Voices in my head

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.  

So my first post on my first livejournal. I have the definite urge to write something deeply meaningful. Since I can't think of anything particularly deeply meaningful at the moment that isn't also trite, cliched, and schmaltzy, I will instead outline a fanfiction story that I really want to read but have no desire to write.

It's a CSI: Miami crossover with Highlander.
An old rich recluse dies under questionable circumstances that, among other things, leaves no body. Sufficient blood maybe for proof of death, but no body. The heir arrives: he is young, smooth, charming, and shows no mourning. Horatio Crane is deeply suspicious.
It's discovered that the accident was no accident, the death was intentional, and the heir did not arrive when he said he did. Horatio goes on one of his sanctimonious little rants about how he'll pin this on the heir.
Then it's discovered that the dead recluse was the only person capable of orchestrating the accident: it must have been a suicide, but what a strange suicide it is. There must be more to it. Horatio won't give up, he's still back-tracking the heir.
Then it's discovered that the heir is the recluse, starting a new identity because he looks too young to be older version any more.
There's no proof, it's not even clear if there's been a real crime. The CSI team has to let it go, but now knows that there are some very old people out there who don't look it. Interesting.

There are no challenges, no quickenings, no Game in this story, just a look at some of the other difficulties of being immortal.

Anyway, if anyone ends up writing this, or knows a story that's similar, please let me know so that I can go and read it.