What is Dear Tom?

Dear Tom is the TheFanlistings.org approved fanlisting for the relationship, whatever you may see it as, between Tom Marvolo Riddle (also known as Lord Voldemort) and Ginevra Molly 'Ginny' Weasley from the Harry Potter series.

Who are Tom and Ginny?

Tom Marvolo Riddle is the Slytherin boy who later became Lord Voldemort. He was born to a witch mother (whose name is unknown at present) and a Muggle father by the name of Tom Riddle, Sr. in 1927. When Tom's mother became pregnant with him she told his father that she was a witch, and Riddle Sr. abandoned her. Unfortunately, Tom's mother died giving birth to him and he was sent to live in a Muggle orphanage. When he was eleven Tom received his Hogwarts letter, and he was sorted into Slytherin. He was quite possibly the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen, extremely powerful and cunning, even becoming head boy his seventh year and winning numerous awards. He became interested in the Dark Arts while still at school and some of his fellow Slytherins began calling him Lord Voldemort. When he left he officially took on the name and began gathering followers, his Death Eaters, to his cause under the symbol of the Dark Mark. The rest of the his history is, as they say, another story.

Ginevra Molly Weasley (most commonly called 'Ginny') is the younger sister of Harry Potter's best friend, Ron Weasley. She is the youngest child and only daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley and she was born in 1981. She started at Hogwarts in 1992 and was sorted into Gryffindor, just like the rest of her family. Her relationship with Tom began in her first year (detailed below) when she seemed rather young and naive, but over time she has grown into a rather strong, determined young woman. She's clever and has rather talented acting abilities as well as being fairly powerful with her magic (enough to impress some of her older brothers at any rate).

Okay, so Tom and Ginny?

In her first year at Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy slipped Ginny a diary. It turns out the diary used to be Tom Riddle's, and that he enchanted the memory of his 16-year-old self into the diary. He did it in order to "complete Slytherin's great work" to get all the Muggle-born and half-blood students out of the school. Tom and Ginny talked to each other through the diary, Ginny pouring out her heart and soul, and Tom being comforting. However, Tom was drawing Ginny's energy into himself so that he could become completely alive and whole again. He was also using her to reak havok over the school, unbeknownst to Ginny. Eventually, Tom used her to open the Chamber of Secrets and lure Harry there.

What is a fanlisting?

The fanlisting concept was thought of by Janine, of seraphic-devil.org. There are hundreds of different fanlistings for people, places, things, concepts, tv shows, movies, and couples. They're individual lists of fans who like that certain subject. If you want to know more, check out the official fanlistings site.

What about the layout?

The site is skinned, so there are four different layout choices at present:

v.2 proud, which features an image of Tom shaded Slytherin green

v.3 secret, which features an image of Ginny shaded Gryffindor and Weasley red

v.4 bound, which features the previous images of Tom and Ginny combined and shaded a neutral blue

v.5 first sight, which features images of Tom and Ginny looking as I imagine they would upon first seeing each other

What about the first layout?

The first layout was designed before the site was skinned, and after having it up for over a year I decided to simply retire it. It was entitled "haunted gazes" and you can see a few screencaps of it here.

What about the site?

The site name is from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Quite simply, when Ginny wrote in the diary, she began entries with "Dear Tom."

The graphics were all done by Selene la Luna. The original images used were found at The Leaky Cauldron and thesnitch.co.uk. The PHPFanbase 2.1 script used on this site is Copyright 2003 Sasha, nothing-less.net. All rights reserved. I originally used Sasha's NL-Convert to PHP to convert the site to PHP. The skinning of the site was made possible with Angela's wonderful script phpSiteSkin.

Disclaimer:

All things related to Harry Potter are ? J. K. Rowling, etc.. I don't claim it, or anything related to it in any way. I'm just a fan and this is a non-profit site. However, the site graphics/site design were created by me, so please don't use them without my permission.