Here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. Please read and review love Hermione xxx
Jean and John sat at their dining table glasses of wine in their hands as Hermione slept upstairs. It had been enlightening for sure at the bank. They were thrilled their mortgage would be paid off as it had been a huge stress to the couple however they were unprepared for Hermione's soul bond. Luckily for them and unbeknownst to Hermione they had asked Hagrid to buy them a book on various rituals and cultural phenomenons in their world. Hagrid being who he was had bought them the largest one with each and every manner of ritual even dark ones. They grabbed the book and looked to one another before agreeing and opening it together. It took ten minutes of searching the huge tome but eventually they found the correct passage they'd been looking for and read it with enthusiasm.
In our world for reasons unknown mother magic who is the divine force which gives us our abilities whatever they may be blesses two such children of hers with an exceptionally rare and cherished gift a soul bond. We do not know why a soul bond occurs just that it is an exceptional magical blessing on the individuals whom it happens to. When a kiss is shared and true pure powerful love is quite literally exchanged between two people their soul splits into two pieces each piece intermingling until each person has part of the other persons soul within them. Usually in the case of soul bonds one or both of the parties involved will have come from some kind of tragedy or tragic background and their soul needs someone to love.
Abilities inherited by the couple can include but are not limited to the ability to share ones sight or what they are seeing currently with the other, the ability to read minds of others without detection, the ability to talk telepathically to others or lastly the ability to appear by their lovers side in the case of immediate danger no matter their distance from one another. A benefit of being a soul bonded mate is that no matter where you go in the world whether voluntary or otherwise your partner will always know where you are. Those who do not understand soul bonds can perceive them to be quite dark occurances but that is naïve and quite frankly outdated view. Just because we do not understand it does not make it wrong. We need to educate ourselves people.
Things to note about females involved in a bond are that you should never ask them to choose between their partner and you as you will never win and only serve to cause them unnecessary pain. They will do anything they can to protect their loved one and will not stop until they truly feel their lover is safe. This may mean having to cut ties with people who were previously not a bother to them. Also women have the ability to freeze things should the need for that ever arise however it rarely does and so we feel it is not a really useful skill to have. We only say this as freezing is not something us magicals use very often.
In males involved in a bond they will do anything to protect their loved on even risk their lover dying of a broken heart early as they would literally give their life for them. While they would give their life for them their mate would be unable to live for long without them so this is rarely done. A bonded male will never ever say something he doesn't mean so we should all believe anything he tells us as his bond makes lying impossible to anyone who had not manipulated or abused them in any way. Most bonded couples live an exceptionally long life and according to our research and records they usually die at the ripe old age of one hundred and twenty years old. If they are sick they will usually die at one hundred years. Most magical bonds happen between the ages of twelve and fourteen and are not usually consummated until the persons involved reach their maturity at age seventeen. For bonded couples they are often blessed with many children however many elect to have either no children or a small number of them. This is the preference of the couple at hand. In our society these couples are quite rare with three couplings happening at the same time every two hundred or so years. For reasons we do not understand bonds which take place in one country stay in that country so that all three couples are from the same region. These people are highly blessed and one should count themselves most lucky if they ever have the honour of meeting such people.
They finished reading it and exhaled loudly. So this meant Hermione would be most honoured in the magical world.
"John can you honestly say you would not ask Hermione to choose between Harry and us because I am not so sure. I mean he seems lovely and did save her life once but this implies that we would loose our daughter to him and I don't want that. She's only twelve for goodness sakes. I am entitled to want her all to myself for a while and even now that's been taken away from me too!" she said bursting into tears and sobbing her heart out as he listened to her.
"Well she is my daughter and my main concern is and always has been her safety. I can see what you mean however he did save her life once and that really is good enough for me. I am obviously always going to want to keep my eye on him but you heard what that book said. They'll live to be over one hundred and even we won't live that long. You know in a way I am at least proud of him somewhat. He had the sense to say he is damaged and doesn't know how to love but is willing to get help so he can learn how to do so. You do realise don't you that most adults don't know that about themselves. He is wise beyond his years even if bad experiences in his life have brought him there. Hermione's life hasn't always been a bed of roses either what with her constantly being bullied by students and staff at school because she quite frankly knew too much as a child. Was it annoying? Hell yes but did we stop loving her because of it? No we did not. I will never give up on my daughter and so long as we stick together in this all will be well my love. I can trust that she would not make the wrong choices because she never has before. You are entitled to want her all to yourself and I am most sure she would be understanding of your point of view too. Let's go to sleep now as it's been a long day!" he said kissing his wife and rising from the table.
"Oh John you are right as usual that's why I married you after all. Mama don't marry no fools!" she said slurring her speech slightly after all the wine they had drunk that night and returned his kiss with vigour. They needn't have worried though as Hermione would always be in their lives and would insist upon it. She might live fifteen minutes away for some of her summers but for the very first two weeks of every summer she would be with them and they should cherish that time alone with their daughter and they would. Also as she lived only fifteen minutes away they could call and see her at any time which did ease their minds for sure. At least having that cleared up meant that they could all rest easy knowing she'd be safe and what had happened to her.