Disclaimer: The characters, settings, etc. of the Harry Potter series are not mine. I just play with them.

Regarding Time Travel
Prologue

Hermione seated herself in a chair before her kitchen table and set her cup of tea down away from her work area. She spread the six pieces of parchment she carried in her other hand before her. Lifting her wand, she softly said, "accio quill, accio ink," sending the items flying through her flat from where she'd had them last to land neatly on the table beside her tea. Waving her wand twice, she charmed the five pieces of parchment she would not be writing on to show all that she wrote on the sixth.

Satisfied that she was sufficiently prepared, she picked up her quill from the table. She dipped the nub into the ink bottle, and placing it on the piece of parchment that lay directly before her, she began to write.

To: Supervising Board, Time Travel Research
Department of Magical Transportation
Ministry of Magic, London

From: Hermione J. Granger
Head Researcher, Time Travel Research
Department of Magical Transportation
Ministry of Magic, London

Subject: Re: Time Travel by way of Potions

Dears Sirs and Madams:

As you know, recent discoveries made in research regarding the use of Potions in the field of Time Travel have made experimentation imperative. I have conducted many preliminary experiments with a Time Travel potion using rats.

As far as I am able to discern, the experiments have been successful. After feeding the rats the potion, they have disappeared from the lab. If my research was conducted correctly, the potion should be sending them into another time, but it is impossible to know for sure. Rats are limited test subjects for they are unable to give themselves the potion needed to send them back to the present. Thus, while I am able to send many rats to a different time period, I am unable to bring any of them back to gather complete data.

It is for this reason that I am writing you. I have spent a great amount of time researching and brewing this set of time traveling potions, and I am quite certain that they should be successful. With your permission, I would like to prove it. I would like to conduct a highly controlled experiment in which I test these potions on myself. In doing this, I would be able to gather complete data delineating the efficiency and the overall effectiveness of this potion.

I understand that such an experiment could prove to be quite dangerous and that I would be risking my life in the process. But, this is a risk I am willing to take in the pursuit of knowledge. I am confident that the potions will yield successful results, and I do not greatly fear for my life.

I urge you to consider my request and hope that you will grant me your permission to conduct this experiment. I thank you for your time and consideration on this matter.

Sincerely,
Hermione J. Granger
Head Researcher
Order of Merlin, 2nd Class

When she had finished signing the parchments, she folded them up and stuffed each one into an envelope. Once she'd finished, she addressed each envelope to the six members of the Supervising Board and placed them on her kitchen counter beside her keys.

In the morning, she would bring the letters to the local Public Owlery. And then, once her letters had been posted, Hermione would wait.

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Author's Note: In my opinion, the use of time travel in fan fiction is terribly clichéd. Particularly in this pairing. Under normal circumstances, I would not have used it, but the original idea that inspired this story is dependent upon it. So, please, please, please forgive my use of it. I will endeavor to make it happen in a quasi-original manner, and I promise that there will be no time turners involved.

With that said, thanks for reading the prologue! I hope you stick around for the rest!