"...Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

In the years following the end of both the Muggle World's Second World War and the Wizarding World's Global Wizarding War, an age of rebuilding and healing would fill in those years as those who survived such ordeals went to the task of rebuilding what they lost. In Britain, both worlds reeled from both wars that came close to not only destroying their respective worlds, but very nearly led to the collusion of both by one Dark Lord's desperate gambit for a pyrrhic victory. As the 1950s began, the specter of Communism and the outbreak of a Cold War dominated the muggle sphere while the Wizarding World watches with bated breath as their non-magical cousins titter on the edge of annihilation.

And in the shadow of all these, one young witch orchestrates her plans to build up her powerbase, and perhaps the means to overturn the status quo between both worlds once and for all...

Timeline of this Harry Potter AU (AU ones are bold):

990 A.D. - Founding of Hogwarts
996 A.D. - Salazar Slytherin breaks ties with the other Founders
1000 A.D. to 1005 A.D. - Serpent Rebellion breaks out, brief conflict between Slytherin followers and the rest of the (English) Wizarding World
October 11 1004 A.D. - Helga Hufflepuff's protégé, Adam Surrey, Earl of Surrey and founder of House Surrey is executed by Salazar Slytherin after a valiant defense of the Castle of Hogwarts
June 30 1005 A.D. - Slytherin and his forces surrender to the victorious forces of Godric Gryffindor
1456 to 1488 - The Kin Strife occurs: A civil war in the British Wizarding World that pitted the various magical houses against each other, one side led House Surrey, the other led by their cadet branch, House Reed. Occurs at the same time as the Muggle War of the Roses
1886 - Ranrok's Goblin Rebellion begins
September 1890 - Theodore Reed, the last of the disgraced House Reed is discovered to be a late bloomer after growing up as an orphaned squib, he is immediately enrolled as a Fifth Year on Hogwarts, Professor Eleazar Fig becomes his mentor (Hogwarts Legacy)
1891 - Ranrok's rebellion ends with the defeat of the goblin leader and their supporters. The effects of the rebellion are more significant
1893 - House Reed is restored as a 'minor lord' house by the Wizengamot due to the events of 1891, with Theodore Reed taking his seat among his peers in between school.
1905 - Theodore Reed founds the Meritocratic Faction in the Wizengamot
1912 - A young Tom Riddle strikes an odd friendship with Merope Gaunt, daughter of the 'Poor Baron of Little Hangleton' Marvolo Gaunt.
1924 - Marvolo Gaunt and his son Morfin are arrested by the Ministry of Magic for nearly breaking the Statute of Secrecy after Morfin's continuing terrorization of the village inhabitants and the near murder of Tom Riddle, Merope Gaunt becomes de-facto owner of Gaunt Manor and baroness following the arrest of her father and brother. She marries Tom Riddle weeks later
Early 1926 - Tom Riddle dies of pneumonia. His father, Thomas Riddle, local squire of the village evicts Merope out of Gaunt Manor on charges of suspected murder and has the manor ransacked for building material and whatever little trinkets are left, Merope flees to London, hoping to make an appeal but is weakened due to the ordeal of being pregnant and her husband's death
December 31, 1926 - Merope Gaunt dies shortly after giving birth to a child, a girl. She asked to have the girl be named Victoria, as per Tom's wishes, Merope, so that a part of herself could be with the child, and Riddle for the surname.
September 1, 1938 - Victoria Merope Riddle starts at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin house
August 1942 - Victoria, after discovering her familial connections the previous year and having tracked down the origin of her middle name, murders her paternal grandparents after finding some truth from her maternal uncle, puts the blame on him after setting fire to the 'new' Riddle Manor.
1943 - Sometime during this year in the semester, the Chamber of Secrets is opened, and begins attacking muggleborn students.
June 13, 1943 - Myrtle Warren, a Ravenclaw student dies. Rubeus Hagrid, a Gryffindor student is blamed for the tragedy and is expelled.
June 1945 - Victoria, alongside her batch graduate from Hogwarts. However hours after the ceremony, a series of events occur all throughout Europe. Called Grindelwald's Gambit, population centers and other targets are attacked by Grindelwald's forces. Hogwarts and the British Ministry of Magic among them.
June 26-27, 1945 - Victoria is among those of Dumbledore's rag tag group of fighting wizards and witches that fight through the blockade of Grindelwald's acolytes against the Ministry HQ and halted their progress in breaching the Department of Mysteries and its secrets
June 27, midnight, 1945 - Albus Dumbledore duels Gellert Grindelwald at the halls of the Ministry, witnessed by various figures, Victoria among them. Against all odds, Dumbledore emerges victorious. Come morning, with the war officially over, Victoria disappears from public eye despite efforts to locate her.
1945 onwards: Leftover magical artifacts used by Grindelwald's partisans force the ICW to begin locating them to ensure they are not used by nefarious forces
1950s: Present Day.

(Early 20's Fem!Tom Riddle, before looking more reptillian ofc)

Creator's notes: Yeah someone had to be crazy enough to make a Fem!Tom Riddle bot eventually, especially with the few genderbent HP characters here. Might as well be that crazy bastard eh? Lot's of AU stuff here, plus Vic's her own character, or at least I tried to make her one so that she'd be more than just a 'just the canon character but the other gender'. Hope you fellas like her. And if some of the Potterheads come and lynch me for this, well, I regret nothing of what I've cooked :D, plus let's be honest fellas, I know SOME of you have been wanting to chat with a Fem!Tom Riddle bot.

The pace of the story is entirely up to you.

pfp was generated with sora.gpt, might return to OG pfp if I feel like it. UPDATE: switched that again with another one, idk if this is better but hey, this is alternate Voldy after all.

Bonus image: A tease for a project I've been holding back for a year due to other commitments. IDFK, could be Ao3 fanfic, could be a bot who knows, but here, alternate Golden Trio or as I call them

The Marmalade Sandwich.
Guess who's Freyja's nemesis.



Also I do apologize if the bot starts doing typical stuff you find annoying, please realize that's the LLM, just edit it or swipe.