Bathilda Bagshot loved Gellert Grindelwald like a son she did not have.

maybe required reading: Albus Dumbledore turns back time and punches himself in the face. Basically Gellert's not evil, is still racist, and wouldn't dare let magical children live in disgusting muggle orphanages. Tom Riddle is an orphan who wants a family first, world domination second.

That Dumbledore goes back in time to change things fic nobody asked for.

Businessman Abraxas Malfoy has a crush on the IT guy. AU: NO MAGIC, MODERN SETTING, OFFICE AU

Walburga Black reflects upon her relationship with Tom Riddle

A series of snapshots taken on Tom Riddle's birthday.

Tom Marvolo Riddle is taken by fairies as a baby and replaced with a changeling. The Changeling becomes Lord Voldemort while the Fey-Raised Wizard becomes a favoured toy of the Unseelie Queen. It's most peculiar when their paths cross.

Wizards and witches have words written in their soulmate's handwriting appear somewhere, randomly, on their skin. Hermione's words completely shape her life when she decides to get sorted into Slytherin because of them. However, instead of her soulmate she finds racism. Which she has not missed. Hermione hopes her soulmate better be worth all this trouble. /Slytherin!H Soulmate AU

Lilly Potter cast the cruciatus with all of her might and being, in her other arm nestled her one year old son. 'CRUCIO'

Voldemort loses, but unfortunately for everyone involved in the war he doesn't die.

Birthday ficlet for Colubrina! Hermione Granger and Tom Riddle spar in a classroom conjured up by the Room of Requirement. Most of Riddle's followers think it's an unfair advantage for Riddle that he can read thoughts while duelling - Hermione thinks it's her advantage.

Hermione Weasley meets Astoria Malfoy on King's Cross when they're both waiting for their children, stood up by their husbands. They chat. Then they chat some more. And they see how much they enjoy each other.

Someone slips a love potion to Draco, Theo, and Blaise who then decide that Ginny is the best witch and begin showering her with attention that she doesn't know how to feel about. Whether to hex them or laugh is the question that runs through her mind multiple times.

'Listen you brat, you're here. With me. In Gehenna. By God's orders ironically. So behave and we won't have any problems, capish' Rin stared blankly. 'Capish means understand, idiot...' 'Ooh.' 'Well at least we're finished with the murderous glaring that was seriously leaning on you planning my execution.' Rin glared. 'I see we're back to square one.'

There exists no positive constant in Tom Riddle's life,only the seething and pooltron death eaters he surrounds himself with. With a slight twist his fate may be averted and Tomjust might learn the theory of love and that deciding to go into such dark politics at his age was bullshit and that he should mellow out. It's a Hufflepuff that wins at this game of changing one Tom Riddle.

Blowing out the lantern ends differently than expected. The Beast survives. And the townspeople of the Unknown gain new legends of the infamous creature that stalks through the woods . They add an apprentice. A thin boy with a heart of compassion and a mournful scream of agony.

Madam Bradley loved her son. Truly. She adored him. The woman would never allow harm to befall him no matter what. She had proved that in the past, and she would prove that in the future. Yet, even after the homunculus living within her son had been suppressed, expelled – as she hoped and believed – she sometimes hated him. So much that she resorted to tears.

The beast had thought that he was above humans and their pitiful humanity. Then again, he also thought that his antlers wouldn't get stuck in two trees when he traversed his precious woods. He was stuck and the only person close enough to help him was The Woodsman.

She isn't in Hell, he thought , she is in Heaven...