One Month Later...

Hermione looked at herself in the mirror. Her dress hung off of her slight frame and she sighed, bringing a hand up to rest on her belly.

"Hello," she whispered. "Mummy wants to tell you she loves you. And mummy will never, ever hurt you."

Madame Pomfrey poked her head around the doorway. "Are you ready to go?"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

Hermione followed her out of her room and stopped by the fireplace, where Professor McGonagall was waiting.

"Will the floo hurt the baby?" Hermione asked her anxiously.

"No, it may make you slightly nauseous. But it will not hurt your baby."

"Okay, I'm ready then." Hermione took a pinch of floo powder and shouted "Ministry of Magic!"

Professor McGonagall was close behind and dusted them both off when they arrived.

"Are you alright, Miss Granger? You're looking rather green."

Hermione swallowed thickly. "I'm fine professor. I just want to get this over with."

"Let's go then."

When they walked into the courtroom, Hermione froze, dread filling her veins. "I can't do this," she whispered.

"Miss Granger?" Professor McGonagall placed a comforting hand on her back. "It's alright. I'm right here. This won't take long."

(A/N I was originally going to write this scene but due to personal issues, I am going to skip to the end of it. I will let you know if I go back and add it later)

Madame Bones stood from her seat.

"The court has decided. Due to child endangerment and abuse, we will be stripping Mr. and Mrs. Granger of their parental rights and giving them to Professor Minerva McGonagall. Mr. and Mrs. Granger will be serving life sentences in Muggle prison. Their memories will be stripped. They will not remember that they ever had a daughter." Madame Bones gestured to the guards to remove the couple and begin stripping their memories. Then she turned to Hermione and smiled.

"You're free my dear. Now onto the next order of business. Would you like to change your name?"

Hermione looked at Professor McGonagall. "Is it okay?"

Professor McGonagall smiled. "I would be honored."

Hermione turned back to Madame Bones. "If it's not too much trouble, I would like my name changed from Hermione Jean Granger to Hermione Minerva McGonagall."

"It's no trouble at all. May I ask why you are changing your middle name?"

"I want any trace of the Grangers gone from my life. Jean was her first name. It seemed fitting to me that I should take Minerva as my middle name now."

Professor McGonagall wiped a tear from her eye as Madame Bones began filling out the paperwork.

"Minerva, Hermione, I would like to congratulate you both. I wish you all the best as you become a family."

"Thank you Madame Bones," Hermione said, "I don't think it will take us very long."

"We will see you in a couple of weeks to fill out the paperwork so that Poppy will also be your mother." Madame Bones told them. "I'm sorry we couldn't do that today."

"That's perfectly alright," McGonagall said, "She was a bit too busy today anyway."

"Have a safe trip back to Hogwarts."

"Thank you!"

Hermione and Minerva left the courtroom hand in hand.