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• i tried to be good (am i no good?) by 3sterr

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  25 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Harry Potter/Tom Riddle
  • Harry Potter & Tom Riddle
  • Harry Potter
  • Tom Riddle
  • Abraxas Malfoy
  • Orion Black
  • Alphard Black
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Horace Slughorn
  • Minor Original Character(s)
  • Time Travel
  • Alternate Universe - Time Travel
  • Time Travel Fix-It
  • slow burn but kinda fast at the same time?
  • Tom Riddle is Bad at Feelings
  • Alternate Universe
  • 1940s
  • Harry Potter & Tom Riddle Attend Hogwarts Together
  • Tom Riddle is Obsessed with Harry Potter
  • Harry Potter Needs a Break
  • Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter)
  • Somewhat Sane Tom Riddle
  • Tom Riddle is a Little Shit
  • Harry Potter is Bad at Feelings
  • a bit of internalized homophobia
  • Manipulative Tom Riddle
  • Light Angst
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Slow Burn
  • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Wool's Orphanage (Harry Potter)

  Summary

  Getting mysteriously thrown back in time was definitely not what Harry wanted. Landing in front of Wool's Orphanage in the hot summer night made it even worse. What he definitely disliked the most was the pair of brown eyes fixed on him, eyes he distinctively remembered from his second year at Hogwarts.

  Or,

  Tom is inevitably drawn to Harry and Harry inevitably drawn to Tom.

  Language:

  English

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