Sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle was brilliant, charming, and dangerously ambitious. Everyone at Hogwarts saw the perfect student — but Aurora Farrow saw something else hidden beneath the carefully crafted mask.

A forgotten magical recording reveals a side of Tom Riddle that history tried to erase. Years before he became Lord Voldemort, someone saw the person hidden behind the perfect mask. When Harry, Hermione, and Ron uncover the truth about a mysterious Hogwarts student named Elian Vane, they discover that the darkest stories are not always the ones people remember — but the ones they choose to bury.