AN: Sorry? I'm trying to update more but it's hard combining writing with working full time, doing two households, sleep and finding time for friends and myself. So updates will be sporadic but I'm not abandoning this story!
A few months had passed and Hermione didn't stay still. She had a plan to overthrow the archaic laws, she finally retook her NEWTS and tried the Potions mastery test for the hell of it. She finally became Misses Shacklebolt-Prewett and she finally felt at home in this time.
Hermione was fiddling with her dress. She felt quite nervous for the first Wizengamot session she was going to attend. She almost ticked off every chore Morgana had given her but she was going to start the most daunting task.
Begin Flashback
"Hermione, I want to talk to you about after you defeat Voldemort and his horcruxes." Morgana said.
"Do you see another Dark Lord rising up when Voldemort dies?" Hermione asked, her hands raking through her hair.
"No, nothing like that. As far as I can see there won't be a dark lord for years to come when Voldemort dies if you succeed in the mission I'm going to explain right now. As you know better than I do, being a woman and a muggleborn in Magical England isn't easy. I want you to start a movement to change this."
"You mean like the suffragettes in the 1900's?" Hermione asked.
Morgana nodded. "Yeah something like that. I think that giving muggleborns a vote will be easier than asking for a better treatment of house-elves or goblins. You will need every supporter you can manage. Especially Black and Potter will be instrumental to this cause. They have a lot of support they can put behind it but I know that when you want that support you will have to go through Lupin and Evans. I mean Black and Potter will be more than happy to help you but Evans and Lupin will speed it up. The Prewett-twins and Shacklebolt will also be a major advantage."
"Wait, the twins and Kingsley? When will I meet them, I mean when will I become someone who they will follow into politics? The Kingsley that I know never wanted anything to do with the Wizengamot, he was just happy to be an auror."
Morgana chuckled softly. "He doesn't care about politics unless it is something that he really thinks is worth his time and effort. You know him good enough to know that he isn't one of those pure blooded wizards that even gives a fuck about blood status. And the Prewett-twins are so much like their sister. As long as you are a decent person they will like you no matter what, so they will be ready to support it. Trying to get more rights for Muggleborns will be one of the more daunting tasks. I mean granting half-bloods the right to become the Head of an ancient House, even if they weren't blasted of the family tree, is almost impossible so I wish you good luck."
Hermione chuckled. "You really weren't kidding that it would be a mission that never ends. Don't get me wrong I'm excited to be the front runner granting my children and people like me more rights in a world where I never felt like I belonged, but I don't really know where to start. I mean I know I want to make it easier for them to be able to inherit from purebloods, the welcome of new muggleborns in the magical world, a new lesson like Muggle studies. Is there something that I missed?"
Morgana smiled. "That will be a starting point. If you feel like you are able to push these changes through you can always think about the fair treatment of creatures but I think that if you focus on the fair treatment of muggleborns first, you'll be on the right track."
"So any advice?" Hermione asked, writing all her thoughts and goals down.
"I think you need to take a que from Black and Potter. They will know how to navigate the political landscape and they will know who will be open to follow you in this. I mean the light families will be open for the change but it will be the grey families that you need to feel out for where they stand. I don't recommend to research the laws until you are ready to change them. There will be laws in place to hold back women from achieving their full potential but they will be easily overthrown."
End flashback
Hermione couldn't stop thinking about that conversation with Morgana. She couldn't help thinking that women didn't have a lot more rights than muggleborns. Sure they could vote and they could work but they couldn't really head an ancient house. Augusta Longbottom came to mind but she never was the head of house even when Alice and Frank were incapacitated in her time, she was just the regent of the house. She was managing the house until a male was ready to pick up the lordship again. That was one of the things Hermione thought was so stupid and made it easier for a house to die out. The laws about inheriting isn't that great and the thoughts/ unwritten laws about how women are only allowed an allowance is so stupid.
Hermione was sure that the younger pureblooded wizards didn't mind their wives inheriting the title of lady without another lord in the wings waiting to take over. But it was the minds of the older pureblooded men that she wanted to change.
She was sure that Kingsley, Fabian and Gideon would love that she became their lady and would love any children they got even if there wasn't a mini lord in that no doubt big bunch of children. She just didn't know what to expect from that bunch of pureblooded old farts but she knew that Lily and Alice would help her make more plans on how to deal with them.
James and Sirius could maybe even give a little material to persuade members to vote positive on the law changes. She didn't really want to bribe or blackmail someone but she wouldn't be above using it.
