Harry's POV:
"Harry, my boy, I need you to be patient while hearing this. Will you?" asked Professor Dumbledore. I nodded at him. He sighed and started, "Harry, you remember how I said Love is the power he knows not." I nodded.
"I confirmed it by certain events happened in your life. When you born the most ancient magic happened. It is called Magical Bonding"
"But what is it exactly Professor?" I asked him.
"Is it like the one we found about in Egypt?" Ginny asked.
"Hey when did you even found it there?" Ron interrupted.
"I read books, Ron" she said annoyed.
"So this bonding is same as the book tells?" she asks again.
"Indeed, ." Professor Dumbledore replied.
"Can you fill me in, please?" I ask her.
"Bonding is some sort of connection, Harry. It differs from one to one and will be unique. There are several bondings like between masters and elves/slaves, or between siblings, and so on. Nevertheless, there are two types of bondings that are special and more powerful. One is the bond of mother and her child and the other is the bond between soul mates. And both of them has one thing in common, that is love" she finished.
"So, are you saying that my mum and I have this bond thing?" I asked in confirmation.
"No, my boy, you have bonds but not with your mother but with your mate" said Professor Dumbledore.
"My mate?" I asked as I remembered various encounters of those words.
I heard Death's voice ring in my ears, "I would help you with all the blocks that was set on you and your mate's magic and bonds"
"Your mate master. Your other half"
"Ginny" I thought.
"Is the person is…" I started while squeezing Ginny's hand and holding the baby in my shaking hands before being cut off by Ron questioning, "Me?"
"Huh?" I asked.
"Well, I`m your mate" he shrugged. There is laughter and the tension faded.
"Dumbledore isn`t saying about you, Ron. He is describing about soul mates" Remus said.
"What is different?" Ron asked.
"Soul mates are someone who is destined to be with, like Dora to me" he replied.
"Wait! There are still soul mates among us?" Bill interrupted.
"Yes, " Dumbledore replied in calm tone.
"But how? Isn`t there a curse or something?" Bill asked again.
"Curse?" Ginny asked.
"It's a long story, Miss. For short, there was once a bonded pair living happy, and a person who had the support of evil ally had jealousy over them. That person cursed that there should not be bond mates again." Regulus said.
"Well, other than animorphers that is" said Jack smirking.
"Ani…what?" I ask.
"Animorphers. They are people who can turn into animals. Unlike Animagus, these people turn according to their hereditary. And we are wolves" said the girl.
"Oh! So you are like the werewolves stories" asked Hermione.
"Well yes but not completely. There is some false in those stories too" she responded.
"But why Harry isn`t one, when you are one of them?" asked Hermione. The girl in reply shrugged.
"Why should I be a wolf?" I ask Hermione. She saw me with a blank look. Suddenly the girl came near me and said, "Because I'm your sister, Lindsay Lily Potter" I looked curiously at her to find an expression of joking but she is calm. "You are kidding, right?" I asked her. But everyone is silent. Ginny hugged me tightly and said, "She is your sister, Harry. It's true. Your parents hid her with someone. They found her after the magic we did"
"Then why Sirius never said anything about her?" I asked her hugging her back tightly with one hand, as she is still weak from the poison.
"Because he didn`t know about her"
"What?" I shout. The baby screamed too. Ginny glared at me, muttering "Idiot" and took him in her hands. I saw her hum to him again. I wish I were that baby. Then turned to my…sister. She is still looking at me. I smiled at her and hugged her.
"I am more than happy for having you, Sister." I said. She laughed and said "Ginny said the same thing too". I pulled back and smiled at Ginny.
"She understands me very well than others" I whispered to her.
Our conversation was cut off by someone's groaning. We all looked at Sirius. I immediately let go off Ginny's hand and ran to Sirius's side while crying his name worriedly. I felt indescribable pain all over my body that I cried. It burned yet it is cold.
"Harry, grab Ginny's hand" said the healer who ran in. I nodded and turned but fell on my knees. I can`t move. It is paining all over. It was lot more painful than cruciatus curse. Ginny…I thought while closing my eyes tightly as she cried aloud. And in a second the pain gone, I'm warm again. I open my eyes to see Ginny under me. I stood up quickly and helped her to feet while hiding my blush. There is an alarm going on. I looked to see everyone frozen in his or her place.
"He still does accidental magic" my mum said. I looked at her confused.
"Harry how did you apparated to me?" asked Ginny.
"Apparated?" I asked. Suddenly there is a pop. I saw an elf who said, "Someone apparated in, Sir"
"Don`t worry much, Lyra. It's Harry. You can take rest" said my sister. The elf nodded and disappeared.
"Mr. Black will wake up soon" the healer said and handed a dark green liquid in a vial to Ginny.
"This extract will taste sour and bitter. But you should drink this. If you feel like throwing up go out of the room there is an elf to assist you. I`d come within few seconds. It's for the 'thing' in your system" Ginny's face seemed to be pouting at the extract. I very well know she didn`t want to drink it.
"Drink or else I will make you" I whispered. Ginny scowled.
"Payback" I said smirking. She turned her back to me and drank it. I know she drank it because of the goose bumps that rose in her hands. She turned around that I saw her face that says the extract is horrible.
"It's awful" she said pouting.
"It's okay" I soothed her. She nodded and asked me to go with her. We left the room silently and met an elf who leads us to a small room. Once we got in the room, Ginny pushed open the door of the washroom and got in to throw up all the 'thing' that she got in her body. I just held her hair and rubbed her back until healer woman came inside and helped her. She slowly cleaned her mouth and face clearly exhausted. Her face was pale. Once she finished she leaned on me. I slowly lead her out and seated us on a nearby coach in the living room. The healer woman soon fed her with Blood replenishing potion that brought some colour to her face.
"Do you feel alright?" I asked out before the healer woman can. She nodded lightly and closed her eyes. I tried to keep her awake. To say I am scared is less likely, I definitely forgot how to breathe for a moment.
"Don`t! Let her be, Harry. It is just the tiredness of sending away all the poison out of her system. She isn`t unconscious just relaxing her system. She`ll be fine in few minute" true to her words, Ginny opened her eyes and sat up.
"Can we leave now? Or do you need to use?" the healer woman asked pointing the bathroom.
"How?" Ginny whispered while looking at our joined hands.
"I know of a spell that can hold the pain for few minutes. So if you need then I'll help" Ginny and I looked at each other, thought for a second and nodded. "Okay, it will hold off only for fifteen minutes. So you should finish between and come back to grab each other. One of you can use this while other should use other toilet. Panny will help guiding you" pointing the elf who helped us before.
"I`ll go there" I said. She stiffened slightly and waved her hands in weird patterns while muttering within her mouth. Then let her hands drop to her sides and nodded at us. I let go of Ginny and we parted to use the toilets. As soon as I finished I washed my hands clean and dried it in towel nearby then ran into the living room. She was in the coach clearly still tired but ran to me when I came. She grabbed my hand and let out heavy breathe out.
"Did it hurt? Am I late? I am sorry" I whispered to her for which she shook her head and grinned at me.
"We still have time but the healer got tired after the spell" she answered back. I frowned looking at the healer who slowly stood from the coach she previously occupied. She really was looking tired.
"Do you need help ma`am?" I called out. She shook her head then grabbed it as if it hurts. We moved towards her fast to catch her if she faints. But she smiled at us reassuringly and led us to the Grant Sitting Hall. There was the elf Panny, I saw before handing the healer a glass of light yellowish coloured liquid. She drank it completely in few gulps and thanked him. We entered the sitting room, which occupied with everyone else. Once we entered the healer woman gone to check on Sirius and all their eyes on us. "When did you go out?" my father asked confused, but he was cut off by Sirius calling my name. Ginny and I ran towards him, who sat up in his bed sweating profusely. He then hugged us.
"Oh! Thank Merlin! You are okay. How is your ankle, Gorgeous? Don`t scare me like that. How can you leave Hogwarts and enter the ministry? Prongs will be proud though" he rambled.
"Of course, I am" said dad.
Sirius pushed us behind him and growled, "Who are you?"
"Prongs, Padfoot"
"I won`t believe it. You are an imposter, isn`t it? How can James can be alive?"
"I`m not alive, Paddy. I am just a spirit" Dad sighed.
"I…won`t…believe…you" he stuttered. I was about to say something but my dad shook his head at me.
"Okay, what about some secrets only we know?" he asked for which Sirius nodded.
"Mm…You taught Harry to sing 'Hoggy Woggy Hogwarts'. You also made Harry to call 'Dadda Padfoot' that caused Lily to hex you bad. My mom presented you the castle in India on my marriage day party. It is your idea to built Marauder's Den. You cried more than I did on my parent's death. You didn`t come back to normal until Harry was born. Oh and you proposed to my mom the day after I introduced Lily to our family. And my dad threatened you to marry someone else because my mom is 'his and only his'. You even made partners in the Indian store to impress her. You said to me that you wanted someone like my mom to be your future wife. So, you`ve waited for her to come or still you do?"
"It's you?" Sirius asked.
"Oh, come on Paddy. Do I look like your dream queen? Mm…well, there is a secret only we know too. You yourself allowed others to gossip that you are sleeping with half-blood and muggle born girls to annoy your mother."
"Wait, you didn`t really…you made up" said Regulus.
"Reggie" Sirius whispered with wide eyes.
"They are here to meet us, Sirius. Go!" I nudged him. He moved towards them and hugged one by one.
"It's good to see you alive again. We`ve missed you a lot in the last two years, Sirius" Tonks stated.
"Wait…two years? What year is this?"
"1998. May third to be exact" Remus informed. His mouth hung open at that.
"You`ve somehow escaped from the death veil, Padfoot. But it took almost two years for you to come back" Remus proceeded.
"So I have two years worth of events to know about?" he asked warily.
"That's right. Like me at last seen my love for my mate who I married and had a beautiful cub in the middle of the war. Or Harry here had been on run to finish a mission assigned by Dumbledore and won in the war against Voldemort" Remus smirked.
"Won Voldemort?" most of the spirits along with Sirius cried and looked at me.
"Yeah! He is gone for good. Never going to return" I said awkwardly. Seeing my distress, Sirius changed his attention.
"So will you explain how you all came back?" he asked at last.
"We got an opportunity to wander here today" said Regulus.
"Only today?" asked Ginny tiredly.
He nodded "Until sunset, Miss" She looked sad. I squeezed her hand for which she gave me a thankful look. It breaks off by a tapping in windows and my sister ran forward to open it. A snowy owl came in.
"Hedwig" I whispered with tears clouding my vision.
"Hey boy! Are you okay? Is there any message for me?" For which the owl hooted and raised his leg towards her. There was a tiny cloth tied up. My sister removed and enlarged it without wand and read it.
"It's from our Prince. He wants to meet us. Nathan inform your pack and Jack the documents better be finished" she said looking at the letter intently. "Prince?" Sirius asked.
"Yes. The prince of our kind."
"Your… What?"
"She is an animorpher" Ginny said.
"But I thought they all killed and remaining ran off" he was confused.
"No. We didn`t. Actually our prince asked us to be here in disguise. So we can aid"
"I clearly don`t understand anything. First, I have a sister then she is an animorpher who is in disguise" I mumbled.
"Your who?" asked Sirius.
"Sister. Lindsay Lily Potter" My sister said to him.
"You have a daughter?" he asked my dad.
My dad chuckled nervously "Um…yeah."
"Now I'm clearly gotten mad"
"How do you think I felt?" I asked folding my arms in front of my chest. Pain shot through my arms to all over my body and I gasped because of it. Ginny grabbed my wrist tighter and glared at me making me apologize profusely. "What happened?" Sirius asked us concerned.
I shrugged and said "Hurts if we didn`t touch"
His eyes widen and he asked for a wand. Someone lend him theirs and muttered something in unknown language while waving the wand over us, which caused some tiny ropes like images appear between Ginny and me. He gasped aloud and glared at my dad again.
"They are bonded with five bonds yet you didn`t tell me" he said. Ginny and I shared a look and looked back at him.
"Five bonds?" Bill asked.
Professor Dumbledore sighed, "We are going to discuss about it." He was cut off by an elf appearing.
"Lunch is ready, Master Jamsie. Can Lyra get it here?" the elf 'Lyra' asked. My dad responded that everyone would come there. Lyra nodded and went away. Everyone started to go away with us following in the last. The dining area was long and large as if it was a mini Hogwarts. There were several empty seats even after we all filled in. Soon the food appeared on the table and elves took a few remaining seats.
"Wow, there are so many elves here!"
"Where is Maddy?" Sirius asked them. They shared a look, a sad one.
"Maddy is sick, Sirius. Maddy is taking rest" one of the house elves responded.
"Does she need anything?" Sirius asked concerned.
"No, Healer miss checked Maddy and gave Maddy some potions. Maddy is resting" Everyone turned towards Healer Lady who sat beside the elf who answered us.
"Thank You" Sirius said to her for which she replied with a nod of acknowledgement and a small smile in lips. My dad cleared his throat and said, "Dig in". We started to eat well in my case drink. I saw everyone has sandwiches, bacons, and some piles of food for them other than me, Ginny and Sirius, who have juice and soups and the Healer had only bread and jam in her plate. Then I noticed that Ginny is not touching her soup yet. I raised my brows in questioning and she pointed our hands through her eyes. I then glanced at her other and nodded. She placed it on her thigh for me to grab. I switched my hand to her other hand and she started to drink her soup now. We ate in silence until Ron cut it off by asking "Shouldn`t we inform your parents?"
She nodded "I`ll contact them as soon as possible." We ate again in silence. As the spirits were just watching us. After we`ve finished our lunch, we headed to the Elf's Residence. Sirius seems to be very worried about the elf who was sick. He entered followed an elf into a room. The room is quite large than room I have seen in Private Drive. There is a large bed in which an elf covered in soft blanket tucked in. The elf who I know now to be Mickey spoke to the elf, "Maddy, mate can you open your eyes? Sirius wants to see you"
"Sirius?" the elf whispered.
"Yes, Sirius is here, Maddy"
"Up, Mickey"
"No, no need. You lay down, Maddy" Sirius said coming near by the elf.
"How are you, Sirius?"
"I'm fine, Maddy. What happened to you?"
"Little tired, Sirius. I'll be alright"
"Do you need anything?"
"Nothing, Sirius. I'll come back soon and no pranks" she said sternly.
Sirius chuckled at that, "Yes, Mom." She smiled weakly and nodded at him. Then we moved out of there. My mind seemed to be in a great turmoil. The way I did not know anything but everyone seems to know about me makes me feel Déjà vu. My clouded mind snaps out of thoughts and I saw Ginny and I were the only one who did not sit on the sofa. Sirius gestured us to sit next to him. I sat down near him with Ginny on my other side.
Then the discussion started with my mom explaining, "Harry, I know you are confused. Now in a straight way to tell is that when you born an ancient magic reawaken. You were soul bonded to your soul mate. As our family's curse been broken, we thought that you would be… um an animorpher as it used to be. And your wolf's magic makes that bond to ensure your mate bond stronger. So, we kept it to ourselves. But it turned out as you weren't bonded with an animorpher's bond. So we started to research about it. And when Professor Dumbledore revealed about the prophecy and said you was fitted to its description, we told him about your bonding. We came to a conclusion that these bonds were formed to help you in winning Dark Lord"
Silence came after, for me to go wild in thoughts. I've been bonded to Ginny since I born. Just to kill him. "How did it helped him?" that would be Mione.
"To know that you should know about bonds, Miss. Granger" said Snape thoughtfully. Well for once, he didn't sneer. That's unbelievable. Maybe I will only see this side of Snape hereafter.
"What are the bonds they share?" Snape questioned.
"The Birth Bond and its counter parts. About the other two I don't know" Dad replied.
"A Birth Bond! Wow" breathed Bill.
"What does that mean?" Ginny interrupted.
"We researched about it even though there are not so many records about bonds. It must still be in office, I think" Dad replied.
"Where is this office?" I asked.
"I'll show you two. Come with me" Sirius raised and walked away with us following. We climbed upstairs to the first floor. While climbing up we saw two elves and the healer flooing away and then we went into the room there. The room was vast and spacious with a great view of garden out there. And either side of it had a furnished large mahogany door. Sirius led us to one of the door to find another spacious room with full of books stocked around in neat way with a fireplace and a small sitting area.
The room looked simply great. Over the desk were few envelopes. Ginny took one of it and read my full name. I raised my brow at her for which she gave me the envelope. My name was there. It was written to me.