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Chapter 9: Trip to the Village

Hermione's POV:

When I woke up the next morning, the bars on the crib were lowered and Ginny was no where to be seen. I rubbed my eyes and shimmied down my single bed until I could sit up and swing my legs over the edge. Daddy Sevvy had insisted on a toddler bed with railing so I did not fall out supposedly. Whatever kept me out of the prison that was the baby crib was fine by me. Assuming she had woken up early this morning, I wandered out into the kitchen to get some breakfast. Harry was sitting at the table alone and I raised my eyebrow quizzically at him.

"Where's Ginny?" I asked.

"Wasn't she with you? I was letting her sleep in a bit. Yesterday was a long day." I shook my head no and he stood up rather quickly.

"Here she is don't worry Mr. Potter." McGonagall said coming into the kitchen carrying a sleepy Ginny. She was wearing her green onesie from last night, but someone had tied her red hair into two low pigtails. She slipped her into a Ginny-sized high chair beside Harry and pointed at the coffee pot which started to self pour into a mug on the counter. I squealed as I felt my feet leave the kitchen floor as I was lifted into the air and placed in a kitchen chair booster seat next to her.

"Good morning Daddy," I said with a giggle as he leaned over my shoulder to secure the lap belt and pushed in my chair.

"Good morning. I'll take one of those Minerva, black as my soul please." I giggled and rolled my eyes at his dark humour.

"Least you have a soul…" Ginny muttered and I laughed way harder than I should have. Snape and McGonagall looked super confused and Harry just smirked.

"It's a muggle thing."

"Okay so whats our next move Professor?" Harry asked turning to face McGonagall.

"For now you three need to lay low. Mikaeus will know you are missing by now and if not, he will very shortly. In the interim we await Shacklebolt's return and full report.

"What about all the girls still back at the school?" I asked her.

"Hermione their best bet is the resistance. Unfortunately there is nothing to be done for them until we know exactly what is going on."

"Hermione are we just going to sit back and do nothing?" Ginny demanded the second we were alone. The others thought we were having quiet time, but we needed time to strategize.

"Of course not Gin, but have you come up with any ideas?" I asked sitting on the floor beside her.

"What about your contact at the daily prophet?" Ginny asked after several minutes of silence.

"Nicholas? What about him?"

"Didn't you say he was reporting on the Daxosia for the Prophet, but also a female liberation supporter?" Ginny said excitedly.

"Well sure, but what do you expect me to do? Even if I could sneak away to send him an owl, the ministry would be swarming this place like I had just sent out a homing signal to Mikaeus Levant himself." I could see her point. If we could get word to him as to what was really going on, he could write an expose against the minister and maybe rally some people to our cause, but how could we do that.

"Isn't he staying in Hogsmeade? We could go to see him at the Three Broomsticks, tell him our story, and convince him to write a scathing story of ill treatment of female students. If it does nothing else, maybe parents will bring their daughters home for safety." Ginny reasoned.

"You're right Ginny. We have to try something. Sitting around here waiting for Kingsley Shacklebolt to rally his supporters is not going to help our classmates. Come on' but we have to be super stealthy. We could get there and be back before anyone notices were gone." She nods and I take her hands in mine. With a crack, the two of us disappear from the bedroom and reappear in the alley behind the Three Broomsticks.

"ugh, apparitiing always makes me so dizzy." Ginny whispered giving her head a shake. Slowly, we walk around to the front of the building and with a gasp I point excitedly. This was going to be even easier than I thought.

"Ginny look, it must be a Hogsmeade weekend." As we approached the main road I count no less than 40 Hogwarts students; girls and boys. We will blend right in. We entered the inn and I waved to Madam Rosmerta. She seemed a little surprised to see us but walked over.

"Good afternoon Hermione, Ginny. Can I grab you a Butterbeer?"

"Yes Please, but I am looking for my friend. Nicholas Pendelhaven from the Daily Prophet." I said sweetly.

"Of course Hermione. He's sitting in the back corner. Why don't you go make yourself comfortable Sweetie and I'll bring two more Butterbeer over." I nodded and ran off to the back part of the bar and slid into a seat across from Nicholas.

"Well Miss Granger? This is a surprise!" Nicholas said setting down his quill.

"Mr. Pendelhaven I'm sorry to have dropped on you like this but it is very important."

"I am sorry for the enforced formality, but the ministry demands it." He smiled apologetically nodding to Ginny as she squeezed in beside me.

"Oh sorry Mr. Pendelhaven, this is my friend Ginny Weasley." I said with a laugh.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Miss Weasley." He said offering his hand across the table.

"Nice to meet you Sir." She says quietly.

"So, Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, what is it that is so important you would come out of hiding to seek me out."

"They know we are missing already?" I asked leaning forward.

"Yes of course, the Prophet released a full story and missing persons Ad this morning. They said it is unknown for sure, but neither Severus Snape or Harry Potter have been reachable since your disappearance and it is believed they aided you two in your escape." Nicholas explained.

"That is why were here Sir. We need your help, you need to tell the world why we disappeared and stop the injustice." I paused as Rosmerta arrived to the table with two Butterbeers. She smiled and I waited until she had stepped away from the table before I continued with my story.

McGonagall's POV:

I walked into the living room with a cup of tea that afternoon and there on my couch sat Madam Rosmerta.

"Rosmerta my dear! What are you doing here?" I had set up the wards around my home to allow only those with complete loyalty to me to be able to apparate or use the floo network within my residence.

"I wanted to know what on earth you are thinking Minerva."

"Whatever do you mean?" I asked sitting down across from her. I did not interrupt her to offer her a cup of tea as I assumed she had come for something very important and would probably not be staying very long.

"They have only been in hiding for two days Minerva," She said simply. "Why would you send them to Hogsmeade, which is crawling with students and teachers by the way, only two days after they disappeared. Especially considering their pictures were on the front page of the Prophet today."

"Rosmerta what in the name of Merlin are you talking about? Are you saying Hermione and Ginny are in Hogsmeade?" I finally grasped at what Rosmerta was trying to tell me with her chastisement.

"That is exactly what I am saying. Sitting in my bar right now having a Butterbeer with Nicholas Pendelhaven as plain as the nose on your face Minerva."

"Pendelhaven? The Daily Prophet reporter?" I asked still in shock from her revelation. I stood up and yelled for Severus and Harry.

"So you didn't send them then?" Rosmerta asked.

"Of course I didn't send them!" I exclaimed as the two men entered the room.

"Send who?" Harry asked nonchalantly.

"Ginny and Hermione," I said quietly starting to pace the small room raising my fingers to the temple of my forehead. "They're at the Three Broomsticks."

"They're what?" Snape snapped.

"But they were upstairs, sleeping." Harry seemed to be talking more to himself than to us, but I could see the shock written as equally on his face as it was on mine.

"We'll have to go get them. Quickly before one of Mikaeus' spies find them first." I said.

"No, you guys stay. I'll go." Harry said. "Not one of us is on the minister's good list, but at least I have my dad's invisibility cloak." I nodded and sat back on the couch motioning for Severus to sit down beside me who hadn't said a word but kept his mouth closed in a thin line. Harry and Rosmerta both grabbed a handful of floo powder and disappeared from the living room with a puff of green smoke.

Hermione's POV:

"No you are absolutely right. The public needs to know what is really going on under Mikaeus' rule; it's unethical." Nicholas commented as he finished up the note he was writing.

"We just knew there was something we had to do Mr. Pendelhaven." Ginny replied. "We don't mean to pull you into this, but we didn't know who else to turn to and we couldn't just stand by and let more women be victimized like this." As Ginny finished speaking, I heard footsteps approach the table.

"Were good Ros-" I paused looking up at Harry standing over the table. "Uh oh." Harry did not look pleased not one bit. Despite being the same age, Harry had never made me feel smaller than he did right then standing over me. Man if looks could kill.

"You two are in so much trouble. Good Evening Mr. Pendelhaven. We are terribly sorry, but the girls have to leave now." Harry said calmly. Grabbing Ginny's arm and then mine he leads us down the hall and through the door into Madam Rosmerta's office. "I am not going to say a word to you until were all safely back at headquarters. Thank you Rosmerta for your help and use of your floo network."

"But Harry," I started to say, but was cut off.

"I said be silent." I had never seen Harry so cross. Not even when he though Sirius Black had betrayed his parents and he had him at the end of the wand. I repeat, I have never seen Harry this angry. A few minutes later we arrived safely back in McGonagall's living room. Both McGonagall and Daddy stood up from where they were sitting on the couch. McGonagall silenced him with a wave of her hand and stepped forward.

"I don't want to hear a word out of either one of you just yet. Both of you will go upstairs, Hermione to your Daddy's room and Ginny to your bedroom, you will not move until we say otherwise. But first I want to express how incredibly irresponsible both of you have behaved and I am very very disappointed in both of you." McGonagall was pissed and for good reason, but as bad as I felt Ginny looked like she was going to burst into tears. We climbed the stairs and I went into Daddy's bedroom and sat on the bed. I waited for about twenty minutes and finally I heard footsteps in the hallway, they stopped outside the bedroom door and a second later the door creaked open.

"Hermione. What on earth were you thinking? Of all the reckless irresponsible behaviour. You are smarter than this young lady. What if you had been recognized? What if you had been kidnapped?" He stopped to take a breath.

"Daddy I'm sorry, I didn't think-"

"That's right you didn't think! You're brilliant Hermione, one of the brightest young witches I've ever taught, but you need to use your head." Daddy stopped yelling and his voice softened. "Sweetheart you two terrified us today. We could have lost you in a second. You did not consider anyone else's feelings whatsoever today." I nodded.

"Daddy we were only trying to help. I thought maybe Nicholas could help us get the word out. I also didn't know about the article about us in the Prophet. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset anyone." I sighed and he hugged me.

"I was hoping I wouldn't have to punish you so early on Hermione." Daddy said almost sadly and I nodded. Daddy sat down on the bed beside me and pulled me up over his knee. His hand came down on my bum once twice through my wooden skirt and I sighed a bit relieved. This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. A few more thwacks across the butt and then he paused and I almost though 'is that it?' and then I felt him lift my skirt up to my waist and give my legs a firm slap on the upper thigh. His hand against my skin stung a bit more without the skirt to protect it, but it wasn't the worst pain in the world. After a couple slaps I could feel my skin sting slightly and I heard myself let out a soft whimper. Okay so this hurt more than I first thought. Then the worst part. Daddy pulled my pull up down to my knees and I blushed hard as I realized my butt was completely naked and exposed. What if someone walked in like this? It would be completely humiliating. Daddy didn't seem to care about that and he continued to spank my bare bum repeatedly. That hurt even worse than the bare thighs. Spank after spank landed on my reddening butt and I cried so hard. Finally, after what seemed like forever, they stopped. I felt Daddy rubbing my bum; the sting slowly dissipating. I winced as he pulled my pull up back up and replaced my skirt giving my bum a soft pat to tell me he was all done. Slowly he pulled me off his knee and pulled me back to sit on his lap. I sniffled and wiped my face with the palm of my hand. Daddy hugged me tightly to him.

"Daddy I..I…" I choked out and Daddy just held me tighter.

"Shh babygirl it's okay were all done ok? All is forgiven little girl. Next time the adults decide something you will listen right?" I just nodded and let him hold me. We sat in silence for a few minutes and I could hear Ginny getting a similar treatment next door.