Uprising

by The Rose in Death's Garden

AU. Tom Riddle Junior is the DADA professor at Hogwarts when the Purebloods unite to fight the Ministry under the leadership of Dark Lady Bellatrix.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter. It belongs to JK Rowling.

title: Uprising
by: The Rose in Death's Garden
written for: The HPFC Rebirth of the Daily Weird Prompt Thing (Day 20)
prompt: professor!Tom AU

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Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons were more essential at a time like this than they ever had been before. Learning Occlumency was especially important for the students, so much so that Dumbledore had taken over the teaching of that particular art, leaving Professor Riddle to concentrate on the more physical defenses during his classes.

The Pureblood Uprising would have been difficult to quell under normal circumstances, but now they were united under a particularly fearless leader. The Dark Lady was skilled at hand-to-hand combat as well as a master duelist and accomplished Legilimens.

And to think she had once been a teacher's pet among most of the staff of this very school. Only Tom had ever been suspicious of her, and Dumbledore had dismissed his concerns as prejudice against Purebloods which Tom had picked up secondhand in his own student days from his Gryffindor housemates.