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1''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11151311/1/Fall-Back-1940 Fall Back - 1940]]'' is an [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6435796/LeighaGreene Leigha Greene]].
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3After [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets the events of her second year]], Hermione suspects Tom Riddle's diary was more than a simple memory. At the start of [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban her third year]], she gets a Time Turner so she can take every class on offer. She gets into a fight with two Ravenclaws, and the next thing she knows she's in 1940, in Wool's Orphanage, next to a fourteen-year-old Tom Riddle. Hermione enrolls at Hogwarts, pretending to be an American transfer student, and sets out to stop Tom becoming Voldemort. She soon finds she might have bitten off more than she can chew.
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5!Contains examples of:
6* AbusiveParents: Bella's parents beat her hard enough and often enough to leave scars.
7* {{Asexuality}}: Tom, possibly. He's fourteen but doesn't bat an eyelid when he sees Hermione naked or Bellatrix in her underwear.
8* BlackComedy: Hermione and Tom's conversation after Tom carves roses into Hermione's back is both disturbing and hilarious.
9* BloodBrothers: Tom and Hermione go through a ritual to make them blood-siblings.
10* CreepyChild: All three main characters to a greater or lesser degree.
11** Tom. He terrorises the other orphans, sneaks out at night to kidnap random strangers and cut them up to see how they work, and carves designs into Hermione's back with a scalpel.
12** Hermione is remarkably calm about the aforementioned designs and reads books on Dark magic.
13** Bellatrix wants Tom to carve designs into ''her'' back.
14* DarkerAndEdgier: The violence is a lot more graphic than in canon, especially in when Tom "operates" on Bellatrix.
15* EvilOrphan: Tom. He's not quite as bad as in canon, thanks to Hermione's influence, but he's still extremely disturbing.
16* FanDisservice: The entire scene where Bellatrix takes off her robes. Not only is she ''eleven'', she's covered with scars. Tom doesn't see anything alarming about it, but Hermione is freaked out.
17* LikeBrotherAndSister: Tom and Hermione. They almost ''are'' brother and sister, thanks to a ritual.
18* MistakenForRomance: Leo thinks Hermione and Tom are dating. They aren't.
19* PrecociousCrush: Bella has one on Tom. He isn't interested.
20* ThoseTwoGuys: Well, Those Three Guys: Leo, Scorpius and Edmond.
21* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Hermione runs into it.
22* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: Tom cuts people and animals up. Bellatrix wants him to cut ''her'' up.
23* WeirdnessCensor: Hermione gradually becomes desensitized to horrifying things thanks to prolonged exposure to Tom.

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