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Tom Riddle has learned how to be admired. Brilliant. Believable. Maybe even...good?
But in his fourth year at Hogwarts, temptations beckon, secrets grow heavier, and forbidden desires coil tighter around him. Loyalties grow increasingly complicated.
And yet, truths Tom cannot ignore begin to surface. Whispers of war drift through the castle halls. The shadows speak to Tom in hisses, promising answers to questions he isn’t sure he wants to ask.
This is not the story of a Dark Lord. Not yet.
This is the story of a boy who begins to choose which masks to wear and which to shed.
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- Part 4 of Smoke and Mirrors
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Tom Riddle has learned how to be perfect. Polite. Brilliant. Untouchable.
But in his third year at Hogwarts, something shifts. Alliances change, affections grow, and new friendship begins to bloom. Loyalty, once foreign to him, starts to feel like something he might understand. He even finds himself caring—against his better judgment—what someone else thinks of him.
For the first time in his life, Tom is not entirely alone.
And yet, Tom begins to see the cracks in the pureblood world he once envied. Masks are everywhere, expectations are gilded cages, and family legacies come with sharp teeth.This is not the story of a Dark Lord. Not yet.
This is the story of a boy who finds something worth protecting—and starts to wonder if he might be worth protecting, too.
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- Part 3 of Smoke and Mirrors
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Tom Riddle has already shed his skin once. The lonely, half-feral boy from Wool’s is gone, replaced by the perfect student: clever, charming, brilliant.
But second year brings new pressures, new tests for newly revealed scales.
He’s learned how to smile. He’s learned how to dress and speak and impress. Now he must learn how to be believed.
Beneath the surface, something is changing again. He wears a mask, and he wears it well—but masks grow heavy, and snakes, after all, are always preparing to shed.
This is not the story of a Dark Lord. Not yet.
This is the story of a boy no one liked.Part 2 of Smoke and Mirrors
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- Part 2 of Smoke and Mirrors
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Tom Riddle is eleven years old and already too clever for his own good. He has no parents, no past, and a strange kind of power that seems to act on its own.
Strange accidents, unexplained illnesses, and misfortunes cling like burrs to those who torment Tom. Mrs. Cole speaks of Tom with a blend of fear and sympathy, as if she isn't entirely sure whether Tom is a victim—or something worse.
When Tom finds out about magic, he thinks, at long last, that he might belong. That this world of spells and wonders, of creatures beyond the wildest dreams of an East End orphan, will be different.
Hogwarts is supposed to be his new home. But in the dungeons of Slytherin House, he finds only cruelty...until he learns how to play the game.
This is not the story of a Dark Lord. Not yet.
This is the story of a boy no one wanted.
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- Part 1 of Smoke and Mirrors
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