Important! Im thinking about rewriting ch.1, seeing at its mostly rambling that made some people confused. if i rewrite it, it wont change much story-vise, seeing as its the prologue, but it will be more light-hearted and cracky like ch3-4. Yay or nay?

A/N: Un-beta'ed, and my first story, so proceed with caution. Another one of those Harry-travels-back-in-time-and-does-stuff stories!
Pairing undecided, but it will be Harry/male if not gen, if you have preferences feel free to comment!

So this is basically the prologue, not much plot and possibly not that interesting, but bare with me, its short (please?)

Disclaimer: i do not own Harry Potter; nor do i make money out of this. Harry Potter series rights and ownership belong to J.K. Rowling and other respective owners.
(i honestly dont know what im supposed to say here?)

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Harry had it figured out. He would go back and save them all.

From his parents to Tom-Fucking-Riddle, from Severus Snape to himself. He might not be able to go back to Tom's childhood, due to his diluted blood, but he could, and would, make sure Tom gets his whole soul afterwards, well, Harry was sure he could convince the man of the disadvantages of a civil war.

With Tom sane, well, as sane as he could be, the marauders wouldn't need much "saving". As far as he was aware, his parents were perfectly happy, even in the midst of war. Remus will need help getting a stable job after Hogwarts, but that shouldn't be hard to arrange. Sirius… Well, he will have to ask Tom to do something about Walburga, which, hopefully, will have the added benefit of saving Regulus.

Harry didn't really give a damn what happened to Wormtail, even if it did make him a tad hypocritical, with the whole "saving everyone" thing. Maybe he would find the rat a job somewhere abroad, as long as it was far away from England. And if he couldn't, well, who cared.

And lastly, Severus Snape. He owed the man a great debt, and he will make sure he repaid it, even if he had to sacrifice some things to do so. Harry might not be able to give him Lily, at least not as a lover, but he could try to save their friendship, as well as help him find somebody else to love. Really, Severus ended up pining after her for his whole life, and sacrificing everything for her son. Not that he didn't appreciate it, but that can't be healthy. And, of course, Harry will have to make sure to get Severus as far away from Tobias as possible.

Now obviously, Harry knew that his plan, if it could even be called such, wasn't fool proof. Hell, for all he knew, the ritual he found might not even work, or he could end up somewhere – or sometime – completely different. Still, rek itrow, an ancient Egyptian ritual he managed to find in the Black library, was his safest bet. It would not only take him back in time, but would also split the timeline, effectively creating an alternative universe and allowing him to actually change things without creating a paradox.

Of course, it wasn't without it's disadvantages. The main one being that it was powered by his blood, or more specifically, by the mark of the magic in his blood. Inherited magic left a mark in one's blood, and the further it was inherited, the bigger mark it left. Muggle blood, on the other hand, had the opposite effect, and decreased the size of the mark. Squibs were the same as muggles, as they didn't have any inherited magic. As such muggleborns, even those with squib ancestry, had no mark of their own, but they could pass one on to their children, as small as it would be.

The more Harry researched it, the more sense the pureblood hatred of muggleborns made. Not only muggleborns thought their traditions were obsolete, that "dark" creatures and magic were bad, but they also could effectively ruin their family blood.

The blood mark was not only useful for rek itrow, but plenty of other rituals, wards and spells as well. Of course, most of them have fallen out of fashion, or were marked as "dark magic", as muggleborns and light families (at least those that married muggles and muggleborns) had trouble using and defending against magic that depended on the mark.

And as everyone knows, if those in power cannot have something, then nobody can. After Harry realized this, he tried to explain his findings to his friends, but Hermione almost cursed him for daring to say that she was somehow lesser than a pureblood, and Ron tried to take him to St. Mungo's to see if he was somehow cursed or drugged. After he managed to get away from them, Harry realized his friends wouldn't understand no matter how much proof he showed them, and started to distance himself from them. It hurt at first, but after losing himself in his research once more, Harry didn't have the time for self-pity and anger.

And now, almost two years after the final battle, Harry was ready. He could only travel back to mid-seventies, due to his muggleborn mother, but it would have to be enough.

Harry had gathered all the ingredients for the ritual, including Bennu tears, which were a pain in the ass to get even in Egypt, were the damned bird resided. Still, with the help of the vast Black and Potter fortune, he managed.

He packed the majority of the money from the vaults, some in galleons, but most in gold an jewels, in hopes that it would not unbalance the economy as much. He also took his entire book collection with him, after carefully spelling the authors and dates off the books that wouldn't be written yet. That took almost a month to complete, but it was easier than figuring out how to explain books from the future. Other than money and books Harry didn't take much, only his invisibility cloak and a few photographs that he would have to carefully hide.

With everything packed, and his trunk shrunken in his pocket, Harry took one last look around him and stepped into the ritual chamber.

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rek itrow - time river in Egyptian, but my translation might be very far off.
I hope you enjoyed yourself, no idea if i will be able to continue it considered i never wrote fanfiction before...