Harry Potter and The Phoenix Rangers

Chapter 1

The loud tapping on the window woke Hermione from her sleep in the morning, getting up and grumbling about not-getting-enough-sleep she went to the window, opened the latch and let the brown owl come in. It stuck its leg out so that the owner of the letter can retrieve it. "Who might have sent a letter so early in the morning? Not even the prophet owl has delivered the newspaper" muttered Hermione to Crookshanks as the cat made its way from the warm comforting bed to its master. Taking the letter from the owl's leg she started reading it:

Miss Granger

Emergency meeting of all high post hit-wizards/witches has been scheduled today at 9.00 am in the Minister Of Magic's Office. Please reach there right at time.

Sorry for the late notice.

Head Of DMLE

Amelia Bones

Hermione sighed. 'An emergency meeting of hit wizards/witches was never a good thing'. It definitely was a national threat otherwise it would have been given to the aurors. Hermione too had been an auror but due to her rigorous work and effort she had been promoted to the special ops team of Hit Wizard. Ron following her shortly after a month as he was always lazy to do things. Chuckling at the thought she wondered how her life was now after 'The Incident' 5 years before. A sad smile made its way to her face as she remembered Him. It had been 5 years since she... Another owl flew in from the window breaking her train of thoughts. 'Ah, here's the newspaper...' she thought. The daily prophet since the removal of Rita Skeeter had been a better newspaper since it delivered only important and true news. Proceeding to the kitchen she started making the coffee when the wards announced her that someone was trying to connect to her floo. Grabbing her wand from under her pillow in the bedroom she quickly went to the floo and saw Ron's face hovering in the flames. "Hey.." said Hermione

"Hey. Good Morning" was the reply she got from Ron.

"What's up? It's not like you to get up so early in the morning.." Chuckles

"Hey! Did you also get the letter?" said Ron ignoring her friendly insult.

"Yeah. What do you suppose it would be about?"

"I have no bloody idea.." sighs.

"Well I guess we will find it later only.."

"Okay. See you at the Ministers office later. Tada"

Hermione closed the floo and proceeded to the bathroom to take a nice warm bath.

Hermione quickly got ready and floo'ed to the ministry. As soon as she entered the atrium the familiar feeling she was used to washed over her. Like as usual people were bustling all around everybody trying to go to their offices on time and hurrying. On her way to minister's office she saw a lot of familiar faces from Hogwarts who waved to her. Waving back and exchanging hello's she found herself standing in the minister's office. The minister of magic Kingsley Shackelbolt was standing sitting at his usual place and an average-sized table was laid in front of his desk with 3 chairs around it and the head of DMLE Amelia Bones was standing near the desk reading some file.

"Ah, Miss Granger please have a seat you are the first one to come, always punctual I see" Hermione smiled at the Minister as he complimented her. She went to the first seat and sat on it. "So, what's this all about?" asked Hermione. Amelia replied," Wait till everyone gets here" Hermione waited for further information but none came she turned her head towards Minister and saw him reading some papers, clearly no-one was going to tell her who was 'everyone' and what's this about. Could it be a new dark lord rising? Or was it a cold war going on between two-ministries of magic of different countries? Just then Draco Malfoy entered the office if the situation would have been 10-15 years ago Hermione would have been on guard around Malfoy but it was not the situation. After Voldemort defeat Draco had changed considerably. People didn't believe in him first because everybody saw him as the new dark lord after all he was raised by Voldemorts special servants. But Draco had changed everybody's view when he joined aurors and caught his Father, Lucius Malfoy who was on the run from ministry. It had been quiet a day to see Draco Malfoy bring Lucius Malfoy by the neck in the ministry to be captured. He had been rewarded with an Order of Merlin 2nd class for catching a high-profiled Death-Eater. Since that day he had worked very hard and changed his way of behaving. The old snotty Malfoy was replaced by a Good natured and kind Draco Malfoy. He took a seat beside Hermione and muttered a good morning to everyone and asked the same question Hermione had asked and got the same reply.

"Who do you think is the third person that's going to join us today?" asked Draco to Hermione "And please for Merlin's Sake don't say its Weasley!" Hermione smirked and replied "Why yes, the third person to join us today is Ron!" Draco groaned and Hermione smacked him on arm and asked "How's Luna?" Strangely enough Draco Malfoy had fallen in love with Luna Lovegood who also had fallen in love with Draco after he had saved her from the Death Eaters one day. They had a very blossoming relationship for one year and then Draco had proposed her which led to a marriage ceremony six months later and now Luna was pregnant with their first child.

"She is okay. Mum's looking after her" replied Draco. Narcissa Malfoy had avoided Azkaban by helping in the defeat of the Dark Lord. After paying a small fine she was living with her son and daughter-in-law in the modified Malfoy Manor. She had not been happy that Draco had married to Luna. She had wanted him to marry the Parkinson's daughter in order to fulfil the marriage contract and to increase the Malfoy wealth with the galleons that were to be received in the form of dowry. So she had not particularly warmed up to Luna but after watching her son and Luna interact she knew that she didn't have any choice. After that she and Luna were like daughter and mother to each other like they never had. Luna wanted a mother and Narcissa wanted a daughter so it was a nice relationship between them. "Good, and how is the baby? Have you checked whether its a boy or girl?" replied Hermione. "The baby's fine just had a checkup day-before-yesterday and we don't want to check the sex of the baby we'll be happy with anything a boy or girl and we want to be surprised with a boy or girl..." He trailed off. Not knowing what to reply she settled for silence. Soon Ron came in rushing, sweat all over his forehead and he was panting. "Again late Mr. Weasley?" asked Amelia in a stern voice. "Sorry Boss" replied Ron wiping the sweat on his forehead and sat on the remaining seat beside Draco. Before he could say anything Amelia started talking, "You all must be wondering why you all are here? So let me tell you. The ICW has requested me to select minimum 3 best aurors/hit-wizards from the Britain ministry to aid them against a threat of a new dark lord, whos name is not known, yet, but the ICW believes that some late activities all-over the world in Magical communities lead to the possibility of a new Dark lord rising" Hermione raised her hand to ask a question. "Yes, Miss Granger?"

"What activities are we talking about?"

"Some random killings of lower tribe of African Magical Community, the break-in of Nurmengard and the stealing of Grindelwand's Wand from the prison and the latest being the Voldemorts Wand being missing from the ICW secret chambers... This all events and many more like this have made the ICW worry about a new Dark Lord. All the countrie's Ministers will be told to select a team of thre-five of the best wizards/witches from their country to aid the ICW, but this will be done after one or two weeks."

"So why have we been informed so early?" asked Draco in a neutral tone because a new Dark Lord meant new threats against the family to join him and he didn't want that after Voldemort had mostly ripped of the Malfoy Family Vault.

"Because before a team of best Wizards and Witches is formed they want to collect enough information about this new Dark Lord and his group. They received an intel about the possible whereabouts of these people. After these attacks they were tracked to the Northern Pole... and the ICW claims that there have been huge magical activities in the North-pole and its not like magical people live there. Not even the muggles are mad to live there. So our country being the largest population of magical community has been chosen to provide help to ICW" replied Amelia sarcastically. Then she continued ain a normal tone, "Do you have any objections?"

Three negatives was the answer she got. Draco, Hermione and Ron were the people who would do anything to protect their family so it was not a surprise that they readily agreed to take the job.

"That's good, now tell me have any of you heard of the group called 'Phoenix Rangers'?" spoke Kingsley for the first time since Hermione had entered the office.

"Yeah, I've heard of them, it is secret organisation that helps both the magical and muggle community against any threat of Dark lords or Terrorist in the muggle world, I know this much only because not much information is know about them, I think its to protect their their families..." Draco trailed off in deep thought.

She also knew about them and Ron also most probably knew, thought Hermione.

"Yes, you will be working with them on this mission.. The ICW has notified us that a group of three best rangers from that association has been paired up with you lot to collect information about this group. Your mission will require quiet a time because you will need to proceed with caution and stealth. Getting caught is not an option here, so pack your necessary belongings and be ready to go. You will be going after a week..." she stopped talking as a paper-plane flew in from the window and went to Kingsley. "That must be the names of the rangers that will be coming here to portkey with you" said Amelia.

"Yes, it is and the list is quiet amusing to me" Said Kingsley.

"So who are they? Anyone known to us?" asked Ron, excited about working with the rangers.

"Yes, well you will be helping Soap Mactavish, Kelly Anderson..." he trailed off.

"And?" asked Hermione in patience-less tone.

Kingsley was quiet for a moment and then he replied,

"Harry Potter..."