Tom Riddle and the Hogwarts Legend
Chapter 1: The Boy Who Ached
Tom Marvolo Riddle is a young boy with the misfortune of being an orphan. He has lived his entire life at the London orphanage. For ordinary people, living eleven years in an orphanage would be enough to break their spirit. For ordinary people, not having any family or friends would overwhelm their heart with sadness. Tom, however, was not like other people, neither the authorities that bossed him around nor the peers that teased him each day.
The teasing did not bother him. Being involved with his peers was not on his short list of his desires. What was the point of their friendship? Petty games and immature jokes were not worth his time. Even worse than the kids, were the authorities parading around the halls. Tom did not appreciate the fake sincerity that the orphanage staff emitted. They did not care about him - he understood that.
No, Tom Riddle did not want to be like the others, he wanted to be different. The desire to be different was so strong that he even hated his own name, Tom, for being too common. He did not want to be common, and he vowed upon himself to never let that happen. But until the day he could become the special being of his dreams, his heart continued to ache for something he could not feel or describe.