Title: Desideratum
Author: BlackLust01
Summary: After a year and a ½ of searching for the mythical Ice Dragons Hermione comes to Romania to help nurse an orphaned Hungarian Horntail. How will Charlie react to her now that she's all grown up?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: It's the fist fic I have ever loaded on the web…I think that's warning enough don't you?
This story came to me one night after reading far too much fan fiction in one day, some how I created this plot. I know, I'm well aware that Ice Dragon's sound's stupid, it sounded good in my head at the time shrugs…so I'm going with it.
Stupid plot bunnies not leaving me alone…
Chapter 1 and 2 were originally integrated as one, but I felt they should be separated. So, sorry the first chapter is so short...very short.
All and any feed back would be much appreciated.
Chapter 1: Prologue
Steadying herself on a tree next to her she tried to regain her sense of balance, no matter how many times she would apparate she always found it nauseating.
Hermione had been away from London for a little over a year and a half, in a way she was desperate to return home to where her friends and family are. Back to everything she had grown accustomed to during her child hood and teen years, but things had changed after the death of Voldemort. Magic no longer held her captivated like it used, no longer did it seem as innocent as she once thought it was. Though she could never turn her back on magic as it was after all apart of whom she was.
But the main reason as to why she had left everyone so long ago was because she was on a mission. A mission to prove not only to herself, but to those who told her she couldn't achieve what she had set out to do.
After graduating from Hogwarts she had little time to think about what she wanted to do in the way of work or perhaps further studies, as the war against Voldemort had become her and many others first priority. Harry, Ron and Hermione had officially joined The Order of Phoenix two months after they finished school and had fought many battles against Mrs. Weasley to achieve it.
It was another 8 months before the final battle was upon them all, at this stage many had come to join the side of the light. Even a number of old Slytherin classmates, Draco Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Miles Bletchley, Blaise Zabini, Terence Higgs.
It turned out that Draco had witnessed his father beating his mother after a raid on a muggle home, the raid having left Lucius with a cut lip and a black eye. It seemed he didn't like it when a muggle man attacked him when he was raping that said man's wife. The next day Draco dragged his mother to Dumbledore and asked for refuge for her, if he promised himself as a spy.
And with his help the blond convinced, Bletchley and Higgs, schoolmates who use to be a few years ahead of Draco, to also agree to spy for the Order. Draco then brought his best friend Blaise to the cause and Millicent as she had just lost her father at the hands of a Death Eater simply because he didn't want to become a follower to The Dark Lord.
And to this day Hermione, along with many others, fondly remember the image of Voldemort's shocked face when he saw some of his own standing next to The-Boy-Who-Lived, who later became The-Boy-Who-Killed-The-Dark-Lord.
Hermione had lost her parents not one week after the battle, it seemed it was Lucius' last act of revenge. He had slipped away from the battle like the Slytherin he was, as soon as his master fell. He was found in Asia three days later and sentenced to a Dementors Kiss.
Hermione had become another person for some time, she was cold and detached and wouldn't speak to anyone. That was before Severus came with an offer from the Ministry to become an Unspeakable. Saying she needed to carry on, that if she didn't then her parents lives and death would mean nothing. In that moment she had thanked whatever god was responsibly for making her old Potions Master the cruel bastard that he was, as he was one of the few things that hadn't changed at all after the war. Simply telling her to shut up and buck up.
Two moths later she accepted the Ministry's offer to become an Unspeakable, and quickly became accustomed to her new job, finding solace in her work, slowly returning to the old Hermione she once was. Well, as much as one could after losing loved ones and fighting evil for 7 years.
Author's Notes:
Draco's friends were gathered from http/ which has just about anyone mentioned in the Harry Potter books and on what page. Though I don't recommend testing that theory, far to many characters to go through.