The four adults arrived at the Potter's cottage house a few hours later and were greeted by Lily and Remus in the nursery.
"Albus, is she the Weasley girl?" Lily asked.
"I am certain she is in fact Miss Ginevra Molly Weasley due to the fact her body was not found with the rest of her family and she appeared here around the same time as the attack." He replied.
"You don't mean they are dead?" She queried but she knew that they indeed were dead.
"All the children were tortured to death. Arthur and Molly have lost their minds while being forced to watch it happen."
She sagged a bit thinking of the little girl who just lost her entire family in one night. It was tragic to never be able to get to know ones family. She was broken out of her thoughts by Remus' question "Albus, what will happen with Ginevra now."
"Given the fact that she has no family and is the last remaining member of a pureblood family the laws state that she has to be taken to the Ministry so they can find another suitable pureblood family to raise her."
Lily thought for a second before responding "I can imagine what kind of family they would choose. James we can take care of her right, after all she did come to us. By the way, how did she come to us Albus?"
Albus replied, " Even if the Potter's were still a pureblood family it is still up to the ministry to decide what family she will be placed with. As to your second question many theories come to mind each of them unlikely, I will need to examine them to see what possibly could have happened."
Albus walked over to the crib containing the two children and saw how they were both asleep with young Ginevra curled up while Harry's arms were wrapped protectively around her. He took out his wand and wove it over the sleeping pair a few times mumbling different incantations as he did so. He was growing increasingly entranced in the riddle as the minutes passed and he still couldn't figure it out. A highly unlikely idea came to his mind and he waved his wand over the pair again while muttering another incantation and when he finished a faint red aura surrounded the pair of children. He seemed shocked by the revelation. It was always theorized that it was indeed possible, but the likelihood of it happening was too great to even consider that something like that could ever come to pass.
After thinking on it for a few minutes he finally spoke to the other adults in the room , "I have indeed found out how Miss Weasley came to be in your care. Their souls are perfect matches or as the muggles would say they are Soul mates."
Everyone in the room seemed confused. James, Sirius, and Remus were raised as wizards and were never exposed to such muggle idealizations so they did not know what he was talking about. Minerva though being raised a witch, had read a fair few wizarding romance novels in her time and they were full of such occurrences but each novel contradicted each other so she could not decide what was true and what wasn't if anything was in fact true. Lily being raised both a muggle and a witch was exposed to both views on the idea.
It was Lily who responded, "But Albus, that would not explain how she was able to apparate through your Fidelius charm since there is nothing magical about soul mates."
"Indeed you are correct normally there is nothing magical to do with being soul mates. It is just astonishingly rare that one would find their soul mate and even rarer that the union of such a two would be socially acceptable among their society. Now think of this, imagine a rectangle with one length a mile long. Now turn one of the mile long lines on the rectangle into a random zigzag pattern. That is your soul.
"Now imagine another rectangle of the same length that perfectly matches every groove on the first rectangle, that rectangle is your soul mate's soul. Imagine all the souls of people varying in different shapes and sizes. What is the likelihood of there being a soul that matches yours among the trillions of living creatures on this planet . What is the likelihood that that soul is human? What is the likelihood that said human is the opposite gender? What is the likelihood that said human is also relatively close in age to you? That is when you arrive at the common definition of a soul mate.
"Now think on this only about one in a thousand of those humans are magical. What is the likelihood that two magical human souls that are close in age and of opposite genders exists? That is what we are referring to when we speak of young Harry and Ginny.
"While a child is young they are more aware of their soul and the souls of those around them and would likely be able to identify a match to their soul while being near it but would be unable to act on it and would soon forget about it as they got older. I assume at some point in the last few months Ginny was in range of Harry and identified his soul as her match but could do nothing about it.
"Also, when children feel high emotions or feel their lives are threatened they are able to use magic for self preservation, the younger they are the less control they have over their magic. So when a baby who has identified her souls match realizes none of her family are there to protect her and feels her life threatened she will naturally want to go to the one person she will trust to protect her. Harry."
The other people in the room followed along with Dumbledore's long winded speech and were all astonished that something so rare could occur. Lily again was the first to form a question, "What does this mean for Harry and Ginny?"
"What it means is that now that they have found each other you will not be able to separate them without great resistance on their part, but the law is still the law. However, I have come up with a way to avoid the law altogether," Albus answered.
Lily thought on that for a minute before gasping, "You don't mean you want to marry them at such a young age do you?"
"I do."
