Chapter 1

I looked around the Forbidden Forest under the Disillusion charm. So many loyal death-eaters were dead… and even more ran away. Treachery. If only Dark Lord had let me fight! If it was up to me, I would hunt all of them out and torture them to death. But I had important duty. And now that the Dark Lord was gone, I had more important things to do. After all, I was his most trusted follower.

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20 years ago…

The Dark Lord glided over the ground in the Godric Hollow. After today, he would be invincible. Just one more kill, and no one would oppose him. A smile curled around his lips for the first time in months.

A small child crossed his path, shouting "Nice costume, mister!" and grinned until he saw his face. The terrified child ran. He could have killed the child, but it was unnecessary. He had more important things to do.

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Rings of death-eaters stood in the room, confounded. After all, they expected to see the Dark Lord when they felt their marks burn. But all they found was me, who they even didn't know that I was a death-eater.

"Ladies and gentlemen.." I started, minding my manners.

"But you aren't even a death-eater!" Crabbe retorted. He had never been smart to begin with and he was totally out of his senses ever since son died, I transformed him into a king crab and only then, I was taken seriously.

"I am indeed a death-eater ladies and gentlemen. I had been his most secretive spy who entrusted his method of regeneration."

"But he's dead, isn't he? His Horcruxes were all destroyed." said another fussy death-eater under a mask. I would have stake my life that it was Lucius Malfoy.

"Yes, but we can always change the past," I announced dramatically, taking out the Time Turner.

There were surprised murmurs all around the room. Then, one raised his voice to ask the evident question.

"Uh, where did you get that time turner?"

Suddenly, all of them were drowning me in questions in a rate I couldn't answer. I had to cast several silencio charms until they were finally quiet.

"All right. The Dark Lord gave this to me few hours before he died to make sure someone would travel back in time to change the past. All I need is few sacrifices."

The others were all still as death.

Eventually, Lucius Malfoy asked, "What sacrifice?"

My smile was unnerving as I answered.

"A sacrifice, Malfoy. We need to go back around two decades according to the Dark Lord's plan. And this kind of magic is huge. We need to unleash an ordinary wizard's full potential to do this. And the Dark Lord discovered that when a wizard is killed, his body gives up all its energy."

Lucius gulped and I had much pleasure in watching his face wince.

"Now," I began, "Who will be faithful enough to give up their life for our Lord?"

There was nothing but silence in the room. But everyone was looking at one person in particular.

A cruel smile showed up on my face as I gave the death sentence.

"Lucius Malfoy, step forward please."