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CHAPTER NINE

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Sirius Black noticed the instant Remus Lupin entered the Potters' backyard but wasn't sure if it was because of the bond or that he just so happened to look up at the right time. He was bothered almost immediately by what he saw and was too distracted by it to put much thought into anything else. Remus hadn't come to Harry's birthday party alone, instead having come with that clumsy Auror witch, Nymphadora Tonks. There wasn't anything wrong with Tonks, not really. She was a nice enough witch and Sirius's cousin, probably one of very few family members Sirius actually approved of. No, she wasn't very pretty, though, and, despite the young witch's huge crush on Remus, Sirius had a hard time buying them as a couple.

"When did that happen?" Sirius asked Lily as she carried another armful of gifts to the table Sirius had been setting his down on.

"When did what happen?" Lily asked, looking up to follow the line of Sirius's sight then smiled. "Oh, Remus and Tonks? I dunno really. Couldn't get much out of him when he asked if he could bring her along. I know they've hung out before but I'm not sure when it became dating. If that's what it even is. He better not be playing with her, though, or I will hex him right between his eyes! He should know by now how Tonks feels about him."

"Right," Sirius said, forcing himself to tear his eyes away from the pair. He found himself meeting a very knowing smirk on Lily Potter's face.

"Not jealous are you?" Lily teased.

"Jealous?" Sirius demanded and snorted. "Not bloody likely. Just curious is all."

"Hmm," was all Lily said.

Sirius wanted to make a retort, not liking at all the fact that she didn't seem to believe him, but Remus and Tonks had walked up at that moment. Tonks was bouncing excitedly where she stood and almost immediately fell over onto the picnic table full of gifts, only to be steadied by Remus reaching out to hold onto her. Sirius eyed where Remus was grasping Tonks's arm to hold her still and trying to ignore how hard Lily was trying not to laugh.

"I'm fine, not to worry. Happens all the time," Tonks admitted with a laugh. She blushed a bit and smiled adoringly up at Remus. Sirius felt sick to his stomach and was hit with the urge to start pretending to gag so as to pick on them. Though, perhaps, the thought wasn't as light-hearted and fun as it normally would have been.

"We all know that," Sirius managed to say without much venom in his voice. He forced himself to smile. "You've set my mother off more times than anyone else."

"Yeah, sorry 'bout that," Tonks laughed.

"Well, it's good to see you both. Thank you for coming," Lily said with a smile.

"Thank you for inviting us," Remus replied. "Where is the birthday boy?" he asked, looking around while Tonks set her gift on the table then took the one from Remus's hands to add it with the others. The pile she added it on swayed dangerously so Lily immediately reached out to steady it then took the top gift and placed it somewhere safer. "You didn't forget to invite him to his own party, did you?"

"No," Lily laughed. "No, the kids got into a bit of trouble this morning. Grace put some of the Weasley's hair products in Harry's shampoo and turned his hair purple! And she's been teasing him for a while now about being Severus's soul mate and, since he's seventeen now, he thought it only fair to charm her body blue! So I sent them inside to sort each other out."

"First time they've pulled something like that that Lily didn't yell at them both," James said with a grin, walking up to the group with a large decorative snitch hovering in front of him at wand point. "I think we're finally getting to her."

"Well, it's Harry's birthday and I didn't want to ruin the day," Lily defended with a sniff, straightening out the presents on the table some more as Tonks's elbow hit one of them and threatened to knock over another pile.

"You laughed Lily!" James chuckled.

Lily fought a smile and, within seconds, was laughing again. "She looked like a redheaded Smurfette!" she exclaimed, throwing her hands over her mouth, tears filling her green eyes as laughter shook her body. "And she threatened to turn Harry into an Oompa Loompa when she comes of age!"

The group grinned in amusement and shock at Lily, who finally gasped then started to fan herself with her hand. James walked past Sirius and wrapped his arms around his wife. "All we need now is for you to join in on the fun and my life would be complete," he said proudly, kissing her hair. "It was quite a fun morning for the Potter family."

"What's a Smurfette? And an Oompa Loompa?" Sirius finally asked, bewildered.

"Muggle stuff," Lily explained, shaking her head. "The smurfs were a cartoon and oompa loompas are from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a book turned into a movie. Smurfs are little blue people and oompa loompas are little orange people with green hair."

"Nice," Sirius chuckled. "I've never been so proud of the Mini-Marauders."

"Ah, now don't go encouraging bad behavior," Lily warned with a smile and a shake of her finger.

"Psh. It's a little late for that, don't you think?" Sirius chuckled.

"It's true, Lily," Remus said with a smile. "You provided a child with James as a father and Sirius as a godfather. I don't know what else you could have expected."

"Oh, don't start there, Remy," Lily giggled. "Grace is technically your goddaughter and she's wilder than Harry is."

"Ha! See? I'm a better godfather than Remus is," Sirius said. "You're welcome, by the way, for Harry turning out so wonderfully."

"Yes, because you raised him," Lily snorted sarcastically.

"Damn fine job I did, too," Sirius teased.

"Hey, I've done fine by Grace," Remus said. "It's not my fault James's genes did things to her I can't fix."

"And proud of it," James said proudly, puffing out his chest. "Ah, speak of the little devils…."

Everyone turned to watch as Harry and Grace entered the backyard. Grace was paler than usual and her skin still had a faint tinge of blue to it. The pretty dress that Lily had bought her for the party, a flowing blue number, only made the blue tint to her skin more noticeable and, in places, was sadly stained a murky gray color, probably from whatever potion she had used to help remove the color changing potion from Harry's hair. Her older brother walked beside her, his hair in its usual disarray even while wet and still seemed to have a few small purple streaks that stubbornly remained or that Grace had missed. His gray Puddlemere United T-shirt was stained with the same stuff Grace's dress was, though it was less noticeable because of the color of the shirt. For the most part, the siblings looked much better than they had before Lily had sent them inside to get cleaned up.

They seemed to be having a quiet argument that was silenced as the two stopped in the middle of the backyard when they noticed they were being watched by the group over by the picnic table under a crabapple tree. The adults continued to watch them as the two Potter children glanced at each other then uneasily turned back to their elders with confused expressions until Tonks giggled. That sound caused the other adults to start quiet laughter that erupted into much larger and louder fits of laughter that left Grace and Harry staring at them, stunned.

"Have you been drinking?" Grace asked loudly.

"That is not a question you should go around asking people," Lily said with a smile.

"I have a bad feeling they were talking about us," Harry said, eyeing the group warily.

"Well, we should be talking about you, Birthday Boy," Sirius said with a grin. "Everyone will be talking about you and watching you all day!"

"Just great," Harry sighed miserably to the amusement of the adults. James laughed and worked on magically getting the snitch into position, hovering it over the gifts.

"Not fond of attention, I bet?" Tonks said.

"Not really," Harry admitted with a nervous smile.

"Well, it's not like we're being hounded by reporters," Lily assured him. "It's just going to be friends and family, nothing to worry about."

"Sure about that?" Harry asked darkly, remembering a disastrous fifteenth birthday. It was the first time they had really celebrated at home and, for some reason, reporters decided to swarm around that day. Harry had a feeling it was because of renewed interest following the Triwizard Tournament, not only the fact that he had been illegally entered into the dangerous event but his win of the whole thing and subsequent allegations that Lord Voldemort had returned. It was the worst experience he ever had with the press and the reason he had asked to celebrate his birthday elsewhere last year, something the Weasleys had been more than accommodating with at the Burrow.

"I promise," Lily said. "Albus stopped by and helped put up some extra wards. They're only temporary but they should last us through today. He says it's a birthday gift and an apology for being unable to attend. It'll keep anyone who's not invited from coming onto the property at all."

Lily smiled at her son as he seemed to visibly relax and Sirius grinned sadly at his godson. It was very hard for him being who he was and it was only going to get that much worse now that he was an adult in their world. Everyone was determined to give him an enjoyable day and to be there for him to help him through the worst of it.

"Mr. and Mr. Lupin-Black, I require your help in finishing this set up," James said in a very proper tone with a teasing glimmer in his hazel eyes. Remus closed his eyes and groaned while Sirius turned to glare then punched James in the arm. James had been giving them hell about their status as soul mates since he found out, always referring to them as though they were married. Harry couldn't help but laugh and the others followed suit.

"As long as it remains understood that I'm the man in the relationship," Sirius said, grinning as he followed after James with a grumbling Remus not far behind as they went to help levitate tables for everyone to sit at together.

"So how is Hermione?" Lily asked as she walked around the table to straighten up the gifts on the other side.

"She's…fine, I think," Harry replied.

"She's just being girly and trying to look extra pretty for today," Grace explained. "Ginny's been talking between her and Ron so they both agreed to be civil. But Ron's bringing Hannah so I think Hermione's jealous and wants to make him like her again or something."

"Poor thing," Lily said sadly. "I do hope Ron won't try to rub it in her face or anything."

"I kept trying to tell her to invite Malfoy to rub him in Ron's face but she won't listen," Grace said, shaking her head.

Harry snorted. "I doubt Ron would be jealous. He'd just think Hermione had gone insane."

"Am I the only one who can admit he's fit?" Grace demanded with a scoff.

"Probably," Harry said.

"I don't tend to find boys my son's age to be attractive, Gracie," Lily teased. "Though his father was very fit when he was younger, in a snobby sort of way. Not one I would be interested in, but I could see that he was a fine specimen of the male species."

"Mum!" Grace squealed in shocked delight. "That's brilliant! Draco looks just like him, so, in a way, you're saying that he is good looking!"

"Perhaps, 'in a way'," Lily relented with a smile. "Oh look, some of your friends are starting to arrive, Harry!"

Harry turned and grinned when he saw a big group of Weasleys walking around the side of the house to join them in the backyard. Arthur and Molly led the way with the latter turning her head to talk to Ginny, Fleur, and Penelope while she walked. Probably about wedding plans, as that's all Harry could remember the older witch talking about the past few weeks. Ron was walking hand in hand with Hannah Abbott to Harry's dismay. Not that there was anything wrong with her, Hannah was a very nice girl, but Harry worried about Hermione's reaction to their budding romance. Behind them, Fred and George wore familiar expressions of gleeful mischief, something Harry had a bad feeling about since it would involve Ron and Hannah. Percy looked to be boring his eldest brother to tears about something or other a few feet behind the group. Bringing up the rear was Charlie, who appeared to be having a very lively conversation with Hagrid.

Grace was giggling. "So, is your fiancé going to come, Harry?"

"My what?" Harry asked, turning to his sister in confusion.

"You know? My future brother in law? Your lover? Your soul mate? Professor Snape?" Grace said.

Harry glowered at her. "Shut up, Grace."

"Grace," Lily warned.

"Don't pick on him too much, Grace," Ginny said with a grin, jogging ahead to join them. She went to add her own gift to the pile but Lily took it from her with a smile to put it in place herself. Ginny then hugged Harry and gave him a friendly kiss on the cheek. "You never know, you could end up with worse than Snape one day and Harry will have his revenge."

"I can do better than Harry can," Grace said with a sly grin. "I bet I get someone like Kingsley Shackelbolt."

"Ha!" laughed Tonks, who almost everyone had forgotten about. "Kings?"

"Gracie!" Lily exclaimed, wearing a stunned grin.

"What? He's more fit than Draco Malfoy I think," Grace said shamelessly with a shrug.

"You're thirteen!" Lily laughed.

"And? Snape is twenty years older than Harry," Grace pointed out.

"Harry also doesn't find Snape attractive," Ginny pointed out.

"No one finds Snape attractive," Ron said as he joined them. Hannah stood by his side looking nervous and Ginny shot the other girl an annoyed look making Ron glare at his sister in response.

"I wouldn't say no one," Lily said, giving them a sharp look. "Severus has been with people before. Just because he is not conventionally handsome doesn't mean anything. And you would do well not to be so disrespectful about a teacher, especially since he is Harry's soul mate. You lot would do well to keep that in mind."

"Sorry, Mrs. Potter," Ron and Ginny mumbled, blushing.

"He's a hard man to get along with," Tonks said. "But he's not horrible, is he? Spies and whatnot for the Order, doesn't he? I wouldn't get too worked up, Lily. Didn't you ever dislike a professor?"

"Not to the point of badmouthing them every available opportunity," Lily replied irritably. She reached out to take the gifts from everyone to add them to the pile, smiling politely as the others approached. The bad atmosphere was forgotten as the other Weasleys joined in to hug Harry or shake his hand and wish him a happy birthday. Within a span of ten minutes, the rest of the guests arrived. Neville and Luna arrived a few minutes after the Weasleys, Cedric Diggory a few minutes after them then Viktor Krum not long after him. Viktor was in town for Bill and Fleur's wedding so Harry thought it would be nice to invite his fellow Triwizard Tournament champions to his birthday. He hoped Viktor would be enough to cheer Hermione up somewhat as well as, maybe, even distract her a bit from Ron and Hannah. There had been a small romance between them during fourth year, if Harry remembered correctly.

Shortly after Viktor's arrival, Hermione finally came out of the house, looking stunning. Harry couldn't remember seeing her look so pretty since the Yule Ball fourth year! Her hair was sleek and curly, all of the frizz and wildness tamed down for today. Her face held light touches of makeup and she was even wearing what appeared to be a new dress, probably something bought especially for today. Hermione didn't usually go around wearing dresses like that. It was a beautiful lavender color and it fit her body snugly. While she was modestly covered, it still brought attention to her slight curves.

Only Harry and Viktor seemed to notice her walking out and Viktor seemed in awe of her. That made Harry relax a bit. He glanced back to the conversation Ron, Ginny, Grace, and Hannah were involved in and quietly excused himself to walk over to his nervous friend.

"How do I look?" was the first quiet, nervous question from Hermione's mouth.

"Brilliant," Harry assured her. "Viktor seems to think so?"

Hermione's eyes had been on Ron and her eyebrows furrowed in confusion and she turned to Harry. "What? Vik-?" She paused and turned, eyes widening at the sight of the Bulgarian Seeker. "Viktor!" she exclaimed loudly

"Hermy-owny!" Viktor said, apparently still struggling with her name. He moved closer to her and Harry sighed when he saw Ron spin around and glare at Viktor as he took Hermione's hand and kissed the top of it. Hermione's eyes flickered up to her ex boyfriend for only a brief moment before turning back to Viktor beaming.

"I had no idea you were going to be here!" she said, following Harry as he walked back to his group of friends. Ron stood stiffly by Hannah and Ginny nudged him with a meaningful glare. Harry also made sure to send him a sharp look to remind him that he had promised to be on his best behavior.

"You look so beautiful, Hermione!" Ginny raved with a grin.

"You really do," Hannah added with an uncertain smile. "Very, very pretty."

"Oh, well, thank you," Hermione said in surprise. She looked Hannah over for a moment and seemed to relax when the girl didn't seem to be playing any sort of games with her. "Err…You look really nice, too."

"Girls," scoffed Grace.

"You're a girl!" laughed Ginny.

"I don't think anyone can be too sure of that," Harry said with a grin, the tension of having Ron and Hermione so close to each other so soon after their breakup fading as he fell into the comforts and amusement of fun times with his friends.

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While the Potter family and friends went about celebrating Harry's birthday, Draco Malfoy was having a seemingly normal day at Malfoy Manor. At least what constituted as normal these days. He had been so worried since leaving school at the end of the previous term that he would be forced to take the Mark this summer but no mention had been made of it in a few weeks so he had relaxed a bit. It didn't stop him from worrying though. Draco was becoming used to finding things to distract himself and had been spending a great deal of time going on dates with various Slytherin girls. Well, he had even been doing a bit more than just dating. It was proving to be a useful technique for getting his mind off being Granger's soul mate.

Until today of course. He was in the middle of a perfectly normal day, having spent time visiting Theodore Nott earlier, and was just returning home to spend a few hours at home before getting ready for tonight's date with Astoria Greengrass. Just as he was heading up to his room, he heard his name being called from the living room. It was his father and Draco was a bit surprised that he was home in the middle of the day. Feeling a bit anxious, he walked into the living room where his parents were seated side by side on the couch. His father had a parchment held out in front of him, holding it enough to the side so that his wife could look over it, as well.

"Draco…Read this nonsense," Lucius said with a sneer, thrusting the parchment towards his son who stepped forward quickly to take it.

"What is it?" he asked warily, silver-gray eyes looking from irritated father to stunned mother.

"A letter," Lucius said sharply.

"Now, Lucius," Narcissa said, placing a calming hand on his arm.

"Read it," Lucius commanded.

Hesitantly, Draco let his eyes drop to the parchment now in his hands, moving to sit in a chair as he did so.

Draco Malfoy,

This is Hermione Granger. I'm sure you must be surprised to be hearing from me because I'm certainly surprised to find myself writing this letter. However, under the circumstances, I believe some contact between us would not go remiss.

Given your family's closeness to Professor Snape, I don't know if you've heard of his latest discover or not. He recently created a method of one finding their soul mate. Upon hearing this, and out of curiosity, I went along with it and, to my surprise, the name it came up with was yours. If you happen to have a copy of Magical Bonds: Past, Present, and Future I suggest you look to chapter seven for I don't feel up to divulging so much knowledge in a simple letter.

I hold no romantic notions of 'soul mates' whatsoever but I do believe that doing something might prove beneficial to us both. Hopefully you will read the passage I've suggested or, at least, know of soul mates and Soul Bonding. If you would would please take this into consideration and wish to discuss it further, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Hermione J. Granger

She knew! Draco swallowed hard as he read the letter a second time, waiting for it to fully sink in then scoffed as he thought of her directing him to books. The third time he read over it, he remembered that his parents had seen it and felt his stomach drop then all of the blood rush out of his face. His eyes slowly flickered up to meet his father's glare and mother's concerned gaze.

Draco cleared his throat. "Well. That is…interesting."

"Interesting?" snorted Lucius. "It is ridiculous."

"So you've said," sighed Narcissa. "Many times."

Lucius eyed his wife. "Are you still upset over the whole soul mate nonsense?"

"It isn't nonsense, Lucius!" Narcissa snapped. "Not to me! And if you could consider for one second that you could be wrong, this could be something very important to our son!"

"Why would it be important to Draco?" Lucius demanded.

"Do you know anything about Soul Bonds?" Narcissa asked.

"Not much. I have little faith in soul mates and don't know why I would need to study further into Soul Bonding," Lucius replied.

"It could be very useful to Draco," Narcissa explained. "It could make him stronger, more talented. Not to mention associating with the Granger girl could be useful. This could very well make him a more powerful wizard, Lucius. And, more importantly, it's something that can very well keep him from particular paths that we would not choose for him."

Narcissa shot her husband a meaningful look and the harsh expression from Lucius's face faded away. The man was left looking pale and years older. Though they never came out and said it, Lucius and Narcissa obviously didn't want their son involved with the Death Eaters but, due to Lucius's status among them, there seemed to be little choice. Draco would have to join or he, and maybe even his parents, would die because of it. There was no rebelling against the Dark Lord, not if they valued their life. Severus was brave to gamble the way he did, playing the role of double agent. The Malfoys were aware of their friend's true loyalty and, while they no longer had any regard for the Dark Lord, found they weren't so brave or willing to lose their lives because of it.

"What a silly way to think, Narcissa," Lucius said quietly. "You know there is no way—"

"There could be a way," Narcissa replied. "If he did bond with the girl, they could be useful to one another, magically. Her ties to the Or—You know what could be very advantageous. The good the bond would do him would not only be useful on its own but the good it will do for Miss Granger could very well make her care enough for Draco's life and loyalties to take care of him."

"You aren't seriously saying I should bond with the mudblood?" Draco demanded in shock.

"That is exactly what I am saying, Draco," Narcissa said. "And don't call her a mudblood, certainly not if we're going to do this." She then turned her blue eyes onto her husband. "Lucius, it would not hurt to try, would it? Even if you have no faith in souls at all, at least know that they believe in it and having that connection alone could be helpful."

Lucius stared at his wife for a long time and Draco used the lull to look from one parent to the other. Were they seriously suggesting he meet up with and maybe even bond himself to Mudblood Granger? His pureblood parents were willing to forget their beliefs in blood purity for…for what? His life? The thought of being tied to Granger was repulsive enough that he didn't immediately let everything his mother had pointed out sink in and once it had…

"Do you really think that would work, mother?" Draco asked quietly, causing both Lucius and Narcissa to look up at him. "Do you think I could avoid having to…having to join him?"

"Yes, I do," Narcissa replied earnestly. "Please consider it, both of you."

"It…It wouldn't hurt to…to just meet with her," Draco finally said, eyes dropping back down to the parchment. "To discuss things."

"No…No, it wouldn't hurt at all," Narcissa said, smiling encouragingly.

Lucius slowly nodded. "Yes…Write her back. She'll have to do with meeting with all of us. Tomorrow afternoon, perhaps?"

"Yes, we should be there…to be sure of things," Narcissa agreed. The witch looked so relieved that her men were slowly accepting things. Draco relaxed a bit as his mother was appeased and glared at the letter. He may not be fond of Granger at all but if it was the choice between putting up with a know-it-all mudblood and taking the Mark, Draco would take Granger any day.

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"You did what?" Ginny Weasley whispered loudly.

"Shhh," Hermione hissed, looking around. They were all sitting at the table, stuffed from a lovely meal and a delicious cake cooked by Mrs. Potter. Everyone was in the middle of passing Harry his presents and watching him open them all. Since Viktor was distracted by a conversation with Cedric and Charlie over Harry's new broom, Hermione had taken her chance to pull Ginny aside to talk about what she had done that morning. "I wrote the letter when Harry told me that Ron was bringing Hannah and…I dunno. I looked out of the window and saw them together then decided to just…send it."

"Wow," Ginny said. "What do you think he'll do?"

"Burn the letter," Hermione replied dryly. "If he replies at all it would be nothing but insults. I don't know what I was thinking!"

"I don't know either," Ginny said uselessly. "Too bad Viktor isn't your soul mate, huh?" she asked with a grin, checking out the attractive Quidditch player.

Too bad Ron wasn't, Hermione wanted to say but she kept that to herself. "Yeah. That would be preferable. I could do something with that."

Ginny nodded and turned back to her friend. "What if, by some chance, he does agree to meet with you?"

"I hadn't even thought that far ahead yet," Hermione confessed with a sigh.

"If he agrees to meet with you," Grace said, bringing their attention to the fact that the younger witch wasn't too far away from them and certainly not far away enough to have not overheard their conversation, "you should snog him then tell me how he is."

"I doubt he'd want to snog me," Hermione snorted, rolling her eyes.

"I doubt Hermione wants to snog him either," Ginny pointed out.

"That, too," Hermione laughed.

"I don't see why not," Grace said. "Just like I don't see why Remus brought Tonks here." Grace glared at where the two sat. They weren't snogging or hanging all over each other, nothing like that, but they were too close and friendly for her liking.

"Why not? Tonks is nice," Ginny said.

"Yeah, she is. But Remus belongs with Sirius! I don't know what he thinks he's doing!" Grace said.

Ginny laughed. "Grace, Remus and Sirius aren't together."

"Not yet. But they should be," Grace said confidently.

Hermione and Ginny shared a look then shook their heads. They wouldn't bother trying to argue with Grace. Nothing they said would talk her out of her delusions.

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Author's Note: I'm back! Sorry for the long wait, but I finally got a beta for this story and asked her to go over any previous chapters before working on new ones so the whole story will be nice and neat instead of just newer chapters! Now as long as I can keep everything up right, it shouldn't be too much of a problem anymore! I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter…It's not much, mainly just a transition for the next chapter. I still enjoyed writing it, though, and I thought it was fun so hopefully you thought so, too, even if not much happened.

Big thanks to my wonderful reviewers: unneeded and Sablesilverrain!

Also a big humungo thanks to my wonderful, amazinful beta Danyealle for getting this chapter back to me so fast and working so hard to help make my story better even though she has so much other stuff going on!
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