Your first lesson of the day is a boring lesson on the History of Magic. You came to Hogwarts to learn about using magic, not who discovered a certain spell hundreds of years ago. Lily and some of the other girls are paying attention diligently, but the only person who actually seems to be enjoying the lesson is Hermione Granger. Every time the teacher asks a question, her had shoots up and she gasps in desperation to answer it. The poor girl can’t see that being an insufferable know it all is not endearing her to her fellow students, not even to her fellow Gryffindors, who grumble and roll their eyes every time she answers a question.
Then a strange thing happens. Even though you are bored, the lesson is new to you. You shouldn’t really know many of the answers at all, beyond the most basics of magical history. Whenever the teacher asks a question though, you find the answers just tumbling into your head. Then you realise, you didn’t know these things. You still don’t. The Monster knows them, and whenever the right question is asked, his mind opens up to yours like a library. It’s as though all his memories are like books, filed away on dusty bookshelves. You can’t just find anything you want though, you have to know what books there are, and just like you don’t know every book in Hogwarts library, you don’t know what you might find in the Monster’s mind without knowing the right questions to ask.
You imagine yourself walking through the library of the Monster’s mind, and have the curious sensation that you are actually in a building of some sorts. You see in your mind’s eye a series of dusty corridors in an endless and abandoned mansion.
He built this you realise to yourself he made this place, inside his mind, to store his memories. The expression Memory Palace comes to mind. The technique was developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, to store memories for later retrieval. Now, just as the Monster lurks inside your soul and inside your mind, he can’t stop you from wandering inside his mind. Normally, you wouldn’t dare to do so, but with the Monster sleeping for so long, you feel less afraid, and decide to see what you can find.
The endless abandoned mansion stretches into the distance…
Losing track of yourself and your surroundings, you find yourself wandering down dusty empty passageways, long overgrown with weeds and strewn with detritus. The only sound is that of your own heartbeat. You don’t even need to breathe.
The memory palace seems to continue in all directions, stretching on endlessly. You walk down corridors and past abandoned rooms. There is no one and nothing, and the building continues forever. For a terrifying moment, you wonder if it really is infinite, if you could walk these corridors for an eternity and never find your way out.
You are startled by the sound of footsteps. A small child is running along one of the corridors. Your heart jumps into your throat to realise that you are not alone in here. You hear the footsteps getting closer, and suddenly a small child runs out in front of you at a cross section in the corridor, only to vanish as soon as he appeared, running on further into the endless maze.
Your are horrified to realise that you are not alone in the Monster’s mind
You try to follow the footsteps, terrified of what you might find, but also deathly afraid of becoming lost in here, alone for all eternity.
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.
