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A Lexicon of Serpents by
Arkady (
wired_lizard) [Moody/Riddle, R]
Summary:
Hogwarts, 1943. A tale of two sixth-years, their attempts to deal with unreasonable emotions, and their equally unreasonable relationship; or, Tom Riddle and Alastor Moody do the Gryff/Slyth thing.This has at long last been
UPDATED, with the result that I walked around with a silly grin stuck on my face for the entire day.
This fic has just about everything – an original pairing, Quidditch at its very best, inter-house politics, awesome characterisation... Arkady writes a wonderfully gruff Moody, and a menacing, scheming, but still very human Tom Riddle. If I had to take a handful of fanfictions into exile on that hyper-clichéd lonesome island, this one would be one of my first picks. Very, very highly recommended (I kid you not!).
Speaking of RECs,
FA's Niffler Forum has a lot of great new story recs...
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