Hermione's New Job

Hermione's New Job

The day after Ron's departure was Hermione's first scheduled day of work in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures she had contacted Kingsley about the position ages ago but because of the newly dubbed minister's extremely busy schedule he had not read it until three weeks later writing back an apology for his delay and whole heartedly agreeing that he could not think of a more capable witch for the job. Finally the day had come for Hermione to enter the workforce and although you could not tell from her appearance she was extremely nervous.

She woke up early that morning put on her new work robes straightened her hair with her wand and had a quick bite to eat before flooing to the ministry. She arrived at her book filled cubicle just in time to receive an urgent interdepartmental memo informing her of a meeting that was to begin at 8:00 on the 15th floor in room 212. Looking down at her watch she realized it was nearly that time already so she rushed off to the lifts after a few minuets she reached her destination on time and found an open seat around the large circle table next to a friendly looking woman. A few seconds later Kingsley rushed in closely followed by John McCormick, Hermione's new boss, and Bill Weasley they each took a seat.

Mr. McCormick stood to discuss the matter at hand, "We have a matter of importance to discuss but before I begin I want it understood that what is said in this meeting is not to leave this room the ministry certainly doesn't want this to leak to the press we have enough to deal with without fielding concerned citizen's questions, not to mention it might make the situation worse." After eyeing all his employees probingly he was satisfied with each of their nodding heads and he gave Bill the go ahead to proceed.

"Yesterday evening the ministry was approached by a gang of goblins including griphook with serious allegations that they had been swindled and requested that Harry Potter be taken into custody for breaching his contract which lists Griphook as the rightful owner of the Gryffindor sword upon services rendered."

Hermione blurted out "But we gave him the sword (well actually he took it but nevertheless it was in his possession)"

"True" Bill said "However, because of the magical properties of this item it can disappear at any time when a Griffindor has true need of it so the night of the final battle Neville called it to him to slay Nagini."

Hermione gasped the implications of this information were monumental. A few in the room still did not grasp what Bill was saying so he continued.

"Now the real problem here is that the sword can so easily pass from Gryffindor to Gryffindor in time of need so the sword cannot be given to the goblins permanently since it will eventually present itself to another Gryffindor and the fact that is absolutely priceless means that no amount of gold would be sufficient and that they will stop at nothing to obtain it" He paused for the information to sink in.

The minister piped up "Not only that but also our current forces are severely depleted so an attack at this point might completely devastate us."

The members of the room faces were now completely horror struck.

"Another possibility is that they may go after the whole clan of Gryffindor's in order to insure that there was nobody else to whom the sword could present itself." Hermione exclaimed. There was a moment of dead silence.

Bill broke it, "O.k. now that we all know what we are up against we have to find a way to make sure none of those things happen."

Everyone in the room turned to Mr. McCormick awaiting a plan of action. "Now we need to work in teams to solve this dilemma I will have three of you working on the contract trying to find a loophole to get out of it or at least something that might buy us some time how about Ginger, Mackavoy, and…. Granger you wrote the contract did you not?"

"Yes, sir" she whispered shaking her head angry at herself for being so ignorant. It was the only way to get the sword she had to remind herself as she fumed inwardly.

"Well then you can join Ginger and Mackavoy" grunted McCormick.

After all the assignments were handed out the meeting was adjourned but before everyone left Mackavoy took a moment to introduce the new member of the staff Hermione Granger and welcomed her to the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

Hermione meet with her team who introduced themselves. The tall man with dark curly hair was Mackavoy and the short blond with glasses was Ginger they each shook hands with one another then promptly started to work. First they divided up the duties Ginger would researching common magical contract loopholes, Hermione was in charge of learning about the goblin code (basically the goblin wizard relation laws created after the last rebellion was put down nearly a century ago), and Mackavoy would be in direct contact with Griphook to make sure there would be no rash actions taken without prior notice in addition to trying to come to some other agreement. With that they all rushed back to their respective desks and began the tedious process of flipping through pages upon pages of old manuscripts trying to find a way to squash the growing support for another goblin rebellion.

At the end of the day all three of them went home feeling utterly exhausted and disgruntled at not being any closer to resolving the issue.

The other day was my birthday so here is my present to yall (hint:reviews are the best b-day gift ever so take a moment and write one). Huge thanks to Gryffendorpride1007 for informing me of Hermiones new job and Prettyfangirl for all the reviews/imput. For anyone interested my trip to alaska was amazing! Review, review, review!