These coming chapters are mine minus of course the characters and the world of HP. I do not own nor make any money off of these offshoots from JK Rowling's works.

WARNING: Child Abuse Mentioned in the next couple of chapters.

Chapter 4

Looking around the room, Kel was trying to restrain himself. As he continued to look around the room of the oblivious girl, invisible to the naked eye, he was able to see from across the room the scars on her bare skin. Even the goblins (no matter what the wizards thought of them) would never subject any child to this amount of torture that was written on her skin. Pulling on his magic, he could see how every single one had been inflicted. He could also see the ones who made them. A wicked grin set on his face, he now knew their faces and names. He could and would (with the Goblin Nation's assistance) ruin them: financially and polite society. They would be made helpless and worthless. After that if the little one didn't want their lives, then they would see how the torturers liked the opposite side of the rod.

As Kel was lost in his thoughts and magic, he did not see Hermione stiffen up and slowly turned her head looking one way and another. When he did finally notice, he was startled as she got up and started walking over to him. In shock, he lost control of his magic causing it to sputter out and stop. Shaking her head, he watched her go back to her books. Almost like a bloodhound she was. With this thought in mind, he let a trickle of his magic go. Almost immediately, she stiffened up and began to look around. He suddenly realized what she was. A essentially magic detector. If properly trained, she would be able to do more than sense magic. Potentially she could be able to see the magic, know what it was and stop the magic by "unraveling it".

Suddenly, the door was ripped open and a man walked in. He was wearing a full button closed robe. Kel had a bad feeling about this but did not move.

"What do you think you are doing?" the man growled at her. Hermione flinched.

"Nothing but the essays assigned to me, priest." She replied, eyes downcast.

"What was your behavior earlier for? You were searching for something. Then the cameras went out." he looked suspiciously around the room.

"I.. I... I thought I had smelt something so i was just trying to see if I could pinpoint it." She looked up into the priest's eyes.

"Eyes to the ground, demon! You are not worthy to look at one of God's Holy warriors." He reached over and smacked her hard against the face. "Do not do anything else or your next session will be even worse than planned." He smirked and left the room.

Hermione put her fist in her mouth and began to tear up, face already swelling from the hit. She turned back to her desk and continued writing as the tears began to stream down her face.

Having seen all of this, Kel left the room and went back outside, waiting for the Granger's to return from work. As he did, he mentally went back and scrapped most of the plan for Hermione's release. As he began to think about what he had learned between Hermione's scars, the man that walked in and scared Hermione by hitting her, and his own reading of the man's mind to see all that he had been told and had inflected on the girl, he slowly pieced together a new plan to get Hermione out of there.

After sitting there for a few hours finishing the final touches on the new plan, the Granger's finally arrived from work looking very frazzled as well as upset. Slowly delving into their minds, Kel found out that the priest had informed his superiors on this afternoon and pushed thru with the "special" treatment that the Church had approved. They were both thinking on how this would go especially with the way this new treatment was supposed to work. Both the Grangers had approved everything. Kel saw all the tortures that had been performed on Hermione due to the Church requiring them to watch.

Further investigation into their unprotected minds was cut off as they went on inside the house to cook dinner and discuss whether or not they wanted to go on thru with "treatment". As they began preparing dinner for themselves, Hermione wouldn't get any, only water and bread with a slice of ham, Kel began to process all that he had found out. Finally coming to a decision, he reached into his pocket, withdrawing his briefcase, he restored it to fullsize and uncloaked himself as he walked to the door. He rapped his knuckles forcefully on the door to get the Granger's attention. As Mrs. Granger opened the door, Kel was once more in full Hershey Kellog glamour. Nodding regally at her, he opened the conversation.

"Mrs. Granger, my name is Hershey Kellog, a priest at The Institute of Higher Being. I have a proposition for you in regards to your daughter. May I come in?"

With her eyes opening dramatically, she nodded and gestured for him to follow her. They walked into the living room, Mrs. Granger introducing Kel as a priest. Mr. Granger nodded asking, "What can we do for you, Father Kellog?"

"I have heard about your daughter in the circles of the priesthood and with your consent, I would like to have her transferred there as a ward of the Institute while we are trying to cure her. She would be fed, clothed, and given classes as she would have had if she had been normal and not possessed. We have a different set of regimes of rituals that might try better. These are focused more on the soul, not the physical body, as I have heard my fellow priests state that they are doing to her. There is no cost to you. This would paid for out of a scholarship that one of our parishioner's left behind in their will to assist forward with the problems that our youth are left with in this world. The only thing is you would have to give up your daughter completely and sign her over to us to be taken in as a ward."

The Granger's looked at each other. Mrs. Granger's face was reluctant, while Mr. Granger's was filled with hope. Kel knew that he would have to sweeten the deal to get the reluctant Mrs. Granger to sign her over. Delving in her mind, Kel looked to find out why she was reluctant. Seeing the reason, he was immediately disgusted. She knew that she was from a line of Squibs and knew all about the magical world. She was the reason that the priests were called in and why they continued to come. She wanted her daughter to break and be completely dead inside. She wanted the "special treatment" the priests' were trying to get permission for. She wanted Hermione to lose the last piece of innocence she had. Mrs. Granger also enjoyed watching her child be hurt whether from the whippings, starvation methods, to almost drowning from the so called "baptisms". She had actively encouraged the brutality. She wouldn't let Hermione go until she was dead in the ground 6 feet deep. She despised the child for being what she was for one simple reason: it reminded her why her father's grandmother had been cast out of the family and that she wouldn't be the one to go back to prove them all wrong. Shame and jealousy.

Inwardly he sighed and then delved into Mr. Granger's mind. Looking there was the complete opposite of Mrs. Granger's dark, sadistic side. His mind was filled with sorrow and regret for his child that he couldn't stop the torture as he rightfully knew what it was. Unfortunately for him, when he had married her as part of the pre-nup agreement, she had primary rights over any children they had. At the time, he hadn't cared but now he wished he had fought against that stipulation. He would've already signed Hermione over to the kind man in front of him. Father Kellog seemed very nice, nothing like any of the priests that came here to hurt his only child. Kel slowly managed the man to think about his pre-nup agreement to see if there was anyway out of it. Seeing a fairly large loophole, Kel nudged the man's mind towards it let him see it and allow him control over the welfare of his daughter.

After finishing in his mind, Kel withdrew from his mind and standing suddenly said "I need an answer as soon as possible. I will wait in a different room so you can discuss this. I have one hour I can spare and then I will need to move to the next applicant."

As he moved away, he heard Mr. Granger state, "I want a divorce."

Kel grinned as he heard the words knowing that the only way to stop her, which Mrs. Granger would do to the best of her abilities to persuade him otherwise. He had seen that Mrs. Granger still lovingly adored her husband in her twisted way and did not want to be away from him. She knew that over the years the relationship had been strained ever the time she had called the priests in to break Hermione. Still listening in, Kel continued to grin a bloodthirsty grin which was at odds with his charming looks. They continued to argue until Mr. Granger stated that the only reason he would stay is if the priests left to never come back and that his daughter be taken away to somewhere she could be looked after. Mrs. Granger continued to argue until she realized that she was pushing him away. Finally, at almost the hour mark, Mr. Granger walked out of the living room into the room next door which happened to be the kitchen. Kel had composed his features so that the Muggles would not see past the genial man.

"We agree with your terms." Mr. Granger stated.

Kel nodded, "I have the forms in my briefcase. To sum up what the papers say is that you gave up your child with freewill. You no longer have rights to her. You cannot demand her back and I cannot return her. If you try to take her from the Institute, then there are fines as well as all legal cost incured is yours. If you agree to the terms, you will sign here," he gestured to a place on the form, "here" gesturing to another place, "and here." After Mr. Granger signed, he then went into the living room and walked her thru the contracts clauses and the same spots to sign. She did so reluctantly but none the less, Hermione was no longer under the control of the Grangers.