Disclaimer: These characters are totally not mine - they belong to JK Rowling.

A/N: This story is told entirely in journal format. Also, it will be OC-centric. The main characters besides Lisa will be Harry, Luna, Hermione, and Neville.

February 15th, 1990

Being a witch means that unusual things happen around you all the time. So I suppose after being a witch for the ten years of my existence, I should be used to such things. But last night something happened that I believe will change my life.

I mean, I've heard of people having visions before. True Sight, the gift is called.

Three nights ago, in the ten hours that I slept, I had a dream that encompassed the events of seven years.

The dream read like a story book, and it focused on the life on one Harry James Potter, the so-called Savior of the Wizarding World. I'm sure you already know why he is thought to be the Savior.

My dream told me all about Harry's life at Hogwarts, and showed him learning his lessons, flying for his Quidditch team, and having some boring conversations with his friend Ron Weasley about chess, quidditch, and not much else.

There was touch of romance at the end of the dream, a bit of comedy, a lot of obvious foreshadowing, and way too many seeming 'deus ex machinas', as my brother Nathan likes to call them.

At the end of the dream, one Hermione Granger (Harry's best friend) declared that she had put together this information, in an effort to send it back to Harry's younger body. She hoped it would help Harry defeat Voldemort, and in the process save many innocent lives.

Well, I'm not sure how, but the dream came to me instead of Harry.

It was pretty confusing getting bombarded with all those memories. I mean, I barely remember anything from before I was four years old, but somehow I haven't forgotten a single bit of the 'dream.' Every moment is clear in my memory, easy to recall at any given moment.

Hermione said, at the very end of the dream, that the memories will not fade as normal ones would, because they are anchored to a small pin that should be invisible to anyone but me. The pin is very tiny, and spikes through the top of my left ear, below the top curve. It almost looks like an earring.

When I woke up, I had quite the headache, which I quickly realized came from the pain of having the pin pierce my ear. Due to some spells on the pin, I wasn't bleeding, but the pain didn't go away mostly until this morning - three days later. (Let me just say I won't be hurrying to get any more piercings, no matter what my girly cousins say.)

As I said, I was confused, and it took me a few days to decide what to vision has many bits of information about the future that could be tremendously useful to me, my family, and the wizarding world in general.

I've always had some simple goals about what to do with my life. I've wanted to go to Hogwarts, do reasonably well on my N.E.W.T.s, and get a job, maybe with the Ministry, or get a research job like Mum.

Now I've been handed what amounts to a shiny golden ticket that's unlocked thousands of doors to me. Of course, sadly, the dream shows that Tom Riddle, a.k.a. Voldemort, most commonly known as You-know-who(one of the most ridiculous names I've ever heard), will come back to power and almost destroy Wizarding Britain.

I sure as hell don't want that to happen. So now I can use all of my new memories to make sure Voldemort never takes charge of the wizarding world.

Of course, I've listened to my parents debate since I began to read when I was four. They love to talk about what should be done to change the wizarding world to benefit everybody. Dad believes in the creation of a better healthcare system, and a restructured prison. Mum focuses mostly on debating how to have better education principles and a more stable economy. They also both agree that a more cautious Secrecy Policy would make things better – and that could only lead to higher approval for the leader who mandates these changes.

Mum and Dad both despise Cornelius Fudge, who apparently caters to the rich minority of bigoted Purebloods. "Cornelius Fudge has set our country back an entire generation," Dad loves to say.

Fortunately, I've been given several methods of removing Fudge from power. Maybe then we'll have someone competent in charge. Before I try to sway the political system too much, I should try to destroy the biggest obstacle to future change - Tom Riddle.

Voldemort must be destroyed, and so must his followers - the ridiculously termed 'Death Eaters' (seriously, who ever came up with these names?).

The dream gave me the names of twenty-seven Death Eaters, who I will hereafter call Death Munchers in this journal. Of course I'm sure there are more of them, but the ones I've heard of seem to be the most important.

[So there are the seventeen Death Eaters that are currently on the loose. They are Barty Crouch, Peter Pettigrew, Lucius Malfoy, Seth Avery, Aiden Nott, Vaughn Crabbe, Rupert Goyle, Edmund Travers, Walden Macnair, Antony Jugson, Robert Yaxley, Igor Karkaroff, Gavin Gibbon, Thorfinn Rowle, Amycus Carrow, Alecto Carrow, and Fenrir Greyback.]

[Then, there are ten Death Eaters currently in Azkaban... I'm not sure what to do about them, but I certainly shouldn't do nothing, not after learning of how easy it seems to be to escape from the Wizarding prison. They are Antonin Dolohov, Augustus Rookwood, Nathan Mulciber, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan Lestrange, Alioth Gamp, Rigel Damion, Samuel Cheney. and Hubert Manson.]

Once Riddle's little 'support group' is taken care of in some way, one of the next steps will be to destroy his horcruxes (separated pieces of his soul that allow him to cling to to this world and not die).

There are currently six horcruxes – Riddle's diary(In the possession of Lucius Malfoy), Marvolo Gaunt's ring(In the ruins of the Gaunt House), Slytherin's locket(Number 12 Grimmauld Place), Ravenclaw's diadem(The Room of Requirement in Hogwarts), Hufflepuff's goblet(Bellatrix Lestrange's Gringotts vault), and Harry Potter's scar(thankfully Hermione has told me how to get rid of it!).

Also, I have to find a way to destroy the bones of Tom Riddle's father in order to prevent a body-regaining ritual he plans to use which needs the 'bones of the father' to succeed.

Once all of his followers and his advantages are incapacitated, Tom Riddle must be killed.

I doubt I'll be able to do that myself. I mean, I love to read, but that's just theory. And anyways, my magical core is still growing, and won't reach full potential until I'm at least 18. Of course, in the dream, there was an annoying prophecy that clearly insinuates that Harry Potter is the only one that can defeat Riddle. Perhaps its true, but I'm not sure... A week ago, I might have discounted it entirely, but I find it easier to believe a prophecy now that I've had my own prophetic dream.

I've also seen Harry's life history. I know that he was raised by hateful muggles who didn't give him proper nourishment, allowed their own son to bully him, and never showed the child any affection at all. I may not be a psychologist, but I can tell that's neglect, if not emotional and verbal abuse. Harry is possibly scarred for life. I hope not, of course - I feel as if I know him well already, having seen many years of his memories.

If Harry does need to be the one to defeat Voldemort, I'm going to be the best person to help him! With my knowledge, I can help teach him more about, well, everything. Hogwarts can do some things, but not many. In the dream, I realized that I quite admire Hermione, and would like to accomplish as much, if not more, as she did when at Hogwarts.

Unlike Hermione, Harry seemed to slack off for most of his time at Hogwarts, and scraped by in his classes on his natural talent. Honestly, it is mostly because he followed the example of the first person to befriend him - Ronald Weasley.

I have to say I'm not a big fan of Ronald Weasley. He was generally unkind to Hermione for many years, was constantly jealous of Harry for things Harry never chose to have, and even abandoned them twice - in 4th year and of course in 7th year. How Hermione put up with him I'll never understand. Also, most of the things Ronald did, even up until he was seventeen, seem immature to me - and I'm only ten years old!

The other thing I'm worried about is Albus Dumbledore. Hermione made it very clear in the dream what Dumbledore's full history was.

I'll include my notes on Dumbledore here, in case I need to reference them later.

[ Many people think of Albus Dumbledore as the greatest wizard of all time. This is quite an impressive belief. How exactly did Dumbledore get all this fanfare? He gained power by being "good," fighting for the people, refusing absolute power(the job of Minister), but secretly manipulated everyone behind their backs.

Examples of this: Dumbledore had Harry placed with his muggle relatives, and set him up for a childhood of misery. Then, when Harry came to Hogwarts, he would be so grateful to have escaped the Dursleys, that he would think of Dumbledore as his savior. This is exactly what happened in the dream. Harry trusted the Headmaster absolutely, even when it seemed that Dumbledore let dangerous things happen to Harry.

Somehow Dumbledore did not realize, despite his powers of legilimency, that Riddle was possessing his Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Quirinus Quirrell, for an entire school year. Of course, he often allowed incompetent teachers at his school (Snape(abusive of students, and of his power), Binns (ineffective at least), Trelawney (useless), Quirrell (possessed), Lockhart (clueless and useless), Hagrid(good man, bad teacher), Moody (actually Barty Crouch Junior under polyjuice), Umbridge (sack of dung)) when he should be finding the best Professors possible to teach the youth.

My parents often speak of the deteriorating quality of education in Britain, but I never realized just how bad it can get! Dumbledore also chose to keep the Philosopher's Stone, a target for many power-hungry people, in the school, past an obstacle course that three first years could pass through easily – thereby endangering the lives of hundreds of school children needlessly.

Then, in Harry's second year, he hired the incompetent Lockhart and seemed to be doing nothing to search for the cause of the petrifications. At the end of Harry's third year, he allowed Dementors access to the grounds, where they almost Kissed Harry. Dumbledore also encouraged Harry and Hermione to break the law and use a Time Turner to save Sirius Black (an innocent man imprisoned in Azkaban for twelve years without trial - Dumbledore could easily have pushed for such a trial years earlier as the Head of the Wizengamot), rather then simply informing them that they could testify under veritaserum or give pensieve memories to prove Black's innocence.

Dumbledore refused to tell Harry of the prophecy for many years, and forced him to return to the Dursleys on the trumped up reason of 'blood wards,' which Dobby was easily able to breach. In Harry's fourth year, Dumbledore forced him to participate in a dangerous competition with wizards of twice his experience, against Harry's will. He also was unable to recognize that a 'good friend' of his, Alastor Moody, was actually a Death Muncher impersonator. Dumbledore allowed Rita Skeeter access to the school grounds and didn't do anything to stop the hurtful gossip that she wrote about his students. The next year, Dumbledore allowed Umbridge to teach Defense, where she taught practically nothing and gave out detentions for the simplest things. Her use of a blood quill on students was immoral and highly illegal, yet Dumbledore let it happen.

In summary, because Dumbledore has almost absolute power, he abuses it. No matter what he really thought he was doing, whether it was for the "Greater Good" or not, he effectively ruined the life of Harry Potter, and probably many others in the bargain (Why did Dumbledore never try to clear Hagrid's unfairly blemished name, even when he knew of the half-giant's innocence, and could have used his influence to get him a wand again?). He made it so Harry had nothing to live for, and let Voldemort kill him during the Final Battle. Harry Potter's life is one I would not wish on anyone.]

I will definitely have to be careful around Dumbledore. Thankfully I won't have to deal with him until I go to Hogwarts in eighteen months.

Eighteen months... I should definitely try to change things before then. After all, at Hogwarts I will probably be limited to the castle and nearby grounds. A lot of my plans involve travel... which is an issue I definitely need to figure out.

Who am I kidding? I have a TON of things to figure out. If I want to save the Wizarding World, I need to prepare myself for my tasks. Right now I don't even own a wand.

What do I have going for me? My brains, I suppose, in addition to the new seven years of memories. My mum has always said I'm a shoo-in for Ravenclaw - I read all the time, and often about magic. I love having liberal parents!

I don't need to study much at this point - I have the memories of hundreds of books and thousands of lectures and tests - including the O.W.L. and N.E.W.T exams - in my head! But of course its all theory until I start practicing casting the spells.

Since I don't have a wand, I'll have to start practicing wandless magic. Unfortunately, that's apparently even harder, since you don't have a magical core to use to focus your magic with.

Well, I should go start working if I'm going to save the world. I'll make sure to keep writing in this journal.