For Anon.
We’re not so different you and i
chadwickb-deactivated20160522:
Once there was a young man, who like you, sat in this very hall, walked this castle’s corridors, slept under its roofs. He seemed to all the world a student like any other. His name: Tom Riddle.
“Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?”
The thing about growing up with Fred and George is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

HARRY POTTER CHALLENGE ; Favourite house/your house
‘He sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognisable.’
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Listen, dementors are among the foulest creatures to walk this earth. They feed on every good feeling, every happy memory until a person is left with nothing but his worst experiences. The dementors affect you more than others because there are true horrors in your past, horrors your classmates can scarcely imagine. You are not weak, Harry. You have nothing to be ashamed of. [prisoner of azkaban - 4/4]
Zabini, who was interrogated after McLaggen, turned out to have a famously beautiful witch for a mother (from what Harry could make out, each of her husbands dying mysteriously and leaving her mounds of gold).