Hi, here is the next chapter. Hermione is going to find out a bit more about Harry's job. Happy reading.

Secret Agent Harry Potter

The whole operation was a success. All the hostages had been evacuated and the hostage takers had been caught. Just one thing was disturbing Sirius' happiness and that was that his godson was currently in the emergency room for surgery. His injuries hadn't been severe enough to give reason to worry but he had hoped Harry would manage to finish the mission with small injuries. Sadly he had been forced into a shooting with five opponents to give the freed hostages the opportunity to leave the building.

He had also found out about one disadvantage of their sleeping gas grenades. You needed to be in throwing distance of your opponents to use them effectively. That was a point the research department would try to remedy immediately. For those agents who didn't have the license to kill, principally every agent except the 00 agents, it was vital to be able to take out their opponents anytime. When Harry was healed he would put him through more training to prevent another similar injury next time. And he would be drilled in unsuspicious magical emergency surgery under pain. If Harry had been able to get the bullets out of his arm and leg, he would have been able to just close the wounds. He knew those spells.

Well, for a seventeen year old agent he had done well. But he could do better and it was his job as his godfather to make sure next time it would happen.

Hermione sat in a waiting room of the German branch of the MI6 headquarters. She had been informed that her parents would meet her there. She couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that her best friend was a secret agent for the British Secret Service. The man who had saved her, Lionel Morane, had told her that much. Harry Potter worked for the MI6 as one of their magical secret agents. She hadn't been told more though. And she was worried about Harry being in surgery for the wounds he had got securing their escape from the building.

"Hermione!" She heard the voice of her mother.

She looked up and saw her parents entering the room. Her father was talking with Morane. Did he know him? They seemed to be familiar with each other.

"It's time to tell her. If you don't, she will probably be in more danger because she wouldn't look out for more of your enemies. She only has one year at Hogwarts left, D, and she is of age." Lionel quietly said.

"I know. I tried to keep my family out of my past and my job. As long as they were ignorant nobody could use them against me" Hermione's father Daniel Granger replied. "Of course that didn't work anymore after I married Emma. I had to tell her. She has been creating my alibi for nearly twenty years now, Lionel."

"Yes, I know. But the boss of those hostage takers knew you in the past. While we have him arrested, there might be more of them. And you're one of our best scientists, D. This could repeat itself in the future."

"You're right, I'll tell her. If only to satisfy her curiosity. She knows too much now to let it be. Will you help me with some details?"

"Of course. I'll add what I can."

Both went over to where Emma Granger was hugging her daughter.

"Hermione, I'm very happy to see you unharmed." Dan said.

"Dad, I'm so glad to be here with you. But why did the boss of the hostage takers want me of all those they had caught? The man who was supposed to bring me there said, he knew you from the past." Hermione asked.

Daniel Granger sighed. This wouldn't be easy.

"Well, that is a complicated matter. You have to promise me that you won't tell anybody what I'm about to tell you now. There are things, you don't know about me. Things I have kept a secret to protect you and your mother. You can't tell anybody at your school, well except Harry I guess, as he is involved in this."

"I promise." Hermione answered, recognizing how serious her father was.

"Okay, let's start with some introductions. This is Lionel Morane, otherwise known as Agent 008. I know that you think, this sounds like a James Bond parody. Hermione, those movies and books are based on reality. The MI6, the British Secret Service exists and I'm working for them. I have been part of the MI6 for about thirty years now. I was recruited for my scientific abilities. I'm not really a dentist, even if I can play the part, my specialty is chemistry with a profound secondary specialization in biology and the development of materials based on natural resources.

"I have been born in Germany, in the former GDR to be precise. It was an oppressive regime, but they were good at spotting talents and pushing them to be the best. I was one of those talents. I was tasked with developing chemical weapons for the former USSR. They had a cold war with the west to be the most powerful force in the world. Especially the Americans and the Russians. So I was encouraged at school to excel in scientific classes.

"I regrettably developed a terrible chemical. If that abomination would get into the wrong hands, millions would die. It was more of a coincidence, but with that chemical, the USSR would have been able to win the Cold War easily. The MI6 and the CIA stormed the laboratory I was working at in America, a facility meant to undermine the American security measures and hit from the inside once the chemicals were ready, and destroyed all the notes on the chemical before it could be produced in great numbers. I was really glad that it happened. I had never been comfortable to develop weapons for mass destruction and genocide."

Hermione gulped. She had never expected for her dad being involved in that kind of things.

"The MI6 managed to get me and one of my colleagues out of the laboratory and offered me help. They knew the Russians wouldn't rest until they found me and got the formula for the chemical. So I needed to leave East Germany for good. Thankfully that was easy from America. But I couldn't stay there either as they would look for me there first. I wanted to help undo some of the damage my knowledge had produced and asked if I could work for the MI6 in the research department. M, the head of the MI6 accepted and now I go by the codename D." He said.

"I see. That is a lot to process, Dad. But I'm glad that you chose to help others with your abilities now. Mr Morane, what about Harry? How can he be a secret agent with just seventeen?" She asked.

"I'll tell you as much as I can, but since you're not a member of the MI6, the things you're allowed to know are restricted. Harry Potter was monitored by us since he went to primary school."

Hermione gasped at that. Why would the MI6 monitor a student at primary school? Was this about You-Know-Who?

"I can guess you're wondering why we would do such a thing. Well, Harry had a prophecy that told that he would be the only one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord, known as Voldemort. It was the reason that terrorist attacked his home on Halloween 1981. And the reason why Albus Dumbledore tried to control Harry so much, not that he was really successful. We knew about the prophecy and kept an eye on Harry to see how he developed. We made sure that he was supported at school by one of his teachers. You see, Harry is really intelligent.

"He has studied material that was years beyond his age group in primary school and kept up with his muggle studies during his time at Hogwarts. After his first year at Hogwarts, where he proved to us that he was ready to be trained, we sent an agent to invite him."

"But why would Harry accept that? I mean, sure he had faced You-Know-Who at the end of that year, but why would he join the muggle Secret Service?" She interrupted.

"Many reasons. Dumbledore, in the delusion that he was ensuring Harry had a childhood, kept much information from Harry. Vital information, Hermione. We couldn't let this continue without interfering. So we offered to train him to be ready to face Voldemort once he got back. That happened at the end of your fourth year at Hogwarts by the way. Harry's involvement in the Triwizard Tournament was a plan of Voldemort to regain a body. Sadly for him we knew the plan and prepared the battlefield.

"We caught Lucius Malfoy while he was guarding Bartemius Crouch senior and put him under a potion that has similar effects as an Imperius curse. Harry had orders to win the Tournament. We had thought of entering him ourselves but didn't see any possibility to do so without damaging Harry's reputation. So when his name came out of that goblet as a fourth participant, we were happy as we now had an opportunity to let him show more of his abilities without being suspicious. Well, at the graveyard Harry stalled Voldemort until we could apparate there. We mobilized all of our high ranking magical agents and took out all of the remaining free Death Eaters. Those are the missing members of the Wizengamot and the Ministry."

Hermione was shocked. The MI6 had worked against You-Know-Who and nobody at the Ministry knew about it.

"By now, Voldemort is dead. And this time he won't come back, we made sure of it. The details are classified. But it was Harry who managed to hold his own against him and that was the main reason we trained him. So that he would have a chance to survive that fight. We didn't expect everything working out that well when we recruited Harry. But by now he has done many missions for us and is on his way to the top. He is the best agent we have in his age group. And he knows the risks of the job."

"He knows he could die and is doing it anyway." She whispered.

"Yes. To spare others suffering and pain, he is willing to fight. He knows loss and wants to spare others having to grow up an unloved orphan. That's why he is training relentlessly. He has already taken his A-levels with high marks, he could have taken NEWTs already but to keep his cover he doesn't. He will graduate Hogwarts with top marks.

"You may have noticed that since his fifth year he has been working on changing the school. That was one of his main duties. If the children of the wizarding world learn to tolerate each other regardless of blood status, things will change with time. We have some operatives working at the Ministry, but his example will lead the future generations and hopefully will prevent another dark lord from rising."

Hermione pondered over the new information. She thought about the things Harry had told them while they were at Hogwarts. She thought about the arguments he had had with the headmaster. Something had happened to make him lose trust in Dumbledore after his first year and she was now pretty sure it was connected to the MI6. She then thought about him telling them that he had left the Dursleys for good.

"So you were the ones who helped him leave his relatives' house. How did you do that without alerting the headmaster?" She asked.

"Oh, that was easy. Dumbledore had built wards based on Lily Potter's blood that would protect Harry from outside attacks. We just didn't see the wisdom in letting him stay in an abusive environment. So we used one of our techno-magical devices, a so-called blood golem, infused it with blood of Petunia Dursley and placed it in Harry's new home. The wards were shifted to the new home, as they are built to hold, as long as Harry calls the place where his mother's blood lives home."

"But how would you get his aunt to cooperate? From what he told us in first year, they didn't like each other" she wanted to know.

"Nicked it. And tricked her to sign guardianship in the muggle world over to his godfather."

"But isn't Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, a wanted criminal?" She wondered.

"He was never convicted as he never even had a trial. He is working for us as well. The whole uproar about his escape was just an accident. We never thought an earthquake in North Sea would destroy the golem that had been in his place for twelve years. Those golems are really great." Lionel said.

It was a bit strange to talk about himself in third person, but Hermione couldn't know that Sirius Black and Lionel Morane were one and the same. The identities of the 00 agents were protected at all costs.

"So that is the reason nobody in the muggle world was informed about him, I had wondered about it, but Harry managed to alleviate my concerns at the time. But couldn't you prove his innocence so he could return to the wizarding world?" She asked.

"We could, we have the true culprit in prison, but there wouldn't be any benefit in it. It would just start an enormous amount of publicity and that is something a secret agent doesn't need. Why would we want to destroy a perfect cover? Sirius Black is thought to have fled to overseas; therefore the British Ministry of Magic isn't in charge of his chase anymore because they have no authority in other countries. They have no recent pictures of Black, so recognizing him is difficult for the normal witch or wizard. We could clear him if it would become necessary, we have Pettigrew, but as long as it isn't needed, we won't attract the media spectacle. Harry is special in that regard, but he can't just shed his fame. So the better idea is to train him to use it for the safety of the country."

Hermione could intellectually understand that, even if her sense of justice protested.

"Hermione, you just have to accept it as it's." Her mother said gently.

"Mum, I just have problems with taking all of this in at once. And it hurts a bit that Harry would keep such a secret from me. I know he couldn't tell me, but that doesn't mean it hurts less." She said.

"That's one of the sacrifices secret agents are making. We can't confide in anybody outside the MI6. Not even our best friends. Only one other person at Hogwarts knows about Harry's profession and that is because that person is Harry's back-up and local superior." Lionel said.

"I guess that part is also confidential." She said.

"Yes."

"How long will it take for Harry to recover?" She asked.

"Perhaps a week. Once the bullets are out of his body, the healers can close the wounds up and after three days of bed rest, he should be able to walk around again. I think this won't influence any of the other planned missions for him."

"More missions?" She asked worried.

"Yes, but none of them should have the kind of potential danger as the last one. And normally Harry wouldn't have been as endangered as he was, the five hostage takers that appeared shortly before you all escaped were just bad luck, which he managed to deal with well enough."

"Can you tell me when he took his first mission?" Emma asked.

"With thirteen. Just observation of a meeting of a drug dealer with underlings in a mall. But he did very well on that mission. He is good."

"Why would the MI6 use children as spies?" Emma asked revolted.

Training children up to be agents was one thing, especially somebody like Harry who was a target for a terrorist, but sending thirteen year olds on missions was a bit much in her book.

"Because the other side uses them as well. Sometimes you need to get somebody absolutely unsuspicious into places that are dangerous. And how else would he have got experience in relatively safe missions? The one he did at thirteen was in a mall where he observed the exchange of money and drugs, made photos with hidden cameras and recorded a conversation. Nothing more. Our opponents try to destabilize the country, sometimes the world. The public doesn't know this because we deal with it before it becomes a problem. If it weren't for institutions like us, the world would see many more wars than we have now. Normally teenage agents aren't involved in high class missions, but sometimes it just happens. This mission was high class, but Harry is an adult since his seventeenth birthday. And we needed somebody close to Miriam Reinold in age that could protect her. He was the only one skilled enough to do it."

"Miriam was a target?" Hermione gasped.

"Of another group. Somehow the hostage takers took out the group we had expected. They were after the money those high class guests promised, if they blackmailed their families, employers or country with. Except for Harry's injuries the mission was a complete success."

"Lionel, can you tell us about the next things that are going to happen?" Daniel asked.

"Well, the press will just report that a special unit was successful in liberating the hostages. No names and institutions will be named. Federal Chancellor Kohl has been briefed by the German agents and is covering the operation up. We'll return to London in two days after Harry is stable for transport." Lionel explained.

Hermione was deep in thought. She had been allowed to speak with Harry briefly after he woke up. He had been well enough to assure her that he would be fine in a few days and that this injury wouldn't keep him down for long. He even joked that he now had a week of paid vacation, even if the food at the hospital wasn't that great.

She couldn't understand how he could deal with his job so casually. Didn't he care for his safety? For the feelings of the people close to him if he died? She snorted. Probably it was a part of his saving people thing that she had noticed in her best friend. First year it was him going after the stone, second year he had saved Ginny, third year, well that was the destruction of Umbridge to help Professor Lupin, fourth year, from what she had been told he was part of a mission to finally get rid of Voldemort, fifth year he was protecting Julia and he probably had done something else in sixth year.

Not to forget his secret missions. It was hard to wrap her mind around the thought. Harry Potter, her best friend was a secret agent of the likes of James Bond, who she had been informed, really had existed and was now the name of whatever agent got the position of 007. It was just so much to take in. Then it knocked at her door.

"Come in." She called.

Her mother opened the door, came into the room and closed it behind her.

"Hey, sweetie, how are you?" She asked.

"Confused as hell, Mum." She admitted.

"I understand you. Believe me; it was very hard in the beginning after your father confessed to me what he did for a living."

"How do you deal with it? I mean it probably is easier as Dad is just working in research but it still is hard to keep everything a secret." Hermione asked.

"I think about the consequences if he didn't work for the MI6." Emma answered.

"Huh?" Hermione asked not understanding.

"Think back to your time at Hogwarts you told me about. What do you think would have happened if Harry hadn't been trained by the MI6?"

Hermione thought hard. She recalled the things that had happened over the years.

"In second year, he would have probably been injured by the basilisk or even killed." She realized. "In third year, Umbridge would have made life hell for Professor Lupin if Harry hadn't destroyed her career in front of all the students in the Great Hall. And for the other werewolves in Great Britain. I'm now sure he was trained in speech so he could pull that off. If he hadn't been trained he would have had a really hard time in the Tournament against opponents who would have had three years more training than him. And the fight Agent Morane told us about against You-Know-Who wouldn't have gone that well, as Harry would have been on his own."

"I see you understand it now. But call him Voldemort, always use the proper name for something; otherwise you give power to an oppressor. He would have been able to start a new war in the wizarding world. And yes, I know what happened before he was stopped by Harry as a baby. You don't get to be the wife of a member of the MI6, without knowing the overall events in the world that involve your husband. You don't remember the time as you were too young, but the war had consequences for the non-magical world too. People died mysteriously or disappeared. Your father was working overtime to help find methods to protect the civilian population.

"Now think, if your father didn't do his best to find those solutions, what would have happened with the people he managed to protect? He is a master chemist; a lot of his inventions were medical innovations. Without them, people would have died or been crippled. Without the agents that took out Death Eaters that were on raids, other people would have died. The MI6 is the shield against the worst threats that are out there, intent to harm our country. If the agents wouldn't take care of them, who would? The police? They aren't trained for that. The army? They are too noticeable. The aurors? The Ministry of Magic is a joke these days and Amelia Bones has a lot to change before they could take care of a threat like the Death Eaters properly."

Hermione nodded. She really understood now. While it was hard to see her best friend doing this dangerous job, somebody had to do it. And he had the power and the knowledge to help others.

"Thanks Mum. It will take some time to get used to it, but I'll cope. I just wish I could help him. I always had his back, but now I feel he is so far out of my reach." She sighed.

"Who said you couldn't?" Her mother asked.

Hermione looked at her questioningly.

"Well, you're smart, you're a hard worker and you know about technology and magic. The MI6 doesn't only consist of agents as you know. There are a lot of scientists and researchers here as well. You aren't a warrior, Hermione, but you could be one hell of a scientist. Be it magical or non-magical. The MI6 is always interested to hire highly talented witches and wizards for those positions. Many muggleborns started to work here as the wizarding world discriminated against them."

Emma smiled at her daughter. She had known about the problems Hermione would have after graduation because of the pureblood supremacy politics at the Ministry. She knew things were changing but she would feel a lot better if her daughter found a position in the non-magical world where she could use both sides of her heritage. And being a scientist for the MI6 paid well, she knew what Daniel earned. And she had a suspicion that her daughter had a little crush on her raven haired friend.

"I'll think about it, Mum." Hermione said.

"That's all I can ask."

Emma left the room so that Hermione could think about what she wanted to do.

Harry was currently dodging at fast speeds. He had been cleared from the hospital two days ago and Sirius was convinced he had to up his training so he wouldn't be hurt like he had been on the last mission again. While he had been outnumbered and at a disadvantage because he had to cover the escape of the hostages, next time he was in such a situation, Sirius wanted to be sure Harry would get out of it better. He had also planned some sessions of healing under pain without making it look like magic. Extraction of bullets being top of his list of spells and normal techniques.

So now Sirius and Harry were in one of the training rooms, Sirius using a gun that shot hard rubber balls, which hurt when they hit but didn't do much damage besides bruises. It was a very effective training method. Harry knew the dangers if the bullets were real, so he did his best to avoid them.

Hermione and her father sat in the room next to the training room where Harry was trained by 008. Hermione was impressed by the level of skill Harry displayed.

"Dad, why is it that Harry is being trained by a 00 agent?" She asked.

"Lionel has taken an interest in Harry's training some time ago. Harry is one of the best upcoming agents and a top candidate to get one of the 00 spots when he is older. But those spots include an extremely high level of skills." Daniel answered.

Hermione had been accepted for an internship with the development department as she was the daughter of one of the current scientists. She had also sworn an oath to never reveal anything she learned at MI6.

The door opened and M, the leader of the department entered.

"Good morning, D, Hermione." She greeted.

"Good morning, ma'am." Hermione replied.

"Good morning, M." Daniel said.

"How long have they already been at it?" M asked pointing at the glass between the training room and the observation room?

"One hour, forty nine minutes, twenty eight seconds." Daniel answered.

"Good time for him being out of the hospital for two days." M commented. "It doesn't seem that 008 has that much success hitting Agent Potter."

"Two times so far." Daniel reported.

"Where?" M asked.

"Both grazing shots. One his left thigh, one his right ear."

"When?"

"Thigh after fifty two minutes, ear after one hour and twenty seven minutes." Was the answer.

Hermione was keeping quiet. This was after all the leader of the MI6. And she didn't know much about the way things worked here. So she observed and learned.

"That's good enough. Call them out after the two hour mark if they don't stop themselves by then. I have a mission for Agent Potter."

"Of course, ma'am." Daniel answered.

M nodded towards Hermione and left the room.

"Wow, is she always like that?" Hermione asked being strangely reminded of her Transfiguration teacher.

"That's M for you. She has taken over the top spot two years ago for the former M, who had served many decades. And she is good at her position."

"I see. What is the main reason we have been watching Harry train?" Hermione asked.

"Improvement of the weapons and the armour the agents wear for missions. From watching Harry dodging we know which movements have to be possible for them. We need to develop new materials for them to wear constantly as the other side isn't sleeping. Our computers will be fed with the data from this training exercise and my team will then work on finding new ways to equip the agents the best way. And I can proudly say, Great Britain is one of the leading nations in equipping their secret agents. That is mainly due to us making much money with the Bond movies to finance our research. And there is no way we could give out dragon hide vests to all our agents as dragons are endangered. There simply aren't enough dragons. So we take materials that have the qualities we are looking for and try to duplicate them by scientific means."

"I understand."

They waited until the timer hit two hours. Both men were still going strong in the training room. Daniel hit the speak button on the intercom.

"Lionel. The training is finished for Harry. M wants him in her office after he has cleaned up for a new mission." He told them.

Lionel stopped shooting and nodded towards Harry. Harry wiped the sweat from his forehead and left the room walking towards the shower.

Harry sat in an armchair in M's office in a dark blue suit with a white button up shirt and a tie matching the colour of his suit. He had learned that you looked professional each time you were called into your superior's office. And M normally only gave the high class agents missions in one-on-one briefings.

"I assume you're wondering why I asked you to come here, Agent Potter." M asked.

"Yes, ma'am. Normally I get briefed by another agent for a mission or you give them to the whole group which is tasked with it." Harry politely answered.

"You're correct. Normally that would be the case. But there are two things that are different for this mission. First, your status has been changed. Congratulations, Agent Potter, to being considered an official high class agent." She said.

Harry first was stunned, then he smiled happily.

"Thank you, ma'am, I won't disappoint your trust in me." He said.

"I know you won't, your record is impressive for a man as young as you are, Agent Potter. The next part is the mission. While you won't go solo, this mission is special. It's high class and normally we would send one of the 00 agents. There is just one little problem that prevents us from doing so."

She made a dramatic pause. Harry was on edge. He knew he was good, but not good enough for a 00 mission. What the hell was M thinking?

"For this mission we need an infiltration expert who can get out of any location. And he can't be older than twenty as the only source of information we can get close to, is the eighteen year old daughter of the target."

M pushed a photo of a pretty dark haired girl over to Harry. He took it and committed her looks to memory.

"This is Stefania Estrago, the daughter of Italian Mafia boss Giovanni Estrago. She just turned eighteen and all of the Italian high society is invited for the celebration. The girl is known to go through men in a similar fashion to 007 does with women. So it won't be difficult for you to get close to her. Your mission is to seduce the girl, find out the location of her father's headquarters and return with the information to us. From there on 007 will take over for you, with you providing back-up for him. He will attend the party for the adult acquaintances and important business partners of Estrago and distract Giovanni Estrago from your actions."

"Wouldn't it be a bit obvious if 007 openly attended a party of a Mafiosi?" Harry asked.

After all James Bond was the most well-known name of an MI6 agent around the world.

"That's our intention. First, everybody thinks that we only exist in fiction, so anybody with the name James Bond will arouse suspicion for a moment but then they will dismiss it as ridiculous. All the James Bonds of the past used that to their advantage. Bond will instruct you how to best approach the girl. Listen to his advice as he is one of the best in that area of expertise."

Harry didn't fear he would have any problems with seducing the girl once he had made contact. After all, he had grown up with Sirius Black, a womanizer like few others. And he had already made certain experiences during earlier missions. But this would be his first high class mission that included seduction.

"Of course, ma'am." He answered.

"You're leaving tomorrow morning at 6:45 from Heathrow Airport. Be there an hour before the plane leaves."

"Understood, ma'am." He replied.

M took a folder out of the drawer of her desk. She handed it over to him.

"That is all the information we have on the mafia activities Giovanni Estrago is involved in, the CV of Stefania Estrago, her closest friends and so on. Further the parameters of the mission. Commit them to memory immediately. You may leave, Agent Potter, good luck for your mission." M dismissed him.

"Thank you, ma'am."

Harry stood up and left the room.

And done. The mission that comes up is the reason I put the lemon warning into the description. I will have to see how detailed I can let it be with the rules of the site. Till then.