Title: Pen Pal
Author: Nekoanima
Summery: What if Harry had a pen pal as a child another boy who was all alone. Harry makes friends with the young Tom Riddle as their letters bounce through time to the one they needed the most.
DISCLAIMER!: I own nothing or Harry never would have ended up with Ginny.
Hi Harry,
I received a letter of my own, I have been invited to attend a boarding school this fall. I will try to keep writing to you while I am gone.
Tom
A new school would be good for Tom, he was sure that his friend would love it , to be able to escape the orphanage for most of the year. But at the same time he felt bad. Harry knew it was selfish of him to want Tom to turn down the chance. He perked himself up, it wasn't right to want to keep Tom to himself. Brushing away his previous feelings he allowed himself to be completely happy for Tom.
Hearing the sound of his door being unlocked he hid Tom's letter in his pillowcase.
"boy come down an make dinner."
"yes Uncle." With that the large man watched with his beady pig-like eyes as the petite boy submissively began his trek to the kitchen. The boy was nothing but a burdon to his family, albeit a useful one. His wife never had to cook or clean, his family was always fed and they never had to buy him anything. The only thing that caused a dark cloud over his family was that boy's freakish powers. Vernon Dursley credited himself as being an intelligent man, the freak's kind were starting to want him back. No matter he thought a good whipping would fix the boy right, make him a decent member of society he would. No one would care how it was done just that it was.
He heard the mail slot click and in the entrance he saw the boy looking hopeful. That wouldn't do at all the boy wasn't going and that was final.
Or it would be if Vernon Dursley had the last say.