Xiao Liu's life ended amid the roar of bombers, but she unexpectedly found herself in a wondrous world as Freya Davis, a Gryffindor student. When the magic mirror she carried revealed the secrets of traveling through time, her bond with Theodore Nott began.
The star chart they discovered together uncovered the truth behind Theodore's mother's death twenty years earlier: in a rift in time, the horrifying green light of the Imperius Curse in Mrs. Nott's eyes trembled in unison with a magical array.
To investigate her grandfather's disappearance in 1977, Freya activated the special mirror and transmigrated to the era of her parents' generation. But she became a butterfly in the river of time: she witnessed the Marauders' youth on the romantic battlefield of James and Lily, and saw young Lucius Malfoy point his wand at Theodore's mother.
In 1994, Theodore defied the laws of time. Every night after curfew, he sneaked into the Restricted Section and used the mirror his mother had left behind to send Runes across time to Freya. That is, until he realized that saving his mother would erase the possibility of his own birth, while letting history run its course meant losing forever the woman he loved, trapped in the past.
“Freya! I'll bring you back, no matter the cost!”
When the mistletoe in both timelines bore blood-red berries, the star trails atop the Astronomy Tower finally overlapped. Holding the time-turner infused with both their blood, Theodore heard Freya's cry pierce the blizzard of 1977 through a crack in time: “Theo, don't change history! Your mother willingly let herself be controlled by the Imperius Curse because...”
