Gospel Of The Damned

Some tragedies don't start with a war...
They start with a secret whispered in a dark room.

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Evangeline Avalanche grew up surrounded by the opulence of the most favored pureblood families in the wizarding world. She spent her first four years of school easily acing classes, observing the social world and its flaws, and unwinding in the closeness of plants. When the school decides to change their system and she ends up surrounded by Slytherins, particularly ones who match her wit for wit, charm for charm, she realizes she has been blind to the possibilities all along.

Tom Riddle knows what he wants, and exactly how to get. All he has to do now is wait. Acting on one piece of the puzzle at a time, he decides he needs to form a group of followers who can not only do his dirty work but supply him with protection, wealth, and the false identity of friends. When he meets a Hufflepuff packing more cunning that he expected, he's curious... and worried. He decides to find out if this girl is a threat, or an asset.

Neither know what they're getting themselves into. Neither know what the next three years and beyond will be like. But they know what they want, and they know they have use for each other. To people like them, that's all that matters.