Hollow Thunder, Vital Lightning

Spicing Things Up

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle

Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Action/Adventure

Summary: Life after Voldemort is ideal and perfect for everyone except the one who made it possible. Unbelievably bored and unhappy, Harry performs a spell that will take him to an alternate universe where he can be happiest with Voldemort. Even he hadn't expected the outcomes or how the spell would misinterpret his desires.

Warnings: slash; AU; Slytherin!Harry; Dark!Harry (sorta)...and another one I took out that you will have to figure out for yourself; it's kind of crucial to the plot so I can't tell you!

Spoilers: Compliant with first five books and includes information from six and seven.

Disclaimer: Let me go over this one more time for the people who have obviously not caught on—my name: Aariya, NOT J.K. Rowling.

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"HTVL" - English, or other human languages

HTVL - Thoughts, Spells, Special Text (titles and such)

"HTVL" - Parseltongue, Incanted Spells, or a language within a language

HTVL - Parselmagic (spells and the language in writing)

Chapter 5: Spicing Things Up

It was already the next Sunday and Hadrian had been working hard to befriend practically everyone. He was making a lot of contacts and his popularity was increasing. It had paid off since he now had the reputation of being the "nice" Slytherin, though that wasn't necessarily the same within his own House.

They really didn't know what to think of him. While they had heard snippets of his confrontation with Lestrange, they had not witnessed anything further that suggested he was just as cold as the rest of them when he wanted to be. He was closer to them now, though, and he had let them see glimpses of the real him so they knew he wasn't some Hufflepuff in Slytherin clothing.

To the horror of his Housemates, he even had made friends with Gryffindors. They had asked him what the heck he thought he was doing fraternizing with Gryffindors and he had told them politely to mind their own business and that he knew what he was doing. Of course, even they couldn't argue with him when they saw he usually only talked to the very influential or pureblooded ones. Hadrian himself wasn't really differentiating. It just seemed to end up like that because they were the ones who had the most to say to him.

His contact with the Gryffindors helped too because Hadrian had met a Potter that had made him question many things while talking to one of the purebloods he was related to by marriage. His aunt-in-law Melania's nephew, Sebastian MacMillan, was best friends with the Potter he had met one Friday afternoon in the Quidditch pitch.

Hadrian was outside on the Quidditch pitch tinkering with his Firebolt so he could use it for the tryouts and games. He was trying to make sure he could use his Firebolt without people questioning where he had gotten it from and so it wouldn't be too fast for the slow brooms in this timeline.

One of the things he could do with his Shadows was not only wrap it around himself and hide his appearance, presence, scent, and magic but he could also do it with an object or person of his choosing. What he had to do with his Firebolt, though, was not only hide most of its magic but also give it the appearance of a normal broom of this time and slow it down.

He had looked through the Quidditch books in the library and found the latest model and some spells that would help him. With this, he was slowing it down until it was just right and putting a glamour on it to make it appear just like the Comet 180. After doing this, he would have to wrap his Shadows around it temporarily to hide the magic so it would pass inspection before the games. He had made it slower but he hadn't done it too much because he would certainly go crazy with how slow they were.