Disclaimer: All characters belongs to the brilliant J.K. Rowling. I'm just borrowing her characters.
Important before you start reading the story:
Voldemort is dead, most of his Death Eaters have been killed or captured and put in Azkaban. Story starts two years after Voldemort's death and trio's seventh year, well two years after the seventh book.
Enough said, I hope you will enjoy this story. And please review, tell me your opinion on this story, but remember that this is my first story, so don't be too harsh. Also, English is not my first language, so if there are any mistakes (I think there are), please tell me and I will try to correct them, I apologize for mistakes in advance.
It was an ordinary day for young Hermione Granger. She was sitting in her office doing the same job she has been doing for the last two years, she was reading reviews from last raids. While reading those reviews she always got feeling that people working with her either weren't qualified for their work or didn't care or know how to write a proper sentence in their reviews. She was bored. It's not that she disliked her work at the ministry, she liked it in the beginning and it was a very well paid job, but the same things day after day started to bore her. Sure she thought that every law-breaking should be punished, but if she compared all these crimes to the crimes that were committed in second wizarding war, those couldn't even be considered real crimes. It's not that she wasn't interested in justice, it's just that those reviews were all the same, day after day. Sometimes she almost felt like she was reading Rita Skeeter's writings over and over again.
There was a small knock on the door. Hermione lifted her head and before her stood Ron. She quickly ran to him, hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. This made Ron become all red. Hermione smiled at this, Ron still didn't get used of them being engaged and not just friends or classmates. He lifted up around twenty envelopes that were lying before Hermione's door and handed them to her. He quickly told her that his parents invited them on a dinner next Saturday and left because he had much work to do in his department.
Hermione went back to her desk and looked at the envelopes. She already knew what was written in them by just looking at them. They all started with telling her how good her work was and ended with suggestions that she and her aurors should check again Malfoy Manor. She got those same messages nearly every day and they were really frustrating her, even more than those stupid reviews. "Bullshit, there's no way Malfoy would be hiding dark objects in his manor." Hermione knew that Malfoy Manor was full of dark objects before the war ended, hell, Voldemort himself lived there for some time, but she also knew that Draco was way too smart to keep lying around some dangerous dark stuff that would put him in Azkaban.
Hermione Granger was furious. She screamed at the auror in training that asked her how to calm down Cornwall pixies. She was really mad.
In the morning the minister of magic, Percy Weasley, lectured her about being irresponsible, because she didn't check Malfoy manor one more time since citizens of wizarding world wrote her a million letters about this already and she ignored them. Percy also told her that some people said that they saw Malfoy junior using some dark objects and that they could sense the dark magic while passing one of the biggest manors in Britain. But the thing that shocked her the most was the thing that Percy said to her: "Hermione, you are one of best and most hard-working people I know and that ever worked in the ministry, but you know that wizarding world is still very panicked and they want to put in prison all people that were somehow connected with you know..amm, well The Dark Lord. Malfoy family was publicly linked with him and with Narcissa and Lucius both dying in the last battle, no Malfoy paid for the crimes yet. People want to see Draco in prison because he is the last and only Malfoy still alive and in their opinion he should pay for everything his ancestors and him did while you know who was ruling our world. I also know that my position as a minister is on shaking grounds and I may lose it if I don't respect people's wishes and I don't want that happening. This is why I'm giving you this ultimatum now, you either go to Malfoy manor and check for any possible things that are connected to Voldemort or you will be sacked. I'm sorry to say this because you are my brother's girlfriend and will be part of our family soon, but this is purely business. And let me assure you that if you don't go to that damn manor, I will send some other aurors there and I will put that little Malfoy rat in the prison for the rest of his life."
When she got back in her office she loudly closed her door and went to her desk. She kicked trash bin and threw a vase in the door, so it broke into pieces that went flying all around the room. After some moments of just sitting in her office she took a deep breath, took the paper on which was written permission to check out the mighty Malfoy manor and went to her secretary.
When Hermione got into the small office of her secretary that was located just in front of her own she looked around a bit and spotted her secretary flirting with one of the aurors. This wasn't the first time Hermione spotted her flirting with one of the office aurors, trying to get the to invite her out. Amelia, her secretary, was a nice young woman, but Hermione knew that she was also calculative and egoistic. Amelia always turned with wind, she always did what would bring her more profit and didn't know loyalty, that's why Hermione disliked her very much. "Amelia! Call Dean, Tracy, Cho and Terry. We are going to Malfoy manor. Tell them not to tell this to anyone and you also try not to mention this to anyone except the four of them and the minister, is this clear?" Without waiting for any response from Amelia, Hermione turned on her heels and went back to her office.