In His Darkest Image ── Tom Riddle.

"HE THOUGHT HE WAS ALONE.
BUT IN HIS DARKEST IMAGE,
SHE WAS ALREADY THERE."

In 1943, Hogwarts receives a transfer student from Koldovstoretz, the oldest and most obscure school of magic in Eastern Europe.

Her name is Alevtina Vasiliyevna Koldova ── pure-blood, heir to the founder Vasiliyzia Koldova, and a direct descendant of one of the school's four original houses. Raised under the tutelage of cold and severe parents, Merope was shaped to command, not to adapt.

Trained in ancient rituals and raw magic, based on blood, silence, and control, she had already reached a quiet position of power within Koldovstoretz, manipulating groups of students, building alliances, creating influence.

But Russia was too small. And now, her eyes are set on the West.

Alevtina transfers to Hogwarts with a single purpose: to expand. She didn't come to learn. She came to observe, conquer, and dominate ── slowly, like one who poisons a well.

It is there that she meets Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Another prodigy, an orphan, another threat. The two share the same vision of the future. A new wizarding world, built on pure blood and absolute control.

But there is only room for one at the top.

Between rivalry, tense silences, veiled control, and strategic distrust, an inevitable tension arises. Enemies to something else. Perhaps power. Perhaps ruin. Perhaps both.