Trapped in the Past (Tom Riddle x Reader)

1 - The Fall

September the 1st arrives and you're dying with fear at the idea of meeting the ancestors of people you know and maybe also the younger version of some of them.
You wait in a tower as you watch the carriages with students coming from the forest and the small boats crossing the lake. It's a view you've never seen before, having always travelled on the train and arriving at the castle with the other students.
Dumbledore tells you some last words of encouragement then accompanies you to the Great Hall, where the tables are getting crowded with students.
You wait by the teacher's table in your anonymous clothes as Headmaster Dippet welcomes the students and introduces the Sorting Ceremony.
The first year students walks forward to be sorted, then Dippet introduce you, telling that you're from Beauxbatons, you're starting your sixth year and that you need to be sorted too.
You avoid looking at the crowds of students focusing their attention on you.
Dumbledore smiles at you and places the familiar hat on your head.
The hat whispers nonsense stuff in your ear, then shouts "Ravenclaw!".
You're happy because that is also your original house.
You join your new classmates, tormented by their many questions.
They introduce themselves and you hear just familiar last names, nobody is a future Minister or teacher.
When the dinner ends, prefects lead the way to the the dormitories.
Ellie Goldstein, your peer who's been pretty excited to flood you with gossip, suddenly thrills next to you and points at a tall boy who's making his way through the crowd.
"He's the most gorgeous boy in this school" she says to your ear "The one I've been talking about. Tom Riddle. He's a Slytherin's prefect".
You can barely remember all the things she has been telling you and his name just sounds banal to you.
But his look is not banal to your eyes. His dark hair crowns a pale face, the most beautiful face you've ever seen.
And Ellie is right to be head over heels, as many of the girls in that school.
Pity that he's Slytherin. You hate Slytherins.
And he's a Prefect. And you hate prefects.
Ellie gasps as Tom Riddle himself lays his dark eyes on you and stops.
"Miss Y/N?" even his voice is beautiful and it's so unfair.
You just nod.
"Follow me, please" he turns on his heel and makes a way through the crowd.
Ellie follows you, but he stops her with a hard look "Not you, Goldstein. I'm sure Miss Y/L/N doesn't need a babysitter anymore".
You feel bad for new friend and tell her that you're see her soon, then follows the tall guy to a near room, where he handed you your new uniform.
You wear your robes quickly as he gestures to a pile of books.
"Also your books and supplies arrived. Elves will take them to your new room. If you have questions, ask me or the other prefects".
"Thanks" you say simply and follow him out of the room, where he gestures the last students of your house heading to their dormitories and you follow them.
Being back to your tower makes you happy and you don't need to pretend you're amazed by that place.
After quickly updating Ellie about the little she missed, you join her in a room that she shared with another, less enthusiast girl.
You change into the new pyjamas that you found on the bed and fall asleep, almost hoping to wake up still there, in the past. Because it's cool to live a normal year, and forget for a while the horrors you've seen at Hogwarts and the battle that inevitably will affect it.

A/N

Monday 12th December 2022

Hello everyone! 🤗

I missed Hogwarts so much that I felt the urge to write something new, so here's this new story 💓

I've left this in the drafts for some time, thinking of not developing it further and not publishing it, but now I'd like to give it a try and if you are interested I may continue it 💪

I've written many stories about Tom Riddle, I've published just the latest ones here, but I've never written anything Tom Riddle x Reader yet.

So, here some facts about new story:

This is not going to be accurate. I don't remember all details about the timelines and I'll randomly add characters.

You Reader don't know that Tom Riddle is Voldemort.
Because it's more fun this way 😜

You're pureblood.

You hate Slytherins because you're a member of the Dumbledore's Army and Slytherin is the privileged house protected by the Death Eaters.
(I've always been sorted into Slytherin by the way and proud to be 💚)

You hate prefects because you've always dreamed of getting that title but failed.

In the old Hogwarts the Chamber of Secrets stuff happened in the previous school year, so Myrtle died just few months earlier and in the meanwhile Tom visited his family, murdered them, created his horcrux, ect... But you're not Harry Potter, you know nothing about that 🤫

So I think I added enough details to introduce this story.

If you have any questions or suggestions or even requests of scenes to add to the plot (this is a new work in progress so everything is still possible), please just let me know in the comments 🙏