A/N:Hey Everyone! To my recent reviewer, I wish I could give you a shout out but your review was left as anonymous, here are a few tidbits. Mainly keep reading and that is best way to answer your questions, but rest assured each and every item you mentioned is already in the back of my mind and you are accurate. It is a consensus that you all hate the minister and would love to see him have a err accident LOL and I take that as a compliment.
ABDL/Little: Many have commented on the multifaceted view of littles and their personalities and you are correct. I initially wrote this for the ABDL audience but I definitely plan on integrating in future.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the HP characters depicted in this story, those are fully under the copyright of JK Rowling.
Chapter 6: An Appointment with a Friend
Hermione's POV:
I watched the door close behind Snape and I paused. I looked down at the clean diaper he had placed in my hand and raised an eyebrow. Something Snape had said repeated like a bell in my head. I was clearly one of the brightest young witches of the age and surely I could figure this out. So what did I know for a fact? I knew that Daxosia was a legitimate practice and had been for some time, but Daxosia was only scrying for the answers to things that were already truth. It wasn't the revelation that had started the change in my body. Then it hit me. Of course, the complacency draught. It wasn't until Mikaeus commanded me to drink that vile blue shit that these changes were made. I took out my wand and I tapped the diaper in my hand which quickly transformed, i'm not sure what it is referred to in the wizarding world but in my home world we called it a pull up. Snape was not wrong, I needed some protection for my changing body, but I do not need to play by the minister's rulebook. It was time i started playing by the Granger rulebook. quickly I dug through my suitcase and pulled out my last remaining wooden skirt and a sweater and pulled them on before running downstairs to the kitchen.
"I've got it!" I exclaimed as i skidded into the kitchen. My hands slammed down on the table. As if on cue Harry, Snape, McGonagall, George and Ginny all looked up to stair at me.
"What?" George said with a slight alarm in his voice.
"The Daxosias are being fixed!" Snape raised his eyebrow at me. "No, no hear me out. As you yourself said Sir, I am too bright to not know a thing or two about Daxosia and you're right. So I started thinking about it. Daxosia is the revelation of one's own destiny. You all know that littles are quite common but being classified a woman-baby is the rarest of the identities. Yet out of the twenty female students tested, fifteen of us were identified as women-babies."
"Yes you're correct baby girl, but what are you implying. This generation could be different." George said with a frown.
"But it is not!" I said with conviction. "It's the complacency draught! Which they tell us is to stop the pain of transition and let us sleep through the hardest changes. Outright codswaddle. Further more not many of you know this but Raven Riddlecraft is not only the minister's submissive, but she has just returned from a Department of Female Submission retreat. She has been brainwashed to be subservient to the minister and none other. Miss Riddlecraft's most famous gift is transfiguration. Each student tested held hands with Raven Riddlecraft. She was able to transform the revelation to match the will of the minister. The complacency draught is nothing more than a potion to reverse potty training."
"Why would the minister have any interest in creating a bunch of women-babies?" Snape asked finally.
"Don't you see? Isn't it simple? Because being a woman-baby is intellectual as well as physical, they have many restrictions imposed on them even before Mikaeus came to power. Mikaeus is terrified of women in power after Dolores Umbridge. The minister wants to make sure that witches such as myself are restricted from ever being in a position to take him down."
"That all sounds quite preposterous if you ask me." George said finally. "Lets waste no more time on this conversation, it will not expedite our plan to take down the minister." I glared at George. This was the first time I felt that my boyfriend was not on my side. I took my seat next to Snape and Ginny sullenly. After a few moments George got up and left the room to have a shower and I turned to them.
"I did some research on this. The Complacency solution is a one use reversal effect which means all we need to do is re-train. Now it is way more difficult at this age but before you say a word Sir I am wearing a pull up but from now on I use the bathroom like a big girl these pull ups are for accidents only." Snape frowned at me and I conceded. "I am a little as you suspected, however I am not a woman-baby." I kneeled up and gave Snape a tight hug and paused to whisper in his ear. "But I'm still your baby girl."
"Well sweetheart I will compromise with you and help you to be as you need. However will you compromise with me on one thing?" he asked softly. I nodded exuberant that he was going to let me be a big girl. "That at night you wear a diaper and every other weekend you be my baby."
"Deal." I said and we shook on it.
"Well I don't wanna be a big girl!" Ginny announced suddenly and I laughed.
"Ginny that is the beauty of being a little. You can be whoever and whatever is your destiny. Just because i'm just a baby girl doesn't mean you are.
"I'm proud of you, you know that little girl?" Snape stood in the doorway as we prepared to leave the safety of McGonagall's hidden safe house.
"Thank you Sir." I said with a smile. he laughed and sat down on my bed.
"I think it's time we moved on to 'Daddy' don't you little one." He combed pulled me closer to him combing his long thin fingers through my brown curly hair. I am embarrassed to say I blushed and hard. I'm talking tomato red complexion. I couldn't speak so I simply nodded and turned letting him braid my hair in one long plait down my back.
"I wish you could come with us today."
"I know my girl so do I, but you'll have George and Harry and of course I pity anyone who gets in your way." Daddy said with a laugh. Hehe… Daddy it feels so nice to say. Daddy Daddy Daddy. Oh man… Why does Snape have to be so kind to me, he's this cold distant professional front to the world but although quiet he is just so kind. Like a teddy bear really. Oh what would George say if he saw me blushing like a fool.
"I won't let you down Daddy." I said uttering the name aloud for the first time and he smiled.
"I know sweetheart."
"I-" I started to respond but was cut off by the bang of the bedroom door slamming against the inner wall as George ran in.
"Come on Hermione get a move on its time to go!" I shot Snape a look and a shrug, he raised his eyebrow in George's direction but George had already run off downstairs.
"You ready to go Mione?" Ginny asked from the open door.
"Of course!" I kissed Snape on the cheek and quickly joined Ginny in the hall who was taking the stairs one at a time to join Harry and her brother on the main floor entrance hall. Today we were off to meet up with one of George's contacts. He claimed he had an aid for us but was unable to send it for risk of being exposed so it was crucial he meet us in person. I was super excited to go forward. Mikaeus Levant deserved to be strung up by his thumbs in the dungeons left to rot and be eaten alive by cornish pixies. I giggled at such an image.
"Keep up Hermione." George called behind him as we walked briskly down the cobblestone sidewalks of London. I caught right up to George and I was going to question him on the proverbial stick up his ass when he turned to me. "I don't like how close you and Snape are getting. You said you had no choice in the matter."
"I don't!" I spat. "You know I don't. You seriously questioning my loyalty to you?"
"Well we can talk about that when we return to headquarters this afternoon." He forced a smile and I shrugged. I hoped he was just stressed by the situation. George had never questioned me or raised his voice before, but I had never seen George Weasley scared before. Of course George had not really been himself since his brother's untimely passing. I couldn't imagine losing a twin.
"Where are we going anyway?" Harry asked as we turned another corner.
"Whitehall."
"Whitehall?" I blurted out in utter disbelief. "Why are we going anywhere near the Ministry of Magic?"
"Don't worry guys its safe I promise. Firstly Mikaeus has no idea we're even gone from school yet and besides it's Saturday. all offices are closed for the weekend." George smiled as if we were fretting over forgetting to wear sunscreen.
"I am sure it is Hermione. George wouldn't let you or I be put in danger."
"You're right of course Ginny. Who are we meeting anyway?" I asked softly my voice below a whisper. George took a quick look around and with a satisfied nod it seemed more to himself, he leaned down.
"Kingsley. He said he has some insider information that will affect our cause greatly." George whispered. A few minutes later we were walking down the deserted hallway of the ministry toward Kingsley's office. George stopped just outside the door. "You have your invisibility cloak Harry?"
"Of course, why?"
"Good. I need you to keep watch out here, but just in the event that someone does come by maybe keep yourself concealed." George replied.
"Good idea. Yeah I can do that." Harry said pulling his cloak out and wrapping himself up in it until any trace of Harry visually disappeared. George opened the door and ushered us inside the the small outer entrance room of the office.
"Its empty." Ginny said a puzzled look on her face.
"Oh he's probably still upstairs." George said with a nod towards a small spiral staircase that led up to a small wooden door; presumably the private inner office. I looked around, there was a glass table, a fireplace, two adjacent leather black chairs and a couch. George turned from us and pulling out his wand pointed at the door and uttered "colloportus."
"George why did you do that?" I said, my voice raising slightly in alarm. The door clicked locked magically.
"Incase either you or Miss Weasley got any ideas." The man who stepped forward I recognized as Rowan Riddlecraft, Raven's father and Mikaeus' right hand man. "Thank you George for your cooperation. The Minister will be very happy to have these two vixens back in his possession."