Once upon a time, long before his future namesake and great-great-great-great-great-grandchild would ever have to worry about soul fragments of a Dark Lord...

May 11, 2014

Harry, Lord Potter stood in the Almack's receiving room, contemplating a deliberate violation of the Statute of Secrecy.

He knew he probably shouldn't use his wand to confound the Almack's representative who was reminding him that no one was allowed in after 11 pm, not even the Duke of Wellington. He didn't even particularly enjoy Almack's - what man could, with its insipid refreshments and all of the avaricious matrons determined to land their daughters wealthy husbands? It clearly wasn't called the Marriage Mart for nothing, and Lord Potter had long been determined to resist matrimony at all costs.

Tonight was different, though. He'd recently met a Miss Hermione Granger at a friend's family dinner and, Merlin help him, Harry could not remember the last time he'd been so struck by someone.

The shy bookworm apparently never ventured far from her country home, but Ginny Weasley had finally convinced her former finishing school classmate to come to London for a formal presentation into society. Lady Weasley had agreed to sponsor her and the coveted Almack's vouchers had finally arrived that very day.

And Harry had promised to dance with her...

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A/N - as the first sentence indicates, the Harry and Hermione in this story are ancestors of Canon Harry and Hermione. This means Harry's mother isn't Lily and Ginny's brother isn't Ron. This is for two reasons -

1) I believe nurture trumps nature in developing a personality and character - Harry for example might have had a vastly different personality if he'd been raised in a loving home, Hermione may have been different if she were not an only child, etc. Changing these things and then also setting the story 200 years in the past would have left the pair unrecognizable, IMO.

2) I wanted to explore the idea of souls being drawn to one another across time, and also offer an explanation as to how a talented witch such as Hermione could be Muggleborn with no known magic in the family history and how the descendant of Lord Potter would have no clue he was descended from British peerage.

This story offers a unique take on a soulmate bond and will conclude with the canon pair. It will all make sense in the end, I promise!

Thanks for reading! Reviews are appreciated. And if you are looking for stories that are entirely about the canon pair, check out my Author page.