In the morning, you wake up to find Lily has already gotten dressed and is cleaning her teeth.
“Wake up sleepy-head,” she says smiling at you, “you’d better rush if you want a shower, hurry up or we’ll miss breakfast.”
You sit up, rubbing your eyes and stretching. Yawning, you get out of bed and head for the door, bleary eyed and half-asleep still.
Lily just stares at you, standing there naked with your hair all messed up. She giggles and throws you your black silk bathrobe. You smile and blow her a kiss before heading to the shower.
Standing under the steaming hot water, you slowly wake up properly. Did you and Lily really have sex last night? You did, you realise to yourself, and it was amazing.
There’s another thing. The monster. He seems to be gone. He was with you yesterday, but he was bored of magic lessons and “little girls” as he thinks of you, and crawled away to sleep. That and hiding whenever Harry was nearby. Then, after you ran around in the rainstorm with Lily, he didn’t come back. You and Lily spent an incredible few hours together, chasing, and kissing and making love to each other, and the Monster wasn’t anywhere to be seen. He didn’t come back in the night, and he’s not come back this morning. You wonder if…
He is still there, sleeping, somewhere in the depths of your consciousness, curled up inside your soul like a parasite. Until yesterday, you thought he might always be there, only giving you tiny snatches of freedom when he got bored or needed to rest, but then you got most of a day without him.
Perhaps you can learn to live with him somehow? Maybe he won’t do all the horrible things he plots and schemes about? Maybe, if you can make friends with Hermione, he won’t decide to kill her? Maybe you can persuade Harry and Neville and the others not to try and fight the Dark Lord, then he won’t kill them either?
Maybe, just maybe, you can love Lily and keep her safe from him.
- - - - -
Over breakfast, you and Lily sit next to each other, eating in silence. Whenever you meet each others eyes, one or other of you blushes or starts to giggle, and that sets the other one off, until you are both laughing out loud.
“What are you to laughing about?” Pansy asks, scowling at you.
You look at each other, and your eyes share a silent joke, knowing that she’d never believe the truth. You both collapse into laughter again, and Pansy rolls her eyes and walks off.
“Hey Emily,” an older Slytherin boy whom you don’t know suddenly asks you, “is it true you were riding your broom around inside the castle last night?”
“Umm,” you say, looking him up and down with mild distaste, in contrast with the love and laughter “yes?”
“Haha wow!” He says laughing, “I’m amazed Snape didn’t have you expelled! Don’t do that again though Emily. We’re glad you’re a Slytherin and don’t want you kicked out. You made us all laugh telling off the Sorting Hat and the Headmaster the other night.”
“Thanks,” you say, not really caring for popularity.
“If you’re good on your Broom, you should try out for the Quidditch Team. We need a new seeker. Ask Marcus about it,” the boy says, pointing toward Marcus Flint.
“I’ll… consider it,” you say moodily.
“Hey Marcus!” The boy yells, “Emily says she’ll try out for the team!”
Marcus looks over, then realising it’s you, and scowls a little before returning to his conversation. Seeing Marcus makes you remember the things you did while the monster was awake. You feel a pang of guilt, but also a tingle of illicit excitement.
A bell rings, meaning you have fifteen minutes until your first class of the day. You have a full day of lessons and plenty of other things to be getting on with.
What do you do next?
Lessons:
Plotting and Scheming:
Socialising
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
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
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, The Oneirocritica, 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 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.
