Tom looked at his diary for a second. He was for the first time in his life unsure if this was right. He shouldn't do it. He knew if Harriet, or better, when Harriet discovered he give it to spy on her she was never going to speak to him again. Not that
she does now. He thought sarcastically to himself.

He was worried. He couldn't think or concentrate on anything. He was absolutely terrified that something could happen to her and she could be lost.

He was so argonaut when he and Lily had decided to go to hiding. He really had thought nothing could defeat him. Them.

He had left his defences down for a second and everything had gone to hell.

He couldn't lose Harriet. Not in a war. Not so young. She hadn't even lived yet.

That dammed cursed pain in his chest tripled at the thought of Lily. He was such a horrible father. He never spoke about to her about her mother. She was fishing information from anyone that could say something about Lily and he,that knew her better than
anyone was keeping the knowledge to himself because it was fucking tearing his existence apart speaking about her.

The diary was the best solution. He couldn't even imagine to what kind of monster he could turn if anything else happened to her again. This girl was a trouble magnet. She was in trouble year after year.

First the thing with the troll in her first year. He was actually ready to go and fetch her back even if she was crying and screaming her throat row and lock her in the manor for ever. It had taken hours of pleading from his Grandmother and his father
and even the house elf to convince him that that was not the answer.

Then he got the letter that she became the youngest seeker in a century and after he was walking around like a big headed arse, his grandmother words, only to get a letter from Severus the next day that explained how she achieved that only to have his
grandmother bully him to let her play. Instead of letting him go to Hogwarts himself to scream at her and drag her back.

Then it was the Philosopher Stone and the Professors-possessed-Grindelwald thing. When he got the news of what had happened he actually lost his footing and felt on the ground. Harriet was so lucky she was asleep for three days. It took Minerva, Severus,
her friends, his friends, his family and the half the Blacks to convince him to let her return the next year.

Then second year was the "Daddy I found the Chamber " and he couldn't tell her no because she was so happy to find the basilisk and he was terrified the large deathly snake could look at her eyes but he couldn't deny her that so he was living in a nightmare
all year long she could lose control of the basilisk and she could be gone.

And when that little Weasley followed her and she gotten bitten Bless Fawkes he cried at the deadly wood. He forbidden her to go back to the champers again.

Then was the Bellatrix escaped Azkaban year. Didn't he suffered this year. Only to learn at the end that it was all Alice's Longbotom fault. He still couldn't understand haw Harriet was still friends with the boy. But he couldn't stop her and she had
refused to listen screaming at him that Neville was innocent and his mother was just as desperate as her mother to save her child. What could have he answered to that?

Then was the tournament crap. His little princess had to fight for her life all year long and he was so angry he couldn't even send her a letter. But when he was waiting all nervous to see her in the last task and the Diggori boy appeared and started
screaming that she had been attacked from someone and all hell had broken loose inside him. He couldn't even remember how the rest of the night had passed.

He had forced himself to shove everything back and to watch like an outsider .

Morgana and Merlin to bless James Potter that brought his little princess back. Whatever James Potter wanted Tom was going to make sure he got in his life. He owed him his daughters life.

And then was the fifth year and the fight against the ministry and Grindelwald and trying to make sure his party got elected as soon the ministry was forced to admit Grindelwald was back. The fucking prophesy hanging above Harriet's head, Dumbledore refusing
to say anything about his plans, and Harriet's completely out of character new personality.

This scared him more than anything. Was it something that he missed and his little girl was gone? He hated to admit it but she started turning in a young woman that was so much like anything he could have asked for his child to be but she wasn't like
she used to be and somehow he had missed the moment she grown up.

Was she playing them all? What if it was a new prank she was pulling to everyone and she could change back to his little rascal after? He hoped so but he was sure this wasn't the case.

And let's not forget the formal introduction thing. If he ever was left alone with any of the boys that dared to offer courtship to his little girl he wouldn't be able to hold himself back. Especially the little Malfoy. The little cretin.

Harriet was turning in a beautiful woman and she was turning heads from now. He dreaded sixth year.

And let's not forget Walburga and her hints about how she was central than his daughter would never be interested to anyone her age or even generation that made him sure she knew something he didn't and he couldn't do anything about it.

He looked back to his diary. Yes it was the right move. He stood up and left it above his office where Harriet was about to find it and take it, because he knew what a little snake his daughter was, and walked out the room.

His younger self had become very close with Lily when she had found him. And he could never harm his own child. As for the horcuxs he didn't have any problems if Harriet learned about it. He was always open to her about how much of a psychopath he was.
He didn't hide from his child. And she was about to learn at some point anyway that she could never get rid of him.

Yes he took the right decision. The diary was going to be with Harriet from the end of Yule holidays.