When Harry Potter, twenty-one years old, walked into Gringotts in that Friday afternoon, he would never have guessed that his life would change in such dramatic and bizarre way. In fact, he was only expecting a normal meeting. Unfortunately for him, his life doesn't do simple.

Tony had many choices, and only one of them wasn't the wrong one.

Healing takes time. Maybe even a war, seven years of bad decisions, and getting trapped on a deserted island with five other people. Hermione/Theodore/Blaise & Harry/Draco

Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things.

"I won't hold back," Malfoy warned, although it landed closer to a promise, and if it was supposed to scare Harry away, it missed its mark by a mile. The last thing he needed was for him to hold back — in any way. "Good," Harry agreed. "Neither will I."

When blackness overcame her senses, Hermione knew she had failed. It was game over. However, while she had never been sure of what to expect of the other side, a twenty-years-in-the-past Hogwarts surely hadn't been it. Now, with the chance to change the future, Hermione must choose her moves carefully while trying to avoid the one she wishes to see the most.

Hermione had her entire life all figured out, but when a Ministry letter arrives on a November evening, destroying all her carefully constructed plans for the future, she'll be thrown in the middle of a hurricane. Stakes are higher than ever, and the players are all playing to win. The question is: Whose mask will fall first?

War is a terrible thing. It doesn't begin with combat, and it doesn't end with it. Nobody talks about how difficult it is to be alive after it; the book always ends in the fight. The survivors paid the price of the war, as always. This is their story.