ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇʀᴘᴇɴᴛ | ᴛᴏᴍ ᴍᴀʀᴠᴏʟᴏ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ

1943.
The wizarding world is at war.

As Grindelwald's influence spreads and Europe falls deeper into chaos, eighteen-year-old Tom Riddle is quietly becoming the kind of person history will remember.

Brilliant. Charismatic. Ambitious.

And already hiding something far darker beneath the surface.

Then an ancient magic older than Hogwarts itself binds him to Kaidana - a girl who was never supposed to exist in his story.

She is compassionate where he is ruthless. Defiant where he expects obedience. A reminder of everything he believes makes people weak.

But she is also the only person who refuses to believe the mask he wears.

The only person who looks at Tom Riddle and sees the boy beneath the monster he is becoming.

A prophecy claims they are bound together.

A series of visions suggests their connection will end in ruin.

And as Hogwarts is consumed by disappearances, forgotten magic awakens, and a mysterious illness spreads through a world already fractured by war, Tom and Kaidana are forced to uncover a truth neither of them wants to face:

Someone is tampering with fate.

Because destiny never accounted for Tom Riddle's refusal to accept death.

And it never accounted for a girl who would rather rewrite the future than surrender to it.

In a world ruled by fear, power, and prejudice... emotion may be the most dangerous magic of all.