Harry Potter and Changing Destinies
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chapter 24
Chapter 24
Draco walked into the study seeing Harry sitting behind his desk with his feet resting on top. Smirking slightly he sat down.
“You’re lucky Ali didn’t come down here with me Harry.”
“Damn I interrupted you again, didn’t I?”
“Yep. Do you do that on purpose?”
Harry laughed, “No I don’t actually but it does give me an added bonus seeing you get upset about it.”
“Git.”
“Ass.”
“We good?”
“Yeah we’re good. Damn Draco to bad we didn’t get the hang of this friendship thing at Hogwarts. We would have had a lot of fun.”
“Yes we would have. It’s too bad you didn’t let the hat put you in Slytherin Harry. With that damn invisibility cloak you have we could have really owned the school.”
Harry looked at Draco in surprise, “How did you know about my cloak?”
He smirked, “I didn’t until now but I had my suspicions.”
“Why you sneaky snake. You tricked me into admitting that I had one.”
“Of course I did Harry. How else was I going to find out?”
“You could have just asked you know.”
“True but that wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun. Now what did you want to talk to me about?”
“A couple of things really.”
“Like what?”
“Like first off I am sorry that my relationship with Ali has caused friction between you and her and between you and I. We never meant to hurt you and Mione. We honestly did not mean to make the two of you feel excluded.”
“I know that and understand that now. I’ll admit that I felt a little hurt that Ali needs you when her magic gets out of control but after talking to Fred and George I even understand why she needs you.”
“It’s not just Ali. I need her also to balance my power. The reason that I was so angry in 5th year was because my contact with her was very limited.”
“I assumed that it was because of all the rumors about you. Which by the way I’m sorry about what I did in 5th year.”
“Well the rumors didn’t help but I didn’t even want to come back to Hogwarts that year because Ali had just lost her parents. We needed each other and could not be with each other and it sucked. However when I sent you here I never expected that you and Ali would even like each other let alone fall in love. And since I didn’t expect to have her fall for anyone I didn’t think that the connection between her and I would be a problem. Come to think of it that’s probably why I dated Ginny because she wasn’t a threat to my relationship with Ice.”
“Why didn’t you want her to fall for anyone?”
Harry grew thoughtful. “Pure selfishness. Ali was the most important person in my life and I knew that if she fell in love then I wouldn’t be the most important person in hers. That’s why it was easy for me to be with Ginny. I knew that I would NEVER love Ginny Weasley as much as I loved Ali so there was no competion.”
Draco interrupted, “But you do love Hermione that much.”
“If not more. Ali is my sister and I cannot imagine my life without her but I CANNOT live without Mione. And yes that scares me.”
“I completely understand that. If I lost Ali I don’t know what I would do. But Harry you can’t sit here and tell me that you could live if you lost Ali either.”
Harry was silent for a moment as he thought then he answered, “You are right. I wouldn’t be able to survive if I lost Ali. I need her and Mione to keep my power grounded and I know it’s the same for Ali. She needs both of us and I truly hope you support her with that.”
“Oh I will. Harry I overheard you when you told Ali that she was your twin.”
“Oh you did?”
“Yes and Ali confirmed it.”
“She told you the truth. She is my twin. Did she tell you how it happened?”
“Yes. So you both knew from the start that there would never be anything romantic between you?”
“Yeah. The first minute I saw her yes I was dumbstruck by her beauty…”
Draco coughed into his hand, “Join the club.”
Harry laughed, “Swallowed your tongue did you?”
“Oh yeah and then she called me on it.”
“Ice hates the fact that she is beautiful because that’s all anyone ever sees. Most people don’t even try to get to know her.”
“She is even more beautiful on the inside.”
“Yeah she is. Anyway I thought to myself that she was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen but that was it. I never had any desire to be anything else and we did everything together when I stayed here.” Harry’s expression was thoughtful.
“Whats the matter Harry?”
“I was just thinking. I love this house. I love being here with Ali and I always thought that I would always come back here to stay. It just now occurred to me that this is YOUR house now and I shouldn’t even be sitting behind this desk. YOU are the new Lord VanLint and it’s time I stopped acting like it.”
Draco leaned his elbows on the desk and looked Harry right in the eye, “Yes I am Lord VanLint but Harry this is still your home. In fact Ali and I want to know if you and Hermione would consider living with us.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I love my wife too much to ask her to be without you Harry.”
“I have to talk to Mione but my answer is yes. Now the other thing I needed to ask you. What do you know about the elder wand?”
“The elder wand? The elder wand Ollivander talked about?”
“That’d be the one.”
“Not much, except for what we learned that day, why?”
“Well, I was talking to Mione and we figured something out…”
“Oh, and what’s that?”
“You hold it.”
“WHAT!”
“What, Lord can’t understand English now?” Harry said with a smirk
“Oh, I can understand English alright. I just can’t understand Potterish. Care to clarify for me?” Draco replied with a smirk right back.
“I think I can do that. You might want to sit.”
“Okay,” Draco said as he sat and then continued, “I’m sitting. What is it?”
“Well, as I said before I and Mione were talking and we figured out…starting from the eldest Peverell brother we figured out Dumbledore won the elder wand from Grindelwald and from Dumbledore, you got it. You have the elder wand because you won it from Dumbledore, right?”
“Well,…yeah…in a way.”
“Good, then I can win it from you because it allied to you, but you don’t really own it yet. Then I’ll have at least two of the three Deathly Hallows.”
“Wait, a second I can’t I have the wand and you have your cloak and the stone? Why do you get all three?”
“Well, that’s something else I and Mione figured out…because I’m a direct descendant of the third brother, we’ve figured that like the symbol shows they’re meant to be one, they’re meant to be in the true descendant’s control to be at their fullest strength and power. And because I’m the true descendant…”
“You’re the one that can control and use them the way their meant to be used. I get it. Okay, but how do you plan to get the wand then?”
“Do you remember second year and that duel club Lockhart tried to start?”
“Oh, yes our duel that got interrupted by your parseltongue…How could I forget, I was about to win,” Draco said laughing at the memory.
“No, you weren’t, I was. But that’s beside the point. I was thinking I always did want a rematch?” Harry said with a smirk.
“Oh, I get what you’re getting at, now. You want us to duel for the wand so the elder wand is won over completely to you, but what if you don’t win, Harry?” Draco smiled.
“Oh, I will don’t worry about that. And I’m so confident I think we should make a bet of it.”
“Ohhhh, really what kind of bet?”
“I bet that if I win and I will, you have to dress in Gryffindor colors right down to your undies for a whole week.”
“And if I win…the same for you, but I think I want to see you in Hufflewussie colors along with a skirt just to be a true Hufflewussie of course.”
“Okay, you got it, but my Lord VanLint get ready to wear Gryffindor colors because your going down,” Harry said laughing.
“Oh, don’t think so Lord Potter,” Draco smirked.
“So, when should we do this?”
“I think tomorrow afternoon will be early enough. Now if you don’t mind, I think you interrupted something I’d like to get back to,” Draco said with a smile and laugh as he left the room.
After Draco left Harry wanted to go back to Hermione and enjoy their time together too, but something stopped him so he sat back in the chair and got out paper and a pen and began writing. First he wrote to Hermione’s parents to inform them they were fine. He wrote next to Neville and Luna to check in on the school and how things were. Then he wrote to Remus to check on him and the Order as well as Buckbeak whom he seemed to take a fondness too when he visited Grimmauld Place fifth year. Lastly, he wrote Snape to update him and check in on things on that end. After writing all of these he called for Hedwig who came and spent a few hours with Harry as he finished paperwork that he had and got some well deserved treats for all the work she would be doing, delivering all of his letters. So, with a final peck on his cheek and a nip at his hair in farewell she was off to deliver her cargo and Harry went back to his and Hermione’s room. Before he left the office though he checked to make sure things were locked up safely and checked the clock, which to his surprise said 11:45 PM.
Back in Harry and Hermione’s room…
Hermione lay in bed just basking in the afterglow of her and Harry’s passion, but something just kept nagging her until she couldn’t take it and got up from the bed. She put on a robe and walked to the desk where she had placed James and Lily’s diaries in a drawer. Opening the drawer she reached in and took out Lily’s journal. Once she had this she went to lay in the bed once again. She snuggled into the pillows and blankets and opened the journal as if she was getting ready to read one of her favorite romance novels before going to bed. She had already read Lily’s early years and her school years. How she and James had gotten together. How she kept the Marauders from getting into to much trouble. She even learned that Lily once knew Professor Snape, but she didn’t pay much attention to this.
Hermione was reading about Lily and James’ wedding which happened after they became Aurors and members of the Order it appeared but not long after. It was such a simple but romantic wedding at a little church with all their friends and some family. When Hermione turned the page she found it was dated and timed as to be early the next day. As she read she quite quickly figured out Lily was talking about her and James’ honeymoon night and just as she figured this out and was about to skip reading this bit of information. There are some things you don’t want to know about your parents or your spouses’ parents and this was one of those things something near the end of the entry caught her eye and she read.
It read:
“Monday, October 24, 1988
Dear Diary,
…This morning I asked James about the swirling lights I had seen last night when we…when we…oh you would think after experiencing the greatest night of my life with the love of my life I could say the words or at least write them, but I can’t.
Well, that’s beside the point right now. So, I’ll just continue on with what I was saying before. So, this morning after our honeymoon night which must I say again was amazing! I asked James what the lights meant and he explained to me that it was a rare but amazing thing that happened if I saw lights. He said that means we’re soul mates; which I knew already in my heart, but it was nice to hear him say anyways. He explained wizards and witches be them muggle-born, half, or pure blood rarely meet, fall in love with and/or marry their soul mates. The lights are the magic of those two people and when they combine it means those two are now one, completely.
I told him the lights combined and settled around my abdomen, but he didn’t know what that meant he said he thought it might mean we’d be blessed with children later on in our lives or because I was the one who had given him such a gift our magics combined was making it possible for me to give us a child later on. He didn’t know exactly.
I tried to research it, but there’s nothing. It frustrates me so when I can’t figure something out, but I’ll put it out of my mind for now James is coming back from the kitchen of this wonderful bed and breakfast we’re at with food soon. I hate that our honeymoon is only a few days. I hate that we have to get back to Order and Auror business soon. I just want to bask in this feeling of being Lily Potter forever!”
“Soul mates? I and Harry are…are soul mates! Oh my Merlin!” Hermione thought when she finished reading Lily’s entry. This thought just made her smile and smile. She was frustrated though that the same thing that had happened to her and Harry had happened to Lily and James and yet Lily didn’t know what the lights near the abdomen meant either. Plus, knowing how rare occurrences were if there was nothing about it in Lily’s time there wouldn’t be anything now either so she was out of luck in the research department on this particular subject.
Hermione read about the few days James and Lily spent at the B&B, but soon enough it appeared they got back to work both Auror-wise and Order-wise. Hermione read about how they had been put in charge of a project down in the Department of Mysteries which Lily wrote a note to herself about another journal just for that to herself and about because they worked their they became Unspeakables with a few others Lily wouldn’t mention by names only their code names.
She read how James and Lily thwarted Voldemort and his followers every single time; which ended up being the three mentioned in the prophecy. She read how the Longbottoms and Harry’s parents along with the Order members were all great friends and hung out together all the time. Hermione read about how James and Marion’s connection confused Lily too until they explained it to her. Hermione read about how Lily found out Marion was pregnant and hoped she would soon be with child too one day. She read of Lily’s dreams of raising a child with James after the war and not having to hide and run and fight all the time.
Then something maybe two, three weeks after Lily and James’s wedding night caught her eye and she read.
It said:
“Tuesday, November 15, 1988
Dear Diary,
I woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning this morning running to the bathroom to hurl in the loo. I remember smelling James cooking something downstairs for us to eat because we had an early shift today and I got sick to my stomach. James came running into the bathroom to find me with my head in the loo. He didn’t say anything just came over, grabbed all my hair and held it for me as I hurled and hurled. He kept rubbing my back and soothing me with words. Finally, when it quit he told me to get right back in bed and he’d call me in sick. Though after that incident I felt fine and have for the rest of the day. I wonder if I have the flu or something? Well, I better take my nap that James ordered me to take about 9 hours ago before he left for work at 4, but haven’t taken yet. Or when he gets home I’ll hear it for sure.”
After reading of Lily’s symptoms for about a week or so Hermione thought she knew what was wrong with her and the next entry confirmed it. It was in bold letters of red.
It read:
“Friday, November 25, 1988
Dear Diary,
I’m pregnant! The doctor I went to see today about my period being late said I’m about a month along. That’s why I’ve been so sick and moody lately. I must tell James he’ll be so happy. I do hope this war ends soon so our child doesn’t grow up in the middle of a war.”
Hermione wished to read more to know what to expect when having a magical child when and if she and Harry had a child, but something told her to wait on reading those parts of Lily’s journal and move on to reading the veil project journal. So, she got up again and grabbed that journal.
This journal of Lily’s told of how about a week and half after coming back from her honeymoon she and James along with three other people were made Unspeakables and put in charge of a magical signature area that the Ministry couldn’t figure out. They were supposed to diagnose what the signature was, its nature and figure out a way to control it. Well, it took about two, three months to figure out what it was and what it did by Lily’s figures.
Then it took another four or five to figure out how to control. Their solution to controlling this signature was the veil Sirius fell through. By Hermione’s calculations Lily by now would’ve been about seven, eight months pregnant. She wondered why James hadn’t made her stop the project when he found out because if Hermione was learning anything it was Harry was like his dad and if the situations were reversed Hermione knew Harry would lock her up in their room and keep her their until this war was over. So, why hadn’t James stopped Lily, well her answer came in one entry about a month or so into the project.
It read,
“Thursday, December 15, 1988
Yet, again James is trying to get me switched to paper work in the Auror office because I’m pregnant, but I won’t let him. I began this project, I will see it through. Plus I check with my doctor and the medi-witch every week and the baby appears perfectly fine. Oh, men can be so infuriating some times. Well, I better go we have to check another sample of this magical signature to rule out some things.”
Hermione kept reading and reading on the veil. What they were doing, studying fascinated her. She finally came to the entry that most fascinated and couldn’t stop herself from gasping when she read it.
It read:
“Wednesday, February 8, 1989
We’ve finally figured out what this magical signature is and what it does! It didn’t happen through research and spells and potions. It came from a pure accident. We’ve figured out it’s a tear between parallel worlds. Unlike what many thought people don’t die when they go through this tear they just go on with their lives living parallel to this one. They can tell what’s going on outside their world, how much time is passing and things like that. How did we learn all this well C accidently fell through but she grabbed a rope as she fell and we could hear her telling as what to do. So, we followed her instructions and got her out it took a while though. Note to self: Instructions in very back of this journal!
Now that we know what it is and what it does we must figure out a way to control this tear or at least make it so others can find so they can avoid it. That may take a while I know we were trying to figure that out while we also got the instructions from C around so we could get her out of it.”
After reading this Hermione quickly turned to the way back and read the instructions.
“I can’t believe it! We can get Sirius out! We can bring him back! It will take a while, but we can do it! Won’t Harry be thrilled? I don’t want to tell him yet, I should probably get all the ingredients and other factors rounded up first? But where will I get the descendants of the sky both from the West and Home, those of the Fire Heart and Water Soul too? And what in the world does it mean by One True to make the Half a Whole? I wonder if Bri would know where to go to get these things. This spell is an ancient one, I may have to translate or something...oh wait Lily already did, Great. What does she mean by sometimes the Ancient way is the only way? I'm getting confused.”
Just as she was rewriting the instructions down in her own journal Harry came through the door. She quickly stowed the journals in her bed side table as he came to lie beside her in the bed.
“What was that? One of your naughty books again? You don’t need those anymore you got the real thing now,” Harry said with a smirk.
“Yes, I do but that doesn’t mean I have to get rid of my books. Many women have them even happily, sexually satisfied married women with amazing partners, Dear. So, I think I’ll keep my books and you too if I do say so myself.”
“Alright, Luv whatever you say, but right now I think I just want to sleep with you held against me. I’m so tired.”
“Alright, I see no problem with that,” Hermione said with a smile at Harry’s tired yawn watching him lay on his stomach, putting one arm below his pillow and pulling her close with the other. As she came in touch with his body she wiggled around until she lay against him on her side and ran her hands through his hair until they both fell asleep.
Draco walked into the study seeing Harry sitting behind his desk with his feet resting on top. Smirking slightly he sat down.
“You’re lucky Ali didn’t come down here with me Harry.”
“Damn I interrupted you again, didn’t I?”
“Yep. Do you do that on purpose?”
Harry laughed, “No I don’t actually but it does give me an added bonus seeing you get upset about it.”
“Git.”
“Ass.”
“We good?”
“Yeah we’re good. Damn Draco to bad we didn’t get the hang of this friendship thing at Hogwarts. We would have had a lot of fun.”
“Yes we would have. It’s too bad you didn’t let the hat put you in Slytherin Harry. With that damn invisibility cloak you have we could have really owned the school.”
Harry looked at Draco in surprise, “How did you know about my cloak?”
He smirked, “I didn’t until now but I had my suspicions.”
“Why you sneaky snake. You tricked me into admitting that I had one.”
“Of course I did Harry. How else was I going to find out?”
“You could have just asked you know.”
“True but that wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun. Now what did you want to talk to me about?”
“A couple of things really.”
“Like what?”
“Like first off I am sorry that my relationship with Ali has caused friction between you and her and between you and I. We never meant to hurt you and Mione. We honestly did not mean to make the two of you feel excluded.”
“I know that and understand that now. I’ll admit that I felt a little hurt that Ali needs you when her magic gets out of control but after talking to Fred and George I even understand why she needs you.”
“It’s not just Ali. I need her also to balance my power. The reason that I was so angry in 5th year was because my contact with her was very limited.”
“I assumed that it was because of all the rumors about you. Which by the way I’m sorry about what I did in 5th year.”
“Well the rumors didn’t help but I didn’t even want to come back to Hogwarts that year because Ali had just lost her parents. We needed each other and could not be with each other and it sucked. However when I sent you here I never expected that you and Ali would even like each other let alone fall in love. And since I didn’t expect to have her fall for anyone I didn’t think that the connection between her and I would be a problem. Come to think of it that’s probably why I dated Ginny because she wasn’t a threat to my relationship with Ice.”
“Why didn’t you want her to fall for anyone?”
Harry grew thoughtful. “Pure selfishness. Ali was the most important person in my life and I knew that if she fell in love then I wouldn’t be the most important person in hers. That’s why it was easy for me to be with Ginny. I knew that I would NEVER love Ginny Weasley as much as I loved Ali so there was no competion.”
Draco interrupted, “But you do love Hermione that much.”
“If not more. Ali is my sister and I cannot imagine my life without her but I CANNOT live without Mione. And yes that scares me.”
“I completely understand that. If I lost Ali I don’t know what I would do. But Harry you can’t sit here and tell me that you could live if you lost Ali either.”
Harry was silent for a moment as he thought then he answered, “You are right. I wouldn’t be able to survive if I lost Ali. I need her and Mione to keep my power grounded and I know it’s the same for Ali. She needs both of us and I truly hope you support her with that.”
“Oh I will. Harry I overheard you when you told Ali that she was your twin.”
“Oh you did?”
“Yes and Ali confirmed it.”
“She told you the truth. She is my twin. Did she tell you how it happened?”
“Yes. So you both knew from the start that there would never be anything romantic between you?”
“Yeah. The first minute I saw her yes I was dumbstruck by her beauty…”
Draco coughed into his hand, “Join the club.”
Harry laughed, “Swallowed your tongue did you?”
“Oh yeah and then she called me on it.”
“Ice hates the fact that she is beautiful because that’s all anyone ever sees. Most people don’t even try to get to know her.”
“She is even more beautiful on the inside.”
“Yeah she is. Anyway I thought to myself that she was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen but that was it. I never had any desire to be anything else and we did everything together when I stayed here.” Harry’s expression was thoughtful.
“Whats the matter Harry?”
“I was just thinking. I love this house. I love being here with Ali and I always thought that I would always come back here to stay. It just now occurred to me that this is YOUR house now and I shouldn’t even be sitting behind this desk. YOU are the new Lord VanLint and it’s time I stopped acting like it.”
Draco leaned his elbows on the desk and looked Harry right in the eye, “Yes I am Lord VanLint but Harry this is still your home. In fact Ali and I want to know if you and Hermione would consider living with us.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I love my wife too much to ask her to be without you Harry.”
“I have to talk to Mione but my answer is yes. Now the other thing I needed to ask you. What do you know about the elder wand?”
“The elder wand? The elder wand Ollivander talked about?”
“That’d be the one.”
“Not much, except for what we learned that day, why?”
“Well, I was talking to Mione and we figured something out…”
“Oh, and what’s that?”
“You hold it.”
“WHAT!”
“What, Lord can’t understand English now?” Harry said with a smirk
“Oh, I can understand English alright. I just can’t understand Potterish. Care to clarify for me?” Draco replied with a smirk right back.
“I think I can do that. You might want to sit.”
“Okay,” Draco said as he sat and then continued, “I’m sitting. What is it?”
“Well, as I said before I and Mione were talking and we figured out…starting from the eldest Peverell brother we figured out Dumbledore won the elder wand from Grindelwald and from Dumbledore, you got it. You have the elder wand because you won it from Dumbledore, right?”
“Well,…yeah…in a way.”
“Good, then I can win it from you because it allied to you, but you don’t really own it yet. Then I’ll have at least two of the three Deathly Hallows.”
“Wait, a second I can’t I have the wand and you have your cloak and the stone? Why do you get all three?”
“Well, that’s something else I and Mione figured out…because I’m a direct descendant of the third brother, we’ve figured that like the symbol shows they’re meant to be one, they’re meant to be in the true descendant’s control to be at their fullest strength and power. And because I’m the true descendant…”
“You’re the one that can control and use them the way their meant to be used. I get it. Okay, but how do you plan to get the wand then?”
“Do you remember second year and that duel club Lockhart tried to start?”
“Oh, yes our duel that got interrupted by your parseltongue…How could I forget, I was about to win,” Draco said laughing at the memory.
“No, you weren’t, I was. But that’s beside the point. I was thinking I always did want a rematch?” Harry said with a smirk.
“Oh, I get what you’re getting at, now. You want us to duel for the wand so the elder wand is won over completely to you, but what if you don’t win, Harry?” Draco smiled.
“Oh, I will don’t worry about that. And I’m so confident I think we should make a bet of it.”
“Ohhhh, really what kind of bet?”
“I bet that if I win and I will, you have to dress in Gryffindor colors right down to your undies for a whole week.”
“And if I win…the same for you, but I think I want to see you in Hufflewussie colors along with a skirt just to be a true Hufflewussie of course.”
“Okay, you got it, but my Lord VanLint get ready to wear Gryffindor colors because your going down,” Harry said laughing.
“Oh, don’t think so Lord Potter,” Draco smirked.
“So, when should we do this?”
“I think tomorrow afternoon will be early enough. Now if you don’t mind, I think you interrupted something I’d like to get back to,” Draco said with a smile and laugh as he left the room.
After Draco left Harry wanted to go back to Hermione and enjoy their time together too, but something stopped him so he sat back in the chair and got out paper and a pen and began writing. First he wrote to Hermione’s parents to inform them they were fine. He wrote next to Neville and Luna to check in on the school and how things were. Then he wrote to Remus to check on him and the Order as well as Buckbeak whom he seemed to take a fondness too when he visited Grimmauld Place fifth year. Lastly, he wrote Snape to update him and check in on things on that end. After writing all of these he called for Hedwig who came and spent a few hours with Harry as he finished paperwork that he had and got some well deserved treats for all the work she would be doing, delivering all of his letters. So, with a final peck on his cheek and a nip at his hair in farewell she was off to deliver her cargo and Harry went back to his and Hermione’s room. Before he left the office though he checked to make sure things were locked up safely and checked the clock, which to his surprise said 11:45 PM.
Back in Harry and Hermione’s room…
Hermione lay in bed just basking in the afterglow of her and Harry’s passion, but something just kept nagging her until she couldn’t take it and got up from the bed. She put on a robe and walked to the desk where she had placed James and Lily’s diaries in a drawer. Opening the drawer she reached in and took out Lily’s journal. Once she had this she went to lay in the bed once again. She snuggled into the pillows and blankets and opened the journal as if she was getting ready to read one of her favorite romance novels before going to bed. She had already read Lily’s early years and her school years. How she and James had gotten together. How she kept the Marauders from getting into to much trouble. She even learned that Lily once knew Professor Snape, but she didn’t pay much attention to this.
Hermione was reading about Lily and James’ wedding which happened after they became Aurors and members of the Order it appeared but not long after. It was such a simple but romantic wedding at a little church with all their friends and some family. When Hermione turned the page she found it was dated and timed as to be early the next day. As she read she quite quickly figured out Lily was talking about her and James’ honeymoon night and just as she figured this out and was about to skip reading this bit of information. There are some things you don’t want to know about your parents or your spouses’ parents and this was one of those things something near the end of the entry caught her eye and she read.
It read:
“Monday, October 24, 1988
Dear Diary,
…This morning I asked James about the swirling lights I had seen last night when we…when we…oh you would think after experiencing the greatest night of my life with the love of my life I could say the words or at least write them, but I can’t.
Well, that’s beside the point right now. So, I’ll just continue on with what I was saying before. So, this morning after our honeymoon night which must I say again was amazing! I asked James what the lights meant and he explained to me that it was a rare but amazing thing that happened if I saw lights. He said that means we’re soul mates; which I knew already in my heart, but it was nice to hear him say anyways. He explained wizards and witches be them muggle-born, half, or pure blood rarely meet, fall in love with and/or marry their soul mates. The lights are the magic of those two people and when they combine it means those two are now one, completely.
I told him the lights combined and settled around my abdomen, but he didn’t know what that meant he said he thought it might mean we’d be blessed with children later on in our lives or because I was the one who had given him such a gift our magics combined was making it possible for me to give us a child later on. He didn’t know exactly.
I tried to research it, but there’s nothing. It frustrates me so when I can’t figure something out, but I’ll put it out of my mind for now James is coming back from the kitchen of this wonderful bed and breakfast we’re at with food soon. I hate that our honeymoon is only a few days. I hate that we have to get back to Order and Auror business soon. I just want to bask in this feeling of being Lily Potter forever!”
“Soul mates? I and Harry are…are soul mates! Oh my Merlin!” Hermione thought when she finished reading Lily’s entry. This thought just made her smile and smile. She was frustrated though that the same thing that had happened to her and Harry had happened to Lily and James and yet Lily didn’t know what the lights near the abdomen meant either. Plus, knowing how rare occurrences were if there was nothing about it in Lily’s time there wouldn’t be anything now either so she was out of luck in the research department on this particular subject.
Hermione read about the few days James and Lily spent at the B&B, but soon enough it appeared they got back to work both Auror-wise and Order-wise. Hermione read about how they had been put in charge of a project down in the Department of Mysteries which Lily wrote a note to herself about another journal just for that to herself and about because they worked their they became Unspeakables with a few others Lily wouldn’t mention by names only their code names.
She read how James and Lily thwarted Voldemort and his followers every single time; which ended up being the three mentioned in the prophecy. She read how the Longbottoms and Harry’s parents along with the Order members were all great friends and hung out together all the time. Hermione read about how James and Marion’s connection confused Lily too until they explained it to her. Hermione read about how Lily found out Marion was pregnant and hoped she would soon be with child too one day. She read of Lily’s dreams of raising a child with James after the war and not having to hide and run and fight all the time.
Then something maybe two, three weeks after Lily and James’s wedding night caught her eye and she read.
It said:
“Tuesday, November 15, 1988
Dear Diary,
I woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning this morning running to the bathroom to hurl in the loo. I remember smelling James cooking something downstairs for us to eat because we had an early shift today and I got sick to my stomach. James came running into the bathroom to find me with my head in the loo. He didn’t say anything just came over, grabbed all my hair and held it for me as I hurled and hurled. He kept rubbing my back and soothing me with words. Finally, when it quit he told me to get right back in bed and he’d call me in sick. Though after that incident I felt fine and have for the rest of the day. I wonder if I have the flu or something? Well, I better take my nap that James ordered me to take about 9 hours ago before he left for work at 4, but haven’t taken yet. Or when he gets home I’ll hear it for sure.”
After reading of Lily’s symptoms for about a week or so Hermione thought she knew what was wrong with her and the next entry confirmed it. It was in bold letters of red.
It read:
“Friday, November 25, 1988
Dear Diary,
I’m pregnant! The doctor I went to see today about my period being late said I’m about a month along. That’s why I’ve been so sick and moody lately. I must tell James he’ll be so happy. I do hope this war ends soon so our child doesn’t grow up in the middle of a war.”
Hermione wished to read more to know what to expect when having a magical child when and if she and Harry had a child, but something told her to wait on reading those parts of Lily’s journal and move on to reading the veil project journal. So, she got up again and grabbed that journal.
This journal of Lily’s told of how about a week and half after coming back from her honeymoon she and James along with three other people were made Unspeakables and put in charge of a magical signature area that the Ministry couldn’t figure out. They were supposed to diagnose what the signature was, its nature and figure out a way to control it. Well, it took about two, three months to figure out what it was and what it did by Lily’s figures.
Then it took another four or five to figure out how to control. Their solution to controlling this signature was the veil Sirius fell through. By Hermione’s calculations Lily by now would’ve been about seven, eight months pregnant. She wondered why James hadn’t made her stop the project when he found out because if Hermione was learning anything it was Harry was like his dad and if the situations were reversed Hermione knew Harry would lock her up in their room and keep her their until this war was over. So, why hadn’t James stopped Lily, well her answer came in one entry about a month or so into the project.
It read,
“Thursday, December 15, 1988
Yet, again James is trying to get me switched to paper work in the Auror office because I’m pregnant, but I won’t let him. I began this project, I will see it through. Plus I check with my doctor and the medi-witch every week and the baby appears perfectly fine. Oh, men can be so infuriating some times. Well, I better go we have to check another sample of this magical signature to rule out some things.”
Hermione kept reading and reading on the veil. What they were doing, studying fascinated her. She finally came to the entry that most fascinated and couldn’t stop herself from gasping when she read it.
It read:
“Wednesday, February 8, 1989
We’ve finally figured out what this magical signature is and what it does! It didn’t happen through research and spells and potions. It came from a pure accident. We’ve figured out it’s a tear between parallel worlds. Unlike what many thought people don’t die when they go through this tear they just go on with their lives living parallel to this one. They can tell what’s going on outside their world, how much time is passing and things like that. How did we learn all this well C accidently fell through but she grabbed a rope as she fell and we could hear her telling as what to do. So, we followed her instructions and got her out it took a while though. Note to self: Instructions in very back of this journal!
Now that we know what it is and what it does we must figure out a way to control this tear or at least make it so others can find so they can avoid it. That may take a while I know we were trying to figure that out while we also got the instructions from C around so we could get her out of it.”
After reading this Hermione quickly turned to the way back and read the instructions.
“I can’t believe it! We can get Sirius out! We can bring him back! It will take a while, but we can do it! Won’t Harry be thrilled? I don’t want to tell him yet, I should probably get all the ingredients and other factors rounded up first? But where will I get the descendants of the sky both from the West and Home, those of the Fire Heart and Water Soul too? And what in the world does it mean by One True to make the Half a Whole? I wonder if Bri would know where to go to get these things. This spell is an ancient one, I may have to translate or something...oh wait Lily already did, Great. What does she mean by sometimes the Ancient way is the only way? I'm getting confused.”
Just as she was rewriting the instructions down in her own journal Harry came through the door. She quickly stowed the journals in her bed side table as he came to lie beside her in the bed.
“What was that? One of your naughty books again? You don’t need those anymore you got the real thing now,” Harry said with a smirk.
“Yes, I do but that doesn’t mean I have to get rid of my books. Many women have them even happily, sexually satisfied married women with amazing partners, Dear. So, I think I’ll keep my books and you too if I do say so myself.”
“Alright, Luv whatever you say, but right now I think I just want to sleep with you held against me. I’m so tired.”
“Alright, I see no problem with that,” Hermione said with a smile at Harry’s tired yawn watching him lay on his stomach, putting one arm below his pillow and pulling her close with the other. As she came in touch with his body she wiggled around until she lay against him on her side and ran her hands through his hair until they both fell asleep.