Flipped
By Elfspring
Author's Note: Hello! I greet you from my writer's box. (my bedroom) This is my first ever fanfic! Very excited! I don't know how good this chapter is but hope its good enough for the time that you are about to take into reading my first chapter. Anyway please read and review!
Thank you!
Elfspring
Disclaimer: uh… I don't own anything (sadly) So everything owns to JK Rowling and the people involved with the publishers.
Chapter 1
Harry James Potter was currently sitting at his desk at the Auror Department in the Ministry of Magic, on his desk read a sign.
Potter, Harry James
Head of Field Operations
Harry was quite proud of his achievements in life after he had defeated Lord Voldermort. Soon after Voldermorts downfall he was named he world's most powerful wizard, the ministry offered him jobs that weren't ever held by an eighteen years old. After many days contemplating on what job he wanted, he finally decided that he wanted to play Quidditch for a few years before thinking of his next career move.
Harry had played for the Chudley Cannons and England along side his best friend, Ron Weasley. For the seven years he had played Quidditch he had accomplished a lot for such a short career. He had led the Chudley Cannons to six Quidditch League wins as well as England to two World Cup wins. Due to the fact he was so successful as a captain and player he was the highest paid Quidditch player in the history of Quidditch.
After seven years of playing professionally, being in the public eye, signing autographs and constantly travelling he decided to retire and follow the career he had chosen when he was still attending school.
His auror training had taken less time then he anticipated, half a year later he was made the assistant of the Head of Field Operations. It took another year until he finally got promoted to where he was now.
Harry was talking to his partner, Gareth Cliff. When he noticed a girl, around his age, walking with Kingsley Shacklebolt towards the Briefing room. He noticed that she had wavy brown hair, brown eyes and was quite tall for a girl. He was racking his brain if he had ever met her before when he noticed that Gareth was gaping at her with his mouth hanging open.
"Gareth!" Harry whispered urgently.
"Yeah Harry?" Gareth replied distantly.
Harry had enough of Gareth gaping at a girl he was watching and playfully whacked him at the back of his head.
"Ow! What was that for!" Gareth asked clearly annoyed.
"Is this the first time you've seen a person from the opposite sex?" Harry asked obviously amused.
"Very funny Harry! Unlike you my life is not dominated by my work and it's not everyday you see something that beautiful walk into this division!" Gareth pointed out.
Harry just rolled his eyes and went back to his work.
Not even five minutes had passed after the girl had arrived when the telephone on his desk started ringing. Before Harry picked it up he found it quite amusing that ever since Mr Weasley had become Minister of Magic, Muggle Technology had been altered to be able to be used in the offices of the Ministry. He was brought back down to earth when he noticed that his colleagues where shooting him annoying glances as the phone continued to ring. Harry muttered an apology before picking up the phone.
"Potter here." Harry muttered.
"What took you so long to pick up your bloody phone!" said the man.
Harry knew full well who was on the line but decided to play with his boss.
"Excuse me! I don't know who you are but you have got some nerve talking to an auror like that!" Harry said with a tone of a person whose temper was rising.
"Harry… GET IN HERE NOW!" shouted Kingsley Shacklebolt.
"Okay… okay… I'm coming." replied Harry with a drawl.
Harry got up from his desk and slowly walked towards the briefing room while stopping to greet some of his co-workers along the way. When he reached the briefing room he saw it saw three people, the girl he saw before, Angela Jones – the Head of Tactics and Research in the auror division and a disgruntled looking Kingsley Shacklebolt.
"Ahh.. Harry! How nice of you to join us." said Kingsley while offering him a seat opposite the girl.
Harry sat down and took a quick glance of the girl before setting his eyes back on Kingsley.
"Before we begin, Harry I would like you to meet the new assistant of Angela, Hermione Granger."
Harry extended a hand to her which she shook.
"Nice to meet you." Harry stated.
"You too Mr Potter." replied Hermione.
Harry found it quite odd that it was basically the first time where he met someone who didn't ogle over his scar or ask about the battle against Voldermort. Harry enjoyed being greeted like a normal but also found it unnerving at the same time.
"Ok we can now get on with this briefing." announced Shacklebolt.
After an hour (to Harry seemed to be an eternity) the briefing ended. Hermione was escorted out by Angela while talking about the briefing they had just had. Harry got up from his seat to leave when Kingsley told him to resume sitting.
"Harry I will only tell this to you once, she outranks you and in the field I expect you to take her orders without questioning them."
Harry opened his mouth to object but was cut off by Kingsley.
"No buts Harry. Your instincts are good but I'm not putting my field agents in danger just because you have a gut feeling. You may leave now."
By the time Harry returned to his desk he was fuming. He found it incredibly unfair that someone whom he had never seen in the Auror division get a job which outranked him. In less than five minutes he had her file sitting at his desk. He opened it and saw a photo of her which was taken recently, her file read.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Name: Hermione Jane Granger
Age: 27 years
Birth Place: England
Marital Status: Single
Schooling: Beauxbatons Academy
Eye colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Brown
OTHER INFORMATION:
Prefect in 5th and 6th year
Head Girl in 7th Year
Muggle-born
O.W.l's:Ancient Runes- Outstanding
Arithmancy-Outstanding
Defence Against the Dark Arts-Exceeds Expectations
Charms- Outstanding
Transfiguration-Outstanding
Herbology-Outstanding
Potions-Outstanding
Care of Magical Creatures-Outstanding
Astronomy-Outstanding
History of Magic-Outstanding
N.E.W.T.s: Charms-Outstanding
Defence Against the Dark Arts-Outstanding
Transfiguration-Outstanding
Herbology-Outstanding
Arithmancy-Outstanding
Ancient Runes-Outstanding
Potions-Outstanding
Harry continued to look through her file for another thirty minutes until he got called into the Briefing room once again. As he entered the Briefing room he noticed that there were many more people sitting in the room, in total there was about ten.
Harry took his usual seat which was closest to the door which allowed him to have more time to remember the mapping of the locations. It wasn't long until Kingsley walked in and started telling them about the mission and objectives.
"We've just received a tip-off from a reliable source that an anonymous Dark Wizard is attempting to recruit Hogwarts students at Hogsmeade in the next hour. There is said to be a meeting at a secluded building in Hogsmeade. Our objective is to try to stop the students from attending the meeting as well as trying to capture the anonymous wizard and take him into our custody." Kingsley stated before moving towards the projected map of the area.
Remus Lupin had helped the division in re-creating maps of the country which showed the movements every civilian in the country including muggles. Just like the Marauder map that he had made with James, Sirius and Peter. Unfortunately they weren't able to reproduce the names onto the map.
Harry looked up and started to study the map, currently there were only green dots walking around the area. Kingsley explained the colour coding to the people who were new to this map.
"The green dots are wizard and witches, red dots are muggles and squibs, blue dots are underage wizards, black dots are the field aurors and yellow dots are ministry officials."
Kingsley gave a moment for the aurors to take it in before continuing.
"OK, Harry I want you and your team to surround the area but remain inconspicuous. I also want your team wired up and keep constant communication with the tactic teams here. Angela I want you and your team to keep me updated and keep the field teams informed. Let's go!"
As Harry was right next to the door he was the first one out and managed to get his team kitted and wired up. Harry and his team were ready to leave when he noticed that Kingsley was walking up to him.
"Harry if you do not follow the orders of Hermione or Angela I will declare you as rogue and I will take you into custody!" Kingsley said warningly.
Harry only grunted in response before setting off with his team to the apparition station to apparate into their safe house in Hogsmeade.
It had taken Harry and his team about thirty minutes to set up a perimeter around the area while remaining inconspicuous. Harry was sitting by himself pretending to play chess by himself when he remembered that he had to tell Angela that they were ready.
"Angela field team is in place." Harry whispered while moving his prawn two blocks forward. Harry was getting odd glances from passer-by's until they finally concluded that he must be talking to himself while playing.
A person responded but it wasn't Angela's voice, "Potter this is Granger. Angela has gone with Kingsley to a meeting with the Minister."
At the sound of her voice he inwardly groaned.
"Ok Granger, we're in place what do you want us to do?" said Harry while moving his knight.
"The map here says a man has just exited the building and is standing by the entrance, it seems that he is standing guard at the doorway, do you have a visual of him?"
Harry looked up and saw a giant of a man standing by the doorway analyzing the every movement of the passer-by's.
"Yeah I have a visual, he's about six feet ten inches, Caucasian, short black hair, no facial hair and an earring in his left ear. He has a tattoo on his right shoulder but I can't see the details." Harry whispered.
Harry heard Hermione whisper the details to one of the researchers. After a few seconds he received feedback.
"Okay we've managed to narrow the list down, we've got five possibilities. Can you see any other distinctive possibilities?"
"Um… you will have to wait a while, he's still on the lookout and he's looking my way. Oh shit he's walking towards me!" Harry whispered urgently attempting not to look up at the approaching man.
"Potter, you are not to reprimand him until we find sufficient evidence that he is connected to the recruiting!" Hermione said warningly.
"I'm telling you Granger that he is part of them, I'm going to take him out as soon as he reaches me."
"Don't you dare Potter! He's only on the watch out once he's happy that no one is watching he will return to the building and then you can raid the building."
Harry glanced up as soon as the man reached him, Harry's instinct was to take him into custody but he remembered the warning from Kingsley and decided against it. Harry inhaled when the man took the seat across the table and spoke.
"Never seen you around here before." said the man, he had a gruff voice and his voice definitely didn't have a British accent. The man took his knight and checked his king.
Harry grunted and continued pretending to mutter to himself.
"So what are you doing here?" asked the man.
"Got nothing else to do, haven't had a job since last year." Harry replied sounding irritated.
"Hmmm… bloody nice watch for someone who hasn't had a job for nine months." the man said while pointing at his watch.
At the Auror Division the Tactics team held their breath as they heard the man say it. Some of them stopped typing thinking that the jig was up and that they had been found out.
"Uh…" Harry had no clue what to say but he quickly remembered a man he knew at school who had a dangerous passion. Harry glanced around nervously at his team who were all getting ready to rescue him; obviously they had been listening to the conversation.
"Uh… I nicked it." Harry whispered trying to act and talk nervously.
The man obviously believed him and the aurors at the division let their breath out and couldn't believe how close it was. The man didn't question him until they had finished their game.
"What's your name?" questioned the man.
"Dylan Wood and yours?" asked Harry trying to sound uninterested.
"Bartholomew Elsaesser, you aren't related to the Puddlemere player are you?"
"Uh no." Harry said shaking his head.
"So what do you think of our Minister of Magic?" inquired Bartholomew.
"A bloody muggle lover! Cares more about the muggles than his people! The people who made him Minister are off their rocker!" Harry said in an angry tone while slamming his fist down onto the chess board.
The man smirked at him.
"I'll tell you what, in about five minutes me and my friends are having a get-together with people who, like you, are against the ministry. I insist that you attend. With us you will be able to have a voice and get the Minister removed from office." Bartholomew offered.
"Okay, I don't have anything else to do," Harry replied with a shrug.
Bartholomew stood up and was walking away before turning around and telling him that it would be held at the building he was headed towards. As soon as he was out of earshot Harry quickly whispered, "Have you got that Granger?"
"In fact Potter I do indeed have all the information. I want you lead your team into the building and lead a full attack on the men inside." Hermione ordered.
"I don't think that is the right call, I should attend the meeting and in the middle of it my team enters and takes both the students and wizards into custody." Harry tried to point out.
"Don't question my judgement Potter, remember I outrank you and currently I think its best we attack now! Do you understand!" demanded Hermione.
Harry just muttered a yes before signalling his team into position; his team was stationed outside the entrance and he quickly cast an anti-appiration charm around the building before leading his team in.
An hour later he was back at the Auror Division, he and his team had managed to arrest all the wizards that were involved with the recruiting. After interrogating Bartholomew for fifteen minutes he found out that none of the wizards were the one that they were searching for. As he headed towards the Briefing room to be de-briefed he was congratulated over and over again by his colleagues.
As he entered the Briefing room he noticed that Kingsley was looking at him darkly. As Harry sat down at his usual seat Kingsley spoke to him coldly.
"I told you not to question orders!"
"I didn't question the orders! I believed that there was another way of handling the situation. If you had followed my plans we would have been able to take both the wizards and students into custody!" Harry objected.
"But those weren't the objectives! Our objectives were to prevent the students from attending the meeting not to take them into custody. Hermione's plan was adequate for the situation! Take this as you first and last warning, if you ever question a person who outranks you I will demote you and put Gareth in your place."
Harry laughed at the thought of Gareth being Head of Field Operations.
"You must be joking Kingsley! Gareth doesn't even have a year of experience under his belt!"
"Well at the very least he listens to orders and doesn't question them! You are to be suspended from your duties for the next two weeks. You will be at the disposal of Hermione."
All Harry could do was gape at Kingsley, not believing what he had just heard and hoping that this was all a bad dream. Harry was speechless, at the present moment he was upset by the fact that he had been suspended from his job for two weeks, but it was the fact that the duration of his suspension he was to take orders from Hermione Granger whom with every passing second Harry loathed more.
All Harry could do for the next hour in the Briefing room while being de-briefed in the meeting was shoot Kingsley death glares every time he looked at him. During the duration of the meeting his temper cooled down and was able to think straight, after thinking calmly about the situation he decided against trying to reason and thought that accepting his punishment would cause him less trouble in the long run. He would be the personal slave of Hermione Granger for the next week and once his two weeks were up he would resume his old post.
Later that night he was having a drink with his best friend at the players lounge at the Chudley Cannons stadium. His best friend Ron Weasley had just finished playing a game against Puddlemere United. The Chudley Cannons had won so all of his team-mates decided to head down towards the local bar instead of the upmarket player's lounge. All the players except for Ron went.
Harry and Ron were currently sitting down by the glass wall which allowed the people in the lounge to see the game on the pitch. They were currently talking about the latest League table and who they predict would give Chudley Cannons a run for their money this season. Ron noticed during the whole conversation that Harry seemed distant and seemed to be floating around in his own world.
"So what's up Harry?" Ron asked as he took a swig of butterbeer.
"Huh?" Harry said dumbly while staring outside into the deserted stadium, before finally being able to shake himself out of his trance.
"What do you mean?" asked Harry.
"Well you seem out of it… if you know what I mean." Ron said while signalling to the barman for another butterbeer.
Harry merely groaned as he thought of his horrible day at work and the introduction of Hermione Granger into his life.
"So was work that bad?" Ron asked interested.
Harry was banging his head on the table and stopped briefly and lifted up his head and nodded briefly before he continued to bang his head.
Ron was going to ask him to tell him what his day was like but Harry beat him to it and started to regurgitate what had happened to him during the day. One hour later and four more butterbeers Harry had finally finished his day to Ron.
Ron tried to be the understanding friend but couldn't help himself from laughing. Harry looked at him shocked and slightly hurt that his terrible day was being laughed at by his BEST FRIEND. Harry's mouth was open, lost for words as Ron continued to laugh. It took quite a while before Ron finally stopped laughing.
"Ah, Harry you seem to have had a really crap day, it is however quite amusing!" said Ron with a smirk.
Harry just gave a grunt an annoyed grunt for an answer.
"Don't worry too much!" Ron said with a smile while patting Harry's back playfully. "Maybe she will become a bit more… uh… lenient towards you for… uh your next two weeks."
Harry gave a disbelieving grunt.
"I know for a fact that all the members of the Wizengamot adore her, so does my dad and half the ministries Heads. Dad told me they have been chasing after her to apply for our ministry ever since she left Beauxbaton Academy. It's rumoured that she gets paid better than some of the Heads of the other departments." Ron said conversationally.
"Ron were did you get all this information? Do you stalk her or something?" Harry asked.
"Hahaha, very funny Harry." Ron said sarcastically. "No I was chatting to Timothy the other day. He told me a bit about her; after all it's his girlfriend."
"Well I wouldn't expect anything less from her, dating a guy whose father is a multi-billionaire and who happens to own this club." Harry stated.
"Maybe she does like a bit of power… Timothy is also my dad's Junior Assistant. She really does have her connections." Ron said while talking another swig of his butterbeer.
Harry frankly had enough of Ron praising the person he was currently the most annoyed with.
"Ron…"
"Yeah Harry?"
"Shut up."
"Okay Harry."
The rest of the night went without a mention of Hermione Granger. Harry had a high tolerance level towards alcohol but still managed to get drunk when the team came back for more drinks. Harry managed to beat all his former team mates in drinking the most beers. In the point-of-view of Harry there wasn't a better way to say hello to his new 'boss' than to have a hangover on his first-day of his new temporary job.
Author's Note: Hey me again! You got to the end! Thank you so much for reading! Please leave a review even if it's jut to say it's crap. The next chapter should be up in about two weeks! By the way I'm looking for a beta, if you're interested please pop me a mail at the next chapter cheers!