If you cannot find any nice stories, you write them yourself.

(or something like that, said by some fancy well-known writer)


The Child of Dark and Light

In his last moments, before the green curse reached him, the last shred of humanity that had managed to survive in his sinful body called out to all the other pieces of his soul. All the pieces answered the call coming back from the world beyond to join with this last piece, so that at least in death he would once again be whole.

Some may be surprised that there were not only 7 pieces, those resulting from his horcruxes, returning. Because among these ripped pieces of soul returning there was one additional piece, so much brighter than all the other pieces. This piece held something of eternal value.

This bright piece had been lost long before Tom Marvolo Riddle made his horcruxes, long before he joined Hogwarts. It was not lost by his own choice. This precious last – or first – piece contained all of Tom's ability for positive emotion, his capability to feel happiness, gladness and friendship. It had been ripped out of a very young Tom through the most brutal circumstances possible.

Thus, in the last moment before death Lord Voldemort became human again, something he had not been since he was a little child.


When Tom's soul was to be judged by the powers beyond, it was decided that to doom the bright young piece of his soul to eternity in the deepest hell, together with the deserving rest of his soul, would be unjust. However it would be even crueller to rip the soul once again, when it had so recently been completed, so that the bright piece could join the light and the rest of the soul be sent to hell.

Therefore the soul of Tom was gifted a new chance at life. At the end of this new life his soul would be weighted, and then banished into the Dark or welcomed into the Light.


On a dark patch in Mirkwood, deep burgundy eyes opened.