Foreward

Caution: Long Intro. Standard disclamimers apply. You may skip this , and if you want to dive straight to the action , go to Chapter 2.

Let me first clear the air here . This is not a serious fic . This came out of being very carried away from some crazy idea , a concoction of Time-travel (or Peggy Sue for Tropers out there) fics , the concept of Mary Sue , ( scratch that , God mode Sue) , and (attempted) parody that tries to take itself too seriously , when it's evident that it's based on insane premises . Mix , match , stir and take this cocktail up to 11. I admit it , it's borderline crack , and an attempt to take certain concepts and tropes and play around with it.

What this fic aims to be however, is a Take That to all those thousands of time-travel fics where Harry/Hermione/Insert Character here travels back from the future , to rectify and bring forth a more favorable out come , as opposed to canon. Now imagine for a moment how this could be taken up to eleven. Let's imagine that time-travel across time-lines has become commonplace , about as commonplace as , say Apparation in Harry Potter verse . Let's assume that this world is immune from time paradoxes- I find deterministic time-travel boring. If you kill your grandfather , you simply create a new parallel universe/time-line where your grandfather was killed by an unknown gunman , and you could simply return to your own universe , your existence intact , since your time-line still exist

Now , imagine the magic of Harry Potter verse , brought forth millenniums into the future . Imagine , instead of an odd traveler back in time , we have an entire state built on time-travel , and time-lines , expanding their reach through these time-lines , usually by contact and integration with less prominent time-lines , occasionally by subversion , and in the worst case scenario , outright conquest. This is not a Time-travel Corp. Why should we stop at the Corp level? Why not armies of time-travelers , uncounted millions , billions , quadrillions of agents dispatched at all four corners of the frontier of the Time State , making contact with , investigating , and working to integrate time-lines at the borders into the larger Multi-temporal/Universal community at large.

Imagine that civilization being far advanced , ahead of us . FTL travel , teleportation , (this is a major plot point here) , instant learning , astounding feats of genetic and Space Engineering , Dyson Spheres , artificial realities and more abound. A society that has hit the Singularity , breached Class 3 on the Kardashev scale, travels through time .

Let's not stop there , shall we? How shall we send down our hypothetical agent whose going to make first contact with a time-line , and play a decisive role in integrating the time-line into this multi-universal society. Of course we would send our best . The smartest , most astute , good in everything , as little imperfections as anyone. Most of all , they must be charismatic , and moral . For Great Justice! Characters are welcome to apply , so long as they are not that naive, and meet the qualifications. Well, what I've described here is a Sue . At least , that is how I understand a Sue . However , not all Sues are created equal – Ebony vs Haruhi is not a contest at all , for example. So this Sue is a superior brand of Sues.

Now , let's throw in a third trope , the Bad Guy wins . We know it , in Harry Potter fanfics as – Voldermort Wins! There are lots of them out there , and I have opinions of how such a scenario could possibly play out (something touched on later in this fic , actually). Most are rather dark (duh!), and disturbing number of them involve this or that character subjugated to imprisonment , torture , and whatever screwed up scenarios authors here can come up with . I;m going to take a pot-shot at this . Now , in a Voldermort Wins Fic , unless one was to write about Character X captivity , or Harry resurrects and leads the resistance, or a fic set soon after the last battle, it's my opinion that we should kill of all named members of the Order of the Phoenix still in the open. With Harry dead , they are redundant. Let's also kill all named protagonists too . The big three goes , the Weasely family goes , Luna is a goner , you know what – let's just take Kill them all to it's logical conclusion and just write off all the canon protagonists cast . Let's keep the canon antagonist though.

Now our main protagonist is not any of the above . It's one of the numerous faceless , nameless muggleborns in Hogwarts , who we know nothing about . Certainly not a Gryfindor , but I am more comfortable writing someone of above-average intelligence here , and fairly studious , so Ravenclaw it is. It makes things easier to write. Now , how is it like for Muggle Borns during the Wizarding war? It's definitely suicidal for a Muggle Born to remain in Hogwarts for long – but many Muggle Borns no doubt know no better . But for those who remained for long , I suspect the DA took them in, and protected them if possible. But in a Voldermort Wins world , their fate is no doubt going to be brutal. At the very least , they would form an underclass (hinted at , in canon) , and no doubt some of them would be killed , tortured , enslaved and all other … unpleasantires that would merit an M rating if a fanfic wanted to explore it. I suspect it will be the young that are most at risk at falling into the second category – Voldermort has recruited no shortage of deviants . And some would resist , and many will be on the run – like Dean Thomas.

Our protgaonist falls in to the last three categories . Protected by the DA when they were forced into the Room of Requirement , on the run after the Battle of Hogwarts , joined a small resistance cell in the aftermath , and finally captured , with all it's attendant implications I don't think I need to mention. The story starts with her dying , and the time-traveler arriving. And , so , it begins . A tale of what is a Soul , Minds , time-travel , Mary Sue Hood , PTSD , beamspam and plotting.

For those who read my previous story Destiny Emissary , you could probably notice similarities with the setup of both stories . I prefer to think of it as a story running side by side with it, just another possibility. Main difference is , I'm trying to avoid a Sue in that story , and toning down the time-travelers powers . Having been stucked , and not updating it for over a year , I've decided to just let it rip , and write the setting , as I see it , less constricted by the context of canon and trying keep characters in character, and just go all out. My idea , in it's unrestrained form.

There are several inspirations behind my fiction . Firstly , JK Rowling's Harry Potter's verse in which this fiction is set, of course. The concept and technological levels of the Culture , a Sci-fi civilization in a series by Iain Banks (far higher than Star Wars or Star Trek ), as well as the way they deal with less advanced civilizations, is another . Then , there's the anime Haruhi Suzumiya , which basically is my inspiration for exploring the forbidden depths of Kingdom of Suedom . And also , the fanfic Kyon Big Damn Heroes , for it's self-proclaimed TV Tropes crossover – I will conscious try to exercise tropes deliberatley here. And finally , there's another anime , Lyrical Nanoha which inspired the concept of a State encompassing multiple time-lines , and set me thinking on how such a state might actually work , especially if it has Culture Levels of technology, or even higher. Standards disclaimers apply, suffice to say , none of these works that inspired me belong to me – I'm just drawing inspiration , or playing with it.

Is it safe for me to putup disclaimers in the intro , or should it be repeated every chapter?

Still with me ? That was quite a long intro isn't it ? I think I'll start with the story now.