vows to never let him corrupt her.

Rather than ever entrusting his diary in the hands of a Malfoy, young Tom Riddle hid his diary under the floorboards of his loveless childhood home—Wool's Orphanage. After four decades of dormancy, the diary is given an opportunity to come to life in 1986. Finding himself in an unfamiliar world, teenaged Tom Riddle decides to adopt a girl of the orphanage—Hermione Granger.

AU Dumbledore and Grindelwald are singleminded in their ambition to create a World-Empire. WW2 begins years earlier. Tom Riddle and Hermione Granger are intimate childhood friends at Wool's Orphanage, but fate sends Tom far away, to be trained as an elite soldier for Grindelwald. Hermione and Harry find solace in each other at Hogwarts. Everything will tie together.

At the age of nine, Hermione's parents died in a collapsing bomb shelter. Wool's Orphanage takes her in. For months, she's miserable and friendless, until one day, she meets a teenage boy named Tom Riddle who suggests that they escape together. Little did she know that Tom was obsessed with her; to him, she was simply irresistible.

They hadn't always been cruel. Nor Death Eaters. Once, they were little more than mere children. Then, they met a boy, who was as mysterious as he was charming.

With the war over, the Greengrass sisters visit the treehouse of their childhood. One-shot.