A/N: I don't own anything you recognize.
This is for the Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges forum
Are you crazy enough to do it Challenge
87. (AU!) Business
If You Dare Challenge
87. Nailhead
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Insane Prompt Challenge.
87. Character: Minerva McGonagall
The Golden Snitch
Shrove Tuesday Challenge
1 cup self-raising flour: Write about a character starting a new life
Word count:525
Minerva stood in the lobby of the twenty story building. Taking a deep breath she walked towards the elevator. She had been nervous to start this job from the beginning, and so far, nothing Mr. Dumbledore had done had eleaviated that tension. She knew being a woman was part of the reason she'd been hired in the first place, a nail head to hammer a point home to the overly male board of directors. At least, that seemed to have been the original plan. She had to admit, she hated being used that way, but at least her foot was in the door of the Hogwarts.
Hogwarts had always been Minerva's dream. Even as a little girl growing up on a farm, she had dreamed of working for the magical company someday. Her parents had told her it was a fantasy, nothing more. Girls like her married young and started families, they did not try to climb the corporate ladder.
She shook those thoughts from her head as she reached her desk.
"Ms. McGonagall, Mr. Dumbledore wants to see you," her secretary said. Minerva nodded taking a deep breath. She wasn't going to hope, no, hope played a wicked game on the mind, leaving one disappointed and depressed. She'd been working so hard towards this promotion.
She knocked on the door, trying to keep her hands from shaking.
"Ms. McGonagall, please enter." She pushed the door open. Mr. Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk wearing yet another outrageously colored suit. This one was blue with silver swirls.
"Sit please," he commanded. She sank into the chair.
"Good morning, sir."
"Yes, it is a good morning, Ms. McGonagall. I hired three new interns, and fired a few people, which brings me to you."
"Me sir?" she squeaked wondering if she was going to get fired too. Her mind already going through everything she'd done.
"Yes, Ms. McGonagall, you. You've been with the company several years, worked your way up to your current position. You have been very good at making yourself into exactly what Hogwarts has needed."
"Yes sir."
"I would like you to think hard about the offer I'm about to make." She nodded. An offer, that sounded promising. "Ms. McGonagall, as you know I am in need of a an assistant, someone to fill in when I am unavailable, someone I can trust to run the company in my absence. I am offering you the position." Mr. Dumbledore held up a hand. "Do not speak yet, I want you to seriously consider everything before making this decision." He handed her a large packet.
"This is...?
"Everything you will need to learn, including many of the secrets this company has hidden." She slid it open and flipped through the documents, reading several of them quickly. Mr. Dumbledore watched her, she'd always been a fast learner.
"Ms. McGongall, do you need more time to consider?"
"No, sir. I will take you offer."
"Good, now, the first order of business is to welcome our newest interns, and find out who burnt popcorn in the break room." She smiled. She was second in charge, she'd finally made it.