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I think a good chunk of the draw of tomarrymort, aside from the tastiness of darkship and all the fucking crazy parallels they've got and the way that- I digress. The draw comes from the fact that there's no way in hell Voldemort would ever chase anything he didn't desire to have with a burning passion, and oh boy does Harry fucking deserve to be wanted.
Tom Riddle clearly lost his virginity the exact moment Harry shoved that massive, thick fang straight into his diarussy.
Oh save me Auror Potter save me 😓
speaking my tom riddle truth
microwaving tomarry in my brain
Tomarry (Jennifer’s Body AU): Part 2
Harry comes home to find Tom hunched over on the ground, bloodied and eating raw meat. Something has changed, and it’s not just the red eyes…
Harry canonically thinks Tom is more attractive with long-ish hair oh I’m winning so hard rn.
I love you Harry Potter I don’t know how you were so oblivious when in every scene Tom was mentioned, you could not help yourself but to proclaim how dashing and handsome he was compared to the rest of his peers.
Harry likes his men gorgeous and with a touch of malnourishment.
Hi, i saw a post on my feed today and you happened to comment under it that Harry has a devoted following. Where is this devoted following ? 😭🫠 wherever in whichever fandom spaces i go he is getting ripped apart and it really disturbs me how misunderstood he is. I really hope your words are true 😭
And also probably a weird question but um apart from hp fandom, are you aware that even other fandoms intervene and hate/criticise Harry ? How do you feel about that and how do you keep yourself away ? I know its usually the loudest parts being stirred up on the internet and there are millions of fans who i'm sure doesn't feel that way, and all these fan wars are deliberately fuelled by content creators for profit, still it bothers me and annoys me more than it should.
Did I comment that? I usually say that a certain corner of my fandom (the Tomarrymort fandom) tends to understand Harry for who he truly is in canon. But if you take the time to really sift through his tag, you'll come across some posts that are genuinely insightful and detailed. The fandom as a whole is pretty much a russian roulette when it comes to Harry takes. You have to know exactly who to follow… lol.
And yeah, low-stakes haters. There is nothing unusual about them. Harry Potter is a globally famous, long-standing work written for a broad audience. If you consider how many other stories have been shaped in its wake, and how many people have engaged with it over the years, admiration and backlash are bound to grow side by side. And Rowling's public controversies only amplify that... and inevitably reflecting back onto Harry, since he carries the symbolic weight of the narrative as its protagonist.
But sincerely, why should I concern myself with that noise? Most of what circulates are shallow criticisms, lazy labels like "Mary Sue" or opinions from people who experienced the story once as children and never returned to it with a more mature lens. We are just not the same. Either someone engages with the text in good faith (fan or not), or, if they're not a fan, they approach it with enough depth to engage with Harry James Potter psychoanalytically.
5 Things About Tom Riddle
In our fandom, Tom Riddle is a romanticized character. Even in dark and macabre fics, his most unattractive qualities aren’t really showcased, and when they are, they’re usually portrayed pretty favorably. Now obviously there’s nothing wrong with reinventing and redefining characters—imo, you definitely should. But just for a bit of fun, I put together a list of less-than-sexy canonical traits that make him more dynamic, complicated, and interesting to read imo. (Inspired by this post.)
1. He’s a compulsive thief — and not only when he wants something for a specific purpose. His character is constructed around pathological emptiness and longing for esteem (rooted in childhood poverty and neglect). When he steals from the other orphans, it’s not because he has any grand plans for these items—he wants to have these things simply so that they cannot.
As he gets older, this “magpie-like tendency” evolves into the defining flaw of his Horcrux ambition. Had he chosen simple, unassuming objects, he could have been invincible. But the language used to describe him — “hungry” (CoS) and “vacant” with “empty hands” (DH) — shows that there’s something more to this error than mere stupidity or ego or blind ambition. It’s about the conflict between spiritual/emotional needs and material desire, where he is Rowling’s hollow and grandiose foil to Harry’s prevailing moral goodness.
2. He is shamelessly parasitic. There are three strong literal cases of this (1) Quirrell; (2) snakes and critters in Albania ; and (3) Harry himself. But then it doesn’t end there. He physically depends on Wormtail to wean him like an infant using the ‘milk’ of a Maledictus to whom he later knowingly consigned a piece of his soul.
Yes, Dumbledore does say that Tom Riddle is a highly self-sufficient and independent child—this obsession with autonomy, however, is more of a self-delusion than a reality. He is the most dependent character in the series. He rends himself so many times, his soul itself is unstable without reliance on bodies both inanimate and conscience. And he doesn’t mind this because his obsession with self-reliance is about detaching from that which he considers weak—human love and friendship. Coerced servitude and allegiance, on the other hand, are qualities he values immensely.
3. The child Tom Riddle is not sophisticated. This is actually the only fandom habit that does annoy me personally. Really often kid!Riddle is given this rich and colorful vocabulary and aristocratic bearing. This change completely misrepresents his class origins and is pretty inconsistent with his behavior in HBP. Take his line to Dumbledore for example: “I don’t need you. I’m used to doing things for myself, I go round London on my own all the time.” He does not say: “I don’t require your company. I often walk through the city on my own.” And yet I can promise you, you will encounter a lot of that bloated, hyper-mature dialogue in fics.
Now sure, if you change his upbringing, this becomes irrelevant. Just note the subtle and powerful difference between a child who, unrefined, has an advanced grasp of manipulation and coercion – and – a child who mysteriously sounds like the Queen even though he’s a poor orphan raised in working-class 1930s London.
4. He has poor impulse control. I’ve gotten into arguments about this one but hear me out. Riddle is undoubtedly intelligent, strategic, and cautious… However, he is not rational. Dumbledore is rational. He relies on impersonal calculations to plot and ploy. Riddle does not. He acts on desire and satisfaction, and calculates maximum efficiency of these things so that he can achieve his only goal: material immanence and domination.
It was not rational of him to slaughter his family; it was not rational of him to unleash the Basilisk; it was not rational of him to strike Harry with the Elder Wand. He did these things to satisfy an immediate thrill – to get revenge, to acquire the admiration of his thug gang, to kill Harry. He doesn’t anticipate the consequences of his actions and therefore makes foolish errors that even an ordinary and unexceptional person would be capable of avoiding.
(Notably, deficient fear conditioning is one of the defining qualities of criminal psychopathy.)
5. He is kind of funny? Far from being humorless and austere, we can gather from a few moments in the text that Riddle/Voldemort has a subtle and vindictive sense of humor. He tells Wormtail that he’d be used for a task that many of his followers would give their “right hands to perform” (GoF). He mocks the Blacks for having their blood mixed with a werewolf and everyone laughs at them (DH). He also laughs hysterically at his own cruelty at many points, such as during Ginny’s manipulation (CoS).
Point is, you should feel free to write him however you want. Fandom is about fun and creative expression, so go wild. Still, since we can’t ignore canon entirely, it’s worth reflecting. You can have a Riddle who is liquid gold and charming and flawless. You can also consider that, canonically, Riddle really was creepy, selfish, odd, and brutal. (It’s a big part of Rowling’s commentary on the hypocrisy of Britain’s social class and ethics, but that’s a story for another time…)
So, after reblogging this, I wanted to comment on “the child Tom Riddle isn’t sophisticated.”
I’d like to make a case for it.
My UK friends, correct me if I’m wrong, but didnt Tom Riddle grow up in a poorer part of London? Wouldn’t this mean he’d have a different dialect to his accent? Now imagine Tom Riddle getting made fun of for this and for the lack of education. He’s sorted into Slytherin. He has ambition in spades. I’ve always believed that Tom Riddle would have worked his ASS off to get rid of his old self.
Tom is also bit of a peacock. He would absolutely expand his vocabulary, alter the way he spoke, get rid of a working class accent to shake off the chains of his previous life. He’d use it to appear better than others. We see some of this higher class speaking in Chamber of Secret.
It’s something to consider. I have two major stories where I’m writing Tom like this - someone who worked very very hard to distance himself from those poor muggle beginnings. I think it’s an interesting fandon angle, at least.
Yes, all great points. And it really depends what stage of kid!Tom we’re talking about exactly. Because we do see dramatic changes in his speech patterns between 11 and 16, but as fic writers, we have to fill in the gaps of how quickly he was able to “shed” (or rather, convince himself and others that he had shed) his lower-class Muggle upbringing, and where that upbringing would still peek through.
I do absolutely believe that, after the initial shock of his first meeting with Dumbledore, Tom was working his ass off to mold himself into someone who could rise up in wizarding society.
Before that, he was definitely rough around the edges… Although I will say that, in the brief scene we see him in at 11, while he isn’t particularly sophisticated in speech (and definitely not in manner), neither does he show any obvious Cockney dialect markers that we see with other characters such as Stan Shunpike, for example. This tells me that while he IS undeniably impulsive and poorly self-regulated in many regards, he does have at least *some* ability to mask, even then, before he enters the wizarding world… And even in the extremely emotionally charged situation of learning he is a wizard for the first time, that there are others like him, and that he will soon have an opportunity to leave his current environment.
In such a situation, I think most of us would be at least somewhat dysregulated, so I infer from that, that by 11, he has already started practicing polishing his speech, perhaps by emulating books or more sophisticated visitors to the orphanage, even if he has not yet perfected it.
I actually think he gets better at masking as Tom Riddle throughout his Hogwarts years and probably during his Borgin & Burke’s era, but then, by the time he fully adopts his Voldemort persona, he has started unmasking in many ways, because he can. So we see a bit of a reversion in terms of “sophistication.”
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I can’t see this beautiful art and not remember Tom Riddle
Tom’s worst enemy had always been himself, consumed by a lifetime of self-hatred. Harry Potter, actually, was his greatest obsession.
🤸💜 oh yeah
For Voldemort, I always considered it like he has a goal (immortality), and a flaw (big ego). If he just wanted to be immortal, he'd make a few horcuxes and be done with it. He could be a recluse and study magic for centuries. But he can't just put pieces of his soul in any container. They've gotta be special, and important, and nothing is as special to old Tom as wizarding history. So he's got the founders' items, and the Gaunt ring, and they need special hiding spots, and so on. Further contrasting his goal, he can't just recluse himself from society, then he can't take over. His own ego and, well, evil-ness, means he makes enemies. This is one of my favorite writing techniques actually, where a character's goal is hampered by their flaws.
I personally think Voldemort is more complicated than this. I mean, I talked in the past about how I don't think he really wanted to live forever, and while, he would have loved to study magic, Tom can't be a recluse (hence why he returned from his world tour eventually).
I think Tom Riddle is someone who is desperate for human connection. I think, one of the things that hampers him the most is actually his need for recognition. his desire that others would know how great he is. He absolutely has an ego and thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread, but he wants everyone to know it too.
But his pride is a weird one. Like, Tom thinks he is the best, but he still considers himself not enough. He has a unique mix of self-hatred, a lot of pride and ego, and a huge dose of general spite that makes his mind fascinating, but also a hazard to everyone around him.
And I think, choosing Founders Artefacts wasn't for pride reasons or for Wizarding History (I think he cares about Magical Theory way more than any other area of magic, but I digress), but for sentimentality reasons (Dumbledore is correct about this assessment). Like Harry, Hogwarts was Tom's first and only home:
“I believe he had several reasons, though he confided none of them to Professor Dippet,” said Dumbledore. “Firstly, and very importantly, Voldemort was, I believe, more attached to this school than he has ever been to a person. Hogwarts was where he had been happiest; the first and only place he had felt at home.” Harry felt slightly uncomfortable at these words, for this was exactly how he felt about Hogwarts too.
(HBP)
I mean, if we look at all the items he chose as Horcruxes the only common denominator is that they were all sentimental to him:
The Diary - something very personal to him that has no historical relevance. Hell, it's a muggle diary that I headcanon he found after WWII reached Britain and that the diary, like him, was a survivor.
The Gaunt Ring - Tom didn't know this was the resurrection stone, all he knew it as was a family ring of a line that lost all it's relevance. It was made into a Horcrux because it's a reminder of his family.
The Cup - a reminder of Hogwarts, his first home.
The Locket - both a reminder of Hogwarts and his family. I think the locket was his favorite Horcrux, hence why he went to all this effort to make proper protections for it while he didn't for the others. I think he cared about what this one represented the most.
The Diadem - again a memory of Hogwarts, but also his own pride. How he found a magical artifact thought to be lost. And he placed it in a similarly prideful location — a room at Hogwarts he thought only he knew about.
Nagini - a snake he felt affection towards, this one was made as a prize for her because he liked her, no other reason.
Most of the Horcruxes didn't have unique hiding spots. I mean, the Gaunt Shack, really? Lucius Malfoy's study (the diary) hardly even counts as a hiding spot. Both the Locket's cave and the Room of Requirement are places that are sentimental for Tom personally. Places that remind him of his own accomplishments. they aren't special for any grand historical reason, they are special for Tom as a person.
So, all in all, I think Tom is much more sentimental than he is prideful. I mean, he is both, but his pride is hampered by perfectionism and self-hate much more than most read him as. Like, part of his ego is that he is unwilling to think less of himself because he hates himself and he hates that he hates himself. Like, I don't think my reading of Tom Riddle is a super popular one, but it's the only one I think makes sense.
So much of his behavior just makes much more sense if you think he is desperate for human connection and recognition from others, especially when younger (with a pretty wrapped view of other people and how friendships work). And is a surprisingly sentimental guy.
What does harrysexual mean?🫠.....
It means that Tom’s world, canonically, ends up orbiting Harry. His life quite literally depends on him, Harry is his Horcrux, which also means his death is bound to Harry as well. Even beyond that, Harry remains ever-present by becoming the Master of Death. Everything leads back to Harry, just as everything once began with Voldemort. It’s hardly a stretch, then, to imagine that even his sexuality would collapse inward around Harry.
Tom is no fool; he went to Europe to study dark art and travel. He knew he wouldn't seize power in 18 years. He understood that it would take years and time.Tom is at the age of a grandfather his classmates have children; wives and grandchildren.
tom is very much foolish, and impulsive, and prone to fits of melodrama that leave him worse off than he'd have been if he'd left well enough alone.
this kid can't plan for shit. he failed to anticipate that killing myrtle warren with a giant monster would result in the school where he lives, and wanted to live in over the summer, being shut down.
he's an idiot, but i say that with affection.
fandom does him a disservice by elevating him beyond what he is. he is human, he is flawed. that's what makes him so interesting.
rlly embarrassing when ppl act like topping/bottoming has any bearing on anything beyond how you like to fuck. grow up
you’re like, inches away from asking who’s the man and who’s the woman lol
I love the logic some people have, especially on Twitter, like “Oh but Tom would never bottom in his life.” As if Tom wouldn’t do some things and hasn’t already done plenty of others. And simply being in the position that receives more pleasure during sex doesn’t strike me as one of the worst things imaginable lol. Or the best argument ends up being that Harry would do literally everything, in every scenario, that they refuse to ever let Tom do. Like.. are you sure?
One of my favourite arguments for bottom Tom is "why would Lord fucking Voldemort need to make any effort whatsoever towards his pleasure?" So he has others fuck him
