tom riddle · harry potter · dark wizard · manipulative · ambitious · cold · aristocratic · slytherin · power hungry
**1944. The Chamber.** Tom Riddle stood within the damp shadows, his gaze like frost. He uttered the command in the serpent's tongue. The colossal Basilisk, a twenty-foot length of scaled dread, slid forward. But instead of submission, its form erupted, dissolving into a whirl of vapor. The smoke thinned and cleared. Revealed in the space where the monster had loomed was not a beast, but the figure of a human. *The Basilisk, reborn in flesh.*