this is based off of Harry Potter writen by J.K Rowling.

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i am going to be introducing a few new characters and one of them will be another p.o.v change option in the future.

"- normal talking

'- Parseltongue

I hope you enjoy :)

There i am sleeping peacefully for once, cuddling with my familiar, when my sleep is rudely interrupted by the unholy noise of my alarm clock.

I press my head further into my pillow and hiss, 'damnit, why, for merlin's sake is this happening?' Why does it have to be monday morning already? There better be a couch in my office for naps, have mercy on my coworkers if they don't.

I sigh, 'you stay here and sleep akasha, i'll get ready before wakeing up tom, are you and nagini going to come with us?'

Akasha gives a tired hiss, 'yes, wake me when you are finished' he slythers off of me and plops down on the bed, going back to sleep in seconds.

I stretch real quick, grab my work robes and head to the shower.

On saturday after tom had finished reading we went to bed, woke up on sunday and did some more shopping for my potions lab, getting all the equipment i didn't already have and stocking up on all the ingredients i could possibly need, and then finally going to the grocery store.

Then after we came back home and ate some more pizza, all of us ended up in the same position reading in the office, this time it was fantastic beasts and where to find them in order to get him ready for today. He found it fascinating and thats always a plus.

I finish my shower, dry off, and get dressed. I then walk down the hall to tom's room to see if he is awake yet, my alarm was loud after all.

I open his door and peek inside, and there he is on his bed, groaning and in the process of rolling over.

I walk over, "oh no you don't, if i can't sleep in, you can't either" i pick him up so that his front is faceing me, his arms go over my shoulders and i support his legs around my rib cage in a backwards piggyback position.

I then take him into his bathroom and start running the bath, i set him down on the toilet and say, "which bath bomb do you want? And which clothes do you want to wear under your robes."

He just mumbles, "one of the button shirts and some trousers" he then blindly reaches into the basket of bath bombs on the counter, grabs one, and places it into my hand, "this one."

I giggle, he picked out raspberry lemonade, not a bad choice but i don't think he would have chosen it had he been awake.

I throw it into the half full tub and then tell tom as i'm walking out, "go ahead and use the toilet while the bath is filling up, i'll set out your clothes" i close the door behind me and take a purple/blue shirt and black trousers out of his dresser and black robes from the closet, and set them on his bed.

I knock on the door, "you done in there?" When i get a neutral noise back i just open the door, he had taken the opportunity to strip down to his underwear.

Once the bath is filled i turn off the water and turn to tom, "alright get cleaned up and when you are done wake up nagini and come down stairs for breakfast" i give him a smile and bend down to kiss his forhead before leaving him to his own devices.

I go back to my room and pick up akasha, who gives an annoyed hiss but then coils around me anyway, even in his half asleep state.

I go downstairs to prepare a normal meal of scrambled eggs and bacon with toast.

_Tom P.O.V_

After i finish my bath, i dry off, get dressed, and wake up nagini, she just releases a hissed sigh and coils around me, then i make my way downstairs.

The smell of mia's cooking is amazing to me, i go into the kitchen to see that she made eggs and bacon, "your eggs and bacon is the best mia."

She just smiles and shakes her head at me, "it's not like you have much to compare it to, but thank you anyway" we both sit down and eat while she asks, "you ready for our first day of work?"

I nod, "i'm ready" and very excited, even if we don't do feild work yet.

She says while she finishes her food, "what are the rules?"

I say the rules that she has drilled into me, "don't talk to the other workers when they are busy, when you do paperwork i will read the first year books, i can go on field work when it isn't life threatening for me, if it is life threatening i have to stay in the office and continue reading until you come back to get me."

She smiles that proud smile i favor, "very good! You are ready" she looks over to the portraits that are currently occupied by Salazar Slytherin and the Peverell brothers, "are any of you guys interested in having another blank portrait connected to my office at work?"

The brothers shake their heads, giving the reason that three portraits is more than enough for them, but salazar says, "i would not mind another portrait, who else would be able to look after the boy if not me? Certainly not these bumbling idiots, no help at all."

The Peverell brothers turn their heads to him as one and say, "hey!"

Salazar simply gives them a superior look that says, told you so.

Me and mia both giggle at them and she says, "alright i will do that tomarrow, and i appreciate your concern for tom."

He simply shrugs.

I look at nagini and ask, 'are you and akasha going to hunt before we leave?'

Mia startles, 'oh, thanks for reminding us tom, akasha, nagini, can you go do your hunt quickly?'

Akasha and nagini both hiss, 'yes' and uncoil from mia and I, then leave the house through the window.

Mia checks the time, "it's later than i thought, tom, can you go pack your books, paper, pens and anything else you can think of to bring into your bag? I'll store your bag in mine once you're done" she looks me over and when she doesn't see what she's looking for she says, "and don't forget your wand, i'll give you a holster for it before we leave."

I nod before jogging through the living room and up the stairs. Just before i reach my room i hear her voice from downstairs shout out, "not so fast on the stairs, you'll break your neck that way!" I smile to myself as i start packing.

_Hermione P.O.V_

I clean up the kitchen and put the dishes in the sink to deal with later, then i walk over to slytherin's frame and use the geminio spell to duplicate it.

I put it into my bag and say, "i'll hang it up as soon as i get to my office."

Slytherin simply nods and after a moment of contemplation he says, "i give you and the boy permission to use my given name."

I smile, "thank you Salazar, see you soon."

He nods and moves to one of his other portraits.

I place my wand into the holster strapped to my thigh and pull out a second holster from my bag for tom.

I smile brightly as tom comes down the stairs, he looks as calm as always but you can feel his excitement coming off of him in waves, "you ready to go? We are going to apparate there this time, but once i connect our fireplace to the floo network we will be able to use that instead."

He is obviously not thrilled to apparate again but i'm sure his excitement outweighs his negative opinion.

I hold out the wand holster, "strap this to your arm or leg, either works and then holster your wand."

He nods and straps it to his thigh like mine.

Once he's done i reach out my hand for him to grab. when he is ready he grabs my hand and we apparate away to the ministry's long hall of floos where people come and go at all hours of the day.

We walk to the front desk to check in since it is our first day, and to finally get our wands registered.

When we get there the ministry worker looks up and smiles as much as you can expect from someone this early in the morning, "hello i am Cleo Burmaster, how may i help you?"

I smile, "we need to register our wands and get directions to the office of regulation and control of magical creatures."

She nods and pulls out a bowl that is similar in shape to a pensieve, but i has different markings along the sides and the lip.

She sets it down on the desk and says, "wands please."

Tom and i pull our wands from our holsters and hand them to her, she then places them in the bowl and they hover over it.

She then says, "state your full name and wand components."

I go first, "Hermione Avis Featherwood-Riddle, 12 1/2 inches vine wood with a horned serpent horn core."

Then tom, "Tom Marvolo Featherwood-Riddle, 13 inches yew wood with a horned serpent horn core."

Then a faint glow emanates from the bowl before fading, after a moment cleo picks up the wands and hands them back to us, "you are both registered, regulation and control of magical creatures is six floors down, have a nice day."

I smile and nod to her before taking ahold of tom's hand and leading the both of us to the closest elevator.

We get into an elevator with about 4 other people. I grab ahold of one of the handles hanging from the ceiling and hold tom to me. I bend down and whisper to him, "good thing we only have to go down, it can get crazy in these things when they go in other directions" i giggle quietly to myself at his confused, he'll find out some other time, lets leave him in suspense.

The elevator doors opened on our floor first so he didn't have the chance to experience this elevators' specific brand of whiplash.

We continue down the hall and into the main office of regulation and control of magical creatures.

There was a woman at the front desk and she looked up as we walked towards her, with a pleasant smile she says, "hello, are you Hermione and Tom Featherwood-Riddle?" We nod and she continues, "my name is Nora Kalich, i'm the assistant of the head, i have been told to show you to her office when you arrive" she stands up and walks around her desk, "please follow me."

We pass other workers at desks doing the bulk of the paper work for this department, being a field agent means i won't have to do nearly as much.

Nora turns her head slightly, "your partner is starting today also, you will meet him in the office."

Oh good, this should be fun.

Nora opens the door to the office and stands to the side to allow us in. The office doesn't hold much except for a desk and some cabinets, there is also a older woman behind the desk and a man that doesn't look older than 20, that means he hasn't been out of hogwarts for very long, which means his owls and newts were impressive.

His posture is slouched slightly, but it looks too forced to be natural, and there is a rigidity and stiffness to his posture that the slouching can't cover up. Raised in a strict house hold maybe? Whatever it is, he wants to hide it.

My attention is taken away from my future partner to my future boss, when we had walked in she gave me a once over then looked over tom, which caused her to raise an incredulous eyebrow. Kids aren't common in this office i suppose, not that i thought that was the case.

I shove down my defensive response and smile the best i can, even though it's far from genuine. Her stern demeanor reminds me of McGonagall's but she also has a stuck up air around her that makes her presence hard to swallow, she does not command respect. I am much more likely to dislike if not hate her, respect is not likely.

With my fake smile in place i say, "hello, i am Hermione Featherwood-Riddle and this is my son tom."

With a frown still in place she nods at me, "please have a seat" once i am seated with tom in my lap she continues, "i am the head of this department, my name is Kimberly Rio, you may only address me as madame."

Hmm, this keeps getting worse, i give a slight grimace and then keep a straight face since my fake smile is too much to maintain.

Then she says, "the job that you and your partner next to you, Mathew Chaney, will be doing is primarily field work, but that will only be from noon onward unless on a long term assignment, before noon you will be doing your paperwork which will be done in your shared office, on days that there isn't any field work for you to do you will do your paperwork until noon and then you will be free to go."

I look to the man next to me who is also listening attentively, Mathew Chaney, doesn't sound familiar but that isn't saying much.

I look to Rio, which is what i decided to call her, as she starts talking again, "but there is also an issue we need to discuss" this better not be what i think she's talking about, "we are not a daycare nor a babysitting establishment, please explain to me why you have brought your son with you."

I fight to keep my straight face, and my partner looks both annoyed and exasperated as he watches us.

I look at Rio and say, "i would rather not leave my son at home alone or with strangers that will claim to take care of him, he is at an age where he is too young for hogwarts but still needs to learn, which is what he is here for, i have already established ground rules with him, that on top of the fact that he is a very well behaved child means there will be no disturbance to your department, it will be like he is not even here."

She grimaces as if she was given something she is unable to swallow, looks like she won't be swayed be that, i'll have to change the approach.

Rio says, "regardless, i cannot accept the presence of a child in my department, children are not ment for the work place" she frowns at tom, "you are not permitted to bring him."

I shrug, "well this issue chould have been solved if there were established schools for younger witches and wizards so they can learn, since that isn't going to happen anytime soon, we aren't going to reach an agreement" i stand up and take ahold of tom's hand, looking at Mathew i say, "it was nice to meet you Mathew i wish you luck" he'll need it, i turn my head to nora, "have a nice day."

Mathew has a very bewildered and shocked face, while the assistant has a panicked face looking like she was about to block my path. Tom and i turn toward the door and walk out, about halfway to the main door nora jogs up to us.

She seems to be barely restrained as she says, "please don't leave, your son can stay, we aren't exactly in a position to make demands, we really need employees, Madam doesn't seem to understand that right now and someone with your qualifications would be a amazing for us."

I nod but say, "i'll stay but i hope you understand the only reason i am is because i love magical creatures, i can work anywhere i want and i can leave at any time, any sign of hostility towards tom and we are gone."

She nods, "of course" we walk back to the office and i sit in the chair, looking at Rio expectantly.

She grimaces, "i have decided to allow you to bring your son, your qualifications are worth the inconvenience" i guess that is the best i am going to get, "nora shall show you both to the office so you can start on your paperwork."

We all stand up and follow nora to our office, once we get there the first thing i look for is the couch i was hopeing for, when i don't find one i look to nora, "are we able to make furniture requests?"

She thinks for a moment, "i suppose, what do you need?"

I sigh, good, "a couch, tom will need it and it will be nice to lounge on" napping isn't nesasary to mention.

She nods, "i will bring one over before the day is over" with that she leaves us to our own devices.

Mathew shakes his head, "well that was a surreal experience, where you really serious about just walking out? It wasn't just to get her to agree with you?"

I smile happily, "only partially, i can work where ever i want, but i chose this department because i love magical creatures, i would suck if i had to leave but it isn't worth staying if i can only work here without tom."

He gives a sly grin and looks at tom, "you excited about being able to do awesome things with us?"

Tom mirrors his grin, "of course, i get to see mia be badass."

Mathew nods in approval, "alright lets do this paperwork."

I nod, "of course, but first" i pull out my bag and retrieve the blank frame for salazar, i walk over to the wall next to our desks and hang it up.

Mathew stares at it, then looks at me and asks, "who's portrait is this?"

Then the sound of Salazar's voice responds, "mine, obviously" he looks around the office, "this will do for now i suppose."

I smile, "oh? You expect me to decorate it a certain way?" I introduce him to mathew, "this is salazar slytherin" he just nods and I giggle and go over to tom who is sitting on our new couch that arrived very quickly, "isn't salazar being silly again tom?"

He giggles with me, "yea" he looks over at salazar and asks, "which book should i start with?"

He thinks for a moment, "from the selection you have, start with the standard book of spells, then read one thousand magical herbs and fungi, those shall be the most helpful to you right now."

I nod, those are good choices, "while you start on your work, we will start ours, after you are done with the first book i will give you a verbal exam."

With that we all got to work. With mathew stealing glances a Salazar's portrait.