The more time she spends in this timeline, the more she realizes how easy it is to  be Marion. She finds herself fantasizing at night that she had subverted Tom Riddle’s plans, and lived the rest of her years quietly supporting her family and friends. It shouldn’t be too difficult to live below the radar. All she would have to do is bide her time, and she could one day see Harry and Ginny and their children. She could see Ron and Luna and everyone again. What horrors could she prevent them from experiencing? What trauma could she supercede? She imagines what life would have been like for Draco if he had been raised without the expectation to become the Dark Lord’s soldier. Maybe he could finally see what she had always seen in him. He could marry Astoria, or he could travel the world. It would be so easy for her to simply wait. To bide her time. To change the world for those she loves, and to one day see them again.