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marbleglove) wrote2008-11-14 09:02 pm
marbleglove) wrote2008-11-14 09:02 pm
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Time travel to stop Voldemort...
In browsing the internet for fanfiction on a lazy Friday evening, I noticed yet another go-back-in-time-to-kill-young-Tom-Riddle story. There seem to be a lot of these and for the most part I ignore them: I don't care for the preemptive strike theory of war-fare.
--------As a side note, I also stumbled across a phrase I adore: "Killing for Peace is like Fucking for Celibacy." It makes me laugh. Plus: true. --------
Anyway, has anyone written a story in which some member of the Order of the Phoenix goes back in time to stop the rise of Lord Voldemort, not by killing a baby Tom Riddle but by adopting him out of the orphanage he hated and giving him a decent childhood?
Dumbledore's character is surprisingly subtle, but it's clear that he's changed over the years, just as it's clear that he was at least a generation or two too late in learning to not simply write off malicious boys as lost causes. If someone else had been around to insist he give Tom Riddle the chances he gave Draco Malfoy what would have changed? And what would Slytherin's Heir be like if he weren't so very angry at the world?
As I think about it (and remind myself that I do not need another writing project at this time, I have enough already), the story could also be made interesting by exactly how the time travel worked. If it was just a one-way passage to the past, then whoever went would raise up young Riddle and live out life in the new time stream. Alternately, if it were for a set period, like a decade, (get Tom when he's seven, and raise him till he graduates from Hogwarts) then return to the future, you could get the returnee having to settle into a very different present plus also have a powerful grown Riddle meeting up with his pseudo-parent.
All sorts of options. Who goes back: Harry? Hermione? Ginny? Snape? Old Dumbledore?
Harry might be a good choice as the type of character who might decide to go back to kill his enemy and then discover he sees too many similarities and wants to save him after all. Plus, that could bring in the prophesy rather nicely. The power that Voldemort knows not, can be the family-love that Harry has to teach young Riddle in order to "kill" Voldemort.
Alternately, a book-time-period Dumbledore going back to fix the mistakes he made in condemning Riddle too early might be fun since then he'd have to prevent younger-Dumbledore from identifying him.
Or Snape could go back. My take on his character does not make him a particularly good adoptive parent but consider the fact that he was a Death Eater, that at one point in his life he pledged himself to follow Voldemort's command. What if he's still torn between that loyalty to the great man Tom Riddle was and his own sense of moral right: he can't let Voldemort continue his murderous rampage but he doesn't want him harmed. So he has to go back to save him before he's forced to kill him.
If someone has already written this story or wants to write it, let me know because I definitely want to read it.
--------As a side note, I also stumbled across a phrase I adore: "Killing for Peace is like Fucking for Celibacy." It makes me laugh. Plus: true. --------
Anyway, has anyone written a story in which some member of the Order of the Phoenix goes back in time to stop the rise of Lord Voldemort, not by killing a baby Tom Riddle but by adopting him out of the orphanage he hated and giving him a decent childhood?
Dumbledore's character is surprisingly subtle, but it's clear that he's changed over the years, just as it's clear that he was at least a generation or two too late in learning to not simply write off malicious boys as lost causes. If someone else had been around to insist he give Tom Riddle the chances he gave Draco Malfoy what would have changed? And what would Slytherin's Heir be like if he weren't so very angry at the world?
As I think about it (and remind myself that I do not need another writing project at this time, I have enough already), the story could also be made interesting by exactly how the time travel worked. If it was just a one-way passage to the past, then whoever went would raise up young Riddle and live out life in the new time stream. Alternately, if it were for a set period, like a decade, (get Tom when he's seven, and raise him till he graduates from Hogwarts) then return to the future, you could get the returnee having to settle into a very different present plus also have a powerful grown Riddle meeting up with his pseudo-parent.
All sorts of options. Who goes back: Harry? Hermione? Ginny? Snape? Old Dumbledore?
Harry might be a good choice as the type of character who might decide to go back to kill his enemy and then discover he sees too many similarities and wants to save him after all. Plus, that could bring in the prophesy rather nicely. The power that Voldemort knows not, can be the family-love that Harry has to teach young Riddle in order to "kill" Voldemort.
Alternately, a book-time-period Dumbledore going back to fix the mistakes he made in condemning Riddle too early might be fun since then he'd have to prevent younger-Dumbledore from identifying him.
Or Snape could go back. My take on his character does not make him a particularly good adoptive parent but consider the fact that he was a Death Eater, that at one point in his life he pledged himself to follow Voldemort's command. What if he's still torn between that loyalty to the great man Tom Riddle was and his own sense of moral right: he can't let Voldemort continue his murderous rampage but he doesn't want him harmed. So he has to go back to save him before he's forced to kill him.
If someone has already written this story or wants to write it, let me know because I definitely want to read it.
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The closest I've seen would be the Step-Brothers series (it's recced over on
The only other one I've run into was where Ginny, after watching just about everyone die, goes back in time and encounters Tom in his 5th year. Once there, she presents a counterbalance and positive influence, and while events aren't massively changed, they are shifted just enough to prevent the rise of the Voldemort who destroyed her world.
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In the mean time, I'll need to check out Step-Brothers.
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Harry has defeated Voldemort, but it was a costly victory. Aberforth Dumbledore presents a plan to go back and kill the infant Riddle, but Harry will have to stay there 10 years. Can Harry alter the wizarding world's destiny? WWII and Grindelwald
It has Harry adopted Tom and Tom later become the Minister, no Voldermort.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3155057/1/Altered_Destinies
Thanks!