Soul bond's and their Impact on Life.

The sun had been up for a while now, as she placed the book in front of her wondering if the book could shed some light on something that she had wondered about since even hearing about soul mates or soul bonds as the wizarding world says.

Having eaten a hearty breakfast brought by her loyal house elves, where she found out that her fan mail pile had been growing and growing ever since that fateful night. They had also told her that there was a lot of proposals that was gently declined, along with other letters that would never see the sunlight again.

Thinking of this made her realise that she couldn't just reply to every one of those letters on her own, maybe she should release a statement in one of their papers, saying that she hadn't realised that she had fan-mails, and say sorry and that she has now years upon years piles of mails that she needed to see through.

The plushies and toys would be taken care of and collected, to give to her own children if she sometime in the future decided to have a child.

Soul bonds are relatively a controversial concept since now everyone has forgotten the fundamental truth of those bonds and there are many who never find the one that they will feel a great connection to – that will separate every other connection and go beyond with no one saying a word about it.

This will be a person to who they can trust their utmost secrets and will accept them who they are.

There are also those that have one that refuses to allow it to happen, they won't allow themselves to get closer to that one person they feel a strong connection to – it often leads to depression, disaster or plain unhappiness.

This all depends on how strong their connection is, the stronger it is the harsher lady magic's punishment.

Soul Bonds, Soul Ties, Bonded Mates, Imprints and Connections – these bonds can take many forms, you can simply be good friends, or you can become lovers.

All it depends on is what you decide to make of it.

Reading more into it was a lot more interesting than she had believed it could be, and finding out that Merlin and Morgana had been one of the first recorded soul mates until people messed up their story to that they hated one another.

Also, did she have a soul mate? That was the biggest question, but she had to lay it on the back burner because it didn't help her to dwell on the what-ifs, she had to concentrate on what she had to do this day other than reading the books that would maybe help her with understanding the world better.

So, that is what she did – she read and soaked up the knowledge about everything, books about transportation, education and what to know, magical towns, wizarding culture, religion, jobs, school and tests.

Every book she read came through to her in the most boring sense, but she wondered if Hermione even sometimes understood the senses that were magic at all, also, her ex-friend had the tendency to believe everything books told her about how the world works without finding or cross-referencing with other books. Sometimes Cassiopeia wondered how she even got so good grades in everything with her obsession for everything that she believed was right, though, also with her hero worship of Dumbledore she wondered what that whole thing was even about.

With her reading those books she came to understand that the wizarding was vast and large with a lot more than just Hogwarts, Hogsmead and Diagon Alley, and then came the question of why we never got career counselling earlier than the fifth year, because that would have been for the better since everyone out there thought they knew what she wanted to become – when they didn't!

Like she even wanted to become an Auror, like she even knew what that was back then but now that she knew – not a chance in hell!

Not that she even knew what she wanted out of life, but the thing she had found out the most was that she wanted to travel the world something she never would have been able to do because of the world and those that seemed to want her dead.

"I wonder if there is a room here with lost items?" Cassie pondered to no one in particular, as she looked grateful for everything that the castle had done for her in so little time because she was getting attached to the small flat Hogwarts had conjured up for her. "If there are, I don't have the time to go through it." She sighed, as she walked up to the door that had just about popped up on one of the blank walls, though it disappeared again after she had told the room this.

"Dobby?" Cassie kindly ordered, and with that done and him popping up because she needed for him to buy her something that would soon come in handy.

"Yes, Mistress?" Dobby said with a calm voice the second after her voice had left her.

"Can you go out and buy for me a multicompartment trunk? It has to have a potion compartment, library compartment, wardrobe, storage space – then it has to have a shrinking charm and a featherlight charm." Cassie asked excitable over having something that could be a lot useful soon.

"Of course, I will!" Dobby smiled, and quickly went out and did what his mistress wanted her to do.

It was great to finally have someone to help her do things, and it would be easy with them to help her through the day, and it made her excitement over what would happen later on today with Gringotts and what they would say to her and who she had been related to.

Then there was the Ravenclaw Diadem, one of her elves had found while looking inside a room maybe even where her fan letters had been, it was weird because it had looked like someone had ruined it by casting some foul magic on it. "It looks like someone has cast some dark magic on it…" Cassie pondered, and both Dobby and Winkey popped into the room with the trunk she had wanted to have.

"Someone has tried to do something really bad with it, but they never managed to do it." Winkey looked at it through her beady little eyes.

"Thank you, dobby!" Cassie told him when she had looked over the trunk and its functionality, then back to what had found with a thought striking her, "Like the diary in the second year?"

"True…" Winkey said and gave her a piece of paper she had in her hand, "here is what we have gathered from spying on the inhabitants of the castle.

"Thanks, Winkey!" Cassie smiled approving of having house elves, could look into things without being asked to do it.

Loyal – Severus Snape, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, some Slytherins, Flitwick.

Don't Believe – Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Huffelpuff, Minerva McGonagall, Sprout, other teachers

Hatred – Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione, Draco Malfoy, some other Slytherins.

"Anything, else I should know?" Cassiopeia asked after quickly reading the note because there was a lot that could have happened when she disappeared from the castle at least for them – she did.

"The headmaster is beginning to get irritated by your bland dismissal and that he can't find you in the castle, the only thing I think he hopes for is that you haven't read the rule book and would meet when the task is about to start." Winkey and Dobby said around one another with different perspectives about what the headmaster was thinking, as it struck her quietly that Dumbledore wasn't one of those that talked out loud.

"Okay, thank you again – you are dismissed back to your other task." She told them, as they then popped out and left her alone until she would need them to get to the bank.

The note was not all that surprising, but still, it was at least for some names because they had always nothing good to say about her, but that could just be their mask talking. Why doesn't the Slytherins know that the Dark Lord is dead, at least Professor Snape seemed to think so or else he wouldn't have supported her even if it was in the dark.

What Cassie couldn't seem to wonder about is that everyone with half a brain could see that Severus Snape hated being a teacher, so, why does Dumbledore keep continuing to drag him around with a chain of guilt and slow manipulation.

What struck her the most was how McGonagall had been behaving since she had been placed in her care, and as the professor had never believed in her because every time she had gone to her with a problem, she had blandly dismissed her without an explanation. Shouldn't the head of house be appeasable to talk to if they have problems?

The Slytherins was a surprise she had not factored into her equation this year, but who could be trusted – and she had always wondered what would have happened if she had been sorted in the snake pit back in the day. It was Draco, she could not understand most of all because they had never talked before that trip towards Hogwarts, so what was it with the antagonistic behaviour, it was becoming hard to deal with.

There was also the quiet fact that she had somewhat developed a crush on his father, even if she had only seen him a couple of times in the past. Something about the Malfoy family, though, was how they portray themselves to the public was maybe different to how they were with their families.

Now that she has thought about it in detail, she now could just relax and think about the relative future and what she could do know that she didn't need to go to class or compete in the tournament. Also, the fact that she didn't have to go to school was also hitting her now, then realising that she could just home-school herself like she had thought about for a year was great because then she could do things on her level because she could remember everything clear as the day everything she had been reading, but unlike Hermione, she took everything she had read with the need to research or with a little grain of salt thinking that it could be false information.

"World Travelling…" whispered Cassie, and if could have seen herself right now she would have seen a lively glint in them, and not the dead eyes staring back at her as they had done since what would be forever.

The British world of magic was stingy in what they thought their children, something she couldn't get at all, they were leaving their children exposed – like they don't want people to learn how backwards their whole world is. Then there are those that have the money to travel and understand the world, maybe that is why the Malfoy family is a lot more self-confident than others because they know and have the money to do things like travelling around the world.

Wondering if doing an inheritance check-up in Gringotts that things would change her yet again, and that it would allow her to travel out of Britain if something happens or that it would allow her to take O.W. L's sooner rather than later, as that would help her more than any money would. First and foremost, it would help her travel to any country that had her fancy and learn everything that made her different and find herself.

Maybe she could even learn the languages of the countries she was visiting, still, she had some rudimentary skills in French, so that would help her some if her first stop would be France. There were countries and languages like Arabic, Spanish, Norwegian, Hebrew, Greek, Italian, Russian, all languages she had wanted to learn for some time now but hadn't had the time to get going to learn any one of these. It would also be great to learn and read them if she got some books when travelling and if there were spells, she could learn.

After all, Latin could not be the only language of the magical kind in this world.

There had to be worlds out there that no one would or could imagine because people were and have been afraid of changes to their perspective of the world. Unexplored terrains of the magical world.

Worlds that needed to be discovered, because there was always something new to explore and discover, all you need to do is to believe it!

List's and Things to Do – Take one:

Cassiopeia was back to using ballpoint pens and a notebook because the thing is she needed this more than she needed to write with quills. It was after all easier to do this now than later because now she could do it throughoutlly before going through with it.

Make a study timetable for Law, Runes, Arithmeticity, Charms, Transfiguration, Quick Spells, Defence, Potions, Languages, Herbology…

Find where to stop, be smart about what country to travel to.

Pack her trunk with the necessary things – you can always shop if you need something.

Gringotts – passport and papers.

Get a makeover.

When travelling see both parts of it – Muggle and Wizarding.

This was only the beginning of her whole list, there should be more on it after going through these things because that last thing was only a reminder of what to do when travelling.

When she was done, she walked over to the new bookcase and took out one of the books that she needed to read and take up what she wanted to travel to first in France, as she needed to just take a couple of things with her.

Thereafter, she needed to read up on everything else that she wanted to read.

-POTTER-

[Days later – 10th of November 1994]

It had been quite a few days since she had made that six-point list, and now there were over twenty countries she wanted to visit throughout the year and even the next year combined. Everything depended on if she would like those counties, or else she would just travel on and not stay for an extended time period.

Learning had been the best part of this whole experience because it made her optimistic that she would make it through everything coming her way. Also, it was easy now to see that she was going to be one powerful witch one day in the future and why people told themselves that she would later surpass the older generation.

It was easy to learn whatever she set her mind to do, but she needed to take care of herself because there will always be someone stronger than her, she didn't need to get cocky.

Everything had changed for her on look into her future was no longer depressing, she was standing straight and proud of everything that she had managed to learn in about a week or so, she had never felt this confident in herself before – she liked the feeling. Now she could finally faze the Goblins proud and get out alive and out to travel the world as she had wanted to her whole life.

Dobby and Winkey were also ready and lifesavers, she wouldn't have known how to survive without them here to help her keep an eye on those in the castle, and they were also ready to come with her out in the world.

After something called the weighting of wands, someone had fallen dead because she hadn't met up to it, but it wasn't any use to back out.

"I'm ready, can you take my trunk and pop me right outside the bank?" Cassie asked as she took her invisibility cloak over her so that she would not appear all of a sudden and scare those that already were in the alley. After all, she did not want to be discovered by the so-called light or anyone else for that matter.

"Of course, Mistress…" Winkey and Dobby said at the same time knowing full well how much she hated being called that, as they took my trunk and popped her quietly over to Diagon Alley.

AU: Re-Written: 31st Dec 2020