The Other Half is Luck
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Harry Potter › Het - Male/Female › Draco/Hermione
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
6
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8,292
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5
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Currently Reading:
1
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Chapter 4
The next week at work, Hermione wondered what it was that had been pestering the fringes of her mind since her… date… with Mark. She was used to solving problems with logic, not luck, so it was a shock when her mental anguish was solved by a folder that her supervisor tossed onto her desk.
Hermione handled few cases entirely on her own; she was the brightest witch of her age, yes, but she was still a fairly new lawyer. Nonetheless, her supervisor, Hebe Barnes-Bailey, tried to include her in some of the bigger cases taken on by the department. It was one of these cases that Hermione was reading when what had been bothering her finally made itself apparent. There, staring up at her from the witness list, was the name Draco Malfoy.
Reading quickly, Hermione found that the case centered around one Dominic Morus, a wizard who was accused of creating dark objects with the intention of selling them to muggles. The case had been sent over from the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office when they realized some of the dangerous items had already been sold, and the case came under the jurisdiction of the Wizengamot.
The Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and indeed the entire Ministry of Magic had undergone serious changes since the overthrow of Voldemort, with the result that a majority of the staff and even the ministers were below the age of 65, quite young by magical standards. The old guard, as Hermione thought of them, had demonstrated that they were corruptible, emotional, and sometimes completely lacking in good judgment. After the War, when the wizarding world was healing the enormous rifts caused by the blood prejudice of the Death Eaters and their allies, the new Minister, Kingsley Shacklebolt, had cleared the Department of this old guard, and started promoting younger and more competent witches and wizards to positions of greater authority. His aim was to remove prejudice from magical courtrooms, an especially important notion when persecuting people whose allegiances during the war had been less than clear.
It was for this reason, more than all the rest, that Hermione was shocked to see that Malfoy was being called as an expert witness FOR the prosecution. That meant he was on her side. With another jolt, Hermione realized it also meant she was going to have to interview him. Probably more than once.
Since his failed attempt to kill Dumbledore, Malfoy had been tortured ceaselessly, both mentally and physically, by the Death Eaters he once called compatriots. He had emerged from the war fatherless and broken, and had been acquitted of all crimes by the new Wizengamot in the War Tribunals. The case had been very thorough, and Malfoy had been extremely vocal in his renunciation of all the dark arts, and the ways of his father. He and his mother, equally as penitent though half as willing, had even set up a fund to assist the people and families that had been harmed by Lucius Malfoy’s activities as a Death Eater.
He was not the same Malfoy he had been at Hogwarts. Though still haughty, he had gone out of his way to participate in the new wizarding world brought about by the destruction of Voldemort, earning a degree in Muggle Studies before taking a position in the Department of Wizard-Muggle Relations, a new branch of the Ministry created by Shacklebolt to examine and monitor the way that wizards lived among and acted towards muggles. Hermione remembered reading about it, and being surprised, but ever since Harry had told her about the events of the night of Dumbledore’s death, all the hate and the animosity she had felt towards Malfoy had evolved into scorn, pity, and at last (after his trial), an acceptance of his remorse. She hadn’t spoken a word to him since their Hogwarts days, but she wasn’t surprised to see how well he was doing, and she didn’t doubt that his actions were genuine. There would always be malicious gossips who said it was all for show, but Hermione, having known Rita Skeeter, didn’t worry about them.
Flipping through the personnel file the Department of Wizard-Muggle Relations had sent over as testament to Malfoy’s suitability for the case, and saw that they had included a recent staff picture. All at once, she saw the reason that something had been bothering her for the last few days. Malfoy had the exact same haircut as Mark.
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Ok, some necessary plot and backstory here. But 2 posts in one day- and hopefully more to come soon!
Hermione handled few cases entirely on her own; she was the brightest witch of her age, yes, but she was still a fairly new lawyer. Nonetheless, her supervisor, Hebe Barnes-Bailey, tried to include her in some of the bigger cases taken on by the department. It was one of these cases that Hermione was reading when what had been bothering her finally made itself apparent. There, staring up at her from the witness list, was the name Draco Malfoy.
Reading quickly, Hermione found that the case centered around one Dominic Morus, a wizard who was accused of creating dark objects with the intention of selling them to muggles. The case had been sent over from the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office when they realized some of the dangerous items had already been sold, and the case came under the jurisdiction of the Wizengamot.
The Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and indeed the entire Ministry of Magic had undergone serious changes since the overthrow of Voldemort, with the result that a majority of the staff and even the ministers were below the age of 65, quite young by magical standards. The old guard, as Hermione thought of them, had demonstrated that they were corruptible, emotional, and sometimes completely lacking in good judgment. After the War, when the wizarding world was healing the enormous rifts caused by the blood prejudice of the Death Eaters and their allies, the new Minister, Kingsley Shacklebolt, had cleared the Department of this old guard, and started promoting younger and more competent witches and wizards to positions of greater authority. His aim was to remove prejudice from magical courtrooms, an especially important notion when persecuting people whose allegiances during the war had been less than clear.
It was for this reason, more than all the rest, that Hermione was shocked to see that Malfoy was being called as an expert witness FOR the prosecution. That meant he was on her side. With another jolt, Hermione realized it also meant she was going to have to interview him. Probably more than once.
Since his failed attempt to kill Dumbledore, Malfoy had been tortured ceaselessly, both mentally and physically, by the Death Eaters he once called compatriots. He had emerged from the war fatherless and broken, and had been acquitted of all crimes by the new Wizengamot in the War Tribunals. The case had been very thorough, and Malfoy had been extremely vocal in his renunciation of all the dark arts, and the ways of his father. He and his mother, equally as penitent though half as willing, had even set up a fund to assist the people and families that had been harmed by Lucius Malfoy’s activities as a Death Eater.
He was not the same Malfoy he had been at Hogwarts. Though still haughty, he had gone out of his way to participate in the new wizarding world brought about by the destruction of Voldemort, earning a degree in Muggle Studies before taking a position in the Department of Wizard-Muggle Relations, a new branch of the Ministry created by Shacklebolt to examine and monitor the way that wizards lived among and acted towards muggles. Hermione remembered reading about it, and being surprised, but ever since Harry had told her about the events of the night of Dumbledore’s death, all the hate and the animosity she had felt towards Malfoy had evolved into scorn, pity, and at last (after his trial), an acceptance of his remorse. She hadn’t spoken a word to him since their Hogwarts days, but she wasn’t surprised to see how well he was doing, and she didn’t doubt that his actions were genuine. There would always be malicious gossips who said it was all for show, but Hermione, having known Rita Skeeter, didn’t worry about them.
Flipping through the personnel file the Department of Wizard-Muggle Relations had sent over as testament to Malfoy’s suitability for the case, and saw that they had included a recent staff picture. All at once, she saw the reason that something had been bothering her for the last few days. Malfoy had the exact same haircut as Mark.
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Ok, some necessary plot and backstory here. But 2 posts in one day- and hopefully more to come soon!