Animo Grindelwald has been raised for one purpose: to defeat her brother. After being sent hurtling through time, Animo has grown up hidden within the walls of Hogwarts. Her only companion is Albus Dumbledore, with whom she shares a painful past. Yet when Albus approaches her with a mission to return to the past, Animo knows she must go. To 1944. Before Gellert has been defeated. And when Tom Riddle is still a student at Hogwarts. Confronted with the challenge to change the path of both wizards, Animo struggles to stay adrift. Who is she, really? And how will she handle her growing attachment to one of the world's darkest characters? After all, Tom Riddle and Voldemort are not yet the same.

"To some, a monster, and to others, a leader. Either way, I became god." "Did you really? Do you think God becomes trapped?" Having just earned your doctorate, you decide to work in the Azkaban Secure Facility for the Criminally Insane. There, you encounter inmate Tom Riddle, who is completely delusional, and is under the devastatingly incorrect impression he is a wizard called Lord Voldemort. From there, your life begins to spiral out of control as you learn more and more about Tom's world, until you become a part of it. Perhaps Tom hadn't been so delusional after all. In some way, you and he were the same kind of monster. - A/N: Thank you for all the love! This story gets a lot of parallels to the Joker and Harley Quinn, as well as to Shutter Island, but that was completely unintentional. This fic is actually inspired by NBC's Hannibal - particularly the relationship between Will Graham and Matthew Brown.

"All I wished for was to not be a Slytherin. Pure blood supremacy was woven into the material of those jade coloured ties and I would rather strangle myself with one than wear it." After returning from her time spent on the run, Lyra, unruly, sarcastic and sardonic, is sent to Hogwarts In hope it will keep her out of trouble and help her fulfil the future her pureblood parents have planned for her. She is determined not to fall into the pure blood, blood supremacy trap and is set on never marrying a Pureblood or succumbing to their dark, immoral ways. That is until she meets one particular blonde, who will change her insular life as she knows it. And with the war slowing looming will she choose her Family or her beliefs? •started 28th of December 2020•