DISCLAIMER: I do not own any characters related to Harry Potter, just the plot and any OC's I might throw in.
Chapter 1
Mr. Buttons walked into Hermione's office and threw some documents on her desk. She picked them up and looked over them."What are these suppose to be?"
"They are your new duty. I'm taking you off of the Gregor case and putting you in charge of this."
"What! You can't! I've been on that case for six months now and I've just had a breakthrough, don't do this to me!" She whined at her boss. Not exactly professional of her but she had worked hard on her case.
"Sorry I have to, your my best researcher and this takes priorty over everything" He opened his briefcase and took out an old looking piece of parchment handing it to her.
She studied it for a moment,"A map? What's does it lead to?"
"The Doomsday Clock."He said taking a seat.
She looked at him in surprise,"That's an old legendary artifact, are you trying to tell me you think its real?"
He shook his head,"I in fact do, and so do the senior ministers."
She stood up and paced behind her desk."So your telling me that the great God of War, Mars himself, made a map of his creation and just happened to give it to a mortal to hold on to it?"
He nodded,"That's the short version."
She stopped pacing and sat down herself,"And what is the long version pray tell?"
He relayed what the senior ministers had told him earlier,"It is said that after Mars made the 'Clock of Destruction', or the 'Doomsday Clock', he had to keep it from the rest of the gods. He put some kind of magic cloak around it to hide it from getting into the wrong hands. He then made a map of its whereabouts. He had made friends with a great mortal warrior and bestowed his trust upon him to keep the secret. He told him he would come get it when the clock beckoned him back."
Hermione interrupted," Why did he make a map to it? Couldn't he just remember where he put it?"
"I was getting to that part,"He said, clearly annoyed by her interuption,"He wanted to make sure that if he was succeeded in his position that the information could not be gotten from him. So he used a memory charm and wiped his memory clean of the whole event. The spell he used on the clock would awaken his memory when it was time."
"So for thousands of years they handed down this map? How did it come to be in our ownership?"She asked.
"The last of the McLowry line died four months ago and the secret chamber under the house was just found yesterday. The researchers that found it are now in the hospital recovering from sort of safety charm that was on the chest they found it in. So now it is in the hands of the Ministry of Mystery until further notice."
"Now what does all this have to do with me?"She wanted to get to the bottom of things.
"Your my best researcher! I need you to go in there and find that thing before some Deatheater does!"He said flustered.
"You want me to go into a vast rainforest in South America and find some clock that might not even be real? I'm sorry sir but ...ARE YOU INSANE!"She yelled at him.
"Ms. I suggest you get ahold of yourself and just realize who your talking to like that! I am your superior!"He said in a huff."It's not like I would send you alone. Your going to have an Auror to back you up in case of trouble. Plus I'm only giving you two months to accomplish things before letting this go dead in the water."
Hermione hearing mention of an Auror,"Who is this Auror that will be attending this little expedition?"
"He's outside, just a moment." He pressed the button on her intercom,"Charolette you can send him in now."
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