Disclaimer: Nothing you recognize is mine! I just like to play with JKR's amazing characters!
Author's Note: This is my first story! I'm sorry this first chapter has turned out so short but I promise I'll try to do better!!!! Stay with me if you've started reading! Please? With lots of Snape on top?!
Author's Note 2: Also looking for a Beta!
It had been three years seven months and twenty two days since the Hogwarts graduation ceremony. Voldemort was defeated the winter of seventh year. One Hermione Granger sat at her desk in the Ministry of Magic Dept. Of Magical Law Enforcment. To any coworkers simply walking by, Hermione looked deep in concentration, with a quill posed over a half filled parchment. A closer look would reveal that a letter being held in her other hand, inviting her to the annual Victory Ball at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Fuck. Do I really have to do this again so soon? He will be there of course, how could he not. Hermione thought with a sigh.
A couple sighs later Hermione decided that work could wait another day while she travelled to Hogwarts for a meeting with Headmaster Dumbledore, as with her invitation Hermione also received a note from the Headmaster asking her for a meeting. She wondered what he could possibly have to speak with her about that couldn't simply be put in a note.
After graduation, Hermione wasn't sure what she wanted to pursue. Harry and Ron had automatically gone into Auror training; and after year of dabbling in a bit of everything, Hermione joined them. Now a fully trained Auror, Hermione still did nothing but sit behind a desk and fill out pile after pile of paperwork.
Needless to say she was a little perturbed. Though the job gave her little satisfaction, it kept her busy and her thoughts off her dwindling social life. Besides a weekly drink with Ginny at the Leaky Cauldron, the only social interaction she had was the annual Victory Ball.
Walking out the doors of the Ministry, Hermione reflected more on the loss of her social life. Not only did she not have many friends (or many opportunities to meet new ones) she didn't have much of a love life either. After dating Ron for almost three years, she came home to their apartment to find him shagging another witch (in their bed for Merlin's sake!). Though it hurt, she got over it but her and Ron never were the same with each other.
Oh, you could say they were acquaintances at best, but nothing more. Realizing she had apparated to the front gates and not even realized it, Hermione shook her head as if it to clear her thoughts, pushed open the gates, and began the long trek up to the front doors of Hogwarts.
