Ministry of Magic Forensics Lab
Hermione showed up in her department earlier than usual, and was surprised to see the fact that the door to the lab was opened. By the looks of it, it was opened by force because it was bowed and hanging on the hinges at an unusual angle. She reached for her wand and quickly sent her patronus off to the Aurors offices in hopes someone would be able to make it down here to help. She carefully walked into the lab with her wand drawn and at the ready in case the intruder was still there. She partially hoped they would be and that it would be the vampire that had been attacking people so she could catch him.
There were claw marks on many pieces of the equipment and some of the result print outs that finished overnight were thrown and shredded all over the lab. Hermione knew that most likely whatever had busted into the lab was not a vampire and was more likely of the werewolf variety looking for something. Though the fact last night was not a full moon made it more clear that it was a high pack ranking werewolf if they were able to change at whim. She headed to her office door and saw the door smashed in and things thrown all over her office. Her desk had been overturned and drawers ripped out of the desk and thrown into the walls around the room. She had walked to the far side of the office where a picture of her and Draco had landed and the frame was smashed. Just as she bent down to pick it up she heard her name called from the lab entrance. "Hermione…. Hermione where are you?" Ron yelled.
"In here Ron." She picked up the picture and held it to her chest. Ron came up behind her and pulled her into a hug. " Mione I am sorry about Draco. You don't deserve any of this. We were supposed to get our lives back after the war. Now it seems like we aren't able to. Did the person that broke in take anything?" Hermione rested her head on her friend's chest as she thought about what he was saying. He was right they were supposed to get their lives back after the war, but it wasn't a target of her; it was a target of Draco so maybe it was more than just some vengeful remains of the war.
Hermione shook her head to wake herself from her thoughts as Ron asked if anything had been taken. She walked over to a drawer that smashed one of her now barren bookshelves in her office and whispered "revilio folios granger malfoy" and the fake bottom of the drawer revealed away showing all her files were still in the drawer, but hidden from everyone else. "Blimey, Hermione why was it so easy to get to them, but they didn't take them?" Ron started scratching his head.
"It was more than simply revilio Ron it also had an emotion lock that had to be head by the caster. No one but me could get to the files so they of course couldn't get the files." Hermione turned to Ron and simply looked at him. After a minute Ron got the clue. "Oh right, I need to go figure out if this person is still in the ministry or better yet how they got in unnoticed." He scurried off to go give the other Aurors that come with him orders to look around either the lab, the floo records, and the entrance records. Since the war priority was given in to securing the ministry. No one wanted to think about the Ministry falling again, that would mark extremely dark times and the European wizarding community didn't want to see that ever happen. There were far more procedures in place in case something like that ever occurred again.
As Hermione picked up the remnants of her office, she started noticing a trend in the destruction. Unless it was necessary to break to look for something nothing else was destroyed except pictures of Draco. She took the photos of the seen and uploaded them into her laptop and started trying to piece the information together.
*Ding Ding Ding Ding*
She looked at her owl mail and saw one from Harry.
Hermione-
They simply flooed into the Ministry and headed straight to your office. We can track them on the Security cameras. In fact it doesn't even look like they were trying to hide the fact of who they are or that they are in the ministry after hours. Do you need any help cleaning up your office?
Harry
Hermione looked around her office and with a swish of her wand things were going back to their proper places.
Harry-
I believe Draco is the intentional victim in this all. The werewolves were after all and any information I had on Draco's office is back to what it was two years ago, but that's ok.
Hermione
She knew Harry would understand that the state of her office was tidy and there were no personal pictures. Over the past two years her office had become a shrine to her and Draco not to mention friends and family.
She stared at her computer screen hoping that some answer would appear while analyzing the faces of the werewolves that came into the ministry. It was lucky that whomever held their leashes didn't want anyone else to get hurt as of right now. She thought to herself as the smell of a ham sandwich and a chocolate shake filled her nose that she didn't want Harry to be fussing over her. She looked up as the food hit her senses again to see none other than Harry James Potter standing there with some lunch in his hands for her. "I didn't know what to get so I got your food, when you are in work you need to eat something." Harry offered her food.
"Harry James Potter, don't you start thinking I can't take care of myself or was this your wife's doing?" Hermione reached for the food taking the chocolate shake that had a cooling charm placed on it so it wouldn't melt. "We both care and know you are barely holding on as it is. How is Draco doing anyway?"
"He is doing about the same. I'm on my way there tonight. He has bouts of consciousness and then there are days he doesn't wake up at all. Doctor's say that most likely this week will be it." Hermione went about talking with Harry and eating the food he brought her till he heard her computer chime at her.
"I probably should get back to my office anyway." Harry got up and started to walk away when he heard a gasp from Hermione. Quickly turning around "Is there something wrong? What is it?"
"I've been in contact with MACUSA's MIB because I found a story written about a witch who beat vampirism. While I got a letter back from the head of their lab stating the witch in question is coming back from the field and will be able to answer some of my questions after she gets back today. That means there is hopefully something we can still do for Draco." Hermione jumped up and hugged Harry in her excitement.
"Does the minister know that you have been in contact about this case you shouldn't be working with a foreign agency? You know protocol, Hermione." Harry saw the look on her face. It was the same one she had many times throughout their years at Hogwarts when she knew she knew the answer and felt embarrassed about trying to recall it." Talk to Shacklebolt and get his approval before you continue the communication. He probably will be fine with it, but still." Harry left Hermione now wondering what she was going to do if the Minister told her she was not allowed to talk about the case internationally. There had to be a trail of cases similar to theirs. It's too odd for a rogue vampire to attack so many people.
