August Event: Romance Awareness Challenge
Day 2: Your soulmate's name is written on your wrist.
365 Drabbles: 267. Ignorant
Word count:623
Ever since she had been born Hermione's parents had known that she was special, ever since they had noticed the name imprinted in a heart on her wrist. They had seen something like this only once. Rosetta Stone the grand-grandmother of the little one had been born with an identical mark too, just that there had been written Roberto Granger, the man she had been married for over sixty years, her other half as she often said.
Roberto had a mark too. But in the heart was not written the whole name, just one and it had been hazy until their wedding day. He couldn't see the name.
They knew in their hearts that the person whose name was written on their daughters wrist was her soulmate and couldn't wait to find him.
Hermione knew too so when she had received her Hogwarts letter she had been beyond ecstatic. The name may have been unusual for muggles,as professor McGonagall had named those without magic, but sure in the magical world…
She had been relieved to see that all the girls had their soulmate's name written on their wrists and that on the boys marks you couldn't read the name, as her grand-grandmother had said. Apparently she was a witch too, but she had never said anything until her Hogwarts letter came because there had been cases in history where even muggles were given the honour to know their soulmate. But Hermione was a witch and that made things easier. She had told Hermione everything she needed to know about soulmates and how some girls decide to just ignore the mark and never look for the person written there.
But Hermione couldn't be ignorant. The name on her wrist attracted her and she dreamed of the person who was behind it each night, despite of her young age she felt that she already loved that person for the simple fact that he was her soulmate.
But all her thoughts to not be ignorant flew out of the window in her first night at Hogwarts. She had hidden her mark, not wanting to let anyone see it; it didn't feel right. Why should they know who her soulmate was?
And good thing that she had done so. She had overheard the conversation between Harry Potter and the Gryffindor prefect,Percy Weasley and she had learnt that Severus Snape, the name written on her wrist, was the name of the Hogwarts Potions Master and Slytherin Head of House.
Still no matter how hard she had tried, she couldn't be ignorant. That man who was so nasty in class, who was cruel to his students and who was twenty years her senior was supposed to be her soulmate. She had to know him better. To see if she could love him. She couldn't give on the idea of marrying her soulmate and grow old with him as her grand-grandmother had done so.
She had at least to try.
…
8 years later
Severus looked at his wife and smiled. She was so he glanced at the name written on his wrist and for the umpteenth time he felt grateful that the name had been hidden from his sight until they had been married. If he had seen it before when he had first saw her he would have run and never looked back or he would have made everything in his power to make her hate him.
Also he was thankful that she had chosen him.
Hermione looked at her husband and couldn't help but smile. They probably looked like two idiots standing there on the balcony staring at one another and smiling at each other, but they were two idiots in love.
