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April 17, 2022
what a waste of gorgeous cover
April 23, 2023
Word Count: 135,098
Chapters: 42
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
A time travel Tomione. I haven't read one in ages and this was great. Really liked the plot, the undertones of panic and determination, all the friendships and family she discovered. Tom was tempered by Hermione and they were perfect together but that plot twist at the end. I saw it coming but was still sad. The epilogue made everything better but he missed so much. I wanted more of them together.
Chapters: 42
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
A time travel Tomione. I haven't read one in ages and this was great. Really liked the plot, the undertones of panic and determination, all the friendships and family she discovered. Tom was tempered by Hermione and they were perfect together but that plot twist at the end. I saw it coming but was still sad. The epilogue made everything better but he missed so much. I wanted more of them together.
January 10, 2026
It had potential, but I felt that it fell flat in most aspects. I was actually most invested in the OC character that becomes a prevalent warmth towards the end. (Not naming any names, so as not to spoil anything, but will clarify, it’s a platonic OC!)
I found it hard to actually believe that Tom and Mione loved each other much at all, the romance between them was fairly nonexistent. And the way the stuff to do with ‘Voldemort’ was vague and kind of anticlimactic.
Don’t get je started in the random obliviate plot that gets thrown in at the end. It made no sense, there were so many other ways you could have solved it. Anyway, hugely underwhelming ending.
It was alright, I guess.
I found it hard to actually believe that Tom and Mione loved each other much at all, the romance between them was fairly nonexistent. And the way the stuff to do with ‘Voldemort’ was vague and kind of anticlimactic.
Don’t get je started in the random obliviate plot that gets thrown in at the end. It made no sense, there were so many other ways you could have solved it. Anyway, hugely underwhelming ending.
It was alright, I guess.
April 18, 2025
“Not all Slytherins are evil, just like not all Gryffindors are good.”
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I was completely pulled into this fic 🖤
Seeing Tom at the orphanage as a child was heartbreaking. The way he’s treated – isolated, unloved, seen as strange – makes it so clear why he grew to resent Muggles and crave control. It doesn’t excuse what he becomes, but it makes it make sense.
Hermione being the same age and stuck in that same environment created such a sharp contrast, especially when Dumbledore enters. His immediate judgment of her, assuming she’s a thief, a problem and dangerous, was so well written. It makes you question how much of Tom’s fall was because of neglect from people who should’ve known better. Hermione starts to see that too, and watching her piece it together was so satisfying.
The story also shines a light on Pureblood culture –not in the usual elitist way, but showing how trapped those kids are. It made me think that muggleborns and half-bloods probably have more freedom than those born into that world.
And then there’s Tom and Hermione. That moment when Renshaw looks into Tom’s mind and sees how highly he thinks of her, how he’d never part with her, how he even considered turning them both into vampires so they’d never die and could stay together forever? It was tragically romantic. So Tom. Power and love, twisted together in the most beautiful way.
This story made me think, it made me feel and it made me question the characters I thought I understood.
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Favourite Quotes:
“The children of Pureblood families were little more than puppets in their parents’ eyes, to be used for their own selfish purposes.”
“He was a Slytherin, after all—he always found a way to get what he wanted.”
“She found that, much to her delight, Tom was almost just as fast as her at reading. Not only that, but she found it thoroughly enjoyable to just read in silence with him. There weren’t a lot of people she could make such a claim about.”
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I was completely pulled into this fic 🖤
Seeing Tom at the orphanage as a child was heartbreaking. The way he’s treated – isolated, unloved, seen as strange – makes it so clear why he grew to resent Muggles and crave control. It doesn’t excuse what he becomes, but it makes it make sense.
Hermione being the same age and stuck in that same environment created such a sharp contrast, especially when Dumbledore enters. His immediate judgment of her, assuming she’s a thief, a problem and dangerous, was so well written. It makes you question how much of Tom’s fall was because of neglect from people who should’ve known better. Hermione starts to see that too, and watching her piece it together was so satisfying.
The story also shines a light on Pureblood culture –not in the usual elitist way, but showing how trapped those kids are. It made me think that muggleborns and half-bloods probably have more freedom than those born into that world.
And then there’s Tom and Hermione. That moment when Renshaw looks into Tom’s mind and sees how highly he thinks of her, how he’d never part with her, how he even considered turning them both into vampires so they’d never die and could stay together forever? It was tragically romantic. So Tom. Power and love, twisted together in the most beautiful way.
This story made me think, it made me feel and it made me question the characters I thought I understood.
⸻
Favourite Quotes:
“The children of Pureblood families were little more than puppets in their parents’ eyes, to be used for their own selfish purposes.”
“He was a Slytherin, after all—he always found a way to get what he wanted.”
“She found that, much to her delight, Tom was almost just as fast as her at reading. Not only that, but she found it thoroughly enjoyable to just read in silence with him. There weren’t a lot of people she could make such a claim about.”
June 20, 2023
5 stars
Dramione and Tomione fanfic writers are honestly doing the work of god. I think I might have enjoyed this book more than the actual Deathly Hollows book.
Overall, I loved the relationship that Hermione had with Tom. It was really interesting to watch her formative years with Tom, when in the back of my mind I could tell that Tom was up to some shady stuff when she wasn’t around.
I loved the relationship between Hermione, Druelle, Cygnus and Abraxas. And I don’t know where this headcanon originated from, but I really love to think of Draco’s great grandfather as a flirt.
I’m really sad that Cygnus turned out the way that he did and I’m so happy that the author tried to show that on Hogwarts, both Gryffindors and Slytherins were in the right, when from Harry’s pov, most of the gryffindor pranks on FIRST YEARS seems entirely justified, especially when it comes to his son (*James Sirius Potter*).
Also, the ENDING GUYS?
That was amazing.
Dramione and Tomione fanfic writers are honestly doing the work of god. I think I might have enjoyed this book more than the actual Deathly Hollows book.
Overall, I loved the relationship that Hermione had with Tom. It was really interesting to watch her formative years with Tom, when in the back of my mind I could tell that Tom was up to some shady stuff when she wasn’t around.
I loved the relationship between Hermione, Druelle, Cygnus and Abraxas. And I don’t know where this headcanon originated from, but I really love to think of Draco’s great grandfather as a flirt.
I’m really sad that Cygnus turned out the way that he did and I’m so happy that the author tried to show that on Hogwarts, both Gryffindors and Slytherins were in the right, when from Harry’s pov, most of the gryffindor pranks on FIRST YEARS seems entirely justified, especially when it comes to his son (*James Sirius Potter*).
Also, the ENDING GUYS?
That was amazing.
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July 2, 2023
pros
- author knows grammar
cons
- super unbelievable. like tom just warms up to hermione instantly? more time should've been spent developing their friendship & we should've seen hermione be conflicted over having to play nice with young hitler.
- ?? why did dumbledore single out hermione? i'll let this one go if this is like that one sirius x hermione fic where future!hermione seeks out dumbledore and tells him to do this but since the og timeline is gone that'd make 0 sense.
- the story is so juvenile ugh i can't handle the whiplash of hp fics being misery porn (manacled) then dumb romcom bullshit (something something draco malfoy and the mortifying ordeal of love) and then shit like this. there's no feeling to the writing and it's just soulless
- author knows grammar
cons
- super unbelievable. like tom just warms up to hermione instantly? more time should've been spent developing their friendship & we should've seen hermione be conflicted over having to play nice with young hitler.
- ?? why did dumbledore single out hermione? i'll let this one go if this is like that one sirius x hermione fic where future!hermione seeks out dumbledore and tells him to do this but since the og timeline is gone that'd make 0 sense.
- the story is so juvenile ugh i can't handle the whiplash of hp fics being misery porn (manacled) then dumb romcom bullshit (something something draco malfoy and the mortifying ordeal of love) and then shit like this. there's no feeling to the writing and it's just soulless
January 14, 2026
It was fine, though I felt it was sorely lacking in any real intimacy between Tom and Hermione. It was a fairly low stakes fic, which I appreciate because lately my anxiety has been causing me to DNF fics when there’s tension.
The ending was godawful and I beg them to revise. You’re telling me that after all of that, the ONLY option Hermione had was to obliviate this man? She didn’t even try anything else, and then she raises his children without his knowledge for 11 years. And then he’s super chill about it all? With his history? Back to the drawing board, I am BEGGING you.
The ending was godawful and I beg them to revise. You’re telling me that after all of that, the ONLY option Hermione had was to obliviate this man? She didn’t even try anything else, and then she raises his children without his knowledge for 11 years. And then he’s super chill about it all? With his history? Back to the drawing board, I am BEGGING you.
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January 9, 2024
I liked everything except the first and last chapters. The beginning and end of the book just didn’t fit with the rest due to what felt like awkward reasoning and cop outs. But the rest of the story was pretty great.
March 10, 2024
5 stars even though i didn’t like the ending ༽◺_◿༼
November 2, 2025
I loved it until the last few chapters.
Gosh and all those years… no i can’t. I cried. I don’t like the ending.
Gosh and all those years… no i can’t. I cried. I don’t like the ending.
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