Chapter 1: THE BEGINNING AT THE END

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The Battlefield is covered in blood and bodies. Everyone watched some in joy and others in supreme horror as Lord Voldemort struck the finishing blow to the lights last hope. Harry James Potter who had countless times in the past defeated Voldemort was unable to overcome a final time. As the sickly green light struck him in his chest and he fell to his knees, he spoke just two words as the light left his emerald colored eyes. He turned his head to face the love of his life, his wife of two years and said I'm sorry.

Hermione Potter awoke in a cold sweat over the dream that she had just had. Even fifteen years after the battle she still had nightmares of the last time she had seen her beloved husband. After twenty-four years in the magical world she decided that she had had enough and wanted it to end. Today was the day that all of her hard work would come to fruition the potion lay ready, she was going to finally be reunited with her lost love. The potion was a unique mixture of eternal slumber and draught of living death, after she drank the potion she would slip into an irreversible coma of dreams filled with the good memories of the life that she had shared with Harry. As she prepared to drink the potion that would finally free her from her pain a brilliant white light filled her vision.

"Hermione come with me, a voice said from within the light." Unable to resist the command she felt her feet leading her to the source of the voice, Struggle as she might she was unable to stop her hands from loosening and dropping the goblet to the floor spilling in it's contents the work of the last five years of her life.

"Where are we going?" she finally managed to ask.

"All will be revealed in time" was the only response she was given. As the voice spoke again she found herself in an immense marble chamber. Pillars of pearl, and onyx helped to support a ceiling that appeared to Hermione to be made of pure gold, the windows stained glass made from diamonds and other precious stones. As she stood there wondering why and where she was the same voice told her "be seated."

As Hermione looked around for a seat she saw an ornately designed wooden chair, after she sat in the chair a desk appeared in front of her and sitting in a chair on the other side of the desk was a man wearing a simple white robe. The man sat silently for a moment as if he was waiting for something. After a couple of minutes a young man walked up to the man sitting at the desk and handed him a folder. After the man had read some of the information in the file a frown formed on his face.

"Excuse me sir" Hermione asked tentatively, "could you please tell me where I am and why I am here."

"Well Mrs. Potter you are in the H.O.L.D. And the reason you are here is because actions that you were responsible for caused massive damage to the time line, which in short have doomed the Earth to destruction" the man replied.

"What could I have done that would have had effects that far reaching sir?" Hermione asked.

"Please call me Simon and before I can answer your question I need for you to read over these papers" as he said this he removed a stack of papers from the file and handed them to her.

As she read through the pages what she found was a detailed list of everything that she had done since she entered the magical world. Everything that she had done for the first four years of her magical life were listed, although a few of the things on the pages were not quite what she remembered. When she turned the page of her fourth year to look at her fifth year she discovered that all of the pages were blank. "Simon why are all of the pages blank after my fourth year?" She asked.

"They are blank Hermione because it was after fourth year that your actions began to damage the very fabric of time itself." Simon answered with a frown on his face.

"But what did I do?" Hermione asked.

"Unfortunately I am not allowed to tell you what action or actions you took were responsible for the damage done. What I can tell you though is if you can figure out what you did you may be given a chance to correct the mistakes and put things right again" Simon responded as he handed her a large stack of pages. "In these pages are two different time lines. One of things that were and the others of things that should have been. If you can sort them out you will see what you did wrong and hopefully how you can fix it" after he finished speaking Simon got up and walked away from the desk.

After going through what must have been hundreds of pages of the last nineteen years of her life she had tears falling down her cheeks as she saw how badly her mistakes had changed things. Harry should not have fallen in the last battle. He died because he had not found his greatest power, he had died because she by loving him had stopped him from finding the one who was made just for him. As she placed the last page onto the things that should have been Simon reappeared before her and asked her if she was ready to face the maker.

With tears running down her cheeks all she was able to do was nod her head in acceptance of fate. She followed Simon down a hallway until she entered the most beautiful room she had ever seen. As she entered the room she heard a voice that sounded more beautiful than words can describe call her name.

"Hermione Potter" the voice called.

She raised her head to look upon the face of the maker and just shook her head.

"So my child you have seen the error of your ways I see. Now tell me are you willing to correct your mistakes and put things back to how they were supposed to be?" the maker asked.

"I will do whatever it takes for Harry to survive and be happy even if it means that I will never be happy myself■ Hermione responded as tears continued to run down her cheeks.

⌠My child fear not for with the changes you will make you too shall find happiness" the maker responded.

"But there was no mention of me having a relationship or anything like that listed in the pages of what should have been. I thought that that meant that I was destined to live alone" she replied.

"No my child I created someone for everyone and your partner will help you to do many great things and though I will not tell you who it is I will tell you that helping Harry will draw you to him" the maker replied. "Now when would you like to return?"

"I would like to return to Halloween of my third year please" Hermione replied.

"Very well my child go in peace and live happy" the maker said and then she was gone.

Hermione woke up at the crack of dawn on Halloween morning and began making a plan. Sher silently crept down the girls stairs and then back up the boys stairs. She cast a very quiet stunning spell at Ron's pet rat, Scabbers and then with an equally quiet wingardium leviosa floated the stunned rat to her and placed it in her bag. Phase one complete she thought to herself. Grabbing Harry's invisibility cloak from his trunk she made her way as quickly as she could to the headmaster's office, only to realize that she didn't know the password. Harry had told her that the password was always some kind of sweet so she tried every kind of magical candy she could think of and finally getting it with lemon drops. As she rode the stairway up to the Headmaster's office she pondered how she would convince Dumbeldore of what she knew without revealing what she was not able to reveal.

"Come in Miss Granger" Albus said as she was preparing to knock on the door.

"Professor Dumbeldore sir there are some things that I need to show you and some things that I need to tell you and I need for you to please trust that I what I tell or show you is the truth but not ask where or how I came by this knowledge" Hermione said.

"Well now miss Granger that is an unusual request however since you are the top student of your year and have not been prone to getting into unnecessary trouble without outside influence of course I can give you my word that I will try and believe everything that you have to show and tell me" Albus said with a twinkle in his eye.

"Thank you so much sir you have no idea how much this is going to help everyone out" Hermione said. "Before I begin though sir I would like for you to have professors Snape and Lupin to come and hear this as well and for professor Snape to bring a vial of veritiserum please."

"Will all of this be necessary miss Granger?" Albus asked with a touch of concern at the necessity of veritiserum .

"I'm afraid so professor what I am about to tell you could have a major impact on the entire wizarding world as well as a more direct impact on Harry" Hermione said with certainest.

"Very well then miss Granger I will do as you have requested" Albus said as he wrote two quick messages on parchments and then he called his phoenix Fawkes to him. "Fawkes old friend I need for you to deliver these messages to professors Snape and Lupin please." As soon as Albus was finished attaching the letters to his claws Fawkes disappeared in a burst of flames only to return a minute later and return to sleep on his perch.

Several minutes later professor Lupin entered the office followed a minute late by a grumbling professor Snape. "Headmaster I do hope that there is a good reason for summoning me this early in the morning" Severus said with a slight sneer in his voice as he saw Hermione.

"Yes Severus I do believe that I have good reason to have summoned you although I do not at this time know precisely what that reason is so if miss Granger would be so kind as to inform us all of the information that she has to share then we can get on with our day" Albus said with a twinkle still evident in his eye.

"Thank you professor" Hermione said, "I need for you to cast an anti portkey spell please, I need for professor Lupin to cast the reverse animangus spell on this rat and I need for professor Snape to administer the veritiserum to the untransformed rat. So without further ado let me reintroduce you all to the long thought dead Peter Pettigrew who I believe you will find after questioning was actually the secret keeper for the Potters and was the one who betrayed the to Voldemort and not Sirius who has been unlawfully imprisoned for all of these years." As she finished speaking she pulled Scabbers out of her bag and placed him on the floor.

With a quick flick of his wand professor Dumbeldore sealed off not only portkeys but also disabled floo travel for the time being.

Although he found what was happening to be very unbelievable Remus Lupin nonetheless was not willing to take a chance that an injustice would continue to occur so he pointed a shaking wand at the rat and said the incantation "Animagus Revertus." In a flash of blue light where only moments before had lain the rat Scabbers laid the stunned form of Peter Pettigrew. As the realization that his best friend had spent the last 12 years of his life locked in prison for a crime that he did not commit Remus Lupin fell to his knees. "What have I done? How can I ever expect for him to forgive me for helping to sentence him to hell for the last twelve years. How can I expect Harry to forgive me for being one of the ones responsible for the hell that he has to call a home." As Remus was speaking tears began falling down His cheeks.

Hermione used her wand to bind Peter tightly with ropes before she revived him from his stunned condition. As h Peter began to regain consciousness Snape administered the veritiserum before he was able to begin struggling.

After Peter was safely secured Albus began the questioning. "What is your name."

Peter answered even though he clearly didn't want to "Peter Pettigrew."

"Were you the secret keeper at the Potters Home?" Albus asked.

"Yes" Peter answered.

"What happened in the early morning hours of November 1, 1981 when Sirius Black encountered you?" Remus interjected.

"He asked me why I had betrayed my best friends why I had turned to follow Voldemort. I told him that I had no idea what he was talking about and then while he was distracted I cut off my finger and cast an area reductor curse, transformed into my animangus form and lived at the Weasley's for all this time and no one was ever the wiser until now" Peter responded.

"Why did you betray James and Lily?" Albus asked.

"Because the dark lord offered me power, power that I could have never had as long as I was just little Peter tag-a-long to Potter and his friends" Peter answered as he spit at Remus.

After they finished questioning Peter Dumbeldore sent Fawkes with a message for Madame Amelia Bones head of the D.M.L.E. Who upon arrival at the office and seeing the supposedly dead Peter Pettigrew placed him into custody and issued an immediate order clearing Sirius Black of all charges.

As Hermione left the office and headed for her dormitory she couldn't help but think that things had gone pretty well so far but there was still plenty left to do.