Arthur looked to Bilius for an idea of what to say, Bilius just raised his eyebrows, cocking his head as if asking the same question. Arthur licked his lips and swallowed hard, "Asking for a job" As he said this, he looked to Bilius trying to convey this was not to be shared with their parents.

Arthur heard a click and a rattle, something into the metal chute where returned coins usually appeared. He grabbed the square silver badge; written on it was Arthur Weasley, Interview. After pinning it to the front of his T-shirt the same female voice rang out again. "Visitor to the Ministry, you are required to present your wand for registration at the security desk, which is located at the far end of the Atrium."

The booth was lowering before Arthur realized he had no idea why Bilius was there. When he turned to ask, Bilius was gone.

After about a minute there was a golden light bathing his body. "The Ministry of Magic wishes you a pleasant day," said the woman's voice. The door of the telephone box slid open. Arthur stepped into the Atrium, the first thing he noticed was the long hallway that has walled with highly polished wood. At intervals were fireplaces that Arthur assumed were for Ministry workers to use the floo network to get to work.

There seemed to be owls flying around with letters either tied to their legs, in their beaks, or in their talons. It seemed odd that the wizards were walking with papers over their heads, but within a few minutes Arthur knew why. He had to detour into the mens room to rinse off his robes from an owl flying just over his head.

Once cleaned Arthur headed to the visitor's desk to register his wand, and ask how to get to Mr. Ogden's office. The wizard that sat behind the desk didn't even put his Daily Prophet down, he just simply took Arthur's wand and dropped it onto a strange brass set of scales, but it only had one dish. It began to vibrate. A narrow strip of parchment came speeding out of a slit in the base. The wizard tore this off and read the writing upon it. "Ten and three quarters, beechwood, with a thestral tail hair" The wizard handed the wand over, stuck the paper onto a brass spike and went right back to the Daily Prophet.

Arthur cleared his throat, the wizard looked up, "Did you need something else?" He questioned with mild annoyance.

"I need to find the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, please."

"This is the security desk," the wizard stated, "not information, you want to go around the corner, right there," the man gestured to a corner a little ways to the left, "up on the wall is a listing of all the offices and what levels they are on. The lifts are right there too."

Arthur thanked the man and before he even had time to walk two steps the wizard was once more engrossed in the paper. Just as the man said, there was a large sign with every level, and every office on it. It was extremely overwhelming. Arthur had no clue there were so many departments in the Ministry. He kept looking for Magical Law Enforcement. Right beside him a squeaky voice interrupted his thoughts, "What are you looking for, sweetie?"

Out of habit, Arthur looked up, but found no one… he looked down and saw a very short woman with ruby red robes, long flowing gray hair, and best, a large smile on her face. Arthur told her where he needed to go, she surprised him when she hooked her arm in his, "You are in luck young man, you have just ran into someone going right to that floor. My name is Herga Birrit, and who do I have the pleasure of escorting?"

Arthur was suddenly being led into a lift, not sure of this stranger, but she said she was going to the level he needed. "I'm Arthur Weasley," he said a little unsteady.

Everyone in the lift had papers, folders, briefcases, or any other thing in their hands held over their heads. Arthur looked up and realized that the owls were perched on rods crisscrossing the ceiling of the lift. Herga laughed, "Oh let's live a little, a spot of owl dung never killed anyone." The woman talked non stop until the lift reached level two. Arthur was really liking this woman, she seemed to enjoy every moment of life. As soon as it stopped she guided Arthur out, as soon as the doors slid shut she laughed, "They are getting rid of the owls soon, those cry babies have no sense of humor. We developed a way to send interdepartmental mail without making those poor owls stay inside all the time, much less making them put up with us."

Herga pulled out her wand, pointed it at Arthur and said "Scourgify"

In seconds Arthur was once more put to right, Herga turned the wand on herself and repeated the spell. Smiling at Arthur, she once more hooked his arm and began leading their way. After walking around the first corner they were faced with set of heavy oak doors. Herga turned to Arthur, "Who did you say you are looking for, dear?"

Arthur smiled, "I never did, but I am looking for Bob Ogden. He works in the Department of the Magical Law Enforcement."

Herga laughed, "Oh I know Bob, he doesn't just work for that department, he is the Head," she said as she pulled open the oak door.

They both entered a large area filled with cubicles, Arthur wondered if this was where he needed to be, if Mr. Ogden was in one of these cubes. A voice rang out startling Arthur, "Hey Herga, you're back in the office, you can lose the disguise."

Knowing that voice, Arthur spun around to the sound, there stood Bilius. Stunned into silence, Arthur stood simply staring, with his mouth hanging open.

"Shut up Bilius, I was just helping your brother find his way up here," Herga snapped back with a laugh.

Arthur turned to Herga and before him now stood a woman almost his height, with strawberry blond hair, but still in the ruby red robes. Arthur jumped away from her, "What the…"

Herga started laughing, "Calm down, it's just me."

Arthur looked around as if expecting everyone to morph or just disappear. He stood rooted to his spot. Helga slapped him on the back, "Breathe kid, I'm just a Metamorphmagus, I work in the auror office."

Arthur turned back to Bilius, "What are you doing here?" He then turned to Herga, "What is a metamorphus?"

Bilius waved Arthur over, and had him sit in his tiny cube. "I'm still in training, I've been working with the guys here to get some experience. Don't tell Mom, she will flip her wig."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Arthur couldn't hide the hurt in his voice.

With little more than a shrug Bilius replied, "Same reason you didn't bother to tell me you were coming here. Speaking of, why are you here?"

"Mr. Ogden offered me a part time job, and…" Arthur paused to make sure he wouldn't be overheard, "you know how money is at home, I just want to help."

Before Bilius could say a word, Arthur glanced back to Herga before returning to his brother, "What is she?"

"Oh Herga is seriously cool, she is a metamorphmagus, pretty rare actually."

"So she is a mata-whatever, but what is it?"

Bilius laughed, "It just means she can transform into any human form she wants. Not like using polyjuice, but seriously just change. Like I said, it's pretty cool. It kind of guaranteed her a place with the aurors. But she is pretty skilled too so don't underestimate her."

Bilius kicked his feet onto the desk, "So little brother, you are wanting to work here? What job was Ogden offering you?

Arthur looked around, "Not sure, and now that I know what office it is, I bet I don't get the job." The words from Molly Prewett were running through his head, 'you're too stupid to be an auror', wouldn't stop.

As if hearing Molly's words, Bilius frowned, "Arthur Weasley, I raised you better than to say you can't do anything. I am ashamed of you!" Bilius said reproachful.

Arthur couldn't help but smile, "To be honest, I really don't want to be an auror…" Arthur leaned forward, "I kind of want to work with muggles," Arthur said in a hush.

Before he could stop himself Bilius rolled his eyes, "Mom will love that, she thinks they are fascinating. It is really embarrassing to the Black side of the family." Bilius laughed, "Not like marrying Dad didn't get her disowned anyway."

Arthur glanced to the clock on the wall, wondering if Fabian was waiting for him yet. Bilius followed his eyes, "You late for a date?"

"No, nothing like that, I just asked Fabian to meet me and I don't want to just leave him guessing."

After a nod, Bilius pointed to another set of doors, "Go through those, there is a hallway, go about halfway down and you will see his office door on the right. Just go in and tell the guy in there that you are there to see Ogden. He will see if Ogden has time to see you or not."

Arthur got to his feet and got halfway to the double doors when Bilius called out, "Make sure to say Ogden asked to see you."

That was stretching the truth a little bit, but Mr. Ogden had offered him a position, so Arthur didn't think it was too much of a stretch. He waved to Bilius as he walked through the doors. Once at the solid oak door with a nameplate that read Robert Ogden and under that another one that read Head of Magical Law Enforcement Squad.

Arthur took a deep breath and walked in. The office was small, with a large window that looked out over an ocean. Confused, Arthur stepped back out to make sure he was in the Ministry still. Once he stepped back in a young man looked up from his desk to see Arthur looking out the window. He laughed and pointed to the window, "Mr Ogden loves the ocean and requested that it be enchanted to show the ocean shore. It is pretty obvious when Magical Maintenance Department is upset with our department, we are suddenly looking at icebergs in the Arctic ocean."

The man looked back to Arthur, "What can I help you with?"

Arthur cleared his throat as he turned from the window to the young wizard, "I am here to see Mr Ogden, he asked me to stop by." Arthur didn't want to appear pushy, so he quickly added, "if he has time."

Mr. Ogden stuck his head out of his office, "Wensle, I need…" Ogden saw Arthur, "Arthur! My boy, does you being here mean you are rethinking joining the Ministry?"

Arthur couldn't help the smile that spread across his face, "Hello Mr. Ogden, yes I am hoping for a part time position until school starts next month."

"Come in, come in," Mr. Ogden said as he stepped back to allow Arthur into his office.

Mr. Ogden's office was large but covered floor to ceiling with wanted posters, what looked like metals, some lists of everyday items, and quite a few layouts that looked like schematics. Arthur wanted to go look at them, but headed for the chair opposite the desk. He sat in silence, not sure just what was supposed to happen when asking for a post.

Jumping right to the point, Mr. Ogden smiled, "My boy I don't have a lot of time for idle conversation so let me get right to the point. I have two posts that I think you would do well at. Both will only last three weeks, both are simply data collecting. I do not wish to mislead you in any way. There will be no field work, nor will it promise you a post once you have finished your final year at Hogwarts."

Mr. Ogden leaned forward on his desk, steepling his fingers, "Would you still be interested in working here?"

Arthur sat silent, of course he wanted the job, but he couldn't figure out just how to ask what the pay was. His Dad always said to just say what is going through your mind. "I want to make sure I can do the job first, could I hear what it is?" Arthur swallowed hard and plowed on, "And if there is a pay difference in them."

To Arthur's relief Mr Ogden smiled, "The pay for both is 4 Sickles 12 Knuts an hour. Since we ran into each other in a muggle shopping center in London, I thought this first job is one you will enjoy. It is with the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee, they design and test any excuses should a muggle happen to see magic. We don't like using obliviate if it can be avoided. There you would be helping to file, organize, and as a youth, perhaps give insight to excuses that could be used. Is this something you think you would be interested in?"

"Could I hear about the other post before I decide?" Arthur asked.

"Smart boy, of course… the second is with the Muggle Liaison Office, this is a bit harder to explain, mainly this department has to, at times, speak to the muggles in political offices. The main thing you would do there is file away past interactions. Perhaps organize them to find needed interactions if wanted later."

The second option sounded like it could lead to a career later, but hadn't Mr. Ogden said this wouldn't have any bearing on any future job? "I think the first job sounded more interesting, if that is okay?" Arthur stated.

"That is why I offered it first, I thought that was more your field. Do you have any other questions before we shake hands on this?" Mr. Ogden asked.

Arthur stood up and offered his hand, Mr. Ogden also stood and took it, shaking his hand. Arthur smiled, "I guess I should ask when I start and what hours I will need to be here?"

Mr. Ogden led Arthur to the door, "You start Monday morning, 8A.M. and just come see me, I till take you around to get to know the lay out."

Once at the door Arthur turn, "Umm Mr Ogden,"

Mr. Ogden laughed, "Please call me Bob, we are informal in this department, and since you are now in my employee, I see no reason to continue with Mr. Ogden."

Arthur nodded, "Yes sir, but sir, my parents don't know about me going into the muggle world. Could you please not mention that?"

"My lips are sealed," said Mr. Ogden

The next chapter will be the home life of Molly Prewitt. I will post it as soon as I can. I want to thank everyone for you reviews and favoriting my story. I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of you. Crystal W.