One-Shots

Hidden Mark- Part 1

Harry's POV-

    When Harry turned six, his soul mark appeared on his wrist. Every magical being had a soul mark, whether you got it when you were three or eighty-one they always had one. That one little mark changed everyones life, one way or another.

    And for Harry, his soul mark changed everything because on his wrist, in an elegant cursive witting, was the name 'Tom Marvolo Riddle'. The second he told his parents his name, he stopped being Harry James Potter and became Hadrian Orion Evans.

    Although he was young, Harry wasn't stupid. His parents, for one reason or another, didn't want him to meet his soulmate. So, at the young age of six, Harry began researching. He looked and looked and looked and, at the end of his research, he found a old journal in his Uncle Regulus' room when he was ten.

    When he found the brown leatherbound  journal, Harry was ecstatic. He finally had a clue to his soulmate's identity! So when he saw the pages were blank, he was terribly disappointed. Still, not one to be easily discouraged, Harry rejoiced at the fact that he, at least, had an object that had belonged to his soulmate.

    That night, Harry took a quill and wrote, "August 17, 1990- Dear Journal, today I found my first clue to who Tom is! It's been four years but I've found you in Uncle Reggie's room. But I'm pretty sure mom and dad made him, Siri, and Remy swear an oath to not reveal who Tom is. At the very least I know that they knew one and another! I still don't know why they don't want me to know my soulmate. For Merlin's sake, they even made me completely change my name!

    Maybe he's a dark wizard or something. Still... He's MY soulmate, shouldn't I get the right to choose? I know I'm only ten and that I don't understand everything but it's still not fair." And with that, Harry closed the diary, hid it, and went to sleep.

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  The next day, when Harry opened the journal, he stared in shock at the elegant cursive letters written underneath his entry. "Hello Harry, it's a pleasure to meet you little one. I'm glad to hear you've been looking for me and I can assure you that I've been doing the same. I'm eager to continue our correspondance once you've gotten over the shock that I can speak too. -Tom M.R."

Harry just stared and stared and stared until his smile turned into a grin and he began to write back. He had trouble believing that he would be able to speak with his soulmate, but it really was happening. This was better then the day Siri had taken him to the Quidditch Championship.

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  The next few years passed by in a flash as Harry went to Hogwarts and befriended Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. And as he grew older he discovered more and more, like the fact that Tom was Lord Voldemort. As in The Dark Lord who rules Magical Britain and the strongest wizard since Merlin.

  Harry admits that upon finding that out he had freaked out a little... okay, more like a lot, but who wouldn't? But that was what motivated him to excel in his studies. He wanted to become as strong as Tom and make the man proud that he was his soulmate. Still, he was unsure about telling Marvolo. After all, what could he possibly offer him? Tom often told him that all Marvolo would need is for him to just be there... but Harry couldn't help but have doubts.

  Nevertheless, they were soulmates and soulmates always found a way to one and another. So really, he shouldn't have been so surprised when Headmistress Mcgonagall announced that the Dark Lord would be attending this year's graduation ceremony. Harry wouldn't have been too worried about that -considering he was Hadrian Evans and not Harry Potter- but he just had to loose Tom's journal on the very day Marvolo arrived.