#themoonsreachingforme

[haydenrodgers]

Happy birthday!! :)

[thesleepysubwaytrain]

guess it's pretty obvious what i've been doing for the past three days

Me: bring a tumblr, umbrella and jacket for our shift tomorrow!

Anna: you spelled tumbler wrong

[blaineisapizza-blog]

Why is your tag for Tom Riddle "favourite character of all time"? I have nothing against Tom Riddle, he's actually one of my favourites as well, but I was just wondering why he's your favourite out of all the characters out there. :)

i've always loved tom riddle/lord voldemort (i mean, my favorite harry potter books are the chamber of secrets and the half-blood prince). as much as i love the trio and all the other characters, voldemort's character and backstory have always been the most interesting part of the series to me. discovering how he went from tom riddle to voldemort is just so fascinating to me. the way he was brought into this world and how he's seemingly always been evil is just...i have no idea, but i love it. then again, i'm the girl who loves watching murder mysteries and documentaries on famous serial killers, so i'm a bit odd in that sense.

i don't know, i'm horrible at explaining myself, but hopefully, that makes some sort of sense! dkjhaskd.

[onikajeager]

The most perfect group that I'm in on facebook

[batmansymbol]

Hi there! I just read that really long and really brilliant post you made on Tomione and after reading that part about the two tracks (Redemptive and Other), I realized both technically sort-of kind-of end with them still together, in love or otherwise. I was hoping on getting your opinion on another Tomione route that's common in the short-and-not-as-complex fics - after Tom and Hermione fall in love, she disappears and that becomes his motive to become evil and blah. Thoughts? :)

Oh, right! Yeah, that does happen quite a bit. I think it’s an interesting authorial choice, definitely. But it’s not one I’d personally make, and here’s my reasoning:

In canon, Tom’s evilness is driven by things he’s suffered since birth. The abandonment of his parents. A terrible childhood environment, given the state of orphanages in the 40s - and the state of the Muggle world. WWII, hello. It’s realistic that, driven by his fear of death, subjugation as a youth, and his general ambitious nature, he’d turn to an evil quest for immortality and power. So that’s that.

But if he falls in love with Hermione and then she leaves him, I’m not sure whether that would have the same effect. If she dies, then yeah, okay - but if he had any chance of getting her back, and he was TRULY in love, and it was written so that he had the obsessive type of love that only Tom could have were he ever to fall in love … then I don’t think he’d take it out on the world. I think he’d do whatever it took to get her back. He’s a patient guy, you know? Bided his time for eleven years, waiting for a chance to get Harry. Pandered to Hogwarts’ teachers and student body for seven years to get them under his thumb. He will wait if there’s a chance. And if he’s in love with someone, I think he’ll try for them.

Even with that said - I don’t think I’d feel comfortable reading Hermione’s death and Tom turning evil. It makes his evilness too relatable for a character such as Tom Riddle. His evil was always so self-driven - to have it stem from such an outside source as losing a girl seems almost petty in comparison to the utter detestation of the Muggle world and the terror of his own humanity/mortality that we have in canon. And fanfiction should always do its best to live up to canon.

Does that make sense? I hope it does!