Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. I do own this theory detailed below except for one part taken from Sir Isaac Newton. I do not own Remus Lupin, as much as I wish I do -- oh, whateever; I don't own anything that is owned by the people who own the Harry Potter books, movies, and merchandise.
A/N: This is an ALL NEW first chapter. Yay! Yay! Yay!
Happy reading. Hopefully it'll clear a few things up in the later chapters.
Oh, right: I've reposted (or am repostieng) this entire story. So, yeah. Happy reading. Yay.
Time and Fate, the two being so interwoven that one cannot separate them, are unpredictable things, at first. But when you get to know their patterns—and there are patterns—they becomes clear, beautiful, and easy.
There are six basic rules about time and fate that must always be considered.
The first: Fate likes to stay the same.
The second: Fate is fluid.
The third: Time does not flow in even intervals.
The fourth: For every action in fate there is a reaction.
The fifth: It is not the place of humans to change Fate and Time.
The sixth: The Magick will allow Fate to be changed for the sake of goodness, purity, and innocence.
If a man lives in a corrupt world that affects and damages innocence, purity and goodness, he may use an implement to travel back in time to change Fate. Normally, one cannot change Fate if they travel back in time; it will just happen in the original timeline as well.
However, if goodness, innocence and purity are being seriously threatened in the general public, one can indeed change Fate. If one does that, Fate will merely change all pertinent directly to the change that was made.
For instance, the man going back in time kills the person who caused the more major corruption in his world. There would be a moment of change, and then the man (or indeed anyone making a change) would be the only one to remember the world before the change of Fate and that there truly was a change of Fate.
Even though it was changed, the first rule applies. If so-and-so and what's-her-name were married before Fate was changed, thus they will be married still after. Indeed, Magick goes out of its way to preserve the innocence, purity, and goodness in the world before the change in the world after the change.
The second rule pertains to the fact that it is possible to change Fate; and the fifth and sixth rules are about that as well. It is possible to change Fate, but Magick may or may not let one do so.
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There is a long-concealed way to travel throughout Time freely. It is one of the most Ancient Magicks that ever was, but it is truly easier than it looks.
Understand that Time is in one line. It may change with the changing of Fate, but it is still one line and easily accessible.
All one has to do is make a special potion and perform an Ancient Ritual (both described below) on the apparatus being used. The apparatus used is optimally a time-traveling device already familiar.
One can travel, with the apparatus being used, to any point on the current timeline in the same physical location. One cannot access a timeline previous to a change of Fate, although the future is indeed open to traveling as is the past.
directions on making the time-traveling apparatus detailed
-excerpts from Ofe Anciente Magickes
translated from old dialect by Remus John Lupin
A/N (#2!): Hi again. :P That was a smiley. Oh my oh my. I'm listening to the Beatles right now. Whee. I'm rambling. Sorry.