Hey everyone! I just had an idea, and decided to act on it! I hope you enjoy it! I'm not sure how long this is going to be, but I have a few ideas that I'm playing around with. I do not own Harry Potter or anything else you recognise in here!
Prologue:
In the Ministry of Magic, there is a place named the Department of Mysteries.
It is buried deep down underground, on the lowest level of the Ministry, and only certain authorised persons may venture there. However, over the years, others, outsiders to the Department, find their way inside. Many feel compelled to go there, as if the department itself is leading them to where they need to go.
The most famous of these people is Harry Potter. Although, he lost his godfather there, some Unspeakables feel that he was drawn to there as if he knew that it would help him on his path to destroying Voldemort. Not only that, but the love that was felt there when he lost his godfather and his affection towards his friends, and the grief and anguish that seem to go hand in hand with love so often, lingered.
The workers there could still feel it, years after the incident. And so, as they looked further into the world's most powerful magic, the Unspeakables proposed an experiment. For a decade, from 2000 to 2010, all magical babies born would be presented with a necklace. A Ministry official from the Department of Mysteries would be present after the baby was born, and would perform a spell to create the necklace for each baby. The necklace cannot be taken of, or destroyed, and had everyone's initials on it.
This necklace would have a charm on it, in the shape of half of a broken heart. Except that, every single heart-half was completely different to any others, except one. When the person found the other heart-half that matched perfectly to theirs and formed a perfect heart, they had found that special one. Not only that, but at the age of 17, the necklaces would activate automatically on their birthday. After this point, the necklace would heat up when they got closer to that person, or get colder when they went in completely the opposite direction. The Department of Mysteries would keep track of each necklace, to track its patterns and see how hot or cold each necklace became. And once the necklace stayed hot permanently, they knew that those two people had found love, and were together.
As it so happened, in the year of 2006, the protagonists of this story were born.
A little girl, with a tuft of bright red hair, and shockingly blue eyes was born to a rather famous couple named Ron and Hermione Weasley, two thirds of the "Golden Trio", and best friends to Harry Potter. In the minutes after being born, the spell was performed and a little silver necklace appeared around her neck with a rather distinct shaped half-heart on there. The beaming parents thanked the official, and went back to observing their new little girl open her eyes for the first time.
A month and a week later, a little boy was born to a rather different couple. His parents were Draco and Astoria Malfoy. Although their family supported the Dark Lord during both wars, Draco was doing everything in his power to change society's view of his family. Having Astoria as his wife was a great help to him too. He married her for love, contrary to most people's beliefs. This little boy, given a constellation name, much like others before him, had blonde, almost white hair and grey, stormy eyes. Much like with many babies before him, his necklace appeared too. As his mother cooed and exclaimed how gorgeous he was, his older sister with dark brown hair peered at him curiously, with their father smiling down at them all, almost knowing how much trouble they'd bring him in a few years.
Both children had rather different childhoods. The girl, Rose, was constantly with her cousins Albus and Dominique, running around and playing pranks on her older cousins James and Fred. She was constantly surrounded by family, and loved it. Her mother shared her passion for reading with her, which she loved, and would spend hours in Flourish and Blott's just reading and looking for books. Her dad taught her how to play Quidditch and Wizard Chess, and how to get back at her older cousins for stealing her toys and putting insects in her food. When her little baby brother Hugo came along, she spent more time with him, teaching him all the most important things and dressing him up in their mum's clothes.
The boy, Scorpius, didn't have many friends. His best friend was his sister, Elektra, who was a year older than him. She was a bit annoying in his opinion, but he loved to pull pranks on her anyway. Occasionally his cousins visited, and he became best friends one of them named Lucas. He loved to play Quidditch, which his dad taught him, but also, his mum taught him how to cook and bake, which he found calming and enjoyable. Both children had looked forward to going to Hogwarts ever since they knew about it. They would make the greatest friends of their lives there, break hearts, heal hearts, win, lose, party, sulk, have new experiences, avoid others….they just didn't know what they were getting into.