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    Someone keeps breaking into Tom Riddle’s flat.

    Every trap he sets is dismantled with ease. Beside each one, a snarky note.

    Somehow it becomes the most entertaining game Tom has played in years. And he would like to know – very badly – just who he’s playing with.

    a.k.a. Undersecretary Tom is being stalked in his own home by Master of Death Harry.

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    13 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, Harry Potter performs an ancient mourning ritual meant to sever “grievous bodily attachments that burden the body and muddle the mind.”

    It works.

    Unfortunately, Harry doesn’t do a word-for-word translation of the text. It also doesn’t help that the thing he mourns most is himself.

    Death, unwilling to keep him and unable to release him, sends him elsewhere instead—Wool's Orphanage. Summer, 1943.

    Where Tom Riddle is sixteen years old and already becoming something terrible.

    And Harry is far too tired to stop him.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Trelawney whispered a different prophecy. Because of it, Harry Potter was allowed to live.

    He started his seventh year, the way he always had: as a half-blood Gryffindor, an orphan of Godric’s Hollow and the social leper of Hogwarts.

    Two things told Harry it would be an interesting semester: first, the Dark Lord would visit Hogwarts; second, they had a new defense professor, who moved with precision and power and spoke as if he was used to people hanging onto his every word.

    The man made Harry’s stomach squirm.

    And he called himself Marvolo Gaunt.

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    12 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 62

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    Life. Soul. Magic.
    A trinity binding all that is precious.
    And yet it all falls apart before the ultimate master - Death.
    As a child, Tom is fascinated by death, but bound by religious teachings and Scripture, he can only explore the mysteries of life and soul. Upon discovering the realm of magic, his entire worldview shifts.

    What happens to magic when wizards die?

    Tom will find out.
    And when he does, none of the dead will rest.

    Or: Tom discovers that dead witches and wizards retain a residue of their magic, and sets out to harvest it. In time, he learns to succeed, but along the way encounters someone who may unravel his plans - someone curious, bold and disturbingly alive, someone who awakens urges Tom has long feared to feel.

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    11 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    The wedding is over before it begins.

    Now Penny and Sheldon are trapped together in a car crossing the desert at sunset, unpacking years of unresolved feelings, uncomfortable truths, and the increasingly alarming realization that Leonard Hofstadter may actually kind of suck.

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    31 May 2026