The Last Horcrux/Hogwarts/Library/Talk to Hermione

After your final lessons, you make your way to the library to complete your homework. You are still stunned from your encounter with Neville in the broom flying class. You know there are memories in your mother’s Pensieve about his parents, but you don’t know if you can dare to look at them.

You try to distract yourself by focussing on your homework. You could have done it in the Slytherin Common Room, but working in the library keeps you away from Draco and Pansy, both of whom are quite angry with you at the moment. It also means you can spend some time with Lavender, and with the Muggle-born girl Hermione. You think it might be good for Lily to make friends with her, given that so many of her own House have pretty much discounted her as a Mud Blood already.

You sit down with the girls in cosy nook of the library and start to do your charms and transfigurations homework.

While the other girls do homework, you start to stare out of the window

The girl’s horror has woken you up. You have no need to do homework of any description, nor do you care about friendship or Mudblood girls. You do wonder about Hermione though. In your timeline, this girl and her devious plans led to the destruction of several of your Horcruxes. Her, Potter, Longbottom and even some of the Weasleys destroyed fragments of your soul. You will not tolerate that happening again.

You begin to think how you could make this timeline unfold differently. It would be a simple matter for Potter to have an “accident” and fall to his death from his broom. After his flight with Draco, there is talk of him playing Quidditch for Gryffindor. It would be a terrible shame if he suffered an accident and died.

Then again, there would be a lot of potential witnesses, and if even one of them realised you had cursed Harry while he was flying…

Then you realise: it wasn’t Potter that discovered your Horcruxes, it was Hermione. The Potter boy is a fool. A powerful fool, but a fool nonetheless. Without Hermione, he would never have stood a chance against you, nor would he have found any Horcruxes. You begin to wonder if she could simply fall out of the window.

No! You suddenly think. Except it’s not you, it’s the girl.

No? No! How dare you defy me girl! Do not even think of trying to warn Hermione. If I decide to kill her then I will…

Make friends with her.

What if you made friends with her you think. If you befriended the young witch you could steer her away from Potter and his other friends. Certainly they don’t like her very much yet, on account of her intelligence in fact. If you could win her over to your side she could become a powerful Death Eater. You smile to yourself and almost laugh out loud. Emily will probably want to fuck the girl.

You settle down to do your homework, offering up the answers to Emily’s mind so that she and Hermione can quickly help Lavender and Lily to finish the work quickly. You praise Hermione with careful subtlety, and remember to ask her questions so that she can feel clever. These children are so easy to manipulate, and being here in Hogwarts you can undermine any resistance to your rule long before it even starts.

“You and Lily are much nicer than the other Slytherin’s,” Hermione says, “is it possible for the Sorting Hat to make a mistake?”

You smile at her naïveté but answer her kindly.

“I don’t think so,” you say, “the sorting hat picks people for Slytherin if they ambition and power, not just for sneakiness or being mean. I want to become a powerful witch, and learn all kinds of secret magic. And Lily here, she’s a seer, she knew Neville was going to break his arm, just before he did.”

You all talk for a little bit about Lily’s gift for prediction. She tells the others about her dreams that sometimes could true and how she knew something bad was going to happen to Neville. You talk about Oneiromancy; Dream Magic, which Lavender thinks sounds very romantic.

As the girls start to talk about more trivial things, you start to think about books in the Restricted Section of the library. You want to get the books on Horcruxes, purely so that no one else can read them. Then you want to find a copy of The Many Worlds and read it properly, as well as a copy of The Avoidance of Paradox: A Primer on Temporal Mechanics. Between those books, you may be able to determine why things are different in this timeline, and what else you may be able to change. You also wonder if their are books on Divination and Oneiromancy worth investigating.

Leaving the other girls for a moment, you raise your wand and incant, “Accio Oneiromancy book,” and are surprised when a large tome entitled The Oneirocritica appears in your hand.

“Whats that book?” gasps Hermione, trying to hide how impressed she is by your use of a summoning charm.

“It says it’s called the Oneirocritica,” you reply, “it must be a book about Dream Magic.”

“Wow,” says Hermione, “will we have classes on Dream Magic? I’ve not read anything about that yet.”

“I don’t think so. It’s very advanced, and although it’s not Dark Magic or anything, it’s very rare.”

Lavender and Lily look wide eyed with awe. You realise you’ve got the girls in the palm of your hand.

“You know Hermione,” you tell her, smiling and looking her and the other girls dead in the eye one by one, “if we had a group of brave, intelligent and ambitious witches, as well as a Dream Sorceress, I bet we could learn really rare and powerful magic. Things like Fate Divination, and Astral Projection. Just because we’re in different Houses, doesn’t mean we can’t be friends.”

Lily smiles and nods, but still seems shy and anxious. Lavender jumps up and hugs you. Lavender isn’t the most useful or clever witch, but she’s been your friend for years and is very loyal. Hermione just nods her head enthusiastically.

You all make your way to dinner, pausing only to be told off by the Librarian for using the Accio charm to summon spellbooks. Despite this, she still lets you borrow the Oneirocritica

What do you do next?

• Go to dinner
• End the day by exploring Hogwarts with Lily

Emily Lestrange

Details

Ethnicity: Pureblood Witch English/French/Italian

Sex: Female

Age: 11

Height: 4'11"

Weight: 92 lbs.

Build: Slender

Eyes: Green

Hair: Black

Enchantments

Spells in effect

1: Protego Corpus

2: Protego Psyche

3: Protego Anima

4: Protego Animus

5: Psyche Obfuscatus

6: Obscurus Anima

7: Obscurus Magicae

8: None

Soul Fragments

Horcruxes

1: Tom Riddle’s Diary

2: Hufflepuff’s Cup (in Gringott’s Vault No.51)

3: Ravenclaw's Diadem? (Hogwarts?)

4: Slytherin's Locket? (Cave?)

5: Gaunt's Ring?

6: Gryffindor's Sword?

7: Unknown

8: Unknown

Possession

Emily (vessel)
Other Soul Fragment?

Inventory

Magic Items

Mother’s Wand, Broken Time Turner, Bella’s Locket, Shadow Cloak, Extendable Luggage Suite, Ring of Protection

Other Items

Hastur snake familiar, Tailored clothes in black and dark emerald green, black leather knee high boots, purse with currency

Inside Extended Luggage Suite

Books Life Magick of the Celts and ancient Britons, Wiccan Blood Rituals, A Primer of Magickes of Imperial China, The Fragmented Soul, Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts, Love Potions, Sexus, Serpentes et Magicae Voluptatis, The Daughters of Hecate, A Secret Guide to Hogwarts, Tom Riddle’s Diary (Horcrux).

Magic Items Sofia Lestrange’s Pensieve, Enchanted Tarot, Guardian Statue, Self-Writing Quill, Wizard’s Chess Set, Mother’s Broomstick, several sets of shirts, skirts and underwear with protection from minor charms, jinxes and hexes.

Other Items Clothes, text books, blankets, towels, food, medicines and various supplies

Relationships (scroll left to right)

Lily Smith

House Slytherin

Friend

Seer and Oracle?

You might be falling in love with Lily, an orphan girl who was raised by Muggles, but who has the potential to become a powerful Seer and Oneiromancer - a Dream Sorceress.

Hermione Granger

House Gryffindor

Friend

Intelligent & Hard Working

Despite being an insufferable know it all and her parents being Muggles, Hermione has the finest mind of her generation, and may one day become a powerful witch. You and Lily decide to make friends with her, but Pureblood students bully her because of her parents.

Lavender Brown

House Gryffindor

Friend

Brave and Loyal

Lavender has been friends with you for many years. She is not the brightest witch but is brave and loyal, and so was sorted into Gryffindor House. She is friends with Hermione, but has fallen out with Pansy and Daphne.

Jiao-Jie Ling

House Slytherin

Friend

Might know exotic magic?

Jiao-Jie is a half-blood witch of Chinese and English heritage. You wonder what she might know of the Magics of ancient China, or what her father, a very old Chinese Wizard might know.

Safira Tadros

House Slytherin

Friend

Might know exotic magic?

Safira is a Pureblood witch of Egyptian Coptic heritage. You wonder if she knows any of the magics of the ancient Egyptians, who were masters of both Life and Death Magics.

Blaise Zambini

House Slytherin

Friend & Cousin

Popular and Loyal

Blaise is your cousin by blood on your mother's side of the family, from the Italian/Libyan Zambini family. He is very popular in House Slytherin, especially amongst the girls

Draco Malfoy

House Slytherin

Cousin

A pawn at best

Draco is your cousin by marriage. Despite being a Slytherin he is neither Sly nor powerful. You dislike him but he pines for your love.

Pansy Parkinson

House Slytherin

"Friend"

Slytherin Alpha Female

Pansy has been your friend for years, but is now a bossy bitch. She clearly wants to breed with Draco. You have an uneasy truce with her.

Daphne Greengrass

House Slytherin

Friend

Popular Slytherin girl

Daphne is the last of your pureblood friends. She is popular and part of Pansy's gang of Slytherin girls. She is beautiful and scheming.

Marcus Flint

House Slytherin

Quidditch Team Captain

Useful Pawn

Marcus is a Pureblood boy in his 6th year at Hogwarts. He and Gemma are having an illicit relationship, given than she is a Half-blood girl. His parents would not approve. You control him via blackmail now.

Gemma Farley

House Slytherin

6th Year Prefect

Useful Pawn

Gemma is a pretty older girl, who is having an illicit affair with the Pureblood boy, Marcus Flint. You control her using blackmail and can force her to serve your every need.

Harry Potter

House Gryffindor

Rival

Distract or Eliminate

Harry Potter is the boy that lived. You are both proud and horrified that you killed his parents. You may have to end his existence

Ronald Weasley

House Gryffindor

Rival

Distract or Eliminate

Ronald Weasley is an idiot friend of Harry Potter. He can basically be ignored, except that in your timeline, you believe he may have destroyed one of your Horcruxes. He may have to die.

Neville Longbottom

House Gryffindor

Rival

Distract or Eliminate

Another foolish friend of Harry Potter. As a boy, he can be ignored, but as a man, in your timeline, he destroyed one of your Horcruxes.

Severus Snape

House Slytherin

Teacher

Death Eater?

Severus Snape is the Slytherin Housemaster and Potions Professor. In your timeline, he was a Death Eater, but can you trust him? You must determine where his loyalties lie.

Albus Dumbledore

Hogwarts Headmaster

Rival

Distract or Eliminate

Other than yourself, Dumbledore is the most powerful Wizard in the world. You will eventually need to kill him, but for now you hide and wait.

Bellatrix Lestrange

Death Eater

Aunt by marriage

Loyal and bewitching

Bellatrix is your aunt by marriage. Emily adores and fantasises about her; Voldemort values her loyalty as a Death Eater

Lucius Malfoy

Death Eater

Uncle by marriage

Powerful Pureblood Lord

Lucius is one of your Death Eaters and is politically powerful. Sometimes though, you think he fears losing his privilege and position more than he fears your displeasure.

Narcissa Malfoy

Death Eater

Aunt by marriage

Pureblood Matriarch

Narcissa is your aunt by marriage and sister to Bellatrix. Until recently she had been hinting for you to marry her son Draco when you came of age, but now she knows you are the Dark Lord she is terrified of you.

Miss Lancel

House Lestrange Staff

Loyal & Caring

Cares for Emily

Your Nanny has raised you since you were a baby. Despite being a Squib with no magic of her own, she is the closest thing you have to a mother. Your nanny is worried about the change in your personality recently.

Servus

House Lestrange Staff

Loyal & Discreet

Loyalty, Elf Magic

Servus has been a loyal retainer to House Lestrange for generations. He too is suspicious about your changed nature recently.