Apr 7, 2010 11:42:06 GMT
The Ministry of Magic has always kept a tight lid on the Department of Mysteries. No one truly knows what goes on inside. People who work there are called the Unspeakables, for Merlin’s sake. They only accept the best minds into the Department of Mysteries. They control the time turners. They don’t have to answer to anyone. Why should it be a surprise that the Ministry is meddling with time?
But time, as we all know, should not be meddled with. One wrong move and everything could change. And everything did change.
One moment, Victoire Lupin is standing outside Shell Cottage, the next she’s in Diagon Alley and face to face with Sirius Black. Elsewhere, in Hogsmeade, Frank and Alice Longbottom find themselves meeting James Potter. Only, he’s not the James Potter they know. Marlene McKinnon walks into her house to find her father in the living room. One problem, he’s dead. Secondly, he looks way too young to be her father. Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are at The Burrow, but weren’t they at Hogwarts a second ago? And is that Fabian and Gideon Prewett waving goodbye to Molly and Arthur Weasley?
It’s been one month since witches and wizards from the years 1946, 1999 and 2027 arrived in 1979. The Ministry has no answers. Either that or they’re refusing to say anything. The only message from the Department of Mysteries is that they are working tirelessly to discover the cause of this catastrophe (for it is anything but?) and finding a way to get everyone back to their respective time period. But is it already too late?
How can Teddy Lupin resist getting to know the younger version of his father and telling him of his eventual fate? Neville Longbottom, meeting his parents with their minds intact, will he reveal what becomes of them as well? Knowing what he knows, will Harry Potter try to stop everything from happening all over again?
Is the future set in stone?
What do you say to taking chances?
