SwiftAuditore: Hey swifters and welcome back to Arietta's Story. Once again I would like to thank rebellious one for all the help with this chapter. Here's a question for those of you who are reading my flames of compassion fanfiction and I need a response to this question. What are your thoughts on flames of compassion should I continue it or should I change the crossover? My current thoughts are that it is heading into Mary-sue territory and I want to avoid that but I don't know how to do that with what it currently is and the only way I can think to solve that issue is to start again with a different crossover and if I do I will show her growing up.

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Chapter 4 Tom Marvolo Riddle

At the moment Judy has gone to the grocery shop and Ron and Sam are out watching an American football game, I'm currently looking through a guitar magazine when I hear the doorbell ring. I got up walked to the door and I opened it and there stands a young Tom Riddle. I feel my eyes widen as well as my eyebrows shooting up but I moved aside and let him in. W-what w-why I-is h-he h-here? I led him to my room that way we can talk in private without Aunt Judy coming in the middle interrupting the conversation, he casts several wards so no one can hear the conversation that's happening in the room.

"Hello my name is Tom Riddle what's your name?" he says

"My name is Marisol Arietta Witwicky it's nice to meet you" I voice

"I'm not going to hurt you in order to prove that I will do a magical oath to prove it" he starts and pulls his wand out "I Tom Marvolo Riddle do hereby swear on my magic that I will not harm Marisol Arietta Witwicky" he says and his wand lights up for a few seconds. I feel the shock fade away and I feel my lips twitch It seems that in my first life I portrayed him right well in this AU of the harry potter universe

"Reincarnation huh" Tom remarked with a smirk

"You got my memories from the piece of your soul that was in my scar didn't you," I say

"Yes I did, I still can't believe that my alternate self could be that inept" he commented

"Well the books could be considered Dumbledore's wish list, I mean when Harry first entered Gringotts shouldn't the goblins have checked to see if he actually was Harry Potter since he didn't have his key?" I point out

"You are right there the goblins should have ensured that Harry was actually Harry Potter and not an imposter as he didn't have his key they shouldn't have missed that" Tom agrees "Then there's the school medi witch, there is no possible way that she could have missed Harry's condition" Tom exclaims

"True whatever oaths she has to have taken should have been far more important than whatever Dumbledore may have told her if she even bothered saying anything to him at all," I say

"The oaths the school medi witch taken would have had her contact St Mungo's first then the DMC the headmaster wouldn't have anything to do with it" Tom continues

"Then there is Molly shouting about platform 9 ¾ loudly around muggles with plenty of children going to Hogwarts and herself included it's obvious that it was a trap she knows of the statue of secrecy and should not have done what she did. The books are Dumbledore's wish list there is no way 'cannon' could actually happen" I point out

"With how many AUs there are it can be hard to tell if any could actually happen, let's talk about the AUs next" Tom exclaims

"One AU is where Harry is super rich and that his trust vault is pocket change compared to what else he has in his family vault" I voice

"The potters are an old family and would have a lot of money in their vault I don't think it would amount to the trust vault being pocket change compared to what else is in the family vault" Tom voices "then there is the one where James was an idiot and gave Dumbledore most of his wealth to Dumbledore towards the war effort" Tom adds

"That's one of the popular AUs that I didn't like very much, I can see that James would give Dumbledore some money to Dumbledore towards the war effort but not most of his wealth" I voice

"You are right with that James Potter wouldn't have been that stupid to give most of his wealth to Dumbledore towards the war effort, he likely just gave a small bit of his wealth to Dumbledore towards the war effort" Tom agrees

"Then there are all those Wrong Boy Who Lived AUs which are a very popular," I say

"While I can see James being a bully when he was younger, I think he matured when he got older and he wouldn't bully his own children and while I can see how Lily would enjoy being the mother of the chosen one especially when she is a muggle-born who was treated badly by purebloods but I don't see her neglecting or abusing her children though so I doubt those wrong boy who lived would actually happen" Tom says

"While it is possible that Lily could have twins, I too doubt that would be a possibility, in my first life I wasn't fond of that type of wrong boy who lived fanfictions," I say "Anyway let's talk about how to expose Dumbledore to the world" I voice

"We could use the daily prophet to our advantage and share memories about Dumbledore that would expose the truth about him" Tom suggests that seems to be a good way to start with exposing Dumbledore

"That seems to be a good place to start though what memory should be shared first?" I inquire before Tom could respond we hear the front door opens and in walks Aunt Judy back from shopping for groceries. She goes into the kitchen and puts away the groceries. She freezes when she enters the living room seeing Tom.

"Hello my name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, I too have been controlled by Dumbledore, and I have come to help take him down," Tom says

"My name is Judy Witwicky it's nice to meet you" Judy replies

Meanwhile with Petunia

I had us change our names before we booked a flight I changed my name from Petunia to Sara, Vernon changed his from Vernon to Alex and changed our son's from Dudley to Nathan, we also changed our last name from Dursley to Smith.

We moved to Canada and are currently park and Dudley wanders off to make some friends. Dudley hits a girl twice for being a gypsy when magic sends Dudley flying back.

"Dudley that freak didn't hurt you did she?" I ask then another freak from that world shows up and arrests us on the spot for abuse on a magical child. We were doing everyone a favour.

Back with Arietta

Tom and I played board games like Guess Who, Cluedo, the game of life, mousetrap, and battleship. We had multiple rounds of the board games I won some games he won some games, we got to know one another while playing the games. We then watched Home Alone, Hocus Pocus, Lion King, and Aladdin. Tom left not long after Aladdin ended.

It's been a day since then and now it is time for our magical education, our history of a magic teacher has arrived who introduced herself as Courtney and we got comfortable in our chairs and the lesson starts.

"Our lesson today will cover the international statute of secrecy and why it is important, you will want to make notes about what you hear today as you will have a quiz on this subject in our next lesson to learn what you retain from this lesson" she says and we retrieve our notebooks and a pen and we get ready to take notes.

"International statute of Secrecy is short for the international statute of wizarding secrecy which is also referred to as the international code of Wizarding secrecy. It is commonly referred to as the international statue of secrecy. It is a wizarding law that was created in the year 1689 and was established in the year 1692. It was laid down by the international confederation of wizards to both safeguard the wizarding world and to hide it from the mundane world" She explains and we take notes of what she has just said.

"This law is in part a direct outcome of the Salem witch trials of 1692 to 1693 in Massachusetts though many refer to the delegation of wizards who went to the British monarchs William and Mary around 1690 to ask for the protection of the wizarding population under muggle law however they failed to do get the protection." She explains and we take notes of what Courtney explained. She went on to explain what the law entails and we take notes. Explaining what the law entails took the rest of the lesson. When it was over we said goodbye and she left.

Our next teacher has just arrived and has introduced himself as Arthur and he sat down in a chair and we got comfortable and the lesson starts now.

"The first language you are going to learn is Latin, this lesson today will cover an introduction to the language, it will be a good idea to make notes on what you learn as there will be a quiz in our next lesson to see what you retain from this lesson" he says and we take out another notebook and open it up to a blank page.

"There are hundreds of benefits of learning Latin however I am only going to focus on a few benefits. First learning Latin gives you a deeper understanding of the world, there is so much more you can understand about various subjects when you have an understanding of Latin" he explains and we make notes on what was said

"The second is that you may want to read some of the most beautiful literature that's ever been written in the history whether it is speeches of Cicero the eloquent lawyer come, politician, Virgil's epic poems or Julius Caesar's histories and memoirs. There is so much out there to read that has Latin in," he explains and we take more notes on what he has said

"The third is that it can help with learning a lot of other modern languages, from one language Latin you have six sprouting languages which are known as the romantic languages. The six are Italian, English, and French, a mixture of Spanish, some Portuguese, and Romanian. If you want to learn any one of these then Latin is a good place to start" He explains and we make notes on what he explained and for the rest of the lesson was spent explaining a couple of other reasons to learn Latin. When it was over we said goodbye and he left.

Monday 26th June 1995

5:50 pm

This Journal entry will cover my thoughts on my second life so far and my thoughts on meeting Tom Marvolo Riddle. I'll talk about my thoughts on my second life so far first and I will end the Journal entry with my thoughts on meeting Tom Marvolo Riddle.

First things first I am going to talk about what I feel about the Potter's and James' friends. Lily was a great mother from what I can remember of her which is very little, to be honest, James was a good father from what I recall which is just as little in all honesty. Now I am going to talk about James' friends, I will write about them in this order: Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin.

First of all Peter Pettigrew is a coward, in my opinion there are two kinds of cowards the good kind that Shaggy from Scooby-Doo is that while Shaggy is scared of every monster the gang encounter he still helps solve the mystery despite being scared and then there is the coward who is so scared of someone they would do what they needed to in order to get away. Peter is also a traitor as he betrayed years' worth of friendship with James, Sirius, and Remus just to save himself by giving the potter's location away to Voldemort which he most likely told him as quick as he could just to save himself. Which is absolutely despicable in every sense.

Sirius Black is a trickster who enjoys pranks which causes chaos though he doesn't seem to know where to draw the line. Some pranks Sirius pulls can be light-hearted, fun and can make people laugh but there are a lot of pranks Sirius pulls that are the opposite, they can hurt people, upset them and outright be considered bullying. The pranks that are light-hearted, fun and can make people laugh I like it's the other type of pranks Sirius pulls that I don't like. Though Sirius has his faults he is incredibly loyal to his friends and attempts vigilante justice when someone does wrong by his friends.

Remus Lupin is a brave, kind, and good-natured person who has been through a lot. I understand Greyback wanted payback but he could have bitten Remus' father instead didn't make sense to punish the child and not the one who was the reason for you to want to get feedback but anyway Remus has managed to get on with his life making friends and family along the way. Sure he is disgusted by all things wolfish due to his condition but that is nothing to complain about. He is incredibly loyal to those he cares about and he is an accomplished individual.

In this next part, I will talk about my experience with the Dursleys then I will talk about my new life with the Witwicky family. The experiences I will go over are the cupboard, the chores, and the abuse both verbal and physical, how I reacted to it, and how I think canon harry reacted to it as he was actually a baby when he was left with the Dursleys. Now the cupboard under the stairs in the Dursley house is smaller than what it is described in the book and shown in the books barely enough space for me to fit in at all. It is drafty always letting a cold breeze enter the space and there are plenty of spiders in there as well trying to avoid the spiders and get enough sleep was a challenge for me and I hated being in it for short or long amount of time. Given that I hadn't let the Dursleys succeed in not giving me the correct amount of food I managed to avoid being malnourished to the point of it stunting my growth so the cupboard must have been big enough for Harry to comfortably be in it as he was malnourished as he didn't manage to avoid being malnourished to the point of it stunting his growth. While I gather that Harry didn't mind the spiders in the cupboard, he definitely didn't like being in the cupboard.

Now for the chores I agreed to do only three chores which are gardening of both the front and back garden to mislead Figg into think that I am suffering, doing the laundry so I get new clothes for myself and not hand me downs and the last one is cleaning two bedrooms so that I get three normal plates a day. I refused to do any more chores after those three and I could tell that they were fuming at that and lashed out with verbal abuse for a few days which consisted of me not doing the chores to get my point across but when they realized it was the only way I'd do chores they accepted it. That's how I was able to get food on a daily basis. Harry was forced to every chore the Dursleys made him do for little to no food which most likely stunted his growth.

With that done I am going to talk about the abuse both verbal and physical and how I reacted to it and how I think cannon Harry reacted to it. Now how the Dursleys treated me was very different than how they treated Harry. I know about the wards Dumbledore placed on the Dursley house because I was reincarnated and I read the books and was a part of the harry potter fandom. When I first accepted that I had been reborn I never thought that because I know about the wards it would change things. Due to the fact I know about the wards on the Dursley house I could control them. Whenever the Dursleys tried to physically hurt me I kept chanting I don't want the Dursleys to be able to physically harm me desperately and they were prevented from harming me. However because they were unable to physically harm me the verbal abuse they gave me was far worse, I'm not saying what they said to me as I don't want to relive those memories. I did the best I could to not let them get to me, I knew if I showed weakness they would prey on it so I did what I could to not allow that to happen though it did upset me I just didn't show it.

Because Harry had no idea that wards on the Dursley house existed Petunia must have been the one with the control over them which would explain why Harry's abuse wasn't noticed and reported. Harry's physical abuse was bad for the slightest thing wrong he was abused so badly with physical abuse he was lucky that he survived from all the physical abuse he suffered. Harry was lucky that his abuse didn't go any further beyond physical abuse, he could have had it much worse. When it comes to verbal abuse suffered a lot of verbal abuse, yes but it wasn't as bad as it could have been, he shouldn't have been called what he did, but it was rather tame when the physical abuse Harry was put through.

When it comes to how I think it affected Harry since he was actually a baby when he was given to the Dursleys well it is complicated. In some ways, I don't think Harry ever dropped his mask he had to have developed to survive the Dursleys not even around his supposed friends. He always let people decide what harry should do and think. Then there is the fact that Harry never applied himself to his schoolwork at Hogwarts well that is because he is used to having to not to better than Dudley so who knows how much Harry was holding back since Dudley wasn't smart at all.

With all that done I will now talk about my thoughts about meeting Tom Marvolo Riddle. When I first saw a young Tom Riddle I was in shock for a bit as I didn't think I would see him so soon and so young looking either. Eventually I got over my shock at meeting Tom for the first time though what made the shock wear off was when he vowed on his magic that he wouldn't hurt me. I then became amused that in my first life I wrote Tom so spot on.

I can't say that I am all that surprised that Tom has my memories of my first life due to the piece of his soul that was in my scar as it was a possibility that crossed my mind when I knew that all the blocks and the soul piece in my scar was going to be removed. Though I have to say that I am glad that Tom is like how I wrote him in my first life because it is much easier to like Tom as a person as well as working on a way to getting rid of Dumbledore easier with them both working together.

This is all I am going to write about in this entry.

Marisol Arietta Witwicky