#Voldemort knows Harry is a horcrux

[awyeahitssam]

He is not at the Dursleys. Harry knows this before he opens his eyes. He has the peculiar, chemical stench of his secondhand mattress memorised, and there are no springs digging into his back or ribs. In fact, the surface he's laying on is plush and warm against the lax muscles of his back, and there is a gentle weight pressing him into it, so incredibly disparate from the normal roughness of a sheet skating across his skin.

Harry should open his eyes and investigate what in the bloody hell is going on, but he’s comfortable and oddly content. Maybe it's a spell, or maybe it's the smell, citrus mixed with spice and a wood-burning fire. Harry wants to hum and nuzzle into his surroundings, but he doesn't want to give away any signs of being awake and be forced from the softness he's found himself enveloped in. He’s not alone, after all.

He stays still for a long, long time, before giving into temptation and allowing his fingertips to shift enough under the—blanket?—to feel the material. It's ridiculously soft, and Harry has nothing to compare it to; he's never felt such fabric in his life. Even his dress robes for the Yule Ball hadn't been made of such fine material.

Wonder if I can stay, he thinks hazily, instead of more important things, like where he is.

Harry keeps his breathing calm and even, which is easy because he isn't panicked, although he ought to be. He knows he'd gone to bed at Privet Drive, and he knows that he's no longer at Privet Drive. He knows who is in the room with him, knows his presence like the back of his hand, yet his scar is even playing nicely.

He wasn't in pain; he was so obscenely comfortable. Voldemort was being surprisingly not-awful, as well, was allowing Harry the pretense of sleep, and so Harry kept his eyes closed and his muscles lax, ignoring the gaze on him that weighed far more than the blanket.

There is a long period of peace. Harry doesn't know if it is twenty minutes or hours, and he doesn't really care. He isn't dozing, but he's not really thinking, either. He's… feeling. Existing. Savouring.

“Harry,” Voldemort eventually says.

“Voldemort,” he returns through a dry throat. There is a sound, a soft rustle.

“Look at me,” says Voldemort, and Harry turns his back on where he knows the man is with a sigh.

“Don't want to,” he says. Then, after a beat, “Can I have some water?”

He doesn't say before you kill me. It's implied.

A soft sound of—something. “Sit up.”

Harry doesn't.

“Potter,” the first touch of annoyance, of discomfort, ah. So familiar. So unwelcome in the warm utopia he’s found himself in, but it's enough to get Harry to move. He spreads his hands against the sheets with a hum at the glide of the fabric, pushing himself upright. He opens his eyes, and the room is dimmer than he'd expected. He blinks a few times, because his eyes aren't blurry and that's odd, his glasses prescription has never been so keen; but he isn't wearing glasses. He's just… seeing.

Seeing the desk across the room, stacked with books, through eyes sharp enough to read the titles on the spines. Seeing a glass of water, floating patiently at the edge of the bed, within reach. Seeing Voldemort sitting, watching, from a nearby chair, abandoned book resting in his lap, yew wand not visible.

Harry decides not to question it. Not yet.

He reaches for the glass of water and takes a sip, then drinks from it deeply. He's incredibly thirsty. When was the last time he'd managed to get water? From the garden hose, two days ago?

Harry is done, but the water fills up, and Harry drinks again. He stops after too much self-indulgence, the water sloshing in his stomach heavily when he turns to more fully face Voldemort, leaning back against the cushioned headboard.

“Thanks,” he says, looking at the man's lack of nose, his sharp cheekbones, his book. He doesn't really care for his mind to be torn open, here. He's never known such peace in his life; it wouldn't do for the—morning?—to be ruined so swiftly.

Voldemort’s hand stills where it's been tracing the edge of pages. “You're… welcome.”

Harry can feel the man's absolute focus. It's unwelcome, but this is how Voldemort has always looked at him, and at least Harry’s well rested this time.

“You're very calm,” continues Voldemort after a moment, sounding almost accusatory. Harry feels his lips curl up, a bit, at his suspicion.

“You haven't tried to kill me yet,” he returns. Voldemort would have been the one to order him placed in this very nice bed. He could have ordered Harry placed in the dungeons, yet here they were. Harry let his hands trace over the fabrics around him curiously as he watches Voldemort watch him.

“You'll find I no longer wish to kill you, Harry Potter,” says the Dark Lord that has been hunting him since Severus Snape relayed half of a useless prophecy. “I've a vested interest in… keeping you safe.”

Ah.

“Okay,” he agrees, even as his mind starts turning turbulently. He grips into the blanket still covering his legs in an attempt to ground himself. “That sounds… believable.”

Voldemort frowns. “You are in shock,” he states definitively. “Let us dine together. I’m sure you'll find your questions shortly.”

What if Voldemort kidnaps Harry after finding out he's a horcrux and decides to keep him safe but Instead of Harry freaking out and trying to escape, he's just like "oh boy, a vacation🤗. Three meals a day🤨 its just like hogwarts, except no one's trying to kill me😋."

[iamnmbr3]

So it’s kind of implied that the accidental part of Harry and Voldemort’s connection is one sided - i.e. that they’re both connected but only Harry gets flashes of Voldemort’s life without actively trying to go into his mind but not the other way around. But imagine if it was both ways and Voldemort who has so long been cut off from humanity and from normal mortal life sometimes randomly got to experience Harry going about his daily business and doing normal things like eating and talking to people and feeling the sun.

[myokk]

In honor of waking up to see that my two favorite fanfics updated (what are the odds when they update like once every few months🥹🙏) I had to draw my favorite snake🐍

This is How You Lose the Time War - fleabagshair

Blood and Gold - @obsidianpen

[starchaserdreams]

Regulus Black could have been the main character of Harry Potter if Rowling weren't a coward

I mean think about it. He was the only person in the 70s/80s who knew about the horcruxes the dark lord was making

He was the only person who knew how to take down the series' main villain and she made him an afterthought with a poorly fleshed out story

He could have been *everything*

[moonsstan]

We were singing this song in english class today and all i could think is that the song is really regulus and pandora while trying to destroy the horcrux 😔

[strawberrybyers]

now do i believe that because will was kept alive and still has a connection with the mindflayer that there’s a chance he will be used as a pawn like in s2 but more intensely and could be viewed as a “villain”? well, yes. i think the chance a character who is still connected with the villain for a reason we don’t know has a very high possibility of “playing both sides”. remember mike said will can be like a spy?? a spy can play the role of the enemy but not to help the enemy but to create an illusion in order to fully dismantle the enemy’s plans.

now do i think the show will end with will dead or being taken by the upside down to be doomed to an eternity of evilness? um, no. i don’t think will will be a villain in a way that most are thinking. the mindflayer has had a plan with will and there’s a reason for it, but i don’t believe for a second that the show will end with will dying or that he’ll become fully evil. i believe it’s like a harry potter and voldemort situation. voldemort had different horcruxes and harry was one of them. voldemort tried to kill harry, but it didn’t work so harry pretended to be dead in order to fight voldemort and kill him which killed the bond that they had. i think it’s going to be a very similar thing between the mindflayer and will.

[moderndayamymarch]

side eyeing the person who said there are parallels between regulus black and tom riddle. and I just don’t see it?

regulus is the favorite younger son of an old-money wizarding family. who easily and enthusiastically subscribed to the family beliefs in wizard-nazism until having a moment of conscious based on his connection with the family house elf.

tom riddle (while his mother comes from a noble, old house) isn’t raised in that world. he grows up poor in a muggle orphanage with no familial love/support. not to mention his family had by that time lost all their money/respectability. riddle is also not as easily led and based on context clues, much more charming and intelligent (sorry regulus fans). unlike regulus though, he displays 1. no conscious and 2. no genuine connection to anyone. regulus is able to do a brave and selfless act because of his love for kreacher. and most importantly, regulus is able to do the one thing riddle is scared of most: die. regulus willingly sacrifices himself to try to destroy the locket.

I think it’s more interesting that regulus has no parallel’s to riddle, yet he was the only person aside from dumbledore that was able to figure out that riddle was using horcruxes (slughorn doesn’t count because riddle all but told him).

anyway, riddle’s parallels are to harry, dumbledore, and snape. to me those four and their connection are kinda the heart of the story.

[sk1fanfiction]

Maybe controversial opinion but I think Hinny would be better and more well loved if it was less 'best friend's sister/brother's best friend' and more about 'trauma bonding due to being personally victimized/having a personal connection to Voldemort'

[lets-talk-ships]

WHAT IF

The reason Voldy was so adamant on killing Harry himself was because it would make him immortal. There is this headcanon, right, that killing V made Harry immortal since according to the prophecy Harry could only die by V's hand. What if Voldemort thinking on this line of thought decided that if kills Harry himself, he will be immortal regardless of his horcruxes being destroyed or not. He could have thought better not to keep all my eggs in the same basket.

[wparker6804]

I just realised.... someone at some point is going to breathe that in...

[faithfulcat111]

Me, earlier and sick reopening my notes app: Oh, I have a Harry Potter fic idea in here. What AU idea did I have here?

Me, now: Well, sorry Voldemort, you aren't rising again and Dumbledore, you are fired!

[predatoryseasnail]

The Origin of a Name

So we all know that Tom's nickname name translates to "flight of death" in French.

Which is ironic because he fancied himself immortal, having made his Horcruxes. And it was a nickname he received/made not long after Hogwarts, i.e. not long after he made his first Horcrux and believed himself immortal (He just didn't use it openly until a decade later).

So little Tom was doodling with his name, trying to make something that was in no way reminding of his Muggle heritage, and also remembering the French he glanced at when he learned that it was sort of a "pure-blood" language tradition.

And little Tom, believing himself to be newly immortal, stumbles upon an anagram , a smush of vol-de-mort that means death flies. He sees it as fate, that death flies from him because he is just that powerful as a student.

And he needs to be seen as noble, that he is descended from pure blood, that as a descendant of Slytherin he is the true lord of darkness.

And thus, the name Lord Voldemort was born.

[nidamae-approvedhpfanfics]

In third year, Harry decided to quit Divination, following Hermione. Having to take a substitute course, he end up choosing Ancient Runes and find himself to be quite gifted. Smart Harry. Slightly manipulative.

Rated M for later subjects and language.

Harry Potter, M, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 18, words: 145k+, favs: 20k+, follows: 8k+, updated: Dec 30, 2009 published: May 21, 2009, Harry P., Luna L.

My Review:

This completed story spans years 3 - 6 with a brief end of life bit that's as unique as the whole of the story. Don't miss out on this gem.

Fast paced and engaging, it doesn't feel as long as it is.

[ivory--raven]

What does Lord Voldemort want?

Well, immortality. And not just immortality - if living forever was the only point he would've done as Harry suggested and make his horcrux a pebble and tossed it into the Channel - but immortality in the flashiest, most dramatic way he can think of. Seven horcruxes, in the most historically significant vessels Hogwarts has to offer. Voldemort doesn't actually seem to care much for world domination - he's focused on Britain - and within Britain he cares most about Hogwarts. The only place he felt at home, according to Dumbledore. On a personal level, by choosing the vessels he did, he's connecting himself with the Founders, with the school. It's also very much a statement, though not one necessarily intended to be understood - "I am more powerful than anyone else who would lay claim to these, threatening me is threatening Hogwarts and the lagacies of its Founders." If anyone does get close enough to destroying Voldemort to know what his horcruxes are, this is the message they receive. In order to kill Voldemort, the artifacts had to be destroyed.

The "threatening me is threatening Hogwarts" undertones feel significant. That's the attitude of an autocrat. When Charles Taylor (ex-President of Liberia who is currently in prison for war crimes) was faced with the prospect of losing power, he threatened that the country would suffer "murder, mayhem, and rape" (source: documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell) without him. During the 2nd Liberian civil war during which Taylor was fighting with LURD, there was murder, mayhem, and rape of civilians by both sides. This was the war Leymah Gbowee famously started her movement for peace in.

So when Voldemort makes his flashy choice, his dramatic method of securing immortality... he's trying to secure his power at the same time.

[tributes-vamps-and-ginnyweasley]

Why is there never Ginny Weasley anything? I've seen dozens of Harry Potter ornaments with a lot of range for which characters are included.

But never Ginny Weasley.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

I really dislike the 'Bellatrix/Voldemort' ship, it reinforces a depressingly common misogynistic attitude/suspicion: namely, that a woman in a position of power must be in a sexual relationship with her superior.