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Minerva Ginevra Granger-Potter has lived her entire life between goblin mine-fortresses and surface battlefields. She was born when the Great War began, the total world war, a war in which there was no people against people or nation against nation. It was a clash between three different ideologies: Human Supremacy, which sought the extermination or subjugation of all magical creatures; Magical Supremacy, which sought the extermination or subjugation of non-magical humans; and finally, the Harmony faction, which sought coexistence.
The war broke out because of a certain Ronald Weasly, who, unable to accept his wife's divorce papers, accused her of cheating on him. Years of resentment and jealousy surfaced. Ron begins to claim that all his failures are due to his smothering wife, that his career as an Auror never took off because he was overshadowed by the great Harry Potter and the brilliant Hermione Granger, the fool he'd tricked with love potions in their fifth year to convince her she was in love with him.
Hermione, while initially trying to calm her husband, becomes blind with rage when he mentions the potions, but she backs down when he draws his wand and casts a curse behind her back. Ron accuses Hermione of sleeping with Harry all those years, that Hugo and Rose aren't his children, and that she was lucky they got their hair from their paternal grandmother and not from the man Ron claimed was their real father. He continues to rage, but Hermione still holds off on drawing her wand to avoid escalating things into a full-blown confrontation, with Hugo still at home. Hugo, who was in his final year before entering Hogwarts, hears his parents swearing and goes over to eavesdrop. Ron and Hermione are in the study connected to the living room, a room with a fireplace connected to the Metro Dust network, which Hugo uses when Ron casts another curse on the furniture. Naturally, Hugo thinks of calling Uncle Harry; he's a great Auror and his parents' best friend.
The arrival of Harry only causes Ron to completely collapse. At the sight of his friend, he begins casting lethal spells as if they were candy, and while Harry duels with him, Hermione manages to grab Hugo and Disapparate to the Burrow, where she stays for about two minutes to explain to Molly what's happening. However, when she returns to the driveway in front of the house, she immediately has to dodge a spell. Looking up, Hermione sees a huge hole in the front wall of the house, and all around her, dozens of Muggles from her neighborhood watching in horror and disbelief as Ron and Harry fight. The head of the DMLE limits himself to stuns and disarming curses, while Ron casts explosive curses, stuns and dark curses of all kinds, all lethal.
When the Aurors arrive, things escalate. Some kids were already there with their smartphones, presumably live on social media, and they filmed the moment when Ron, with an overpowered cutting curse, bisected three innocent Muggles.
When Hermione tries to beg him to stop, he pauses for a second before striking her with the Cruciatus. Harry manages to disarm him, but at that moment, Ron draws his spare wand and hits Harry with a bombard. Ron is killed by the Aurors, but Harry has lost a leg and his right hand.
That day ends with the hero of the wizarding world terribly injured and mutilated, the current Minister in office in a magically induced coma so he can cure her of the Cruciatus exposure, and the Statute of Secrecy collapsed in the worst possible way.
The escalation is rapid; in less than a month, half the world's wizarding population is wiped out, as is a third of the Muggle population. Within a year, most magical creatures are extinct, and the use of stun guns has shifted to casting lethal curses before even knowing who's standing in front of them. When Harry and Hermione recover, what remains of the English wizarding world is holed up in Hogwarts. But even this stronghold is about to fall; only a barrier created and maintained by a few senior wizards, including most of the Hogwarts professors, manages to prevent the Muggle missiles from destroying the castle. It is the goblins who intervene and manage to evacuate about half the castle before it is razed to the ground. Minerva is the one who stuns Harry and Hermione so their children can take them away.
The Goblin Mines are home to one of the world's last magical strongholds. It is made up of approximately 300 wizards and a thousand goblins. During this time underground, Harry and Hermione, both physically incapacitated and magically disabled (Ron's Cruciatus has destroyed her ability to use magic, which is unstable and unpredictable), lean on each other.
Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy, and Daphne Greengrass are the ones leading the wizards and, with the Goblin King and Queen, decide what to do. They know they lack the numbers and weapons to even think of bothering the Muggles, so, in agreement with the goblins, they hope to use ancient tunnels to reach the mainland, where they hope to reunite with other groups of goblins and wizards who have taken refuge underground. Unfortunately, a few years later, now on the mainland, they had managed to join another group of goblins consisting of a thousand individuals and, thanks to surface raids, gather another hundred wizards. However, the Muggles discovered the existence of the catacombs and attempted to exterminate the last wizards and goblins. Ginny is a warrior; she led the only volunteer wizard army (about a hundred) along with the goblin army (about 1,000) against the humans to repel them and close the entrance. The expedition was a success; they repelled the humans and closed the breach. Twenty-three wizards and about 200 goblins returned. Ginny was not among them.
Short of resources, surface raids become regular, led by Daphne and her deputies, James Potter and Rose Granger, and they manage to sustain the population. Years pass, and with Ginny's death, mourned by both, Harry and Hermione grow closer and, especially encouraged by their children, they get together. They give birth to their first daughter, naming her after the woman who saved them (Minerva) and the woman who fought for them (Guinevere). When she is 16, she joins a surface squadron. James Sirius had died the previous year, along with his entire team and half of Rose's; she had lost a leg. In this raid, the mentor and practically new heroine of the few remaining wizards, Daphne Greengrass, died saving her, and so a 16-year-old witch took command of a squadron of adult wizards and goblins, leading them to victory and safety.
For the next eight years, she was hailed as the second coming of Merlin, a witch so powerful she could single-handedly turn the tide of the war. But there were other plans. Of course, Harry and Hermione didn't sit idly by while Harry trained the wizards. Hermione, with the help of Astoria, Daphne before she died, Scorpius, and her daughter Rose, created a magical ritual machine, something never seen or even remotely conceived, a cross between a transference ritual and a time-turner. The transference ritual was an ancient spell used for teleportation, used before the invention of Apparition and Portkeys. With these, they decided to send Minerva into the past to change history. Hermione said goodbye to her Mingin (the nickname that only her parents and half-siblings could use; to everyone she was Raiven, a name she invented using the common letters of her two names) and the girl, who at only 24 years old was perhaps the most powerful warrior wizard in history, was traveling back in time to change her.
Unfortunately, the set arrival point wasn't very precise, and Raiven arrived in 1988, when her father, Harry Potter, was seven years old. By chance, she arrived on July 30th, the following day there would be a magnificent birthday present for little Harry. Raiven was discreet towards the Muggles outside number 4 Privet Drive, erecting illusory barriers, soundproofing and limiting the boundaries of the property; no one she didn't want could enter or exit. Analyzing the famous blood barriers, she discovered Albus Dumbledore's first lie: there was a protective spell on the house, but it wasn't connected to Harry at all; it was a protective ritual performed on Petunia, which would keep intruders away from her home. There was a blood ritual performed on Harry, but it was completely independent and autonomous. The girl was shocked when she saw the soul of her grandmother, Lily Potter, embracing her son's sleeping body and doing everything she could to protect him from Voldemort's shard in his scar.
First, she silenced Harry, then used a ritual Hermione had created to purge Voldemort's soul from his scar. To her surprise, Lily's soul thanked her with a nod from the field while continuing to hold her son in her arms. Then she apparated Harry to the Tonks' door, but she didn't do as Dumbledore had done. She transfigured her robes so as not to be recognizable in any way, and personally delivered a sleeping Harry into Andromeda Tonks' arms, saying only the words, "I know you'll care for him like your own son, and remember, Albus Dumbledore absolutely cannot be trusted. Ask Padfoot." Andi would never discover for many years who the figure was who placed a malnourished and abused Harry Potter in her arms, and who, with a simple sentence, pushed her to ask questions about her cousin, discover his unlawful incarceration, and have him released. Raiven, after having Harry safely away, returned to the Dursleys. She apparated Dudley to Marge's doorstep, with a note that read, "Your brother and sister-in-law are dead, now you must take care of them." Admittedly, although she treated him better than Harry was treated by the Dursleys, Dudley endured hell during his time with his aunt. Petunia and Vernon were never clearly identified. The torture they were subjected to was so severe that only DNA testing confirmed their identities. Of course, the Muggles couldn't even imagine the amount of dark magic that had been unleashed on those bodies.
Raiven knew that as much as she had to stay away from Harry, she still had to be close to him and in a position of power. So she went to Australia, where she created a false identity: Raiven Jones, an Australian Muggle-born with a Masters in Defense. When she arrived at Hogwarts for her interview, she had a slew of recommendations from high-ranking members of Australian institutions, all of which had been affected by the future Hermione's Imperio variant, a reworked curse that prevented a person from remembering or thinking about an implanted memory until necessary. Raiven had spent much of her year in Australia ensuring the right people had the right memories. Like an orphanage that would have taken her in as a baby, a dozen former residents and employees of that orphanage barely remembered her as a shy, lonely girl. The vice-principal of the Australian school who introduced her to the wizarding world. The work at the academy was the hardest. Tracking down all the former students from his year and their teachers, implanting the same memory in everyone, was a real chore. The paperwork wasn't a problem, whether it was academic, Muggle, or magical. Of course, he went to England at least once a week to check on things. Harry was fine, with Nymphadora as a big sister and Sirius as his godfather, who, however, was more like a big brother to Harry, who saw Andi and Ted as his true parental figures. The bearded idiot still hadn't realized that Harry was no longer at Privet Drive. Yes, she had set the spells monitoring the house on loop, so to Dumbledore it seemed like things were going on as usual—that is, the devices reported Harry's abuse and mistreatment—but if Dumbledore had paid attention, he would have noticed that Raiven's loop was annual, and what the devices reported always happened on the same day at the same time every year. Mrs. Fig was also placed under Imperius to always report that everything was fine even if Harry was being treated badly. As for Sirius, Dumbledore knew of his innocence and his failed trial, but he also knew that if he had interfered with Andromeda, everyone would wonder why Dumbledore was condemning an innocent man, so he pretended to be indignant, claiming he thought he'd simply missed the trial. This helped Andi exonerate Sirius. Andi had already warned Sirius to accept everything Dumbledore said, including not looking for Harry. Of course, once at the Tonks house, Sirius (still unaware of what had happened to Harry) died laughing.
Once Raiven got her job as DADA teacher, the first thing she did was, of course, destroy the Horcrux in the Diadem and thus the curses on the Defense Professorship. Then she used the Diadem, only to discover that it didn't grant knowledge, but rather allowed you to access your mind as if you had both an identical and photographic memory. She would probably have given it to the Hermione of the time once she could handle it.
At Hogwarts, she quickly became everyone's favorite teacher, even though Dumbledore described her as very similar to Mad-Eye Moody in her manner. She was hated by the bullies and by Snape, and the downgrading she gave the Slytherins and the Potions Master was of epochal proportions; every single wizard with a child, or grandchild, or acquaintance at Hogwarts had heard of her. Of course, only McGonagall's intervention prevented Raiven from being placed in the wrong, something Dumbledore would have done had it not been for the deputy headmistress. For Christmas, he gave one of his most promising students a runic belt used to track physical changes. With it, Nymphadora would notice when her body would spontaneously change, shifting her center of gravity without her noticing, thus causing her to stumble. Needless to say, the hug Raiven received was nearly fatal, and she was invited to the Tonks' for Easter. Of course, turning down what was technically her family was a stab in the heart for the woman, who had been alone in the world since she'd returned.
Of course, she didn't limit herself to teaching at Hogwarts, but had her hand in other places as well. First and foremost, the Ministry, with the right confundus (another variant invented by her mother in the future), the right documents ended up in the wrong hands, so Fudge was arrested for corruption and theft of public funds, Umbridge for abuse of office, abuse of power, harassment, death threats, and bribery. Within a year, she had eliminated many of the channels Lucius Malfoy used to manipulate the government. Unfortunately, she could do nothing about the illustrious members of the Wizengamot or Dumbledore as Chief Warlock. Raiven only managed to appoint the minister she wanted, and so Cyrus Greengrass succeeded Fudge, much to the anger of both Lucius and Dumbledore, as the first one had no power over the new minister and the second one didn't know what to expect from him.
Raiven obviously intervened in Harry's life as well, always with the confundus, ensuring that Harry continued at Muggle school, this time to the fullest extent of his abilities, which made him top of all his classes. She hoped to connect him with Hermione, but unfortunately the Tonks lived too far away for them to attend the same school. So she moved on to plan B: Harry was already friends with Neville, who had started Muggle school with him, so Raiven once again influenced Harry's circle of adults to reintroduce the child to the wizarding world through other peers. First came Susan Bones, who became Harry's new sister, not only because Amelia and Sirius were together, but also because they shared the same propensity for getting into trouble and the same love of dueling. Then came Hannah Abbot, whose love of plants made Neville blush. Raiven used her influence again to persuade Andromeda that Harry should know every nuance of the wizarding world, so, speaking with Amelia, she decided to introduce true pureblood heirs into the group of children who could teach the more unruly children how to behave around the more traditional members of society. Thus, Daphne and Astoria Greengrass became the new members of the group, with Harry and Neville now surrendering to the female superiority; after all, they were outnumbered 2 to 1.
When the school year ended and Dora returned, she helped support the children, but soon fell in love with Susan and Astoria's energy, and the three became an adult nightmare. Raiven became famous as the first teacher in decades to return for a second year as a DADA teacher. She couldn't resist Harry's birthday and decided to give him a present, so she went to Godric's Hollow and found Harry's mother's diaries from when Lily was at school. So Raiven, reappearing in Andromeda one night while the woman was in her office at St. Mugo's, left the diaries with her. Andi had obviously discovered what had happened to the Dursleys and didn't trust the hooded figure, but once she realized what the diaries were, she took them and gave them to Harry, as gifts from someone who cared about him. Of course, both Harry and Sirius wanted to know who he was, and while Harry received the answer that he was an old friend of his parents, Sirius got the full answer, which certainly made him uneasy, but it also helped him remember Remus and he began searching for the Werewolf.
After the summer, Dora returned to school, and while Neville now spent most of his time with Hannah (Harry would always play a tape of a wedding march whenever they met), Susan was now too busy with her partner in crime, Astoria. Daphne became Harry's best friend and confidant; she was the first to whom he spoke about life with the Dursleys and all his fears and uncertainties. Daphne did the same, and the two became each other's right-hand men. When Sirius and Amelia taught them dueling in pairs, the two were a spectacle to watch, easily defeated by the two adults simply because of their difference in weaponry. Strangely, no one thought the two would become a couple, not even Sirius ever dared to suggest it. Raiven had nothing to do with it, she too looked at the couple in amazement, so using the Diadem, she searched through everything she had ever read and found the answer. Brothers in magic, two people totally akin to each other, not in a romantic sense but more so in a magical and character-based sense. It is said that two magical brothers have such similar magic that their magical signatures are indistinguishable. Naturally, she managed to find the book about it in a Greek library, a book that was later found as a birthday present for Harry on his ninth birthday, along with the first visit from his uncle Remus. Obviously, while Harry was saddened not to be able to meet this mysterious person, the adults who knew the truth (Andi, Ted, Sirius, Amelia, and Remus) were worried because the only reason anyone would give Harry that book was someone who had seen him duel with Daphne. So someone who could look into the defenses of either Bones Manor or Greengrass Manor, the only ones placed under such protections that allowed a minor to use magic.
The next big event was Hermione received her Hogwarts letter, so Raiven asked Minerva to help with the tour, and the deputy decided to bring the young professor along. Of course, Raiven wanted to finally meet the grandparents her mother always talked about in person, and she would be struck by lightning if Emma Granger didn't look at her as if she knew her true identity, and Daniel seemed almost to know her, too.
As much as seeing her mother happy lifted her heart, Minerva Granger-Potter left her grandparents' house feeling quite upset.
Harry wasn't the only parent protected by her future daughter. Hermione received her daughter's help, albeit to a much lesser extent than Harry, in the form of a child psychologist her parents had hired to help their daughter with her social problems. Thanks to the doctor's help, Hermione lost her authoritative, know-it-all attitude, without it affecting her intelligence or academic performance. This was enough for the little girl to have a 100 times better last year before Hogwarts than before.
Another thing Raiven did, of course, was get rid of all the Horcruxes and take the basilisk from the chamber deep into the Amazon where it could live in peace. She tried to search for Riddle in Albania, but to no avail.
With everything temporarily back in place, Raiven stopped interfering in Harry's life and the surrounding area, limiting herself to her teaching duties. Minerva McGonagall became her mentor, Flitwick her favorite sparring partner, Pomona a kind of mother figure, Professor Bathsheda her best friend, and Snape her nemesis. Dora started a betting pool to see who would kill the other first.
The year passed peacefully; Minerva prevented Raiven from doing anything that would get her fired or arrested, and she prevented the Slytherins and Snape from getting themselves killed. Even Dumbledore intervened; his new professor was becoming a thorn in his side; she was too good and mysteriously powerful, and he had to tell Snape to back off and find a way to get rid of the woman.
When it was Harry's turn, the bombshell exploded. Albus was informed by Minerva that Harry's address was the Tonks residence. So the headmaster and deputy headmistress went to them, where, however, the only response they got was that Sirius could now publicly laugh at the prank of the century. While he and Dumbledore discussed Harry and what happened to the Dursleys, Andromeda decided to confide in Minerva. Even though she couldn't show it openly as a Slytherin, Andromeda admired the Transfiguration professor at school and still considers her a worthy woman. McGonagall is obviously astonished by Andromeda's story, but soon the wheels in her head start turning, and after asking for further details, Minerva almost forcefully grabs Albus and takes him away. Minerva, of course, after Andi's story, questions some of Albus's choices, but trusts him enough to tell him what Mrs. Tonks had told him (Andi hadn't told him about the magical siblings, the Muggle school, or the dueling training, for obvious reasons). Albus, of course, tries to insinuate that this mysterious figure is a lie from Andromeda to cover up the fact that she herself killed the Dursleys in a fit of rage after discovering how they treated Harry. The nearly hour-long tirade about how Andromeda Tonks, née Black, would never have committed such a crime in such a barbaric manner, made Albus regret having spoken.
Once the meeting with Albus is over, Minerva heads to an abandoned classroom that Flitwick and Raiven have converted into a training room. When the deputy headmistress enters, Raiven has neon blue hair, canary yellow skin, and baby pink robes, while Flitwick has magenta hair, lilac skin, and lime green robes. A laugh almost escapes her lips as she undoes the coloring spells on the two children still laughing on the floor. Minerva asks Raiven if she knew Harry Potter; she said she'd read about him when she first arrived in England because apparently it's vital to know his story. In Australia, you only hear the occasional hint. Minerva then asked her if she'd be joining her on the tour again this year. When the young teacher agreed without much enthusiasm, the deputy headmistress thought back to the previous year, how the defense teacher always asked the names of the recipients before leaving and only once seemed genuinely willing to accompany her. That day, they visited a Muggle-born who was over the age limit, meaning she would be starting a year late. Minerva dismissed Raiven, her wheels turning a little faster. Raiven had been too busy eavesdropping on Sirius and Dumbledore to realize that Minerva knew about Harry's mysterious protector.
September 1st arrived. A disillusioned and silent Raiven was on the platform keeping an eye on things. She saw Harry and his entire group of friends arrive via the Dust Tube, accompanied by their parents or guardians. Astoria was particularly depressed because she would be alone with everyone else at Hogwarts, Susan was unsure whether to be happy about getting to spend a year at Hogwarts with her teacher Dora or sad because her partner in crime wouldn't be arriving until the following year. Harry and Daphne were busy reviewing their various subjects; Neville and Hannah were simply anxious about the sorting. Raiven saw Hermione, one of the first to arrive on the platform. The little girl had settled into a compartment alone. She wanted to use magic on the group to get them in with her, but there was no need. Harry marched past the empty compartments with only Daphne following him without question. The others looked doubtfully at each compartment their friend ignored. Raiven's jaw nearly dropped when she saw Harry slow down in front of Hermione's compartment, before knocking and asking permission. Now Daphne was looking at Harry curiously, too, even more so when her magical brother entered and cheerfully introduced himself to the girl in the compartment. It didn't take long for Harry's strange behavior to be forgotten, with Daphne finally happy to have another girl as academically capable as her to talk to. There's no disrespect to Harry, Susan, and Hannah, but the former tends to veer too often into topics useful in battle or for pranks, while the other two have too specific interests (Dueling and Herbology) to truly have well-rounded discussions. Now, however, she and Hermione were turning the other compartment's occupants' heads with their words. This time it was Neville's turn (who had received a tape recorder with wedding music from Sirius like Harry's) to tease his friend when he saw him staring at Hermione, spellbound. Neville, Susan, and Hannah, who knew about magical siblings, like Daph and Harry, had read the book of magical bonds and knew about the existence of soulmates.
Raiven stood outside, eavesdropping, smiling; everything was going well.
She was obviously so engrossed in watching Harry, Hermione, and Daphne (she still can't believe this girl, who was supposed to be her stern mentor, is now laughing joyfully and relaxed). Of course, things change as soon as they enter the Great Hall. The protections she'd put on everyone in the group immediately intercept a Legiliment probe from Dumbledore aimed straight at Harry. Her anger at the bearded man makes her miss the scowl McGonagall throws at the DADA teacher's empty seat. Only when she hears Fred and George Weasley betting on her tragic fate does Raiven remember where she's supposed to be and runs out to re-enter completely visible and audible. Naturally, she doesn't avoid McGonagall's glare or the snickers of Flitwick and Pomona. But when she sits down, she actually locks eyes with Harry Potter for the first time and realizes she's in total disarray. She has brown hair like her mother's, but no one can explain it. Granger and Potter's hair have completely canceled each other out, and her hair is so straight it can't be styled any other way. Her eyes, on the other hand, are a carbon copy of her father and grandmother's. Now she understands why Snape fainted when he first saw her and why he's always so defensive around her. She probably even looks like Lily, except for the hair color, for all she knows. And when Harry is finally called for sorting (Hannah Puff, Susan Gryff, Neville Puff, 'Mione Gryff, Daph Gryff), she's not the only one to notice. After Deputy Minerva looks closely at Harry's eyes, she turns her head briefly toward Raiven, who ducks her head. Now Minerva's wheels are turning fast. Albus notices the exchange and also begins to put the pieces together. Who better than a Hogwarts professor to watch over Harry during his time at the school? Now Albus has his eyes on Harry, but his thoughts are entirely on the DADA teacher, who could potentially be his biggest problem.
Sorting aside, everything is proceeding as indicated by the memories of her mother that Raiven had seen in the Pensieve. She now knew for certain that the stone was in the castle and that Dumbledore didn't trust her enough to help him protect it. After dinner, she manages to slip out of the Great Hall. Minerva had been glaring at her throughout the meal, and she absolutely wanted to avoid her. Disillusioned, she reaches the third-floor corridor. She knows the mirror isn't in place yet, so she doesn't know if the stone is actually at the end of the trials, but placing a materialization point in what will be the mirror room won't hurt. The trials are all already in place, but she can circumvent them with spells that don't yet exist. Once she reaches the end, the mirror and the stone are indeed gone. Careful not to set off any alarms, she begins working on the ritual circle that will allow her to materialize directly into the room. Once the circle is finished and hidden, she uses the one already in her quarters to leave.
The year proceeds completely differently from the original. First comes the clash between Ron and Harry on the first night, with Ron accusing Daphne of being a snake hiding among lions. Obviously, Daphne's (the Ice Queen) attitude only confirms the redhead's ideas, and Harry is forced to step in the middle. A rift develops in Gryffindor, between Ron's side (Seamus and Lavender) and Harry's group (Daphne, Susan, and Hermione), with Parvati and Dean standing in the middle, trying to keep me from getting dragged into the clashes. The difference is that Ron and Co. lose any confrontation (having no argument for their accusations and insults) and realize that the rest of the house is either indifferent or on Harry's side, particularly the Weasley twins and the Quidditch team, of which Harry is once again a member. This time, however, it wasn't Neville's rembrandt (Harry and Sirius taught him to fly), but rather a hairpin belonging to Lavender. The scene was practically the same. What was worrying for Raiven, who had observed the scene, was that the broom's movements were exactly the same as in the original timeline. Her mother's hypothesis that "you can't really change time" actually seems correct; it will always try to reshape itself to maintain the same path. This new realization sends shivers down her spine, because if all the changes she's made come at a cost, then she's afraid of how steep it will be.
September passes before the Deputy Headmistress manages to corner Raiven. This happens when the same girl arrives in Minerva's office to ask her to convince Albus that Professor Quirrel is completely incapable of teaching any advanced seminars for his sixth- and seventh-year students. Minerva asks if the two know each other and sees the young teacher hesitate. Raiven can't come up with an excuse other than that the man was a mediocre Muggle-Language teacher and couldn't have become an advanced DADA teacher in a year, and only Dumbledore has seen the syllabus for this so-called seminar. At that point, Minerva suddenly changes the subject: Raiven had made a mistake by showing up to the Deputy Headmistress without a valid story against Quirrel, and now the woman was taking advantage of her moment of instability to press her. Minerva tries to understand the connection between Potter and the professor, but of course she denies it and tries to point out that she has never interacted with the boy outside of class. Minerva points out that whenever something happens to Harry's gang, from clashes with Ron (he once tried to use one of Fred and George's pranks to attack Daphne and Hermione from behind in the library) to clashes with Malfoy, the ferret was obviously less enterprising than the original version, thanks to Harry's self-confidence and his ability in all subjects (only Hermione and Daphne outperformed him). Minerva also knows that someone confused Mr. Malfoy one night when he showed up at her house. The next day, when the boy returned to normal, he tried to accuse Potter, Granger, and Greengrass of being out after curfew. Obviously, there was no proof, but Draco wasn't punished because he imagines he was the victim of a prank. Now he suspects that what young Malfoy was saying was true and someone had confused him to cover for the other children, and a confundus that causes someone to speak backwards is quite advanced for students who aren't in their sixth or seventh year. Minerva tries to get Raiven to be nice, asking him if he's related to Harry on his mother's side, asking him about his eyes, and asking if he's afraid to come forward about what he did to the Dursleys after saving Harry. The momentary glimmer in Raiven's eyes confirms the deputy headmistress's suspicions: her teacher is the mysterious savior and also a brutal murderer.
"Professor Jones… Raiven… I won't report you. God only knows what would have happened, how that boy would have grown up if he'd stayed with those people. I know Harry never really spoke to anyone about his life before the Tonks, before you, but Andromeda showed me his medical report when I asked, and that made me furious and even ashamed, because I knew what kind of people they were, but I trusted Albus. Now, I know what you told Andromeda, not to trust Albus, now I need to know why?"
Raiven looks up and stares into the eyes of the elderly deputy headmistress, who is unsettled by the tears of the young woman in front of her. She no longer sees the strong, stern, and authoritarian girl she'd grown accustomed to over the past three years.
"It's not only God who knows what Harry James Potter would have been through growing up with the Dursleys."
Raiven draws her wand and grabs the deputy headmistress with her other hand. A single gesture and the two find themselves materialized in the deputy headmistress's quarters. Minerva is shocked; it shouldn't be possible. She watches the girl move slowly, opening a huge trunk that, from what she can see, is more secure than the Gringotts vaults. She sees her take a photograph and hand it to her.
"Harry's daughter knows it too, that she traveled 50 years into the past to change history and prevent the extinction of wizarding society, and while I'm at it, to prevent the Second Wizarding War and improve the future for everyone."
Minerva hears the other professor's words, but can't look away from the photo. She sees a Raiven, about 10 years old, embraced by both her parents. She can recognize a Harry Potter, probably in his forties, missing a leg and a hand and wearing mechanical prosthetics, probably goblins. On the other side of the little girl, a woman with thick brown hair, an adult Hermione Jean Granger, looks at her smilingly as she holds her daughter. Minerva turns the photo over and reads the caption: "Granger-Potter Family, Harry, Hermione & Minerva."
"Your name is Minerva."
Finally, the old woman looks back at Raiven, both of them now with tears in their eyes.
“Minerva Ginevra Granger Potter, I bear the name of the strongest and bravest women my parents ever knew. Minerva McGonagall fought to the end to protect Hogwarts Castle and allowed those who took refuge there to escape just in time before it was razed to the ground. Ginevra Weasley, in my time, was Harry's first wife. She led what remained of the wizarding world in the battles that allowed the rest of the surviving wizarding people to live another day. Both died with their heads held high and fighting to the end. I don't want to go into the details of what the future would have been like. I can tell you that I've already made enough changes that it wouldn't have happened, or at least not in that way. But I can tell you this: many tragedies have been caused by Albus Dumbledore's manipulation and secrets, and if I have the chance, I will kill him.”
Minerva didn't ask for further clarification, but decided to create a cover story about Raiven being related to Lily from an Australian branch of the family. When Albus summoned Minerva, seeking an ally against the DADA professor, he instead found an adversary, and from that clash, the shreds of respect and trust the Deputy Headmistress had for Dumbledore evaporated.
Quirrel arrives two weeks later. Meanwhile, Raiven had told Minerva what was supposed to happen that year, and she also agrees with Raiven that the price to pay for the changes already made will be high. As Halloween approached, Voldermort, anchored to Quirrel's head, was restless. He felt hunted, knowing that at least two of his Horcruxes were gone after he and Quirrel went to check on the Gaunts' shack and the cave with the locket. Now, even the Diadem was gone. Someone was knowingly hunting his Horcruxes. He knew Bellatrix's was untouchable at Gringotts, as was the diary with Lucius. That's why he'd dared to enter Hogwarts, something he regretted after meeting the Defense Professor. He wasn't sure she was his hunter, but he knew this woman was more dangerous than Dumbledore. She could somehow get ahead of the old man, but Raiven Jones was a surprise package he didn't want to open. He waited until Halloween to make his move, and when Mr. Filch came running into the hall announcing a swarm of Inferius in the dungeons, he waited for panic to break out, and with the unexpected help of Dumbledore, who asked him to accompany Gryff and Raven's students, giving him the opportunity to sneak to the third floor. What he didn't expect and didn't know was that, instead of escorting the snakes and badgers to their common rooms, Professor Jones spoke over Dumbledore and had everyone barricaded in the Great Hall. After all, the inferius were in the dungeons, where the aforementioned common rooms were located. No one objected to this, even though Dumbledore looked like he had sucked on a particularly sour lemon. So, under the pretext of going to check on and perhaps contain the inferius, she, Minerva, and Flitwick (he had realized something was going on), head to the third floor where they find Quirrel rushing out of the room with the Cerberus. While Flitwick was ready to ask questions, Minerva and Raiven's stun blasts were so powerful that Quirrel slams the door behind him so violently that he almost breaks it down. Entrusting Minerva and Flitwick with the man now unmasked as possessed by a dark spirit (she can't justify knowing it's Voldy), Raiven exterminates the inferius with a spell of his own invention, the "Flaminio Draconis," a fire spell that imitates the magical fire of a dragon. Used by an ordinary person, it burns with the intensity of one-hundredth of a dragon, but 100 times stronger than a confringo or a fire. When she uses it, however, she is unsure whether it matches a dragon or even surpasses it.