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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry: Romance Awareness Challenge
Task - Your soulmate mark is only half complete and it completes itself when you spend time with your soulmate.
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Half-Complete
For as long as he could remember, Harry's soulmate was only a tree trunk. Whenever he spent time with a girl, he would glance at the mark, but it remained incomplete.
He thought Hermione might be his soulmate at first—because she had a similar mark, but instead of a tree trunk, it's was branches and leaves—but even when they became friends and started spending every day together, both of their remarks remained incomplete.
He didn't always see the marks on other girls, but his mark was in a very public place, so he assumed they'd say anything if theirs matched. And as his never finished itself, it didn't really matter if he couldn't see the other marks.
In fifth year, Harry began to see a change in his mark. It started when Ginny became a Chaser on the Quidditch team.
One day, he glanced down at his arm, and there was a branch on his mark. It was the first branch of the tree, the first step to its completion.
He didn't tell anyone because at the time, he still wasn't sure who his soulmate was. Ginny noticed his mark one day and had a peculiar look in her eyes, but she didn't say anything, so he brushed it off.
He did find that the more time he spent with Ginny, the more he enjoyed her company. And the tree continued to work o complete itself on his arm.
One day, towards the end of the year, Ginny walked up to him after Quidditch practice. "I decided it's finally time to say something."
He blinked. "Say what?"
She lifted up her shirt slightly and on her toned stomach, there was a soul mark, almost one hundred percent complete, and it was a tree that matched his.
"Why didn't you say anything sooner?" he asked.
"I was so embarrassing when I was younger. When I had my childish crush on you. I never even thought you'd be my soulmate, and I cringe when I think back about my kid self. I didn't want to come across as that same girl, and I thought you might be disappointed with the truth."
Harry looked at his own mark and before his very eyes, it completed itself. Probably because Ginny had revealed herself. He looked back at her. "Ginny, I'm not disappointed. In fact, I like spending time with you. Frankly, I could have done much, much worse."
She smiled. "So, we already know each other as friends and housemates. Want to work on getting to know each other as soulmates?"
He took her hand. 'Come on."
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