Chapter Four: Deaths and Returns

Ever since that day when Max and Tom set forth the Basilisk twenty students had been petrified but none had been killed, something a small part of Max was glad about even if he knew that Myrtle would die he knew if she didn't Hogwarts would close and things had the ability to become a lot worse than they already were. Sometimes, he considered telling Tom about the future but he couldn't risk changing things, if he did he might never come back and if that happened he would never change the future… It gave him a headache just thinking about it.

So instead he continued on with his life as if nothing was wrong.

Slowly the attacks grew more and more frequent and he knew that the death of Myrtle would come soon as Dippett began talks of seriously closing Hogwarts until the creature causing the petrification of the students and one staff member was caught.

It had been a relatively normal day as of late and Max hadn't thought anything unusual would happen until the announcement echoed throughout the school, ordering all students to return to their common rooms until further notice and all staff to report to the staff room.

Max, frowned before it occurred to him what it might be. He knew Tom wasn't in the common room just then but hadn't given it much thought and he did know that Myrtle did die around now though he wasn't aware of the exact date so it made sense it was that.

Noticing the common room entrance open he noticed Tom standing there looking slightly scared but pleased with himself too which further lead to Max's conclusion of what was occurring. Tom suddenly turned and left the common room, no doubt going to talk to Dumbledore and frame Hagrid much like he did in the scene Max had scene in his second year.

It was then that he got a bad feeling in his stomach, the worst that he ever had.

He wasn't sure why he did what he was doing but he had grabbed some parchment and a quill and had started to pen a letter to Tom explaining everything, telling him everything and hoping he would understand why he had done what he had and urged him not to change the timeline so that these events would still occur.

Little did Max know that his disappearance during that night would be what set Tom fully on the path to becoming the Dark Lord.