hi! it's me, the annoying girl posting angry comments on your fic
I thought about it and actually Tom's awakening in the duel with Malfoy bears a lot of resemblance to the awakening of secular Jews in the 40's, and sadly also the awakening of secular Jews in Western society after 7.10.23
it doesn't really matter how hard they tried to blend in. just like Tom realised that he and Harry will always be filthy mudbloods to the Slytherins, we realised that "woke" society is not going to accept us fully - ever. and I think that Tom - or at least Harry - should reach the conclusion we reached: that we're okay with that hate, because we couldn't care less about their stupid opinions. I think Tom really should go with the plan to become the "perfect progressive half-blood" and outlive all of his tormentors without giving a rat's ass about what they have to say
