I am wanting to read my first Tomione fan fiction! Can you give any recs? I have been slightly put off by the pairing, until I read your post defending it. I want to see what the buzz is about! I normally stick with cannon or Dramione.
I’m a huge Dramione fan too, but after reading Dramione and Lumione, I stumbled into Tomione. I still favor the Malfoy men, but I’m a sucker for a good Tomione AU story.
First, you can always check with the lovely ladies at @tomionefinds because they’re great about hunting down stories!
Here are some Tom/Hermione stories I recommend where Hermione is either good or various shades of grey:
Nightmare By: provocative envy COMPLETE: A broken time turner shouldn’t have sent me back so far. It was unprecedented. Stepping on it-smashing it-nothing should have happened. At most, I should have lost a week. At worst, I should have disappeared altogether. I shouldn’t have traveled back fifty-two years; half a bloody century. This should not have happened. HG/TR.
All The Wrong Choices by QueenOfTheDreamers - Hermione Granger is kidnapped by Severus Snape and taken to Lord Voldemort, who behaves in a bizarrely familiar manner with Hermione. When she’s rocketed back in time by Voldemort, she realises just why he knew her so well in the 1990s - it was because he’d known her very well indeed, as Tom Marvolo Riddle, in an entirely different time. She had to go back because she’d been there. But will she stay?
Time-travel Tomione epic, re-upload. Complete.
Clocks Out of Order by QueenOfTheDreamers - Sequel to All the Wrong Choices.
Blood and Gold by ObsidianPen - The true time-turner was slammed savagely into Hermione’s throat. It shattered against her neck, bits of glass and gold piercing into her skin. The last thing she saw before blackness consumed her was a plume of metallic dust and vitreous fragments, tiny prisms dancing behind her eyelids.
(In which Hermione accidentally ends up in 1950, pitted against an ascending Dark Lord in his prime, caught in the entanglement of pureblood politics, dark magic, and Tom Riddle’s interest)
Fostering a Nightmare By: NinjaFairy86 A ten-year-old foster child named Tom Riddle showed up on the Granger’s front doorstep with his social worker in the summer of 1990. Hermione spent the following years adjusting to life with her new foster brother; so, she never realized how often he kept an eye on her. “I’ve always watched you, Hermione; and you’ve always been mine.” [Magical AU]
Our Magic Knows No Bounds by PinkGlitterMasturbation - Narcissa Malfoy is done with crazy, and she is determined to fix the mess her life has become. She has brains, a plan, and more than one dark spell to help her. But before she can put her plan into motion, she discovers a shocking secret about Hermione Granger, one that the girl doesn’t even realize about herself. Before Hermione knows it, Narcissa has cursed them both, sending them back in time to deal with the Dark Lord in the form of the child Tom Riddle. Of course, Tom is no ordinary child, and time doesn’t take kindly to being rewritten, so this will be a bumpy ride full of awesome, magical women, pragmatic decisions, and, rest assured, dear readers, plenty of sex eventually!
Nothing Else Better to Do By: NinjaFairy86 Tom Marvolo Riddle was supposed to be looking for Rowena Raveclaw’s Diadem to make his next horcrux. Instead, he was spending his 25th birthday stuck inside a shoddy cabin in Romania during a blizzard, getting utterly sloshed. Why? Because he had absolutely nothing else better to do. [Tomione One-Shot]
War Paint By: provocative envy COMPLETE: It was small, slim, about the length of her hand; the leather cover was soft, the sewn-in binding was crisp, and the thick vellum pages were empty. ‘Tom Marvolo Riddle’ was printed in ancient, flaking gold leaf across the front. He had been a Slytherin, a prefect, and head boy in 1944. She had checked. HG/TR.
Choosing Grey by betagyre - Hermione has always been a warrior for the Light. But when an attempt to salvage more than a Pyrrhic victory lands her in 1944, she quickly realizes that sometimes it is best to allow a lesser evil to flourish, because defeating it only creates the conditions for a greater one to rise. With conspiracies, schemes, and difficult choices in every corner, and a charismatic young Tom Riddle who is increasingly interested in her, she will eventually have to answer the question: How much darkness and grey in him can she accept?
Sequel:
A Marked Deck by betagyre - Minister for Magic Tom Riddle has a family and a position of immense political power, and he must adapt to the responsibility that comes with both. But Hermione has much to adjust to as well, married to someone who is still very much a power-hungry Dark wizard. Follows Choosing Grey.
Ultima ratio by Winterblume - Ultima ratio - the last resort. At last the day of the Final Battle against Lord Voldemort has come. Harry, Ron and Hermione fight bravely against their nemesis - but then something goes wrong. And Hermione finds herself alone in a precarious situation.
Forbidden by Sharkdiver1980 - Hermione has been keeping a closely guarded secret, one that has the potential to change everything. After witnessing the Headmaster’s memory of his first meeting with an eleven year old Tom Riddle, Hermione makes the decision to step in and become his mentor rather than his enemy. HG/TMR
Here I Dreamt I Was A Rosier By: Nautical Paramour Opening her eyes, Hermione became acutely aware that she was not in her bed, or even in Gryffindor tower. She has woken up in 1944 and must learn to exist with her “family” and their friends…TR/HG
Youth in Retrospect By: provocative envy ONE-SHOT: She’s buying a box of condoms when she meets him. HG/TR.
The Diary by LittleMulattoKitten - Hermione finds a curious diary and the boy it’s connected to lives in the past. Tom pulls his new ‘friend’ underwing and her endless potential quickly makes her his favorite soldier. Unfortunately, protecting her when he’s 50 years in the past is tricky at best. (WIP)
The Snake Charmer By: midnightweeds Hermione Granger travels to the past to learn the Dark Lord’s secrets. During her stay, she finds herself in a precarious situation. Will she return to the world she left behind? Or will her stay with Tom Riddle alter her future forever?
Also be sure to check out:
The Tomione Fest at AO3 has a lot of good stories as well. Some of them are WIPs. The fest is still on-going, so if you read all of them, be sure to vote for your favorites this month before the author reveal. https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tomione_Fest
Red Right Hand has Hermione raising Tom, but the dynamic is interesting, and it’s a unique take on Hermione’s love as a mother trying to redeem or save Tom.
Red Right Hand By: Nautical Paramour The war didn’t end when Harry and Voldemort fell. Hermione refuses to feel helpless any longer, and goes back in time to remove the scar that an unloved Tom Riddle left on the wizarding world. Tangled in the pureblood sphere, will Hermione just become another cog in Tom Riddle’s plans? Final pairing is a secret! But not a Tomione. Lestrange OC. Parent!Hermione Child!Tom. COMPLETE!
Happy reading!
-Elle
