Employing old friends
Hermione Granger glanced at the next name on the list to interview. The last 6 she had interviewed were utterly hopeless. Nurses my arse, she thought bitterly. The name was one Ginerva Weasley. Shit! She hadn't herd that name in 12 years and she had drifted apart from her brother, Ron. She dragged out the old memory, which had been safely locked away in a draw at the back of her mind. A few weeks after she had found Ginny crying on the sofa, Ginny had been sent home on mysterious circumstances, but Ron had told her and Harry that she had slit her wrists, apparently the bullying had got worse than ever and she had told no one. Ginny had led Hermione to believe that it had since terminated. They had never seen each other in.
"Ginny" Hermione said as Ginerva walked through the door of Hermione's office at St. Mungo's hospital for magical maladies. "Long time no see. How have you been?"
"'Mione!" Ginny exclaimed. "I'm shocked to see you. Your the head of nursing! Wow! Ermm... I've been fine. I was here a couple of months after the incident, seeing a physcologist but I'm great now. Living in a flat on Carrie drive. What about you? How have you been? Are you with anyone? Doing anything?" Ginny seemed so buzzed about seeing her old friend.
"yes, I'm great, living on my own not far from here actually." Hermione said coolly. "Do you fancy going out for a coffee sometime? I'd love to catch up!" She asked.
"Yes, of course! Are you doing anything tomorrow at...ermm... one o'clock?"
"Brilliant. I will just be coming off my shift." Hermione enthused. "Right we better get on with the interview."
For the next hour Hermione asked questions about Ginny's experience in the nursing field, discovering that she had, in fact, been the nurse at Durmstang school of wizardry for 4 years, as soon as she had left her mothers home-schooling at the age of 15 before leaving after the change of the headmaster.
"Okay then, I should be able to tell you by tomorrow when I see you if you have the job or not." Hermione said as she showed Ginny out "Give my love to Ron if you speak to him."
Hermione simply couldn't wait until the end of her shift tomorrow.