Time travel AU question

[conuly]

Or poll? IDK.

Let's imagine somebody is actually planning to go back in time mentally, into their own younger body, and fix things. And I guess for the ease of simplicity we'll assume they have no intention of returning to their current time except by the usual way, that is, going through it all again. (Except not, because if they fix it, it'll be new and different and better in some way.)

But they're a screw-up, because that's more interesting, and everything is going to be much harder now.

So for any given value of somebody, who are they, when do they want to go, and when do they actually end up? No fair suggesting that they end up in their own infant body - they can't go anywhere earlier than a short period before canon - whatever canon it is - picks up the camera.

(Also, to keep this from being depressing, no self-inserts in RPF. Sure, we'd all like to go back in time and give a witty comeback to whoever and then assassinate or at least punch our least-favorite world leaders, but we just can't. Fiction only!)

Comments

[silveradept]

This sounds like an idea of "Harry Potter goes back in time and makes sure he's delivered to an anodyne wizarding family instead of the Dursleys, with all the familial protection magic involved, only to find out that all of his childhood friends become Death Eaters and he had to still do all seven years at Hogwarts again, but this time from the heart of Slytherin and without any of his allies."