Chapter 1 : Prologue

Dumbledore was looking at the little child in his arms and was starting to question if it was really the best way to proceed. Sighing, he decided that it was useless to dwell too much on this, given the fact that his plan was already in motion. Sometimes, he felt guilty for his part in the war but he always reminded himself that everything was for the greater good. Deciding that postponing his task was useless, he approached the house which represented his destination. He knocked at the door and soon a man around his thirties opened it, regarding warily the strange man sitting on his man didn't even have the chance to ask the wizard what he wanted when the older man pointed his wand at the level of his eyes and a flash of white light erupted from its tip. Mr. Granger, for that was the name of the younger man , needed a minute to regain his senses and welcomed Dumbledore in his home following him in the sitting room. Having heard the door close, Mrs. Granger came to see if they were having company but she didn't have time to ask the old man anything before he repeated the same spell on her.

Checking that everything was in order, Dumbledore made the two people drink a strange potion which would end up modifying their memories , something that was extremely important for his plan to work. He needed to be the only one aware of the identity of the little baby girl he was carrying in his arms so he needed to modify the memories of the two muggles as he was going to make them believe that the child was theirs. After they drank the potion he started asking them some questions to see if the new memories have settled in. The Grangers told the old man about their beautiful baby ,Hermione, who was born on 19th September the previous year, their only child , a child born with great sacrifice as they had been struggling with infertility for a lot of years. Happy that the potions seemed to have worked , Dumbledore handed them the sleeping baby , some papers which would prove that the baby was theirs and then he erased their memories of ever meeting him and he left without being seen by anybody.

That night Dumbledore went back home content with his actions, being completely sure that the baby would be the answer to all his questions and that he would be able to make use of her to end the war once and for all . Little did he know that he would not be able to use his plan as the war came to an end a year later, ironically, at the hands of another baby. After the war and the disappearance of the Dark Lord, Dumbledore considered returning the baby to her original family but the wizard had a feeling that the darkness would be back someday so he decided to leave her with her new family, in the hope that he would never regret his decision to steal her.