A/N Ok so I really ended up liking the Harry Potter Storyline, including book six, more than I thought that I did. Really I just ended up liking book six more than I thought that I did. At first I was disappointed with the book. All of the characters to me were out of character and the only thing that I liked was the horcuxes. Snape finally shows his true colors in this book because up till this book I couldn't believe he could have actually become a spy for the order and had a change of heart. His actions in this last book prove to me that he is a good guy.
What I am getting at is that I will be using the Horcruxes in this book if you didn't figure that out already. I had Harry commit suicide to create the rift in his soul that he needed. But unlike Voldemort he didn't use the rift for immortality just an insurance plan that he will come out the victor in this war.
So I will update my disclaimer
I do not own Harry potter in any way. This story belongs to the infamous J.K. Rowling
Spoilers: books 1-6
Pairings Harry/Tonks (Please stop asking if this is a Harry Tonks pairing I have stated that it is but to let you know I have a soft spot for Ginny she is one of my favorite characters even before book five)
Now, on to the story.
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Chapter 7
The Merging of Two Souls
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Harry looked out his bedroom window at the grounds below. He wondered briefly how the world would be if it had never met Voldemort. The depressing thought stirred many emotions in him. The first was that Harry would have known his parents. He might have had a great childhood. But these were thoughts that he could not harbor for long. It was not only the emotional ties that prevented Harry from dwelling on what could have been, but it was the very real fact that Voldemort did exist and it had forced Harry to grow up in a very quick way.
"It's good to see this place still standing." His comment was short but it rattled the only other person in his company.
"What do you mean, Harry." Tonks showed every bit of confusion on her face as she spoke.
"Well, in my original time this place was leveled. I was stupid enough to forget that my blood flows through Voldemorts veins. The wards allowed him entry once he figured out how to get here. I never did find out how he learned of its whereabouts. I will not underestimate him this time around."
Tonks looked at Harry as if he had sprouted another head. He could understand her confusion. Compared to his hers seemed to be very minimal. The merging had started over twenty minutes ago and he could now remember things from a future that would not come to pass. It appeared that his memories were happening in reverse order from the last moment the soul fragment was in its own time backwards. So Harry was able to see things that happened in the more distant future as it slowly worked its way back to the day he killed himself. Or the day that the letter entered this time and thus change history.
Harry shook his head in an attempt to calm his thoughts. It was to no avail as these thoughts were being amalgamated with his own thoughts. It was understandable that his mind would then be racing. He had roughly eight years of experiences being opened in his head and there were more to come.
Harry looked up at Tonks, He was overcome with a lot of different feelings all at the same time and without warning he leaned in and kissed her. To say that Tonks was surprised was an understatement. In fact to say that Harry was surprised would do know justice. He just kissed Tonks. Harry quickly backed off and shook his head.
"I am sorry Tonks, I shouldn't have done that. I don't know want came over me. It was like all of the sudden I saw you and I needed to kiss you. I needed to know that you were really alive."
Tonks was still in quite a bit of a shock. She did not respond to Harry's comments.
"If you would excuse me I am going to go down to the library for a bit and do a bit of reading." Harry got up and left the room leaving Tonks in the same place as she was when he kissed her.
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Tonks could feel Harry leave the room. She still wasn't sure how that had happened. One minute they were talking about how Voldemort could enter this place and did in the future. The next minute he leans over and kisses her full on the lips. She really didn't know what to feel on the subject. He was to young for her to be in any kind of relationship with. Even though he was more mature than anyone she had met around his age, even most around hers, it did not change the fact that he is a child.
Tonks shook her head and tried to laugh at the situation. In truth she probably just scared Harry with her lack of response to even his apology. She would have to apologize to him for that. It wasn't that she found it repulsive, in fact if he was a year or two older she probably would date him, truthfully she wouldn't mind dating him in a year when he was of age. Its just as it stands right now he is too young and they could get in trouble for that.
She got up and walked out of the room. She needed to find Harry and let him know that she was not mad at him.
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Dumbledore sat behind his desk and thought back over the last few years. It was certainly a different outlook now. Last year he had Harry right were he wanted him or so he thought. Debts were a tough thing in the magical world and some make you change your very nature. No matter he repaid his life debt to Harry last year when he blocked the killing Curse from hitting Harry. The past five years felt surreal to him now that he had repaid his debt. But as it was mention to him by his mentor magic is a tricky thing.
As it stood now he didn't owe Harry anymore. He repaid the debt and was now free to go back to his plans. The old wizard began writing a lengthy letter to his mentor asking to arrange a meeting with the man. He needed to talk a few things out with him and no one had more answers to any problem than he did.
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Hermione sat at her desk trying to write a letter to Harry. Her hands simply could not write the information that she wanted to. She couldn't talk to anyone outside of that room about her spying. She crumbled the letter up after the fifth try. No matter what she tried to write it always came out to some small chat.
She decided to give up on writing to Harry all together. She really needed someone to talk to at the moment and her answer seemed to be further and further away from the one person she wanted to talk to. And then a thought came to her. Ginny
Hermione ran down the stairs to talk to her parents. She needed to get permission to floo over to the burrow and bring Ginny back here. Her parents agreed to it without much question. They trusted the Weasleys and Sirius seemed to put up a lot of security features on the house including a disguised floo.
They were able to take the floo anywhere they wanted to and it would not really matter because the ministry couldn't detect it. In fact no one could detect the movements. Sure it still registered that the floo was being used. It just registered it from a random place to another random place, both of which would be nowhere near the person using it would actually be. Sirius was a genius when it came to stuff like this.
Hermione floo called the Weasleys to find out if Ginny was there and then came through the floo when she found out that she was there. Ginny greeted her guess with less enthusiasm than Hermione had hoped for.
"Still spying on your best friends," Ginny asked.
"Ginny don't be like that. I am here to talk to you."
"If its about getting me to help you spy on Harry forget it. I don't care if he tried to kill himself I am not going to report his actions to Dumbledore because of it. I didn't even believe him at first. But I realized that the reason that Dumbledore wanted us was to help Harry."
"It was, or so it seems that way. I was so sure at first Ginny. But the more I have thought about that night the more things don't seem to make any sense. I was right about to follow you out that door but something kept me there."
"You always need to know all the information before you make your decisions."
"Yeah I thought about that too but it was weird almost like a pull that drew me towards it. In fact once I had learned the reasons he wanted us to spy on Harry I just wanted to run to him and help him. But that feeling was replaced by something else."
"What?"
"We shouldn't talk here. My mom and dad said it was alright if you came over and spent the night. I figure that if we ask your mom she might let you go. Its worth a shot."
Hermione and Ginny needed to use all of their cunning to persuade Molly into letting her go. Molly was still about to say no until Hermione demonstrated how protected the house was.
"Try doing a call back spell. I was the last place that flooed here so it will show you how protected we are."
Molly didn't even speak to them she walked over to the fireplace and preformed the call back spell and through the dust in the fire place. The floo glowed the normal green and then went out. After ten seconds the fire reignited in its original state.
"It will happen that way every time you try to recall my fireplace with out my password. The password must be said mentally so I never have to worry about anyone overhearing it. Even after that you still need my permission to key you into the floo to gain access. It is almost fool proof."
After that Molly was assured that her daughter wouldn't be in any danger if she left the burrow and allowed her to spend the night over at Hermione's house.
Hermione and Ginny went over to her house and after Ginny greeted Hermione's parents she went up to Hermione's room to finish their conversation.
"So what was the feeling replaced by?"
"What?" Hermione asked, "Oh right sorry, it was almost like my need to help Harry was replaced with a need to help Dumbledore. I know it sounds weird but it was what I felt."
"No it doesn't sound weird because I was about to leave earlier but I felt the same way you did."
Hermione's parents yelled up the stair that dinner was about done.
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Harry sat in his library holding a book but not really reading it. His thoughts had been on the moment he kissed Tonks. It wasn't the fact that he kissed Tonks that even had his thoughts engaged. It was the way that he felt when he kissed her. In his timeline from the future he had started to date Tonks. She ended up dieing a few months after they started. He was distraught over the incident and now that he had another chance he was going to do everything in his power to save her.
Slight movement in his peripherals roused Harry out of his thoughts. He was steadily becoming use to the constant stream of thoughts that were entering his head and could concentrate for a long enough period of time notice his surroundings.
Harry looked up towards the movement and noticed Tonks approaching him. She was smiling a little bit.
"Did I interrupt your reading?"
"No. I can't really concentrate on anything right now anyways. Tonks I am sorry that I kissed you. I owe you an explanation."
"And I would love to hear it. I would also like to offer you an explanation as to why I froze up like that."
"Ok, well then to explain what happened. We sort of become an item in the future and shortly after you die at the hands of Voldemort. He kills you to get to me. Well I just learned all of this and when I looked up at you all of the emotions I was feeling I was about to cry. But at the same time I just needed to kiss you. I needed to feel your lips on mine once more. It is kind of weird I know but it is why I did it."
"Well I kind of figured it was something like that. I am a little discouraged that I died. But I cannot say that I wouldn't expect it if I did get together with you, now for my explanation. To say the least you completely caught me off guard. I wasn't expecting you to kiss me. I didn't respond to you because I just didn't know how to. I am not mad at you for kissing me I just don't think that we should do that anytime soon. You are underage and I could get into trouble for that."
Harry smiled at her reasons to think that she truly forgot about all that had happened as of lately.
"Tonks not that I am pushing you or anything but, I was emancipated as of yesterday. I will be considered of age from now on. I can even use magic outside of my house and Hogwarts."
Tonks fell silent. She seriously had not thought about that since he had moved out here.
