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Harry got home to find Hermione asleep on the sofa. He didn't want to disturb her, so he got her a blanket, covered her with it, and made his own way to bed.

When morning came, Harry found Hermione in the kitchen cooking. She looked very cheerful, considering the events from last night.

"Hermione, what are you cooking?"

"Breakfast, Harry. Most important meal of the day." As Harry slumped into a chair at the table, she bounced over with a plate of food, and placed it in front of him.

"Yeah, especially when you're going to talk to your soul mate for the first time since you figured it out." Harry retorted.

Hermione shook her head. "How are you and Draco? In all this mess I forgot to ask."

"Oh, we had fun the other night."

"Still just friends with your soul mate?" Hermione sat down with her food.

"Of course, we were enemies. Remember?" Hermione nodded. Harry was stuffing his face full of food. He'd forgotten that Hermione was such a good cook. "How are you going to tell Luna?"

"That's something I don't know." Her excitement failed.

"Maybe you should just start with telling her the myth. Then you can explain." Harry hadn't realised he'd become so wise.

"Why didn't I think of that?"

"It's harder to come up with a solution when you're the one stuck in the difficult situation." They both finished their breakfast.

"Lets go then." Hermione jumped up.

"What? This early? I only just woke up." Hermione was definitely more of a morning person than he was.

"Yes, then you can invite Draco over, and the four of us can have dinner together."

Harry didn't know what to say. "Felling optimistic are we?"

"I'm always optimistic when possible. Lets go!" She grabbed his arm and they disapparated to the front door of Luna's house. "Here goes." Knock. Knock. Knock.

The door swung open. Luna had opened it. Hermione just stood there, speechless, so Harry spoke. "Hello, Luna."

"Harry, nice to see you again." She looked to Hermione. She paused. "Hermione." It sounded like she didn't know what to say either.

"May we come in, Luna? There's something we'd like to talk to you about."

"Certainly." Luna let them enter. She led them to the kitchen table and they sat down. "This sounds urgent."

Hermione was still silent.

"It is a bit." Harry shook his head at Hermione's mood change. She's been so excited before they'd left. "Hermione, do you want to explain?" Luna had to find out from Hermione, he couldn't tell her.

"Okay. Luna, do you know the myth about soul mates?"

"Of course." Luna looked at Harry.

"Yes, okay, I know everyone knows that my soul mate is Draco. There's no need to hide it anymore."

"Finally, it took you long enough." She replied. "You were saying, Hermione?"

"Well, the myth isn't entirely true." Hermione was dodging the truth.

"What do you mean?" Luna asked.

"The part where is says that someone finding their soul mate only happens once in a thousand years." She sighed, looked at Harry and then looked deep into Luna's eyes. "Luna, you are my soul mate."

"Oh." She didn't know what to say. She knew there had been a reason she'd never been in a proper relationship with anyone, but now she knew that this was it. This was the reason. Hermione was the reason. "So that's what the nargles were trying to tell me."

And, for the first time, Hermione believed her. She believed in nargles and what they were trying to tell her soul mate. "Definitely."

"So what does being soul mates really mean?" Luna asked.

"We're not really sure, Luna." Harry replied. "McGonagall knows some stuff about it, so we are going to see her tomorrow."

"Do you want to join us?" Hermione asked.

"Why wouldn't I?" Luna replied.

Harry asked the question Hermione would forget to ask. "Do you want to come over for dinner tonight, at 7? Hermione wants you to come. And Draco will be there too."

"I'll be there." She reached over and squeezed Hermione's hand, but quickly let go. She turned to Harry. "How have you and Draco approached being soul mates?"

"We are starting with being friends, since we were enemies for so long." He replied.

"Must be hard going from enemies to soul mates that quickly." Luna was quickly accepting that her soul mate was Hermione.

"Luckily, we were always friends." Hermione finally said.

Harry and Hermione didn't stay too long after this.