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Chapter 1. The Chicken or The Egg
Hermione Granger sat in the school library ay Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the restricted section. It was 1:00 in the morning. She was flipping through the book, A Lapse in Time. She flipped the page to the next chapter.
Veils
Veils are portals through time. There is only one known to the magical world as of now. This veil lies in The Department of Mysteries in the basement of the Ministry of Magic. All of the other portals were destroyed or lost throughout time. (The only way to destroy a veil is to throw it through another veil.) A veil is used to transport something through time. Certain people use these to travel through time by thinking of that place when they fall through.
If a person goes back in time to a place they don't exist they are placed there in that time as the same age as when they went through the veil. On the other hand If a person were to go through the veil to a time they were alive in then, they would be placed into their bodies of that time without any memory of going through the veil or their futures. The makers of the veils made the veils this way so that the future would not be disrupted causing time to be destroyed.
Some people are sent through time to do a task so that history will continue and repeat itself. This is called The Chicken and The Egg theory. These people are called Time Changers. The last known time changer was Albus Dumbledore. He was sent back in time to make sure that Voldemort came into rise for the reason that time couldn't continue on it's own without help. Time had started to repeat itself and could not make a Dark Lord of it's own which was the meaning of veils. Albus Dumbledore currently resides as Headmaster at the school of Hogwarts.
If someone were to fall through a veil on accident it could change the future for good or bad. Time could only hope that their last thought was of a time when they were still alive, so as not to disrupt the time stream and destroying the universe. For more on Time Changers see the book, Time Changers Throughout Time, by Dixon Timmis.
"What if Sirius was sent through time and back to a time where he was alive. I've got to talk to Dumbledore." She thought to herself before gathering her things and the book and rushing out of the library.
If Sirius were sent through time and into a time when he was alive then he would be thrown into his body then and live life over again. That means time would repeat itself over and over again which would mean that someone would have to go back into time to change something.
Hermione came to a halt in front of the stone gargoyle in front of the staircase to Dumbledore's office. She didn't know the password.
"Shoot, what is the password?" She thought aloud.
"Chocolate Frogs!"
"Fizzing Whizbees!"
"Acid Pops!"
"Jelly Slugs!"
"Sugar Quills!"
"Cockroach Clusters!"
"Peppermint creams!"
"Liquorish Wands!"
"Truffle Owls!"
"Gummi Wands!"
"Chocolate Spiders!"
"Sherbert Balls!"
"Pumpkin Pasties!"
"Cauldron Cakes!"
"Lemon Drops!"
"Canary Creams!"
"Fudge Flies!"
"Pepper Imps!"
"Whizzing Worms!"
"Arrrh, oh Ice Mice!" Hermione screamed in anger and the stone gargoyle jumped out of the way. "That was lucky!"
Hermione ran up the spiraling staircase and into Dumbledore's office. He was standing by the fireplace in blue silk pajamas and blue socks with brown wands on them.
"Hello Miss Granger. How are you this morning?" Professor Dumbledore asked her while sitting down at his desk.
"Professor, I don't think that Sirius Black is dead!" Hermione said loudly.
"And why would you think that Miss Granger. We both saw Mr. Black fall through the veil... Is there something that you want to show me?" He said and transformed a book on his desk into a large plushy green chair. "Sit down."
"Professor I found this book in the library and it says that veils are portals through time and I believe that since time hasn't been interfered with that Sirius was thinking of himself in a time when he was alive and was thrown into his past self. And I think that time is repeating itself because now the Sirius from our time will grow up again and fall through the veil again causing time to repeat itself over and over again and that a Time Changer needs to be sent back into the same time as Sirius and change whatever is causing time to repeat itself. And I know that you're a Time Changer." Hermione said without in one breath and then fell into the chair and held up the book.
"Well that was a mouthful. All that is true but we needed to know whom the Time Changer was before we could send that person back and that person is you. Oh, and isn't that book located in the Restricted Section?" Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Um...yes. But how can I be the Time Changer?" Hermione said in disbelief. "And you aren't going to take points off for me being in..." She tried to say but was stopped.
"But now that I think about it that book might have not been in the Restricted Section." He said with another twinkle in those old blue eyes of his.
"And the book can be found by no one unless they are a Time Changer. So you simply must be one. You will need to pack a few things that might be necessary in the past to make it look like you were transferring from another school and tell the past me about what happened, why you are there, what house your in, and what school you will be pretending to transfer from. Keep your real name and say that you are from Beauxbaton."
He smiled at the girl, "Off now, go on and start packing your things. Oh and don't forget Crookshanks."
