Finger Over Flame.

Summary: A collection of some of my most gloomy poems about different HP characters, including Snape and your beloved Draco.

Tom Riddle- Vastly Misunderstood

Beautiful Riddle

Misunderstood vastly

Gentle and forgiving

-Yet seen as ghastly.

-.-

Walks so silently

Past the graves

Wishing his name

Was engraved.

-.-

In school he was brilliant

Teachers called him 'charming'

He was not seen as daring

Or alarming.

-.-

Beautiful Riddle

Studied all alone

No interest in hurting people

Was ever shown.

-.-

But it soon was too much

For young Tom

Living in an orphanage

Never a place

To say he came from.

-.-

And without any mates

To play Quidditch with

Or any dates

And no first kiss.

-.-

Riddle was strange

His peers began to sense it

They played tricks and games

Tom was tormented.

-.-

Riddle tried to hide his pain

But when he heard news of his dad-

That Mr. Riddle was alive, had left Tom's mother to die,

This was when things turned bad.

-.-

His sanity slowly cracking,

There came a day when Tom came to break

He read about dark magic

And set loose a giant snake.

-.-

The rest is history

But when you remember the Lord

Please don't think of a pale twisted face

Or a sneer on lips of serpent-like grace.

-.-

Think of beautiful Riddle

The boy disturbed and darkened so

That he left his intellectual mind behind

Smiled crazily, and let his sanity go.