New Dark Witch - Turning Point

Hermione was enjoying her driving lessons, her mother was an excellent instructor, but today's little outing was made with an alternative purpose she'd neglected to mention to her mother as she drove to a specific destination her best friend had only ever talked about in passing, and even then obliquely. Even though it would be another year before she could actually get her own license, Hermione delved as deeply into her new learning opportunity as she did with all of her studies. Her mother had become a little concerned when Hermione turned onto the expressway, but the confidence and ease her daughter was showing in handling their little auto and her quick quip about wanting to go see Harry, actually seemed to set her mind at rest again.

"Privet… Privet… there! Privet Drive!" Hermione muttered as she watched for the correct street to turn down.

It had been a week… a whole, depressing, terribly frustrating, godawful week… since she'd last seen him, the Headmaster had sent him back here. She'd had to sit through lecture after lecture from the Headmaster and Professor McGonagall about giving Harry space and not contacting him at all after they had shipped him off with Hagrid the day after the Tournament ended. But as the daughter of health professionals, she had been taught better than that and her trust in the teachers of Hogwarts slipped yet further.

Stopping alongside the curb in front of Number 4, Hermione turned off the car and lead her mother to the door to knock politely.

"What do you want?" a very obese man with a walrus like appearance and mustache practically shouted as he opened the door.

Somewhat taken aback, Hermione's mother tried her best to answer cordially, "Hello, I'm Dr. Helen Granger and this is my daughter…"

The man's face was purpling with anger the longer she spoke, then interrupted to scream, "WE DON'T DO CHARITY!" before slamming the door in their faces.

Angry now herself, Hermione slammed her fist on the door a few times, and when the Walrus opened it to yell more obscenities at them, the teenage girl barreled through him shouting, "HARRY!"

Helen Granger was a little surprised by her daughter's actions, until she saw Hermione opening a small boot cupboard under the stairs to pull a bruised and bloody, black haired youth from within.

A few minutes later, Hermione returned to the car, where her mother was waiting with Harry, with his school trunk and an odd little smile on her lips, "All done here. Time to go!"

-NDW-

When the Aurors arrived at 4 Privet Drive half an hour later to arrest Harry Potter for Underage Magic and expel him from Hogwarts, the scene they stumbled into horrified the normally unflappable officers. It started with a giraffe's head in a cast iron skillet with thorny roses growing out of its nose and ears and its tongue removed.

Auror Savage turned to his partner who was running scans of the area, "What spells are you detecting?"

"I… I don't know… half of these I didn't even hear about until the Academy, there's no way a fourth year did this."