The Soulbond that Changed Everything.
By Potterfan2287
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, That beautiful distinction goes to J.K. Rowling. The plot and some of the new characters are the only thing that are mine.
Chapter One:
October First Nineteen Eighty-One.
James Potter got up to answer a call from the floo network. He was pleasantly surprised earlier, when his wife Lily told him that the Weasley's wanted to come and visit. They were one of the few families that knew where the Potters were hiding. James stepped back as the entire Weasley family came through the floo network into his sitting room.
Molly was the first through, carrying her newborn daughter Ginny. Ron was the next one, being carried by the oldest Weasley child Bill. The rest of the weasley family came through in short order after them.
"Molly! How wonderful to see you!" "I trust that little Ginny is doing well?" James asked.
"Yes she is. She is flourishing. Though I must admit, that she is going to be the final Weasley child. Seven is going to be too much I think, but we got our daughter which is what we were looking forward to." Molly Replied smiling.
Lily Potter chose that moment to walk in carrying little Harry. She greeted the Weasley's and handed Harry to his father.
Harry immeditately began squirming in his father's arms, trying to get a good look at the bundle in Molly's arms, that was Ginny.
"See baby!" Harry exclaimed reaching.
Molly looked at Harry in surprise. "How does he know that I am holding a baby?" she asked James perplexed.
"He is very perceptive. He got his mother's smarts, and he got my quidditch skills." James smiled.
"See Baby!" harry exclaimed once again.
Lily laughed. "You had better let him see, he won't stop until he sees her."
Molly went to harry and leaned forward, she moved Ginny's blanket a bit, so that Harry could see her face.
Harry reached out to gently touch the newborns cheek. "See's pwetty." He said softly. What happened next not a single soul in the room was expecting. Harry bent forward in his father's arms, and gently placed a soft kiss on the newest weasley's cheek.
There was a flash of white light and suddenly, Harry was unconscious in his father's arms and Ginny who had been awake only moments before, was suddenly now asleep.
"James! What happened?" Lily exclaimed frightened.
James was confused, but he handed his son to Arthur and went to the fireplace. He called Albus Dumbledore, who was instantly in the Potters' sitting room, waving his wand and checking both Harry and Ginny.
Molly and Lily were both apprehensive. "Albus?" Lily finally asked.
The distinguished headmaster, straightened up and looked at everybody around him. "These two have developed a soulbond. Harry kissing young Ginevra's cheek activated it. This is the first soulbond in recorded history since 1292, Arthur and Guenivere Pendragon were the last ones to form this type of a bond. Until the bond Is completed, both Harry and Ginevra must stay in the same crib. No more than a few hours I would expect. They will be extremely powerful. The most powerful students at Hogwarts if I am not mistaken, perhaps the most powerful witch and wizard in our history. Now on the subject of Voldemort, you need to let him attempt to kill Harry. I think this soulbond will protect him and maybe finish off Voldemort, at least for a while." Albus told the room at large.
No one said a word at this. Everyone went silent and stared realizing that they had no choice in the matter.
Thirty days later…
James Potter was sitting on the sofa in the sitting room, making smoke come out of his wand to entertain Harry; while Lily was finishing the dishes. This had become their nightly routine after the Weasley's went home each night. They had decided that it was best that Harry and Ginny see each other everyday to make sure that the bond remained strong.
James had just handed Harry to his mother, so that she could put him to bed; when the door of their house was blasted open throwing wood everywhere. Death Eaters swarmed into the house and began firing curses at James. While he was dueling, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Lord Voldemort step over the threshold of the front door. "Lily, he's with the Death Eaters, take Harry and run!" James shouted to his petrified wife, who stood on the bottom step with Harry in her arms. Harry was watching the curses shoot out of the battling wizards and witches wands, eyes wide with wonder and excitement at the new light show his father was putting on for him.
Not needing to be told twice, Lily rushed Harry to his nursery to use the emergency portkey that Albus had created and left there. Nothing happened when she touched the portkey. Desperate and not knowing what else to do, she waved her wand and began stacking boxes and toys in front of the nursery door, hoping that it would somehow keep Voldemort out.
While Lily tried her best to protect Harry, James was battling fiercely with the last two remaining Death Eaters, He had used a varition of the Stunning Curse to knock out the Death Eaters that he had been dueling with previously. In the middle of the duel, two more Death Eaters had shown up. Bellatrix Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. now dueled James to the death. Curse after curse flew from the duelers wands, missing or being deflected by the shield charm. Finally James got desperate. Pointing his wand at the ceiling, James backed up a fair distance from the deadly servants of Voldemort. When he was far enough away that he felt safe, he cast his strongest shield charm and then pointed his wand above Lestrange and Crouch. "REDUCTO!" he shouted. The curse hit the ceiling above the two Death Eaters and the rubble from the ceiling fell on them, knocking the two of them out. Quickly grabbing their wands, James rushed upstairs to his wife and son.
While James had been fighting Lestrange and Crouch...
Lily screamed as Voldemort blasted the door and the objects blocking it into the room. She watched helplessly as Voldemort walked towards the crib. Summoning the last reserve of her Gryffindor Courage, she threw herself into Voldemorts path.
"Not Harry! kill me instead! Please! your Death Eaters have already killed my husband, so i beg you to kill me and leave Harry alone!'
"Stand aside! it is the boy I want, not you! the boy is the threat, not you or his father. Neither of you have to die! I just want to end the threat that is your son. Now for the last time stand aside!" Voldemort shouted.
"Never!" Lily shouted back. She saw Voldemort smile cruelly with what he had left for lips. He pointed his wand at her. A scarlet stunner shot from the end of the wand and hit Lily in the chest, sending her sprawling unconsious to the ground.
"Why kill you? Knowing how much you will not be able to live with yourself for allowing me to kill your son? No. You will suffer without your son. Just as I suffered without my mother because she unlike you, didn't want to save me from where I was put after she died. You are more noble and courageous than my mother. That is something I admire, even if you aren't one of my Death Eaters. Now to tend to your son and the threat he poses to me continuing to gain power." Voldemort said to the prone form of Lily.
He turned to the crib and pointed his wand at Harry...
When James reached the landing and stepped into the doorway of his son's nursery, he heard the two words, that he knew was going to shatter his world forever. He had not only lost his wife, but now he was going to loose his son. He tried to step further into the room, but found himself immobolized. Voldemort had not even turned around to face him, but James knew that it was he who had stopped him in his tracks.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" The green light shot from the wand and backfired hitting Voldemort. He broke, nothing more than spirit. Leaving the Potter house, he fled and James ran to his son and wife. Voldemort was gone... For now...