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A Bitter Victory

Harry gazed over the hogwarts grounds in sadness all he could see was death. The school it self was in ruins, the dungeon was the only thing left decently intact. The cause behind all the death and destruction was now gone. Voldemort was gone for ever, but unfortunately the damage was done. Everyone that Harry ever loved or cared for was dead.

Flash back

Ron died a year after Sirius in a Death Eater attack at Diagon ally, Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Weasley were also killed in the attack. Hermione followed three months later her house was blown up in a Death Eater raid, Voldemort himself fired the curse. After that Harry isolated himself form all of his classmates not wanting to get anyone else killed.

Dumbledore decided that Harry would start training, all the staff would help even Snape who would be informing him on how Voldemort thinks and his battle strategy in the war. Sadly over the course of his training some hogwarts staff members and order members were also killed, Tonks was the first, then Mad eye, Shacklebolt, McGonagall, Snape, Lupin, and then Dumbledore himself. Dumbledore died in the finale battle he was mortaly wounded by a dark version of the cutting curse, the curse that was meant for Harry himself.

End Flash Back

Harry walked through the battle ground the was covered in bodies, trying to fined anyone alive. Then he herd a moan it was Dumbledore. Harry ran to his side and tried to heal him but Dumbledore stopped him.

" Harry my boy I must leave this earth now but before I do take this" Dumbledore handed him a medallion. As his breaths got more labored he said " May you create a happy future for your self my boy" and with that Albus Dumbledore died.

A few days after Dumbledores funeral Harry looked at the medallion that Dumbledore gave him. In the center was a hour glass surrounded by the earth, in the outer ring there were even more Earths. "It looks like a time turner, but just a little bit different" thought Harry. Harry spent the next few days trying to find the secret behind the time turner look alike. Finally he found it inside one of the books that Dumbledore left him in his will, it was called the Time Changer. The time changer had the power to send someone back in time to change history the only catch was it had to be in that persons life time. So unlike a time turner that could only go back one day, his time changer could go back 18 years and he could create a new time line with different events or even stop people from dieing. The rules of time travel still applied though he couldn't tell anyone who he was or that he was from the future. Harry thought about it he didn't have anything left here maybe he should go, have a chance at a better and happier life. There were still a lot of things he had to do before making his big jump back in time, such as what his name was going to be, where he was going to live, and most importantly what date he would be going back to. He went through all the old records at the ministry for what jobs were available, and what houses were up for sale. He soon found a job and a place to live and they were both in the time line he wanted to go. As for what is new name was going to be he decided on Henry Porter close enough to his real name so he could get used to it, but different enough top not rise suspicions. His looks would have to go as well, he changed his hair to a medium shade of brown, made his eyes a more common shade of green and through away his old glasses to get smaller gold framed glasses. When he looked in the mirror he no longer saw Harry James Potter he saw Henry Johnson Porter, he was ready. The day had come standing in the middle of the living room with his trunk that held all his money and his few things, he put the medallion around his neck and yelled the time and place he wished to go.

"HOGWARTS August 20th 1980!"

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