Lionheart

by Ourania Aella

Chapter 4 – Becoming Two and One

Sitting at his desk in his office, Albus Dumbledore wondered how had things gone so wrong. Two days prior, he'd seen Harry faint as the Goblet of Fire shot out a piece of parchment with his name and someone else's. Now, he'd understood that Harry might be entered into the tournament. Enough people knew about it for the information to leak out. He understood that it would happen and planned for it in turn. However, what he did not plan for was another person's name being etched into the same parchment that contained Harry's name by the Goblet. The could have only meant two things. The more hopeful one, was that either the entire thing was a fluke of two people trying the same method to enter the tournament and the Goblet was unable to decide, or Harry was in some sort of magical bond with another person.

Either way, he needed to figure out how to wake up the boy and find out who this 'Revan' is. Waking up Harry would prove to be difficult though, as Harry seemed to be undergoing some magical metamorphosis. His Magical Core was shifting and grow at a rapid pace and should have destabilizing as the process of whatever was happening to him began, resulting in his death. But no, the growth was somehow being controlled. He himself had a few theories but none of them were perfect, so he really had no chance of waking Harry just yet. The identity of the mysterious 'Revan' though, was evading him. He looked through the records of the Ministry of Magic and International Confederation of Wizard and found not one person born in the last two hundred years born with that name.

Picking himself up, he decided a change of environment might help him figure something out. Heading to the Hospital Wing, he asked Poppy weather or not Harry's condition improved but she just said that his core was still expanding and shifting. She hadn't said it out loud, but he knew that Harry because of the rapid expansion of his core was now far stronger than any other wizard alive. He realized that once Harry's core finished growing he'd need to limit it or siphon of some of Harry's power for himself. That would make him truly great!

Feeling a slight legilimency probe he immediately left the Hospital Wing. There were plenty of student there, either visiting Harry or there for other reasons, he couldn't tell who sent it, but for a student to be able to do that was dangerous. He needed to take of that quickly. He'd send a letter to all the parents asking if any private instruction was given to the student outside of the school. He suspected it was the pureblooded 7th year from Ravenclaw that was pretending to look away when he arrived that did it though. They were always learning too much in his opinion, but they were the hardest to control.

Sitting next to Harry though was Daphne, and the outer thoughts that Dumbledore let slip through he shields, while broken and hard to decipher, had gotten chills to run down he spine. After a second of hiding her thoughts and just looking at Harry as if she was worried, which she was, just not that much, she pieced together what she had found. Dumbledore was afraid of Harry. No, not of Harry, but of something that was happening to Harry. But he was also greedy. He wanted something from Harry and whatever it was, she wouldn't let him have it.

She needed information so, she decided to start with closest source. Madam Pomfrey.

"Madam Pomfrey, what's wrong with Harry? Shouldn't he have awoken already? It's obvious he doesn't have a fever or anything of the such. It looks like he's just asleep." Daphne asked, but she didn't expect to get the information she wanted, at least, not through any means that were normally allowed. So, she used legilimency. Again. She just prayed that Madam Pomfrey didn't have any training in occlumency as the art had become extremely rare after the seventeenth century.

"Sorry dear, Mr. Potter or the Headmaster would need to allow me to tell you, but right now, Mr. Potter is sick and the Headmaster is busy, so when the Headmaster is free, you'll need to ask him." Madam Pomfrey replied before going to other patients. Daphne had her information already and a couple extra facts though.

So, looks like it's the result of some kind of bond. Dumbledore never announced the name of the back of that parchment that had Harry's name. Whatever Dumbledore is hiding the something big. Harry is also hiding something though. It's got to have something to do with his abilities though, or Hermione would have known. She though, slowly piecing together small pieces of the puzzle. But she ran into the problem of why the cup affected the bond, just like Dumbledore. It should only have made both of them compete together or either one have to. That's what a normal contract would do, but since no one else at Hogwarts fainted, they weren't a student at the school.

Realizing something she ran to the Slytherin common room to write a letter to her father. He was more knowledgeable than her when it came to contract and bond so he would be able to figure out if her theory was even possibly true or not. In the mean time she'd get Hermione and Tracy to meet her in the Hospital Wing to try and contact Harry in his mindscape. If her Theory was right, then she'd be able to contact both Harry and this 'Revan' in their minds. She just hoped that neither had any mental defenses or she could get hurt badly.

Ad she reached the Hospital Wing, she found Tracy and Hermione already next to Harry talking about what could be wrong with him. Walking over to them, she erected and privacy ward around Harry's bed and began. "I think Harry's in a bond with someone. The old man has been hiding some things from the public."

"Old man?" Hermione asked. They never really referred to anyone by that title and the only person they knew old enough to receive that title was Dumbledore who had always been honest with them.

Tracy however replied before Daphne even got the first word out of her mouth. "Professor Dumbledore, Hermione. Dumbledore. He's the only one old enough and you know he can keep secrets as the Triwizard Tournament was kept behind closed doors. Harry fainted when his name was picked out. I doubt he would tell anyone much and from the look of it-"

"-he's been hiding a lot." Daphne finished. "There was another name that came out on the back of the parchment that had Harry's name on it. 'Revan' was burned onto the back of it, not written, signifying that there is some kind of magical bond between Harry and this Revan, whoever they are. Do either of you know anything?"

"Hermione and I spoke before. I was trying to track down who started the rumors about Harry. Whoever it is knows how to hide their tracks as neither of us know anything. Hermione thought is was just the Hogwarts rumor mill doing it's job, however the rumors are not just bound to a single house. There a multiple sources meaning some people are either working together out of house boundaries, or it's some kind of plan."

"I also asked Tracy about where Harry was. He usually spends most of his time outside on his broom or in the Gryffindor common room, but he's been spending time researching a couple things. I don't know what he was looking up so I couldn't help him like I usually would and he didn't tell me either, which means it has something to do with his abilities. All I know he was studying was mental connections and he muttered something about feeling bad for making a mistake. I'm worried about him. He's never been so studious or serious about something. He's probably regretted something he did and whatever it was, it affected him when he was chosen. He really should have come to me to talk about it." Hermione put in, ending in a slightly somber tone.

"Well, putting aside the problems with the old man for now, I have a theory about what happened with Harry. He doesn't have a bond with a wizard or witch." At this the other two gasped, understanding the gravity of the fact Harry might have bonded with someone that didn't belong in the Magical World. "Forgetting the problems that would occur because of the law, his bonded must have been a squib or it would have been impossible. At least they needed to have some magic running through them. Because they aren't strong enough magically for the tournament, it made Harry give them some of his abilities, meaning right now, until something changes things, Harry will remain unconscious until his magic starts to transfer over to Revan. I want to try and trigger it through their bond using legilimency." Daphne finished.

Hermione seemed to be in deep thought while Tracy was still worried about the fact Harry had just broken maybe twenty magical laws. Then Tracy paused her thoughts, when had she gotten to respect Harry enough that she referred to him as Harry and not Potter just like Daphne. Daphne would have a better chance of figuring it out though so she'd leave it to here.

After a few minutes of thinking and debating, they agreed to have Daphne go through with her plans but would be ready to force her out of Harry's mind should anything happen. They knew the risks even if Daphne didn't tell them.

Sitting Harry up and pointing her wand at him, Daphne silently dove into his mind, only to find nothing. She arrived in a white dome with nothing in it. No Harry, no Revan, just nothing. It was as if his mind was void of anything, as if he didn't have his own mind.

She walked around using various methods of magical detection trying to search for any sign of consciousness till she reached what felt to be the center of everything. She could feel the connection of the bond the be here but it was like it was part of the void. As if it made up the void. Then suddenly everything clicked and she felt terrible for Harry and the person he bonded with. They'd never be able to break the bond now. It was more solid then a soul bond. They now shared everything. She wondered how it would affect his personality, as that was one of the few things that didn't completely merge, or so she hoped.

She knew she couldn't contact either of them in their minds now because no method of legilimency could read two minds at once so she abandoned that thought. She decided to try and trigger this 'Revan' and left a message in Harry's mind, hoping Revan would hear it and come to Harry.

Leaving Harry's mind, she missed the figure that appeared where the message was left. The figure, confused, not knowing where they were, picked up the note and read it and woke up.

Waking up, Revan immediately felt different. She knew everything that Harry was feeling, all his memories, and could read his mind when she wanted. It was weird but she also felt attached to him now. A month of sharing a bond, although they didn't speak much, helped them become friends. But this was something different. It wasn't attraction or anything like that, no, it was more along the lines of acceptance. She realized that she would almost definitely stick with him for the rest of her life. She didn't want to leave him after the event that happened. Whatever happened down on Earth, she would need to find out, but couldn't help but accept it.

Remembering what she read in that note Daphne left her in her's and Harry's mind, she ran over to the cockpit of her ship to find out how much longer she had till she reached Earth. It looked like she was unconscious for two days and was only one hour away from Earth. Setting course for Hogwarts, she left the cockpit and began to dress. She decided on a simple dark colored robe that was similar to what the Jedi would wear, just a little bit darker. She put on her utility belt and positioned both of her lightsabers in easy to access yet hidden positions. She didn't know what to expect so she would ready for anything.

That 'anything' wasn't prepared for her arrival though. Dumbledore was by his desk again reading about bonds, hoping to find something to wake Harry with. He couldn't let the boy lose his magic because he missed the first task due to this. That was till he felt someone cross the wards. 'Harry? No that shouldn't be possible. But it feels like there are two Harry Potters at Hogwarts, or at least, one real one and one he is very weak magically. I need to find out who this person is. Maybe this 'Revan' has come for Harry?' He thought, getting his wand and hurrying towards the entrance hall.

When he arrived he found the doors open to his surprise. He hadn't opened them and it took an extremely powerful wizard to open them by force. Looking at the person he just entered he found himself once again surprised. He was ready for anything, a powerful wizard masking his aura or one of the top aurors of the DMLE, just not a young sixteen year old girl radiating an aura that would have made any normal wizard fall to the floor from the pressure. What's worse is his couldn't recognize the magic being used. 'No, this isn't magic at all. Whatever this is I need to be careful.'

"Might I ask-" He began to ask with his normal grandfatherly tone before he was cut off.

"I'm going to Harry. Move aside." She said, looking at him with eyes that no sixteen year old girl should have. She had the eyes of a monster. Someone who killed thousands, someone who led armies. She had the eyes of the conqueror. The same eyes that Harry might have sometime in the future, at least if he didn't stop it first. The eyes of a leader. If he were anyone else he would have obeyed, but he wasn't. He was Albus Dumbledore, vanquisher of Grindlewald and one of the most powerful mages in the world.

Standing firm, all signs of his previous tone gone, he replied. "I'm sorry miss, but until you tell me who you are why you want to see Mr. Potter, I will have to stop you from leaving this room."

This got her to stare blankly at him as if he was an idiot. It was slightly disconcerting for him. Finally she burst out laughing. "You think you could fight me old man? Maybe in your prime but right now, you have no chance against me." To emphasize her point she promptly ran forward, moving so quickly he could barely follow her with his eyes and ignited some kind of extremely hot blade only inches from his neck. He didn't even have time to draw his wand. He just stood there and watched as she deactivated her weird blade and ran to Harry, not comprehending what just happened.

Revan arrived in the hospital wing and saw Hermione Granger and Tracy Davis sitting by Harry with Daphne Greengrass, the one who left her the message, asleep on another bed, seemingly exhausted. She sent them a slight smile when they looked at her wearily, ready to pull out their wands, to reassure them that she meant no harm. Walking over to them, she asked in a small voice what happened two days ago.

"You don't know? Everyone should." Hermione replied. "Wait no first, who are you and what do you want with Harry?

"I'm Revan." She replied not bothering to look away from Harry the entire time. She didn't dare touch him yet as she didn't know what had happened. She sent a slight probe into the girl's mind, easily bypassing Hermione's shields and pulled out the information she needed. She knew that she had to do. "Make sure Dumbledore doesn't separate me and Harry." She said and before anyone could stop her, she grabbed hold of Harry's hand and suddenly a wave of Magic and energy Flew out knocking everyone in the room back with such force the Daphne awoke and Dumbledore, Madam Pomfrey, and half the other professors came running.

They weren't the only ones who felt it though. Many electronics on Earth stopped working for a second, but not enough to cause widespread panic. Elsewhere however, the wave wasn't strong enough to alert normal people however, the many force sensitive beings in the galaxy felt something. During a meeting of some of the wisest and strongest of these force sensitives they all paused as they felt it. They all understood that whatever it was, it would be something to watch out for in the future.

"A disturbance in the force felt I have." a little green being said to no one in particular but everyone paid attention to him as they considered him to be the wisest of them all. He had an air of power and knowledge around him that only the strongest, oldest, and wisest people have around them that everyone, even any enemies he might have, would respect.

"Whatever it was, its strong. And it's coming from far away as well. I feel the force is warning us of a future conflict, Master Yoda. I would like to investigate this." A dark skinned, bald man said looking at the short green being, Yoda, siting next to him in the meeting room while also glancing at the rest, as if to include them into the conversation and ask for their opinions. "It would be dangerous to leave something powerful enough to cause such a tremor alone."

"Master Windu, I would like to remind you that you already have your responsibilities here at the temple. It would most likely be better if another one of us conducts the investigation." A pale faced, dark haired man said. He was hoping that whatever, or whoever, produced that tremor in the force was an asset he could use. If not, whatever or whoever is was might need to be eliminated.

"Go then you should, Master Dooku. Search for the source you will, but alone go you will not. Take a knight of choice you should. All in agreement, are we?" Yoda replied. Seemingly everyone agreed with the idea and it was decided that he would leave within an hour or two, hoping to reach it before the presence disappeared. The only one that wasn't happy about this was Dooku himself. While he was ecstatic about being the one to go, taking a knight with him would stop him from achieving the true extant of what he wanted to achieve. 'I always have to deal with these liabilities during important missions.' He though, obviously disliking his current predicament. Getting up and leaving to prepare, her left the rest to continue the meeting.

"Find the source we will not I fear. Unsuccessful Dooku will be, tell me the force does." Yoda said to the rest and some nodded, feeling a similar feeling from the force.

Nearby, only an hour or two away, a figure under a cloak had felt the tremor in the force as well and hoped it wouldn't hurt his plans. He couldn't track it without alerting the Jedi he could sense the force so he needed to lay low and hope Tyranus took care of it, which of course being the pro-active person he was, he would. He also wondered if this being might make a better apprentice than Dooku. Maybe it was time for a change of plans. Tyranus was getting old and an old apprentice would be no good... yes, it was indeed time for a new apprentice.

Though Sidious wasn't stupid, no, he also realized that this would be a wild goose chase if the person could hide their force signature and were trained in the arts. It wasn't just an investigation, it was a mission to search for and eliminate a future threat. Any threat had to be dealt with, and power like that was a threat if it couldn't be controlled, and he knew how that would end. After all, his master couldn't control him, just as most Sith masters couldn't control their apprentices. He would be different though, he knew how people thought and manipulation was just one of his many skills, skills that he would use to his benefit without a second thought.

A week later, no one could track down the exact location the tremor emanated from, the signature just disappeared making them fear whoever the being was, as it meant they were trained to an extent. Dooku would have to report this to both the coucil and his master, although he would have to contact his master in secret. With the Jedi Knight next to him, any contact with his master would be dangerous. He feared though, what this would do to both the council and the plans that he and his master had. Little did he, and most everyone he was involved with, know that one of the beings that were involved with the tremor were one of the legendary people in both of their legacies. For one a hero, and for an incredible Dark Lord.

At the time the signatures disappeared though, both Harry and Revan awoke from their week long coma. Both wondered what was going on as they felt things that weren't there before. A connection stronger than either had ever imagined possible had formed, and oddly, it made them happy. They didn't care that they were both stuck with each other as they realized. They didn't mind this new permanent bond and hoped their thoughts were right about what the bond had become.

'Wait thought? Harry can you hear what I'm thinking?' Revan asked in her mind, making sure her shields were up at the same time.

'Yeah, I can hear you. That's weird. My shields are up for some reason without me putting them up, is that you doing that Revan? No wait, your shields are up, not mine.' Harry thought to her. They both were fine with the change in the bond, but that didn't mean that they didn't want to know what did change. 'Well apparently we can read eachother's minds now and our shields don't affect eachother. I wonder what else is different, I feel different towards you but I feel okay with it. What do you think?' Harry asked her but could already start to understand what her opinion was from her thoughts.

They weren't feeling affection, or at least not yet as being this close to someone, mentally at least, does usually end in affection in some cases, but they felt close to one another, like they had known eachother for years and didn't want to be far apart. They suddenly knew everything about eachother, the way a twin knows a lot about the other and because they weren't actually family, it brought them close, to the point that they just didn't know what they were to eachother.

'Well, apparently you already know my theory so lets just go with that, Harry.' Revan replied over their bond. Harry knew what she was thinking so he didn't really need to ask, and couldn't as the others had already realized they were awake.

Harry and Revan were in different beds, far from each other actually, probably as a safety measure by the staff, in the Hospital Wing of Hogwarts. Hermione had awoken as she had fallen asleep the night before and ran out to get Daphne and Tracy. Hermione apparently became quite close with the two as they had decided to take turns watching Harry, with Daphne and Tracy using his invisibility cloak after the old bastard, as they began calling him, tried to get them to leave.

Unlike Dumbledore, the group had already figured out what was going on and had stopped a lot of the headmaster's spells from taking affect on the two. The only person they allowed to actually cast spells on the two was Madam Pomfrey, who recorded some extremely weird signs in their magic, but she wouldn't be very specific when it had come to the questions they asked.

Once the group, and sadly Dumbledore, had arrived along with a few other professors behind them, they began to bombard Revan with an insane number of questions that annoyed not only her, but Harry as well. They also judged that she was more of a threat than Harry, or at least the teachers did, so they completely ignored him till they could get some idea of who she was. Although to make matters worse, instead of letting her answer, between the questions Dumbledore decided it would be okay to send probes into her mind trying to find out the answers to his questions forcefully as he deemed her an extreme threat after their meeting in the Entrance Hall. This set Harry off and before long, he intervened shutting them all up.

"Will you all please SHUT UP!" He screamed to silence everyone, which worked. "Now, first of all, 'who she is' is none of your business, but her name is Revan. She isn't a threat unless you do something against me, at least for now." he said.

Revan smiled at him, much to the annoyance of Daphne, and thanked him over their bond and then spoke. "First of all, you old man, have no reason to demand anything of Harry and me. He'd his own person and not your pawn, even though your attempts at making him one over the past three years have been somewhat successful. Or should I say fourteen years." she said with a glare that if it could have, would have set him on a fire that would have made fiend fire look cold, and that was saying something. "Now, Hermione, sorry about before and thank you for helping look out for Harry me. That goes for your friends too, just don't take other people's things without asking next time, although we know you didn't really have anyone to ask. Since that's over, I know that either me or Harry need to participate in this stupid tournament so I'll be taking him with me to prepare. I know enough of the rules 'Thanks to Hermione' that I know he can skip classes to prepare, so we'll be leaving." She said the last part with such finality that no one could question her until she already was up and Harry was next to her, walking out of the room. Although instead of the annoyed look she had, Harry had one that made him look extremely confused.

Harry and Revan had been communicating in their mind as Revan was speaking so Harry knew why Revan said what she did. Although the fact she interlaced her voice with a bit of the force mind confusion was genius in his opinion. Making it so they were all confused for a few moments allowed them to get out of there with little to no trouble was truly perfect, they just didn't know that it didn't work that well on Daphne and in the confusion she put on Harry's invisibility cloak along with Hermione and Tracy and began following the two, too bad they quickly realized they were being followed thanks to Harry's extra sensitive force abilities but Harry and Revan decided it would be best to let them follow them till they got out of Hogwarts' wards.

"You know we can sense you there, right?" Revan called out without actually stopping.

At that, the three pulled off the invisibility cloak and continued to follow them till Harry and Revan disappeared into thin air as if they had walked into some portal that the three couldn't see. Thinking that if Harry and Revan did it, they could do the same, they walked in the same direction only to gasp at the sight they came to once they passed through a field of a sort.

Back in the castle, Dumbledore and the teacher had finally snapped out of their stupor after almost ten minutes and had quickly tried to find where they went only for Dumbledore to realize that Harry, Revan, Hermione, Daphne, and Tracy were no longer within the Hogwarts wards. That meant they were either in the Chamber of Secrets, which he couldn't get into without Fawkes' help. It wasn't a good position for him to be in and since the tracker charms he had put on Harry expired already, he couldn't track him.

Gathering the staff he decided that he would need to call off the search for Harry and prepare for when Harry returns. Him being close to anyone that was such a wild card was dangerous to his plans and being close to Slytherins just made it multitudes worse. He just hoped that once Harry came back it wasn't too late. Little did he know that it already was far to late.

Things had just changed and they were about to have such an impact on events that no one, not even a seer, could predict what would happen next. Everyone just prayed that whatever would happen, the by the Force, by Merlin or whoever they prayed to, it wouldn't lead to anything bad. They just all had different impressions of the word bad.

A/N: Wasn't really sure how I'd be matching the timelines till this point so now I have a pretty good idea of how I'm going to go along with things. I also still need a beta :P If anyone wouldn't mind helping out, I'd love you guys.

I'm also removing a lot of the pointless author's notes and all, so less AN spam.

Oh and, Happy New Years everyone! :)