A/N: Not mine at all all I own is my mind and I'm leasing it to science

Chapter 4:

Tonks led Harry from the Headmasters office to the Great Hall to get some breakfast. Eventhough she was a Ravenclaw she decided to eat with Harry so that she could get to know his friends, since she didn't have many of her own. As she sat at the Gryffindor table and pulled Harry into the seat beside her Harry began knocking his head repetedly into the table. He was still banging his head when Ron and Hermione walked iunto the Great Hall, upon seeing Harry obviously distressed they rushed over to him to see what was the matter.

"Harry, Harry what's wrong what happened?" Hermione asked trying to figure out what could have possibly gone wrong.

Ron meanwhile being his usual dense self was busy trying to figure out who the pink haired girl sitting beside his head banging friend was. Noticing their clasped hands he asked "who's your new friend Harry?"

"Urggh, Ron sometimes I swear you are so dense here is our best friend banging his head on the table and your worried about who his friend is" Hermione said beginning to fume.

"Bloody hell Mione, I was just trying to be friendly and try to take his mind off of his problems. No reason to try and bite my head off like that geez" Ron replied with a pout.

"Not to interupt your argument, but perhaps I should introduce myself, names Tonks, Nymphadora Tonks, everyone but Harry just calls me Tonks cause I hate my name" Nym interjected.

"Nice to make your aquaintence Tonks, so if everyone besides Harry calls you Tonks what does Harry call you?" Hermione asked quizzically trying to figure out how and when Harry and Tonks got togetther.

With a deep blush Tonks replied to her question " He calls me his. Now as to your first question all that I can tell you is that he has had some rather shocking news today and it's taken alot out of him."

After a final thump Harry left his head lying on the table for a minute and slowly lifted it to look at his friends. "Hi guys" Harry said with a sheepish grin.

"Alright Mr. Potter spill. First I want to know what's happened to have you trying to break the table with your head. Second when did you and miss Tonks here happen, and Thirdly why do you look so happy and so miserable at the same time" Hermione blurted out all the questions she could think of right off of the top of her head.

"Whoa ok Hermione to answer your first question this morning, we shared a dream in which Voldemort" Harry shook his head as everyone within hearing range cringed at the name except for Hermione and Nym flinched at the mention of Voldemort, "as I was saying he continued we shared a dream in which Voldemort tried to kill her and I was able to stop him by intercepting the curse and then I was able to beat him even though it was only mentally and then I wasd called to the Headmasgter's office because apparently Sirius Black was innocent all along and lo and behold who do I meet there but the woman of my dreams" this comment caused Nym to blush again. "The answers to your second and third question are actually the same thing, but I can't tell you here too many people around who may hear."

"Ok Harry we can wait just so long as your ok" Ron said earning himself a glare from Hermione.

"Grrr." Hermione said as she stomped off.

Things progressed normally throughout the day with Harry barely managing to avoid Hermione asking him again. Unfortunately for Harry his luck ran out as she cornered him in the common room. "Ok Harry it's time for you to spill" she said.

"Alright but I need you to promise not to get mad at me ok?" Harry asked.

"I promise that unless you've done something incredibly stupid to get yourself expelled than I will not get mad at you" she promised with a smile.

"Well it turns out that I'm the heir of both families of the Merlin line which means that I either have to either except bondings with nine other families or lose my birthright, which is kind of hard to explain" Harry said with a sigh.

"Oh is that it I thought it was something new, oops" she said as she put her hand over her mouth.

"What do you know that your not telling me? Hermione it sounds to me like you already knew what I just told you and there's no way that you could know that" Harry said.

"Uh well you see the ting is uhhh" Hermione started to say as the room froze around her and the man that she met at the end of her previous life appeared before her.

"Just had to say something ddn't you miss Granger?" he asked.

"It slipped I didn't mean to say anything" Hermione said as she almost started to cry.

"Relax miss Granger it just so happens that you've done such a good job that Harry is actually now ahead of schedule and has already bonded to his soulmate, and is aware of his choice towards his destiny" the man said, "so since you seem to be so gifted at helping Harry get his life back on track that you are allowed to tell him about what happened before, however I must warn you in regards to his final destiny one of the biggest mistakes that you made was in forcing him to turn down what was rightfully his to take if he chose."

"But how could I have shared him with other women it just isn't right" Hermione said.

"In the muggle world where your parents are from thats right but this is the magical world things are different here you know that, but it's your unwillingness to accept that which will stop you from even now having a opart in that part of Harry's life" he said.

"But the one told me that Loving Harry was what caused the timeline to go wrong" Hermione complained.

"No what he said was that the way you loved Harry meaning your desiciion on how he would live his life did not allow him to have full access to his powers which led to his downfall and the doom of the world" he said.

"So he should have chosen to have all of those other women instead of being true to me?" Hermione asked.

"No that's not it at all, it's not a matter of being true or anything like that it is a matter of having the ability to make the choices that he has to that allow him to suceed at what he does without those choices his power is severely limited to what it could have been and that is what caused the result that happened" he said.

"Think on what I have gtold you and you will be able to help your friend to make the right decision, and listen to his mate she will also be a great help to you" he said as he dissapeared and the room came back to life.

"Hermione are you ok you spaced out there for a second?" Harry asked with a hint of worry.

"Yeah I'm ok sorry about that, listen I have tio tell you something that may sound outrageous but I promise that it is the complete truth. I'm not the same Hermione that you have known, well physically I am but my mind and soul are from the future. You see we were married but because of some things that I had done we lost the final battle Voldemort took over and destroyed the wizarding world. You fought hard but I had not allowed you to be all that you were capable of and when you needed to be you weren't strong enough. Several years after your death I made a potion that would have placed me into a slowly lethal coma so that I could join you in the after life. Well there was an intervention and I was given the choice to be sent back tio try and make things right for you. Ron's rat scabbers was actually a wizard the one who betrayed your parents, this morning I turned him in to professor Dumbeldore in order to get Sirius freed. I had no idea that you would meet your soul-mate there but when I spaced out there for a few minutes I was talking to the one who intervened to stop me from drinking the p-otion and he told me that I could tell you about this because things moved faster than they expected. He also said that whatever help you needed I could give" she replied.

"Wow if anyone other than you were to tell me that I would never believe it but I know you Mione, and I know that you would never lie to me so it must be true" he said.

"Thanks for believing me Harry" she said, "and maybe if you decide to bond with these other women then perhaps you can find a place where can fit in."

"Maybe, if I agree to the bondings that is I honestly can't see my life anyway without you in it somehow" he said as he gave her a gentle hug and a peck on the cheek, "just give me some time to decide and of course Nym would have to agree first but if everything happens that way I'm sure that there will be a place for you."

A warm feeling filled Hermione as she heard these words, a feeling that she had not felt since the day he died in the prievious timeline she felt love in the knowledge that she may not have to lose him after all, there may be hope for her happiness yet.

While Harry and Hermione are talking in the fifth year Ravenclaw girl's dormitory a pink haired girl is having a dream.

"Hello Nymphadora" says a voice from behind her.

Nym turns to see a beautiful woman with flowing red hair and the same piercing green eyes as her Harry. "Lily" she says.

"Yes beloved of my son, I have been allowed to come to you in your dream to tell you a few things, first you must know that miss Granger will always hold a piece of Harry's heart, and it's not because he wants to be unfaithful to you it is merely because she formed the first bonds of love with him when she showed him kindness, also know that she loves him with all her heart but she will not make a move or try to interfere in anyway that would hurt Harry. Now I know that you are familiar with the more polygamous relationships that the wizarding world has so you should be able to help him come to understand. As a mother I woulod like nothing more than for my son to be able to just fall in love and then settle down and live a quiet peaceful life, however that does not appear to be in the cards, the last piece of information that I am able to give you are the names of the families use the information to research and help Harry make the right decision remember though that it has to be his decision. When I leave you will wake up and on your bed table will be a parchment these are the families. Farewell most beloved of my son until we meet again" Lily said as she dissapeared.

As Lily dissappeared Nym woke up and looked on her table sure enough there was a list there she opened it to find the names of eight families all but one of which she knew they were the Patils, Greengrasses, Parkinsonsons, Lovegoods, Delacours, Abbots, Bones's, and the Bells. "Well some of these are suprising" she said as she drifted back off to sleep.

Meanwhile in Various parts of the country and to a chateu in France letters were being sent out letting eight seperate families know that over a thousand years of waiting would finally be coming to an end. All eight letters had the same message.

A/N: Still looking for input as to whether or not Harry should bond with these women or not, also barring a severe change of mind the following paiorings will not take place HP/GW, HP/CC, and HP/ME. Review and let me know what yuou all think.