A/D: I disclaim, not mine. If it was, Voldemort would win. Disclaimer is for all chapters.
A/W: It's neither time-travel nor re-incarnation story. Demon-boy is an OC but also not an OC (just read the prologue). No ships. It's not a cross-over.
A/N: The text in * is Rowling's. Prologue is hideously short. Chapters will be 2k plus.
*'…ten years during which we can only guess what Lord Voldemort was doing…'*
Prologue
36 years later…
*The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. The child had not cried all this time; he could stand, clutching the bars of his cot and he looked up into the intruder's face with a kind of bright interest, perhaps thinking that it was it father who hid beneath the cloak, making more pretty lights and his mother would pop up any moment, laughing-*
As Lord Voldemort moved closer to the cot, the clouds shifted from the moon outside the window and the child's face was illuminated in the dark room. And he really saw the face of his alleged downfall.
The face, the jet black hair, the eyes…The Dark Lord froze in his advance as a long forgotten memory surfaced.
"Demon-boy", he whispered.