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Tom Riddle returns at sixteen after draining life from Ginny Weasley, enrolling at Hogwarts as a new student — a move Dumbledore cannot legally block. The staff, having never seen young Tom in person, recognize his terrifying resemblance to Voldemort but cannot tell if he is the Dark Lord reborn or one of his children. At the Slytherin table, his twelve-year-old daughter — his spitting image, already commanding the pure-bloods — locks eyes with him. She existed all along, waiting for him, and Tom feels a profound, unfamiliar pride as he realizes he has found his legacy.