Harry wakes to find that his soul/consciousness is now in Tom Riddle's body. And the Dark Lord? He's doing an unfortunately good job of impersonating the Boy-Who-Lived. Dumbledore's disappeared, and Voldemort doesn't hesitate to let Harry know that he makes a weak replacement for the leader of his opposition. Funny thing is...Harry's about to prove him wrong.

Hermione saves Sirius in the Department of Mysteries—but at the cost of a death eater's life. As she struggles to reconcile her actions, Bellatrix Black, the Dark Lord's greatest lieutenant, develops a dangerous, unrelenting interest in her. What follows is a series of unprecedented events, unlikely mentors, and Hermione's own fracturing sanity. / Hermione-centric / Snape Mentor

"Morality is a fickle thing, subject to the times, the place, the political climate. You fancy yourself a person of logic, don't you, mudblood? Does logic dictate that one should put stock in such an unstable compass?" Hermione, rather poetically, had always believed Malfoy's words to be nothing more than the conceited trills of an overconfident peacock. Now, she wasn't so sure.