"Actually, it was Luna... using that natural mage sight gift she has... who made us aware of it. It was then confirmed by the school medi-witch, Madam Pomfrey.
"Luna saw that there wasn't just a soul bond between me and Daphne, and me and Hermione. She also saw that there was a latent soul bond between Hermione and Daphne that needed to be established. She let us know that the three-way soul bond was a true three-way soul bond. Using her gift she explained that the bonds between me and these two lovely ladies would not reach full potential without the simultaneous bonding between them."
"Wait," said Sirius. Indicating Hermione and Daphne he asked, "There's a soul bond between Hermione and Daphne, too?"
"Yes and no," corrected Harry. "It would be better to say there is a soul bond between Hermione, Daphne and I. It's one bond with the three of us. We had only been working on two-thirds of the bond and didn't know about the final third. That final third is the part between Hermione and Daphne."
Clearly confused, Matthias asked, "But, how can you possibly finalise such a bond?"
Hermione replied, "With Luna's and Madam Pomfrey's help, we have... discovered... that it is not the physical act of love that will strengthen or finalise a bond. It's all based on emotion.
"What we have discovered or otherwise determined is that the bond strengthens when our feelings of commitment and intimacy with one another is strengthened. If you think about it, sexual intercourse... coitus... besides being a physical act of love, is a representation of the ultimate in intimacy between two people. "Harry logically argued that a soul bond couldn't form between two people when the act of sexual intercourse did not also contain emotional intimacy, such as what occurs in an act of prostitution... or rape."
"That's... quite profound," said Deece, sitting back and thinking to herself. "It would mean that what we have come to believe about the creation, development and sealing of bonds is wrong."
"Well, the creation of them is right," corrected Harry. "Just, not why it's right. John clarified it for me."
"And why is it a kiss that establishes the bond?" asked Matthias.
"For exactly the same reason a dementor sucks out your soul through the mouth with the Dementor's Kiss," replied Harry. "As odd as it sounds, the mouth is the most direct route from outside the body to the soul. Plus, connecting mouth-to-mouth is quite an intimate act. That is the time when two souls come their closest to one another in a moment intimate for both involved. Hence the term, 'Love's First Kiss'."
"Have you established the part of the bond between Hermione and Daphne?" asked Deece.
Both girls blushed while Harry calmly replied, "Yes. It occurred a few days after we found out about it, in the presence of both Luna and Madam Pomfrey, in the infirmary at Hogwarts. And, yes, there was also the bright flaring of silvery aura between them. Only this time, it also covered me.
"Immediately after the aura glow faded, Madam Pomfrey confirmed the establishment of the part of the bond between them."
"And why have you decided to tell us about this, now," asked a visibly but quietly perturbed Ant.
"Because, when we marry in August, I think it's a good idea for the wedding... not to be just me marrying Hermione and Daphne, and each marrying me... but, me marrying Hermione and Daphne, Hermione marrying me and Daphne, and Daphne marrying me and Hermione; a true three-way marriage. And Deece and Cele needed to know this for their plans for the wedding."
"You're alright with Hermione, directly.
this?"
Ant
asked
"Yes, Daddy," Hermione quietly, but firmly, replied. "Remember who set this up." With a visible sag of surrender, he said, "I don't know how those three... angels... are going to work this so our family and friends don't see anything wrong..."
"There is nothing wrong to see, anyway, Sir," Harry firmly interrupted. "I know the mores of Christianity erroneously view a marriage must only be between a man and a woman, but you know now that is incorrect. You know it."
With a gesture of his hands in quick surrender, Ant quickly said, "Forgive me, please. It... was a poor choice of words." With a sigh, he continued, "I meant... how the angels would stop our family and friends seeing that which would completely shake their personal worldviews."
"I don't think that's what's going to happen, Ant," said Matthias. "From what I figure, your family and friends will still see everything; it just won't appear to be anything... out of the ordinary... for them. I daresay they'll be magically compelled not to talk about it later."
"That was my impression, as well," added Deece. "If it doesn't happen, their memories of the event will have to be removed from them."
"What? Why?" asked Cele.
"The International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy for our world was established in 1692 to hide us away from the muggle world," explained Matthias. "However, that was well before the creation of spells and potions that could remove the memory of the magical world from the minds of muggles. It was also too much, too late. "By 1692 the witch hunts, in England, were at an end. The last known witch to be executed was a muggleborn witch by the name of Temperance Lloyd, a decade earlier. And, very quickly after that, witch hunting became a crime punishable by death in the muggle English courts. No such witch hunting that has lead to the death of another has occurred since.
"No, the Statute was only passed by the newly formed ICW, the International Confederation of Wizards, because of the rise of such witch hunts in other parts of the world. It was no longer a problem, here. Though, to be fair, we didn't know that until about a century later."
"And, though Magical Britain doesn't know it, or won't accept the truth of it, those in senior enough positions of authority within the United Kingdom... muggle Britain... government are well aware of the existence of magical Britain and the rest of the wizarding world," added Harry.
"Pardon?" asked a clearly shocked Matthias while Deece looked back in fear.
"Look. The Wizengamot derives its name from the Witenagemot; which is an Old English word meaning 'Meeting of Wise Men'. They, because there was more than one and up to about a dozen, were councils of the ennobled and important ecclesiastical members of society formed to advise the current kings. They're known to have existed from sometime in the seventh century to the eleventh century.
"In the eleventh century it was replaced by the conquering Norman King, William the First, by the single Curia Regis... King's Council... which then remained until the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. The Curia Regis then quickly morphed into what became the founding of modern Parliament with its various ministries.
"Now, if there's one thing any organised body that is successful generates a lot of, its paperwork... parchmentwork. You have records of meetings, legislation, notes, minutes, reports, all sorts of things like that. And, as is their wont, such paperwork is rarely destroyed. Such documents form the basis of records in large libraries. Even the Wizengamot and the Ministry of Magic know this and work that way.
"So, even though the Statute made it international law to keep the wizarding world a secret since 1695, there have existed records of the wizarding world, in the muggle world, since as far back as the seventh century. That's over a thousand years of bureaucracy documenting everything. Yes, a great much of that has since been destroyed; but, not the very important stuff. Historians and record keepers of their day would not have stood for it.
"Also, spells and potions, including the Obliviation curse, do not destroy those documents. A great many of them still exist through to today. So, it is not a stretch of the imagination to come to the conclusion that the wizarding world is well known by the muggle world in positions of great authority in muggle government. The chance it is not is so slim as to be considered nigh impossible.
"What the Statute of Secrecy actually manages to accomplish is to keep the average muggle citizen unaware of the wizarding world; not the muggle world as a whole. It would not surprise me, in the slightest, that the United Kingdom has departments within their multitude of bureaucracies that are tasked with monitoring wizarding Britain; nor, that the same could be said for other governments around the world."
"Sweet Merlin!" breathed Matthias, utterly shocked with the truth of Harry's 'lesson' in English government history. "Why did none of us think of that?"
"One of the main differences between the muggle world and the wizarding world is that those raised in the muggle world have grown up knowing to question practically everything. Muggles are far more inquisitive than magicals. There are a great many muggles whose job in life is to discover knowledge. Some do it as historians, some do it by observing and experimenting with the modern world in its various facets, and some look to what knowledge does not exist now and try to figure out when the answers will be able to be discovered.
"Those raised in the wizarding world, however, often come to the conclusion that something is so because of magic, and don't look any further. They don't understand the tenets of what's known as 'critical thinking'... Never assume, never accept; always question. The most powerful word in the lexicon arsenal of a muggle is: 'Why', closely followed by 'What', 'When' and similar. And they will not accept the answer, 'Because it is'. And Cele demonstrated that when she immediately asked 'why?' when you said the Obliviators would need to be called in if the angels didn't do their thing to the muggle guests at the wedding. For her, it was nearly an instinctive reaction to ask."
"Annnnd... that's just brought us back to the original question," said Deece. "I suggest we leave things there so we can go and enjoy the evening meal the elves have made for us. I don't know about the muggles having their worldviews upset; but, that knowledge has just upset ours."
The eight then headed into the informal dining room for a wonderful dinner. By unspoken agreement, the subject of wizarding secrecy law was not discussed again.
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