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Severus Snape is twenty, newly qualified as a Potions Master, and already marked as one of the Dark Lord's own when a battered, goblin-forged Pensieve appears on his workbench. Inside: a message from a future that hasn't happened, sent by a dying Lucius Malfoy with nothing left to lose.
What Severus witnesses changes everything: Lily murdered by Voldemort; Narcissa brutalised for her husband's defiance; Draco sent on an impossible mission; Severus himself, discarded without a second thought. And a memory that isn't Lucius's: a young witch he's never met, the only one who cries at his death, the only one who tries to save him.
Together, Severus and Lucius come to a single, terrifying conclusion: if the future is to be changed, the Dark Lord must die.
But changing the future cannot erase what Severus saw, least of all the stranger who held him as he died. Years later, a young witch named Hermione Granger walks into his life with no memory of ever knowing him.
Severus has never forgotten her.