'Mission accomplished' the woman mused as she made her way down the worn out stone path, and away from the orphanage. Harry had been so very eager once she had explained magic, and had even admitted to a few 'odd situations' he had found himself in.
Doors opening before he could reach them.
Water changing colors.
His sight improving by itself a few years prior.
All of these were signs of a vast magical potential, and she had been the one to introduce him to their world! Maybe she would end up owing Hagrid after all; and maybe, if she kept in contact with the boy as his first magical 'friend' she could even begin a relationship with him later on in life.
If he was this handsome and at such a young age, he would undoubtedly be immensely so when he became an older student. In her pondering, and secret fantasies, she never noticed the owl had been watching her ever since her departure.
...
Harry hummed happily as he lay sprawled out over his mediocre bed with a few pamphlets given to him by the teacher, "What an interesting woman she was."
An indignant hoot sounded from the window as the owl flew across the room, an instance later and in its place was a beautiful girl, appearing as though in her mid teens, with porcelain skin, snow-white hair, and amber eyes. She was thin, with slender arms and legs, and clad only in a knee length white dress.
"I don't like her."
The boy rolled his eyes in amusement, "You don't like anyone " he corrected easily, as he read through them with a certain lack of interest. It was all basic information. Dress code, class overviews, necessary supplies, how to get to the train station, and other useless bits of information.
"I like you ."
The green-eyed boy looked up from the items into the amber eyes that stared back at him, before the girl looked away with a slight blush.
"I suppose so, what exactly is it that you disliked about my new friend. "
The emphasis wasn't lost, and Hedwig fought back against the anger forming in the pit of her stomach. "The way she was looking at you… like you were a meal to her… It is inappropriate for someone of her… position."
"I don't know, it didn't bother me much."
"You need someone closer to your own age, someone like m…" she snapped her jaw shut before anything else could be said, but it was already too late.
"Correct me if I am wrong, but you were the one who chose not to sleep in the bed anymore."
"I-it isn't appropriate anymore… You are starting to go through that phase ."
"I fail to see what the problem is."
His reply was met with a huff, "Of course you don't, you are a borderline teenage boy ."
"I also recall that you were the one who would snuggle into me at night" he teased.
The girl didn't quite have a comeback for that statement, and let the room fall into silence. "Are you going to attend?"
He quirked his head slightly to the side at her whispered question, "Of course, this is far too convenient not to. Besides think of all the things I will be able to learn."
"You don't need them… you are far greater than anyone at that school as you are now."
"Perhaps, but it would be a bit odd if I suddenly showed up at this 'Ministry' and declared that I was in charge."
Hedwig nodded, she knew this day would come eventually but she had always secretly hoped that he would turn them down. That it would remain 'them against the world' as it had been for the last decade. That he would simply be content with just her . There would be other girls at Hogwarts, girls that would sense his greatness and be drawn to him.
Why wouldn't they?
The bigger question was, would she interfere… or let nature run its course?
"You know that no matter what happens, no one will ever replace you ." Negative thoughts were swept from the pale girl's mind with a single statement, and she smiled warmly back at her boy . Yes, he might take pleasure in other girls, but she would always be his .
"I know."
"You will come with me, yes?"
"Of course, silly boy. You can't get rid of me that easily."
"You will need to stay in your owl form… if the others were to discover what you are…"
"What would you do? If they took me away?" she muttered, tears forming in her eyes at the thought of being separated from him as she had once before. Just as she had been the one constant good thing in his life, he had been the constant in hers.
"I would burn their nation to the ground until I found you."
A glance into his eyes revealed his complete seriousness in the statement, and her heart rate was sent spiraling out of control.