********I DO NOT OWN STAR TREK OR HARRY POTTER! Although, like many people out there, I wish I did. Then we really could have some fun! :D
William T. Riker was not having a very good day. After Wesley had rudely interrupted his jazz solo, called his bluff in the poker game, and rewired the bridge so that Wesley was in command instead of him, he decided he loathed all children, especially loud, know-it-all, rude brainiacs. But, unluckily for Will, his day was going to get a lot worse.
Life could never have been more perfect for a certain poofy-haired, prodigious witch. Having received her monthly grade report from her professors, she couldn't be more proud of her straight Oustandings. Not only her life inside the class flourished. Viktor Krum, the Durmstrang exchange student, had just recently asked her out tomorrow night. Her life couldn't be better even if she had taken Felix Felicis. Until now, when Mr. Felix would have come in very handy.
In the empty common room, Hermione Granger put the finishing touches on her current project.
Miss Granger had nothing better to do in her infinite boredom, so she created what Muggles would call a "Time Machine," although it was more of a complicated mixture of quite a few things besides metal and the laws of physics. After seeing the runes of ancient Egypt and witnessing the virgin sacrifices of ancient Slytherins long ago...
I knew there was always something wrong with that house, and here we have Salazar Slytherin himself showing his pupils how to perform the ritual Hermione decided to do something productive.
"I will stop this horrendous war before it started. At last He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named will be vanquished forever. Not that I have anything better to do, of course. And besides, it would save Harry quite a bit of trouble."
So Hermione set the device to the precise date and time she wished to travel to. She thought she would change the past. Little did she know she would alter the future.