Soulbound (On hold)

Prologue

The Theatre fell silent as Luke, Reggie, and Alex absorbed what they had just seen, while Julie Flynn and Nick stood silently. Luke, the generally happy and snarky teenager ghost, had tears flowing down his cheeks; he hadn't cried when he discovered that he was dead, but seeing his soulmate suffer hardships no one should have to face officially shattered him. Holly was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, and he wasn't there to help; instead, he was preoccupied with performing music and living his life.

Reggie remained motionless, his normal boyish glint gone from his eyes as he stared at the TV. His little angel had been through so much in the past two years that he's just stood by and watched her struggle without any genuine help from those who care about her. He had grown up in a household where his parents were constantly yelling at each other and were on the verge of divorce, but he'd do everything to express his gratitude for their love for him as he saw the actual love of his life endure years of abuse and neglect. 

Alex, the group's more savvy member, remind staring at the television. He never felt so hopeless, and the sparkle in her lovely emerald eyes has faded each year in the films that he's viewed about his soulmate. Anyone who looked closely could tell that the wizarding world wasn't treating her well; the number of times he wanted to reach out and grab her, cuddle her in his arms, and shield her from the world was unimaginable.

"So, let me get this straight," Julie said, averting her gaze from the traumatized trio. "Holly is in Surry where she lives with her cruel relatives, the Dursleys. Holly learns that she is a witch on her eleventh birthday from a mysterious stranger named Rubeus Hagrid, and is famous in the wizarding world for surviving an attack by the evil dark Lord Voldemort when she was a baby." She inhaled deeply allowing her thoughts to settle.

"So far, so good," Lilly said sadly as she considered her daughter's living situation. 

"You were killed by Voldemort, but his attack on Holly backfired, leaving merely a lightning-bolt scar on her forehead and rendering Voldemort powerless. Holly is informed by Hagrid that she had been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She boards the train to Hogwarts via the disguised platform 9 3/4 in kings cross station after acquiring school supplies on Diagon Ally, the hidden wizarding street." Julie ended her sentence by recalling the first few minutes of the first film she saw. Nick picked this time to continue on from his girlfriend.

"Holly meets Ron Weasley, a kid from a large but poor pure-blood wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a witch born to non-magical parents, on the train, the two become Holly's "Lifelong Best Friends". The first-year students are divided into four houses when they arrive at school: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Holly begs the magical hat not to place her in Slytherin, as Slytherin is known for being the house of darker witches and wizards. Along with Ron and Hermione, She is a member of Gryffindor. Holly notices Severus Snape, a professor, giving her strange looks." Nick smirked when he finished his sentence, noticing James' surprise.

"How in Merlin's name can they recall this much detail?" James inquired, his gaze falling on the familiar form of death, who shrugged. 

"We paid extra special attention to the minor details because this is an essential topic," Luke argued as they all snapped out of their reverie. 

"Holly begins to study magic and learns more about herself and her parents. While protecting another student, Neville Longbottom, from Draco Malfoy, a first-year Slytherin, Holly unexpectedly makes Gryffindor's quidditch team as a seeker, learning that you were also on the team." Julie goes into greater detail while looking at James. 

"At the Forbidden Corridor on the Third Floor of the school, Holly, Ron, and Hermione come see a gigantic three-headed dog named Fluffy who belongs to Hagrid. The trio assumes that someone is trying to get past the dog when they incapacitate an escaped mountain troll and Holly is nearly knocked off her broom by a curse during one of the Quidditch matches. Holly obtains the invisibility cloak that her father left in her possession before his death for Christmas. Holly discovers the Mirror of Erised while using the Invisibility Cloak in the Restricted Section, which depicts a person's heart's desire. Holly's parents are depicted in the mirror. Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster, finds Holly with the mirror and tells her all about it, including how she never knew her family and how men got obsessed with it. So he tells Holly that he'll move the mirror and tells her not to look for it again. Hermione realizes that the dog is guarding the Philosopher's Stone, an object that can grant its owner immortality, thanks to information given to her by Hagrid. Holly deduces that Severus Snape, her potions teacher, is attempting to obtain the stone. Draco Malfoy manages to catch Holly, Ron, and Hermione out of bed at night while visiting Hagrid, who is hatching a young Norwegian dragon named Norbert, culminating in them, as well as himself, serving detention and the dragon being securely shipped away to Romania. Holly witnesses a hooded stranger sipping a unicorn's blood for its restorative properties while assisting Hagrid in the Dark Forest. The cloaked figure then tries to attack Holly, but is scared away by Firenze, a centaur who is a close friend of Hagrid's. The cloaked man was Voldemort, and Snape is trying to retrieve the stone to restore Voldemort to full strength," Julie and Nick, who were used to the girls' pranks, exchanged amused grins as Flynn narrated everything in one breath.