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Back Again

Prolog

The war had taken too long.

Voldemort had almost won.

Dumbledore in his infinite wisdom, choose to keep Harry ignorant long past the time he should have. Even after Voldemort came back after the tri-wizard tournament, he kept quiet. His desire for Harry to have a stress free childhood was a pipe dream. He used Harry's ignorance of the wizarding world to prevent him from doing anything that was undesirable. It wasn't until after they graduated that Hermione finely got Harry to see that he needed to be studious. By this time they were hunted and on the run. The two of them plus Ginny and Ron started the summer escape. With the death eaters in control of the school, no one wanted to go back. Diagon Alley only had death eater approved stores open.

By the time fall rolled around, Harry and Hermione started feeling funny. One day they realized that they didn't have feeling of love for the Weasleys but each other. Harry one night on guard duty heard the siblings talking about that they couldn't get any more ingredients for the love potions that Ginny had been brewing. They were going to try to find more in the village the next day.

While the Weasleys were gone, Harry and Hermione Packed up everything belonging to them and left. They heard later that the village had been raided by death eaters and everyone had been killed.

On their own, they fell deeply in love. When they finely kissed, it felt like the world was filled with wedding bells tolling. They were euphoric. Hermione guessed that they had soul bonded. While they were studying, they also did what all newly wed couples did.

Their skills at magic allowed them to take out many death eaters. A friend of theirs was a member of MI6. He saw their success at taking out terrorists and got them trained in muggle weaponry and explosives.

They finally trapped Voldemort and ended up killing him using explosives on what he was standing on. He died from a piece of rebar going all the way trough his body at hi speed. Harry was severely injured from the shrapnel. Hermione did everything she could but could not stop the bleeding.

The war had killed tens of thousands of wizarding folk and dozens of times more muggles. As she knelt over the body, she wished that she could have changed things when they were younger. Great Briton was almost destroyed. Suddenly she remembered a spell she had read years ago. It involved sending the soul of a person back in time. Maybe she could save her Harry. She would die in a week anyway from her bond. After five days, she finally found the spell. She was getting weaker. She cast the spell and collapsed.

Chapter 1

"Hermione get out of bed. I know it's your birthday but you need to eat and go to school." She heard her mom yell up the stairs. She sat bolt upright in her bed. She recognized the pink blankets and decorations of her youth. Hearing footsteps in the hall, she bolted out of her room and gave her mother a crushing hug.

"What's the matter dear?" her mom asked as Hermione clung to her weeping.

"Mom, I'm not going to school today. I feel rotten and my middle hurts. I had a really bad dream. If it's true mom, I need your help getting daddy to agree to help an abused kid."

"Is this a friend of yours at school?"

"No, it's someone I have been dreaming about for a long time and have never met. I will know if it's true if we have a really strange woman come and visit us tonight."

Seeing her daughter loved going to school and the library, she didn't know what to make of things. She told her to hurry and dress for her birthday breakfast.

Hermione had more of her emotions under control when she came downstairs. She got her birthday hug from her dad. Her gift this year was one she remembered a fifty-pound gift certificate to her favorite bookstore. She remembered dragging her mother all over the store until she had picked all that she wanted.

She wondered to herself what her parents would think of their daughter being twenty-eight while she looked eleven. That day she stayed home re-familiarizing herself with everything in the house. She was looking forward to McGonagall arriving that night.

Hermione was getting anxious. They had finished supper and she could hardly wait for McGonagall. The doorbell rang. Standing there was an unusually dressed older lady. Hermione gave her a tight hug. "Oh, Professor I am so glad you are here. They are hurting Harry again. Bring my parents to Privet Drive." Hermione apparated away.

To say who was more surprised would be hard to guess, Hermione's parents because she recognized this strange lady and disappeared or Minerva McGonagall because an eleven year old knew where Harry Potter was and apparated to him.

"Excuse me Mr. and Mrs. Granger. We need to go to where your daughter went to make sure she isn't in trouble. Please take my hands. I will try and explain later." They appeared down the street in front of number two. They hurried to number four.

As they neared, they heard Hermione cry, "Stop hitting him. Stupefy. Stupefy. Stupefy." After each spell, they heard a crunch as a body went flying.

She saw her dad rush through the door. "Dad, watch them; knock them down if they get up. Mom call emergency have them send an ambulance and police for a child abuse situation here. This is number four Privet Drive."

While her parents were doing that, she turned to McGonagall. "You were right all those years ago. Dumbledore was wrong. Look at Harry." She cast a wandless diagnostic spell on him. "He has five cracked ribs, a minor concussion, and a broken arm that is not yet healed. There are fresh bruises all over his body. My soul mate will not be treated this way any longer."

Her mom just returned to the room when Hermione knelt down and kissed Harry. Harry realizing that this was Hermione kissed back. The two started glowing with a bright white light. The three adults watched the kids with open mouths. Harry replied, "Mione, you're here. Thank God." Then he passed out.

The Dursleys started to wake up. About that time, sirens could be heard. Dan Granger grabbed the collars of Vernon and Dudley while Jean Granger made Petunia sit quietly in a kitchen chair. When the police knocked on the door, Hermione answered it. "Officer how long before the medics arrive? My friend is hurt. Do you have a camera? In school, they said you would take pictures of the abuse done for proof later when the patient was healed."

"Slow down young lady. Let me ask these adults what's going on." He took one look at Harry and the cupboard under the stairs and called on his radio for more people.

Hermione stayed by Harry through the whole thing. Dan and Jean were proud of their daughter. The boy they found was seriously ill-treated. They had no clue how they got there or what was going on but they were still proud.

Minerva felt sick. These muggles didn't know who Harry was but she did. Her boss had sentenced him to this hell against her warning. She would never have believed how bad it was if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes. To see their soul bond form was even more puzzling and amazing. She knew that she would be spending a lot of time with these folks. After the muggles were done with him in the hospital, she would get Poppy to give him some potions for faster healing.

When they tried to get Harry to go in the ambulance he refused to go unless Hermione rode with him. They held hands all the way.

Dan had called his lawyer and things got interesting at the hospital.

At one point Hermione confronted McGonagall. "Professor, as you saw Harry and I bonded. We will be together. If they try to keep us apart, we will leave. Harry is able to apparate better than I do. You may need to pull a few strings to accomplish this. I suggest Madam Bones would help. She is supposed to be Harry's magical guardian anyway since Sirius is in prison and the Longbottoms are incapacitated. Just so you know Voldemort isn't dead. Briton still needs Harry or else."

"Young Lady how do you know all these things?"

"Until I know where your allegiance lies where Harry is concerned, I will not tell you. Your bumbling boss doesn't care about people anymore just the big picture and even then, I think his picture is distorted. If he has your allegiance, Harry and I will never tell you anything. For example, I would be willing to bet that he has Harry's and my cores blocked. He also has agreements with the Weasleys for Harry's marriage to Ginny and mine to Ron. Since we are, soul bound, those arrangements fell apart and the Weasley matriarch will be angry when she finds out. They have also been stealing from Harry's vault. We will be going to Gringott's to take care of things."

"Miss Granger …"

"That's Mrs. Potter now."

"I am sorry, Mrs. Potter. If even part of what you said is true, I am firmly on Harry's side. That also makes me on your side. The muggle authorities should take care of the Dursleys. I will work with Amelia Bones to get your parents custody or maybe she will want it herself. Either way we will make sure that you can stay with Harry for your health and his. I will return tomorrow to your house."

"Professor, I warn you I may have to imperious or obliviate some muggles here in order to get them to not remove Harry. I will do whatever is necessary to stay together."

"Young Lady, you're eleven and you can cast all that without a wand?"

"As I said before no answers until we have your oath."

McGonagall left. She had a lot to do. Her fears were that Hermione was correct in every single thing she said. If so there needed to be some major changes here at Hogwarts before the kids got here next term and the DMLE would have to be involved also. She hoped that the goblins would be on Harry's side. It would help.

Dan and Jean cornered Hermione in the X-ray waiting room. "Dear, what's going on? Everything that has happened today is so strange." They saw her wave her hand and mutter something. The noises around them went silent.

"Mom, Dad I have some different and unusual things to tell you. Some of this could take a while. First of all magic is real. Some people have the real ability to use it. They are called wizards and witches. I am a witch. Harry is a wizard. Professor McGonagall is a witch as well. You have seen the evidence of magic when we moved instantly from one place to another. Are you with me so far?"

Her mom just nodded. Dan replied, "That is just about the only explanation that fits the evidence we have seen and experienced today. How will this affect our family?"

"I will probably go off to a boarding school to learn more about magic. The magical world and the non-magical one usually don't get along very well. I will be marrying someone from the magical world and when I am old enough, we will be raising a family. That world has challenges, as does the non-magical one. The very fact that it documented history goes back more than three millennia makes it very interesting. You know how I love to read and research."

Jean jumped in, "You avoided part of Dan's question. Let me rephrase it. How did the Glow we saw around you and Harry affect you and us?"

"Damn it mom. I was trying to avoid that answer. I will tell you but dad won't be happy. If you freak out, Harry and I will have to leave. Harry and I are soul bound. You saw the primary bond form. We are too young for both of us to finish the bond. It will happen before either of you are comfortable with the idea. What it means legally is that we are married, in both the magical realm and the normal one. We are also legally adults. Our emancipation is now on the books in both worlds. I love Harry with all of my being and have for sixteen years."

"Honey, you have one of the most literal minds I know of. We both know that you are not sixteen years old. What are you getting at?"

Just then, Harry got out of the X-ray room. He ran over to Hermione and kissed her. "I love you." He grabbed her hand and waved his other hand. They could hear ambient sounds again. "I am sure someone will want to talk to us. Sorry I took down the silence."

Just then, a middle-aged woman walked up to them. "Mr. and Mrs. Granger?" At their agreement, "I am Mrs. Wilton. I am the Cafcass Officer they notified about this case. The reason I became involved instead of a standard social worker is that it seems the Dursleys never filed for guardianship of Harry. According to questioning, he was left on their doorstep. He is the son of Mrs. Dursley's departed sister. They still should have filed for guardianship. It would have been granted automatically but they still broke the law by not doing that. Harry wants to be with your daughter Hermione. There is another little problem that I don't understand. Both your daughter and Harry are emancipated and married as of today, at least according to the legal documents. So I would like to ask, would you mind taking care of both of them voluntarily? It would make my job easier if you said yes. At their ages I can't in good conscious let them live alone. If you agree then I will let him go with you and pursue maximum punishment of the Dursleys."

Dan and Jean looked at each other with the gaping fish look. Jean finally replied, "Officer Wilton, we would be happy to look after our daughter and her husband. Please get those child-abusing bastards for all you can. Will Harry be able to sue them for damages?"

"Oh, yes. When this is done they won't own a toothpick."

They finished up at the hospital. Dan drove them home.

Harry spoke first, "Mrs. Wilton mentioned that the hospital might want some specialists to see me to assess the older damage. I also need to see the people at the wizarding bank tomorrow. You don't know me but I have loved your daughter for fifteen years. I will never harm her. We need to talk at length when I am well. Now I have to rest, I am about to fall over."

"Mum, let's freshen up the guest room real quick while Harry rests here. That can be his room until we can make other arrangements." Upstairs she continued, "Mum we have to spend at least eight hours a day touching. We will get sick if we don't. It would be easiest if we sleep together. Don't even think about accusing us of wanting sex. Harry is basically broken and we are both too young."

"Alright Hermione, we will have to trust you about that."

"One more thing, Harry wakes almost every night screaming from nightmares. I will be putting a silence on our room so it will not disturb your sleep. Do not be angry if you knock and we don't answer. It will be because we can't hear you, not because we are ignoring you. If you and dad don't get angry about it, I won't lock the door. You can check if you must when you choose to make sure we are behaving."

Harry was out by the time the bed was ready. She levitated him up the stairs into their room and undressed him for bed while he was in the air. Once he was ready, she joined him in bed. Oh how she loved sleeping by her husband. She drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face.