A/N: This story is Canon compliant with Lord Voldemort's history until he returns to Hogwarts the second time.
As such, Tom has already started making Horcruxes - at least 4 - and is very influential with the Ministry and the Purebloods, but isn't really the "Dark Lord" as yet.
Also, there are no formal Death Eaters, just very influential and prejudiced Slytherins who stick together calling themselves "The Knights of Walpurgis" (proto-DEs).
March 2013
Tom Riddle, in his bid for Pureblood Supremacy, targeted large amounts of Muggle populace, effectively destroying the Magical Secrecy and Muggle Protection Act.
June 2001 marked yet another change of regime in Muggle England. The only difference between the new Prime Minister and all the others was that, unlike his predecessors, this Prime Minister did not take the existence of another World within his, over which he had no jurisdiction... or the fact that a Civil War within that realm had more or less destroyed their world... kindly.
The news that leaked out of the PM's Office, and the Conspiracy Theories that followed, led to a serious panic among the masses. As the panic escalated to sky-high proportions, the Government proposed a bill which called out the Regulation and Control of those suspected with Magic.
As less and less Magical folk started coming forward to "get branded", more and more people started calling out more and more extreme majors to control the "Freakishness" from spreading.
The Sanctuary of the Wizarding World, the revered Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, fell around 2008, when one of the more disgruntled Muggleborns, whose family had suffered during the War, betrayed its location to the Extremists.
The Witch hunts and "suspected" Witch burnings started somewhere around late 2011. As the Sympathizers argued about the inhuman treatments meted out to the Witches, the Extremists argued that The Freaks were not humans at all.
And trapped among the two debating factions, their numbers down to almost nil, the Magical Community dispersed among the Muggles, living in fear of being caught...
