OK! So, obviously people just don't get how shit's working here. This isn't a chapter. It's an informative object, also a method for the haters to have something to call me out on if I screw something up. This is the ONLY time I'm going to be putting something like this up in this story, therefore the contents within ONLY apply up to the next chapter.

This, is a shittily made, vague little timeline thingie for the events in this particular story, since people can't seem to get it into their heads that this is a friggin AU. As such, I will be noting divergence points from canon, not just the one that brought us to my story, but for others. If anything, just view this as an informational replacement for a prologue.

Event: Harry gets scar.

Voldemort breaks through the protections on the Potter home. Slays James Potter, be it in a duel or just a surprise kill. Lilly Potter finalizes unknown ritual of protection. Voldemort demands she steps aside, multiple times. She refuses all requests. Ritual becomes finalized through her end. Voldemort AK's baby Harry. Ritual shields Harry from the effects, curse rebounds, somehow links the two and creates Voldemort's final Hocrux, along with giving Harry his iconic scar.

Event: Harry's first year at Hogwarts

HP learns he's capable of 'magic'. Tools gathered. Encounters Weasely family outside of Platform. Second encounter with Draco Malfoy, first encounter with Ronald Weasely, Fred and George Weasely, Hermione Granger, upon train. Months pass, Friendship solidified between Harry, Hermione, Ron, through near-death experience involving rogue (summoned) troll. Encounter with Mirror of Erised (Desire), magical artifact capable of initially low grade synchronicity with beholder, revealing the depths of their heart, showing them what it is they desire most, at that point in time. (Apparently bypasses all forms of mental protection). Obtains information about Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone. Reasoning that Severus Snape plans to steal the stone, Trio bypasses meager defenses (really, as if a fully grown decently practiced and knowledged wizard would REALLY have a problem with that? Let alone Voldemort) slowly dwindling in number until only HP is left. HP confronts Quirrell in front of Mirror. Quirrell reveals he holds Voldemort within him. Battle. HP's lingering ritual protection overwhelms Quirrell/Voldemort, Voldemort flees, Quirrell dies, HP knocked unconscious. Year ends.

Event: Second Year

Summer with House Elf Dobby's interference, Weaselys. Encounter with final members of Weasely family, including one Ginerva Weasely. GW incapable of coherent thought around HP, keeps distance. Confrontation with and Lucius Malfoy. Arthur Weasely and Lucius Malfoy battle after Confrontation with Gilderoy Lockheart. After battle LM slips unknown artifact (Tom Riddle's Diary, hocrux) within one of GW's textbooks. Dobby continues to interfere, attempting to "protect" HP as the year continues. Early-midway through year, Unknown Creature (basilisk) begins attacking and subsequently petrifying members of Hogwarts. (Controlled by GW possessed by Soul Fragment of Tom Riddle). Students begin to suspect HP is Heir of Slytherin due to magical linguistic ability classified as "Parseltongue" he holds. (Linguistic ability to converse with snakes, potentially other creatures that share similar traits/common ancestors). Time passes, HG concludes what creature is, gets petrified before she can confirm it with others, hand holds key. GW gets taken down to opened Chamber of Secrets. HP and RW confront GL about chamber, force him down. GL attempts to use RW's broken wand to Obliviate (memory erasure spell) RW and HP of events. Spell backfires. Instability of chamber creates blockage between HP and RW. HP goes on to chamber depths. Finds GW's unconscious form. Confrontation with Manifested form of Tom Riddle's Soul Fragment. Unintentional summoning of Sorting Hat and Immortal Firebird (Phoenix) to HP's side. TR summons Basilisk. Battle. Phoenix gouges out Basilisk's eyes, removing ranged attack. Harry wears hat, launches mental plea for assistance. Hat drops a sword on HP's head. TR directs Basilisk. HP jams sword in Basilisk's mouth, stabbing it through the brain from below, lucky shot. Basilisk lands bite on HP, fang breaks off in his arm. TR gloats. HP grabs Diary/Hocrux, comes to conclusion that Diary is bridge between TR and reality, stabs it with basilisk fang. GW wakes, HP reaches verge of Death. Phoenix heals wound. HP survives.

DIVERGENCE: In normal canon, TR is gone entirely. In this version, small fragment of TR remains within GW. GW, restored to near normal performance, overcomes initial fear, focuses on rage and indignation. GW mentally batters down the unsupported TR fragment, locking it so it is unable to influence her. This goes unknown to anyone.

Event: Third Year

DIVERGENCE: Unknown books appear suddenly in HP's trunk. They speak of things that he cannot comprehend. Their presence is noted, but their existence is largely ignored.

Summer event. Sirius Black escapes Wizarding Prison, Azkaban. Marge Dursley inflicted with unconscious expansion charm. Harry Potter wields powerful unconscious magic to escape Dursleys. HP encounters unknown Black Dog during unintentional summoning of Knight Bus. Encounters Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, at Leaky Caldron. CF informs Harry that everything will be fine back 'home' and that he can stay in the Alley until they leave for Hogwarts. Harry gets slight jumpstart on Third Year work. HP learns SB is apparently after him. Dementors (Soul sucking almost-demon creatures used to guard Azkaban Prison) search Hogwarts Express. HP's first taste of seeing his parents death through memory. Year proceeds. HP learns Patronus Charm, a feat apparently difficult for most spellcasters. SB breaks into Hogwarts silently, attacks RW. RW yells, SB flees. HP gains artifact: Marauder's Map. (Magical device created by HP's father's group, capable of monitoring almost all of Hogwarts, mapping out all passwords and passages in and out of the castle. Uses unknown magic to pierce mental barriers: capable of revealing true personae, should one be looking.) HP sneaks into nearby village, Hogsmade. Learns more of the connection between SP and himself. gets taken by Remus Lupin (DADA teacher, Lycanthrope.) HP gains Top Model broomstick: Firebolt, from unknown benefactor. HG summons Minerva McGonagall to check it over, to HP and RW's irritation. Broom found clean. Used to win Quidditch Cup. SB attacks RW, drags him into hidden passage beneath Whomping Willow. HG and HP pursue. Confrontation. RL appears. Confrontation. Information reveals SB not to be the traitor, but Peter Pettigrew, former Marauder. PP is revealed to have been hiding in plain sight as Scabbers, the Weasely Family Rat. Confrontation. Severus Snape appears, almost ruins entire setup. SS knocked unconscious by three-way Disarming spell. Group begins trek back to Hogwarts. RL's nature as Lycanthrope revealed. Transformation at sight of Full Moon. PP escapes. SB chases. Dementors arrive upon noting SB's presence. HP and HG attempt to use Patronus charm to repel Dementors. Failure. HG falls unconscious. HP pushes on, failing. Dementor prepares to administer Soul Sucking Technique "Dementor's Kiss". Near success. Unknown Patronus interrupts attempt. Dementors flee.

DIVERGENCE: This is the final key. When the Dementor almost sucks out Harry's soul, that counts as the final key to connecting him to the Void. After this point, the times where he touched death, when he was a baby, after being poisoned by the basilisk, and almost having his very soul sucked out, those multiple connections to the Void grant him access to Magical Sight ability: Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. (known in Wizarding World as 'Deadly Sight').

SS wakes. Carries group to hospital wing, SB captured, pending Dementor's Kiss. Dumbledore arrives, informs HG and HP that there is still a chance to save SB. HG and HP use HG's time-turner (magical device, time traveling object capable of warping someone backwards in time to that exact location.) to return to three hours prior. HG and HP free Buckbeak, Hagrid's Hippogryph that was meant to be slain due to a mishap triggered by Draco Malfoy earlier in the year. They witness many of the nights events from an outside view. HP goes off, believing that it was his father who somehow returned from the dead for a brief moment, to save his life. Realizes it was himself. HP casts Patronus that chases away nearly one-hundred Dementors. HP and HG use Buckbeak to fly up to window of room where SB is held. They free SB, who takes Buckbeak and flees. Year Ends. RW receives tiny Owl from SB, as penance for causing RW's rat to be revealed as a human, thus costing him a pet.

DIVERGENCE: Upon returning to Privet Drive, HP begins seeing "lines" on objects, randomly. It is at this point he decides to actually begin reading the books found in his trunk. Self Proclaimed "Tome of Awesome" discovered. (Semi-sentient book written by wandering Deity. Contains knowledge, musings, research, calculations and all manner of ideas behind the use, practice and study of energy form known as 'Magic.' Information within is generally the same no matter what reader, but can potentially change depending on the mentality and knowledge base of the beholder. Capable of connecting specific beholders to unknown magical amplification device known as 'The Tower'.) Law book on Ancient Families and the Laws that surround them discovered. "Tome of Awesome" reveals HP's strange visions to be a Magical Effect. HP begins following instructions inside book, secretly, not wanting his new ability to draw more attention to himself.

Event: Fourth Year

Quidditch world cup event. Death Eaters return and attack. Unknown being unleashes "Dark Mark" into the sky. HP's wand is apparently used to do so. Ministry Official Crouch 'releases' House Elf 'Winky' upon finding her with the wand. Actions trigger irritated response from HG. Year Begins. They Learn of the Triwizard Tournament, a dangerous game that had been outlawed years ago for the death toll, but is being returned this year for unknown reasons. RW wishes to enter, HP muses about it, but ultimately decides it's not worth the danger. Reveal: Contestants are known as 'Champions'. Champions are called: From Durmstrang (School reputed to focus on 'Darker' forms of magic from Bulgaria) Victor Krum, international Quidditch star. From Beauxbatons (School from France) Fleur Delacour, part-veela, magically entrancing beauty. From Hogwarts: Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff house (defeated HP in Quidditch once, due to interference of Dementors and their immense effects on HP.) The three champions enter back room, and Goblet flares up once more. Harry Potter, is called as the fourth champion. Confused, knowing that he didn't put his name in the goblet, nor did he ask someone to do it for him, he proceeds. Fallout occurs not only among the three school headmasters, but within Hogwarts as well.

DIVERGENCE: In original Canon, RW left Harry, his jealousy blinding him and disallowing him to realize that Harry wouldn't have found some way to put his name in, on top of blinding him to the logic that there are meant to only be THREE champions. Therefore even if Harry DID put his own name in the cup, it would have either been him chosen, or Cedric. Not both. It's revealed by Moody that whoever did it, must have spelled the cup to believe that there were to be four schools. (how this is possible is unknown, considering the cup is supposedly some form of randomization factor, unless it's somehow semi-sentient as well). In original Canon, Hermione remained by HP's side, though she had her doubts. In this story, she allowed her knowledge that Harry would break the rules (but not further rationalizing that HP only does so if someone's life is on the line) to color her view, along with how obviously she was allowing herself to be swept into the Wizarding World's ways. This triggers the events that take place in this story.

Story begins.


THERE. It's done. NOW hopefully that will shut the haters up. Yes, I know there's only two of them, but if they'd just left a brief flame I wouldn't care. But obviously for SOME reason my story offended them so horribly they couldn't keep their mouths shut. THIS IS AN AU. It doesn't follow canon exactly, in fact it starts smack dab in the middle of it. I've loosely mapped out the plot of the four books, posted the deviations that led us to my story beginning. I don't care if this story has bloody cliché's out the ASS. Almost EVERYTHING has been done before. So far I think I'm one of the first to give Harry ANY form of the MEoDP, even if they aren't the exact version, it doesn't matter. The book is nuts, yes, it's basically a screw you to plot? No. If Tom fucking Riddle can make a damn Diary that houses ALL of his knowledge up to him being sixteen (and possibly some time after) then why the hell is it such a bloody problem that an immortal wrote a book, published multiple copies, spelled them all to seek out those who are worth it (yes, this means that there are people outside of Harry's knowledge that have one) left it with a spell to slightly bond it to the reader, and filled it with everything he knew up until the point he published it?

For all of you who have reviewed already, left either neutral or positive ones, and for all of you who are tracking this story, thank you. You're the ones I write for, you're the ones who may think "alright, this is a bit goofy but hey, it tickles my pickle, lets go with it. You're the people who make it fun to write. Thank you, and keep reading, EVERYTHING you read. Not just my crap. Those of you who end up leaving negative ones, well, depending on the contents, and whether or not you're willing to look past canon and "cliché", or are willing to listen to my explanations, apply them to the story and return to a neutral setting, I'll either say thank you, or fuck off.

THIS IS REPLACING THE FIRST CHAPTER.