-Annoying Note-

This chapter is simply backround on the how/why. It isn't written in great story format, as it is short and sweet. Next chapter is WAY better... so bear with it :)

Harry and Ginny were married mere months after the final battle. With their wedding kiss, a soul bond was sealed. Soul bonds were rare, but not unheard of. They can only form when a couple is completely, unconditionally, and deeply in love.

In the year that followed, Voldemort's Death Eaters had come together determined that their Lord would come back. In the attacks, so many were lost, and the killing didn't stop.

Harry knew they'd lost too many when the Weasley family was slaughtered, save for Ginny who'd been with Harry at the time. They, with the help of Albus Dumbledore's painting, created a complicated spell involving a time turner and their Soul Bond.

Through their Soul Bond, Harry and Ginny were able to hear each other's thoughts and see each other's memories. Through meditating, they were able to search both their memories at once to find any time they crossed paths.

Going backwards, they found it happened rather often, as with soul mates it often does, because of Mr. Weasley's fascination with muggles. Ginny's family had been visiting the zoo when Harry had set loose the snake. When Harry was eight, Harry had been carrying his aunt's shopping bags in London while Ginny was walking towards the Leaky Cauldron with her family. At age six, they'd bumped into each other at a museum where Harry had taken a school sponsored class trip. The very earliest was when Harry was four and Ginny was three.

Ginny's dad had taken them to a large carnival on a 'How-Fascinating-These-Muggles-Are' trip, and Harry had gone along with the Dursley's for Dudley's birthday (they hadn't been able to get a sitter). Harry had been told to wait in a small space between two tents until the Dursleys came to get him. He'd been curled up crying silently, scared out of his mind, when Ginny had seen him. She went up and tapped him on the shoulder. 'Why are you crying' she'd asked. He'd looked up at her with a tear stained face that couldn't be seen for the shadows of the tent. Just then, Mr. Weasley began calling for Ginny that he had cotton candy for her to try and she'd run back to her father, her small three-year-old attention span diverted from Harry.

They chose this meeting for the Soul Jump, as it would give them the most time to prepare. The Soul Jump would bring them into awareness the day of the meeting, but they could not change events. As soon as they touched, their Soul Bond would reconnect in that time and they would be able to do whatever they please to fix the future.

They made a plan and set the spell.