Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does. I might not be the first one to create and have ideas like this. I have not read all fan fiction and I may copy some passages from the original story.
Author's Notes: This will be my first story. I have written this at my leisure time because of the storm that passed our country. I have done my best in creating this.
"Speaking to each other"
'thoughts'
"mind speech through bond"
~-The Rise of Darkness-~
Chapter 1
Professor McGonagall is sent to an orphanage in England. She has been tasked to by the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore to send the Hogwarts letters of two children, Harry James Potter and Hermione Jean Granger. She wasn't expecting Harry to be there. She has accompanied Dumbledore to see that Harry has been delivered to his remaining relatives 10 years ago. She even watched his relatives to see if Harry is going to be ok. She argued with Dumbledore until she agreed. It even surprised her that the old man asked Hagrid to deliver him. The half-giant is not the gentlest person available to deliver Harry and was expelled at Hogwarts in his third year. She wasn't surprised that Harry might be dumped at an orphanage but seeing that he wasn't the only child that can do magic inside the orphanage and also almost have the same age surprised her greatly.
She entered the orphanage and asked for Mrs. Cole. Mrs. Cole has been there for almost sixty years. She has worked there since she was twenty-one years old. She knows everyone who has been housed there. She was surprised that a professor from a school has visited this orphanage 50 years ago for a child with some abilities of some kind. There were two children with the same or more abilities than the child before and is suspecting that another professor will talk to them. Her guess was correct as Professor McGonagall entered her office.
"Hello ma'am. Good morning, who are you and what can I do for you?" Mrs. Cole asked.
"I am Professor McGonagall," Professor McGonagall answered. "I have to speak to one Harry James Potter and one Hermione Jean Granger. It is about their schooling."
"As I have suspected," Mrs. Cole said. "Another Professor has come here fifty years ago. He also came for a child with mysterious abilities for his schooling."
"Well then can I speak to them?"
"Of course I'll just do what I did last time. They also have mysterious abilities just like Mr. Riddle 50 years ago." Mrs. Cole warned. "Harry and Hermione are always together. They protect each other ever since they were put here. When someone tries to harm, hurt or annoy then something bad happens to the one that done it. They also are quiet and don't have any friends. I don't know but I think they could speak to each other by looking at each other."
'Interesting,' McGonagall remarked. "Can I see them now please?"
"Of course, follow me."
~-The Rise of Darkness-~
In a room in the orphanage two children are just beginning to wake up and get ready to start the day. They were 'speaking' to each other when they have heard a knock.
"Come in." They said.
Professor McGonagall entered the room. She saw a boy with messy black hair and emerald green eyes with a lightning-bolt shaped scar on his forehead and a girl with bushy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes sitting on a bed. 'He does look like James but with Lily's eyes. I hope he doesn't turn out like his father and act like his mother.
"Well hello." Professor McGonagall greeted. "Hello Mr. Potter and Ms. Granger. I am Professor McGonagall."
Harry and Hermione looked at each other.
"Professor?" they asked. "They are planning to send us in the asylum aren't they?"
"No," McGonagall replied. "I am going to offer you a place at our school. It is a school for gifted children. The school's name is Hogwarts, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to be exact. I am the Deputy Headmistress of the school and am responsible for delivering the letters of acceptance to the school for all muggle-born and muggle-raised children."
"What is a muggle?" Harry asked.
"A muggle is a person who doesn't have magic."
"Magic? Magic is what our strange ability is?" Harry and Hermione looked at each other with curious expressions on their face.
"Yes magic." Professor McGonagall confirmed. "Magic is the ability that some like us can do. The magical population is not known to the muggles, only their prime minister knows. Tell me Mr. Potter, Ms Granger, is there something that you can do that you couldn't explain?"
"Yes ma'am. We could move things without touching them."
"We could make animals do what we want without training them."
"We can make bad thing happens to those who hurt one of us."
"We can make them hurt if we wanted to."
Now Professor McGonagall was surprised. She alternately looked at the two of them while they are speaking. 'This must be what Mrs. Cole is trying to tell me about.'
"Well if I may ask, how can you two know what to say and I also noticed that when you two are looking at each other it looks like that you are conversing with one another?" She asked.
"Well we can send our thoughts through each other's mind since we can remember." Harry answered. "We can also feel each other's emotion through the-what we so called-link with each other."
Professor McGonagall's eyes widened with surprise. 'A soul bond, this hasn't happened for nearly 300 years.'
"You two must be a soul bonded. It is extremely rare and the last known soul bonded couple existed 300 years ago." McGonagall explained.
"So we are soul bonded." Hermione told Harry through their link. "This explains some things then."
"Professor what do you mean a couple?" Harry asked.
"Well, it's complicated since you are still children but what I know is when two soul bonded people touch each other it starts the bond and experience the same things that you experience now. That must be the first stage. There is also the second and third. The second stage I believe will start when you kiss each other and it will also be the time that magic will recognize you as married couple." Both Harry and Hermione blushed at this and exclaimed "Married? Anything else to add professor?"
"Yes. It will also be the time," McGonagall continued. "that you will be compelled to um… you know … It's hard to explain but when you enact the second stage you will feel the need to be touched by each other and be more intimate with each other." Both Harry and Hermione are red at this.
"Well, let us get out of this topic. It's embarrassing explaining to children and I don't know how you to were able to make me talk about it but let's change the subject and let me do what I came here to do." McGonagall with a blushing face quickly said. "Now I know about your parents-"
"You do?"
"How about my parents? Do you know them?"
"Sorry Miss Granger but I didn't know about them. They have told me that they have died at a car crash and you were found with Mr. Potter at the wreckage holding hands." McGonagall sighed.
"Oh…" Hermione said downcast while Harry comfortingly hold her. McGonagall watched the scene happen noticed that their bond must be so deep now but they recognize each other as brother and sister.
"Well I am sorry about it Miss Granger. Well Mr. Potter you look like your father but have your mother's eyes."
"I do?"
"Yes, your father, James "Prongs" Potter, was a prankster with Remus "Moony" Lupin, Sirius "Padfoot" Orion Black, and Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew. They call themselves the Marauders but they will be told at another time. Your mother, Lily Evans, was a smart witch and especially brilliant at charms and potions."
"What happened to my parents?" Harry asked.
"Well they were killed by a terrorist named Vo...Vol…Volde…Voldemort." Professor McGonagall flinched at her daring but Harry and Hermione were watching her curiously.
"Why are you afraid to say his name professor?"Hermione asked while comforting Harry because this was the only time he heard of his parents.
"He is a powerful dark lord of all time and induced fear to England at the time." McGonagall answered shaking a little bit.
"What happened to him professor?" Harry suddenly asked.
"You happened. He targeted your family. He must have tried to recruit them but no one still knows why he went for them. He must have tried to kill you to have a clean job but when the killing curse touched you it rebounded back at him. And do you know where it touched Harry? Your scar it is where You-Know-Who pointed his wand and casted the Killing Curse to end your life. No one knows what happened that night. It is a mystery that needs to be solved."
When Professor McGonagall is finished, Hermione is hugging Harry and is saying comforting words to him.
"Thank you Professor McGonagall, but how in the world a person like Harry got into an orphanage in the first place?" Hermione asked.
Professor McGonagall stopped short. "Well Dumbledore-"
"Who is Dumbledore?" Hermione asked her eyes flaring asking for answers that is the reason for every hurt her bond mate have suffered.
McGonagall shuddered involuntarily. "Well his full name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. He is the head of Wizengamot, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederation of Wizards, Order of Merlin, First Class, and Headmaster of Hogwarts."
"It doesn't matter Hermione, he will pay for what he did and anything else he did wrong." Harry thought to Hermione while his eyes darken. Hermione smiling a little pulled Harry closer to her hug.
Professor McGonagall seeing Harry's eyes darken and Hermione smile a little scared her. "Well now here is your letters." Handing them a letter with a seal that depicts a lion, badger, raven and a snake on a shield with an H on the middle. "Here is a booklet about the magical world and a ticket for the train in King's Cross. The platform's name is 9 and ¾. You have to go to Diagon Alley to get your supplies. The entrance to diagon alley is in The Leaky Cauldron. Do you two need help in going to Diagon Alley?"
"We don't need help just give us the instructions on how to locate the entrance. We are used to do things together or alone." Hermione answered for them.
Professor McGonagall was taken aback at the sudden hostility. Giving them instructions on how to get to The Leaky Cauldron she gave Harry a key to his trust vault his parents have let him and a bag of gold, silver and bronze for Hermione.
"Professor what is this?" she asked.
"That is the currency we use in the magical world. The gold ones are Galleons," she explained. "Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine bronze Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy to remember. When you deal with goblins treat them with respect if you will. You tell them your name and show them the key I gave you."
"Thank you professor, see you at Hogwarts." Hermione bid good-bye to Professor McGonagall who answered, "See you at Hogwarts and comfort Harry please. He seems not able to handle this very well but good-bye Miss Granger."
And with that Professor McGonagall walked out the door and thanked Mrs. Cole and then went back to Hogwarts to report her findings to Dumbledore.
~-The Rise of Darkness-~
As they watched Professor McGonagall leaved they mentally talked to each other not risking if the deputy headmistress left anything or charmed something that will let her know of anything they speak about. They easily mistrust people like Professor McGonagall once they knew that they are under the pockets of another influential person like Dumbledore. The truth is they find authority figures like teachers hard to trust because of an incident when they were 8.
"Harry can you hear me?" Hermione used their link to speak through their link.
"I'm here. I guess she bought it." Harry replied.
"It's hard to trust people like her, under the thumb of someone powerful. She must be giving Albus-With-Too-Many-Names-Dumbledore of what happened right now. Do you think we have enough money to buy everything we need for school and some additional items to learn to protect ourselves from dangers and alike."
"Don't worry about the money she gave you Hermione if I did have a vault with galleons from my parents and if it can hold us both I'll share it with you." Harry offered.
"Thank you, Harry." Hermione replied.
"Don't worry we have faced a lot of problems before and if we can get through them we can get through this one."
They both smiled and turned to get ready to go and get their supplies from Diagon Alley and start a new chapter in their lives.
Author's Note: I hope it have gone well. Please tell me if there are things to improve and some suggestions would do. Again this is my first fanfiction I created. I did my best and I am hoping to have time to continue this. Please be patient for updates.