Taking the time to do something that is actually important, you head to the library. You have a strong sense that before you can really take action to change things in this timeline, you need to understand why things are different, and what effects any changes you make might have.
In your timeline, you possessed the body of one of your followers, rallied your remaining Death Eaters to your cause, and set about recruiting more Death Eaters. You took control of the Ministry of Magic, at first covertly, then openly. You were prepared to attack Hogwarts, and finally put an end to Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, and anyone standing in your way. Before you could do so however, your Horcruxes were destroyed. Sensing that your enemies were baiting you to attack them, you decided not to attack Hogwarts after all. Before you could come up with another plan of attack though, you were yourself attacked by a large number of enemies. Your last memory was a blinding flash, and then, the Time Turner must have activated, as you woke up, finding yourself in Emily’s body, in Lestrange Manor.
You had never used a Time Turner before, and no you can understand why they are so heavily restricted. Most Time Turners take someone back a few minutes, to an hour at most. They are used to squeeze more time out of the day, rather than the change past actions. Indeed, the key theme of The Avoidance of Paradox: A Primer on Temporal Mechanics is that one simply must not make any changes in one’s own timeline, lest one risks creating a paradox. The most famous example being the thought experiment of travelling back in time and killing one’s own father. When travelling back mere minutes, one could still create a paradox however. Taking the Time Turner from one’s past self for example, making it impossible for one to travel back and therefore impossible to take the Time Turner.
Here, there is disagreement. The Avoidance of Paradox argues that one can make paradoxical changes, and argues against attempting to do so, due to dire magical consequences that are never clearly stated. Others contend that such paradoxes are logically and temporally impossible, but never state how other that arguing the paradoxical is impossible. A third line of argument is set forth in The Many Worlds which argues that when one uses a Time Turner, one travels back to an earlier point in one’s own timeline, only to make different choices, entering a different branch of time, and thus a different future. According to the Many Worlds interpretation, any potential paradoxes are resolved, because the alternate future is simply one of Many Worlds. Thus one could travel back in time to kill one’s own father, because one has travelled from a world in which one was born, and it doesn’t matter if one is not born in this timeline, because one was born in another world.
None of these theories resolve your current predicament though. You have travelled back to 1991, but discovered that things have been different since at least 1980. Bellatrix is not imprisoned in Azkaban for one. And in this timeline, she insists that she was privy to your plan to use the Time Turner, whilst in your own timeline, you had not trusted even her with your ultimate contingency. Somehow, things have changed from a time before you travelled back.
Deciding you need to reacquaint yourself with these seminal texts, you enter the Hogwarts library intent on looking for them. There is a good possibility that they are in the Restricted Section, so it is likely that you will need to return here later, using your Shadow Cloak and your Quietus Boots (once they arrive from the crafter) to take these books for yourself.
You could spend days in the library, but unlike your new friend Hermione, your lust for power makes you impatient to find what you seek
Magic ItemsSofia 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 have fallen 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 befriend her.
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.
