What if Trelawney made up her prophecy in an attempt to please Albus Dumbledore into giving her a job? What if the reason behind Dumbledore's manipulative nature was entirely due to residual compulsions cast by Gellert Grindelwald from the time before they fought? What if Tom Riddle was never truly evil in the first place and instead went into hiding after school when the first and only horcrux he ever made became corrupted and named itself Lord Voldemort? What if, while not being the 'Chosen One', Harry James Potter was in fact chosen to wield his ancestor's three gifts? What if not everything is truly as it seems? ****DISCLAIMER**** I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters.