Thank you for your recs, there've been so many fics I would have never come across without your recs! The Lost and Found series by Aquaphobe is now one of my favorites, it is truly one-of-a-kind and so underrated, so thank you for surfacing that one.
As a result, I am now craving fics with an older Tom Riddle, magical or muggle setting, in other words, Tomarry but with their canon age gap. Would you be able to rec some? Thank you greatly
Thank you so much! And yes, lost and found by @honbug is a beautifully written series featuring a Mafia AU setting; I will link it here so that everyone can hopefully read it 🤍
I love a good age gap fic! Please see below for a rec list featuring older Tom, and I’ll combine this with another ask I received recently requesting silver fox Tom Riddle recs. I tried to find fics where it’s mentioned that Tom has a bit of grey at the temples; otherwise, these fics all feature Harry and Tom at their canon age gap (or close to it).
lost & found (Series) by @honbug (E, 183k, WIP)
(Part 1) Sometimes, Harry gets lost.
(Part 2) For as long as he can recall, Harry's felt that the world is not as it should be…
(Part 3) Tom knows from the beginning that he is destined for greatness. Nothing and no one will stop him from achieving his goals. (And then, of course, there are the dreams.)
A Special Day by @vdoshu (E, 3k, complete)
“I think a fresh start is important. I’d like one, and I think this can be it.”
“It’s a bit late for a fresh start for me, don’t you think?” he retorts snidely.
An afternoon's delight by @loneamaryllis (E, 2k, complete)
"I want you to fuck my throat."
Voldemort was a hard man to surprise, and yet those seven words knocked the wind out of him. He lifted an eyebrow, lips parting slightly.
aurora polaris by @aglassroseneverfades (E, 217k, complete)
Harry does not give up the Horcrux when he dies. Moved by compassion, he embraces it instead. The world Harry wakes up to is not like the one he remembers. And his captor is neither the same as he was, nor as different as he would like.
Everything Green Is Gold by anonymous (E, 24k, complete)
Prior to Hogwarts, Harry had stayed mostly invisible to the teachers and adults around him his whole life. But Tom Riddle, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, looked at Harry like he was something to be wanted.
Everything We Dream Can Be Real by @vdoshu (E, 52k, complete)
Harry had a life after Voldemort. He had a family. He had a career.
And then one day it was all ripped away when he woke up at Number 4 Privet Drive.
Or: Where Harry doesn’t exactly get that chance to do it over again. And things are Not Okay.
Fault Lines by @vestiges-of-light (M, 151k, complete)
After the world believes that Voldemort has died on that Halloween night, Tom Riddle returns to Hogwarts to claim the Defense post at last. Hogwarts will be a sanctuary, while he waits to find out more about Harry Potter and the prophecy that connects them. But when Grindelwald is broken out of prison, perhaps the magical world needs Voldemort to be publicly resurrected after all.
hook, line, and sinker by @purplemineralwater (E, 41k, WIP)
Harry asks Professor Riddle for help in killing Voldemort, Riddle is endlessly amused.)
James Potter Does Not Approve by Lytri (T, 4k, complete)
James had never liked Gaunt, and that wasn’t about to change anytime soon.
Let's talk sugar by @being-luminous (T, 2k, complete)
In which Harry Potter may or may not be a sugar baby.
Memories of a Killer by @chemfreak89 (M, 47k, complete)
Age catches up with everyone. The infamous serial killer Voldemort now spends his time reading newspapers and making trips to the local library in search of a new crime novel. But one day he makes an interesting new acquaintance that shakes his quiet life and rekindles old flames and unknown desires.
Ministry: A Christmas Special by @milkandmoon-103 (M, 4k, complete)
Rumours are circulating within the Ministry that Senior Undersecretary Tom Riddle is sleeping with his assistant.
One slap, two slaps, three slaps by @albondiguilla007 (E, 4k, complete)
Minister Tom Riddle turns seventy.
One Year In Every Ten by @saintsenara (E, 207k, WIP)
A decade after the final battle, a serial killer emerges, with a message that proclaims the Dark Lord has risen again. Harry is assigned to the case.
Resonating Souls by @endlessburningdarkness (E, 4k, complete)
Minister Riddle has an unusually dream filled night.
Revolution of Configured Stars by @tollingreminiscentbells (E, 162k, WIP)
In another world, Harry Potter was spared. Raised in Lord Voldemort's Britain, he enters his seventh year wanting to keep his head down. But after a chance encounter with ‘Marvolo Gaunt’, it looks like it may not be so simple.
Terms and Conditions May Apply by @duplicitywrites (T, 17k, WIP)
Lord Voldemort gets one chance at a new life. This new chance comes with a lot of conditions.
The Betrayal (And Boon) of One's Own Biology by @riverxsong-ao3 (E, 7k, complete)
Tom Riddle had always known he was destined for greatness. As a young wizard, he was certain he would present one day as an Alpha - strong, powerful, in charge. When he did not, he came to accept that he must, in fact, be a Beta.
The Dinner by @moontearpensfic (T, 3k, complete)
Voldemort takes Harry to meet his parents.
The Rigmarole Dance by cannibalinc (T, 8k, complete)
Harry is nine years old when he points at Lord Thomas Marvolo Slytherin, High Warlock of England, and declares "You're my soulmate, and we're going to be married."
Unwinding the Minister (Hypothetically) by @ramabear (E, 4k, complete)
It's the end of December and Head Auror Harry Potter finds himself in the Minister's office once more and he can't help but wonder, how much the young, uptight Minister really just needs to unwind for a night. And how much he'd be happy to help.
Until Midnight Comes by @dividawrites (E, 26k, complete)
A few years after the war Harry reluctantly attends a party at Malfoy Manor. He drinks a few too many and runs into a handsome man called Tom. What happens after is definitely not a drunken error in judgement—it’s love at first, blurry sight instead.
