El Tango De Riddle
Chapter 1
'Harry heard the high voice shriek as he ,too, yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco's wand:
"Advada Kedavra!"
"Expelliarmus!"
The bang was like a cannon blast and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead centre of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry saw Voldemort's green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high, dark against the sunrise, spinning across the enchanted ceiling like the head of Nagini, spinning through the air towards the master it would not kill, who had come to take full possession of it at last. And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backwards, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upwards. Tom Riddle hid the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snake-like face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead' ~ from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pg 595- 596 chapter 36.
"Hermione you are a saint, you really are!"
"Shut up Ronald Weasley, I just did everything I could do to save you marriage. Just don't tell Lavender"
"You have my word Hermione thanks again"
Hermione hung up the phone and glanced around her, spotless, one bedroom flat. It seemed to her that, even though Voldemort was dead and deeply buried in the Hogwarts grounds, as far away from Dumbledore and the other dead as you could get, she was still helping her friends out of trouble, all be it not very life threatening.
After helping Harry defeat Voldemort the three had stayed on at Hogwarts an extra year to complete their NEWTS. Harry had then gone on to become one of the Wizarding world's best Aurors. Ron had joined him but was not quite as successful and left the profession to run Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes with George.
Ginny was currently playing for the Holyhead Harpies and Hermione went back to Hogwarts to become the new DADA teacher. She had done all her marking that she had to do before she went back to Hogwarts. Much more than her fellow herbology professor Neville Longbottom had. Something's never change.
Her stomach started growling with hunger pain. She spun round from the counter she was leaning on and pressed the button of the microwave. A smile had come over her face at the thought of when she had invited Ron and Lavender over when she had first moved in. (Harry and Ginny were on their Honeymoon at the time)
"What's this Hermione?" Ron had asked.
"That, Ron is called a microwave"
"What does it do?" Lavender had asked
"You cook food inside it"
"Really!" they had chorused together.
The button pinged bringing her out of her daydream. She stretched to get the bowl out when suddenly the whole world started shaking and rumbling. Hermione realized that she was in the middle of an earthquake so she ran towards the doorway and held on tightly. She watched her belonging's get thrown everywhere but as quickly as it had started the shaking subsided. Hermione stayed still for a time, checking that there wasn't going to be an aftershock and then began to tidy her flat with her wand. She heard her phone ringing and picked up her phone.
"Hello?" she said, her voice still a little bit shaky,
"Hermione, are you ok?" came Harry's worried voice,
"I'm fine Harry, is Ginny ok? What do you think it was?"
Hermione was right to be worried about Ginny as she was four months pregnant with her first child.
"I'm not sure Hermione, but it seems to of only affected the Wizarding world, I just went round to check the neighbours and they didn't have a hair out of place!"
"Have you phoned Ron?"
"Ron phoned me, he's fine"
"Ok thanks for checking up on me Harry but I'm…." she stopped suddenly as her fireplace suddenly burst into life and Hogwart's new headmistress Minerva McGonagall's head appeared in the flames. "Harry, I've got to go"
"Hermione wait…." But Harry was cut off as Hermione knelt down to her employer's image in the flames.
"Can I help you Minerva?"
"Yes Hermione we need you to come to Hogwarts straight away"
"But the term doesn't start until a couple of days"
"You won't be working at Hogwarts this year Hermione; we have a special task for you, don't worry we'll have someone to cover you lessons"
"Has this got anything to do with the earthquake that just happened Minerva?"
"Just wait till you get here Hermione, see you soon" and with that McGonagall vanished. Hermione stood up and apparated out of her once again tidy flat.