Per aspera ad astra
through the hardships to the stars
a/n soulmate!au, sentences in red are james, blue are reader
{ Being with your soulmate was an experience like no other. In the wizarding world everyone aspires to find their soulmate and live out their lives, but no one ever considers what it’s like to lose one. }
In the wizarding world, the most important form of magic was widely argued to be that of soulmate magic. Right from birth your soulmate was set in stone, not to be changed by any factor of the universe no matter what. It was a scary thought, that you only got one perfect person for you and that was it, but thankfully the world wasn’t that cruel; it gave you some help at least.
You had two links to your soulmate that began as soon as you were both born. A telepathic connection where the two of you could talk, but until you actually knew one another in person, couldn’t reveal any large details about yourself. And a sort of never-fading engraving on some space of your body that represented the constellations from the day your soulmate was born. Of course everyone was different, different constellations, different areas of the body, no two were alike.
For you, your mark was something you looked at everyday, sitting comfortably right behind your ear. You had to move your hair out of the way to see it, but you thought it made it all the more personal to you. You weren’t very good at astrology, so to you all it looked like was hundreds of little lines of stars that meant so much, belonging to your soulmate. The only real clue you could work with due to your lack of knowledge on the starry subject, was the little date etched underneath the mark, telling you your love was born on the 27th March, 1960.