Stuck By Law *COMPLETE*

Hermione got out of the shower and looked at herself in the mirror. This was it, this was the day before the voting was done and this was her last attempt to look amazing to the wizarding community. She dressed carefully in a soft light pink pencil skirt with a matching blouse and blazer and pulled her hair back in a stylish bun. She walked out and made her way to Severus who was waiting for her, she kissed him and laid her forehead against his pulling back quickly and looking at him worriedly.

“You’re burning up” She pointed out and he smiled.

“No, I’m not” He lied “I’ve been working on a potion and it’s a little hot in the lab”

“Alright” She sighed “When this is all over we can take a vacation”

“No, we can’t” He laughed “Because you’re going to be the new Minister of Magic”

“I won’t…” She started but he kissed her.

“You will” He insisted, she watched his eyes slide out of focus for a moment and then refocus on her again with some force.

“You should stay here” She said “I can…”

“I’m going” He said “I love you and I want to be there when you give your final speech”

“Are you sure?” She asked frowning “I will stay home to take care of you. You’re my husband and you mean more to me than some stupid and cold spot in an office”

“I love you” He repeated passionately, it felt like he was trying to say it as many times as possible before something terrible happened “It’s time to go, love”

Hermione, Aibhlinn and Severus all Floo’d out of the school and to the ministry where many witches, wizards, magical creatures and reporters were gathering to hear the final speeches. She stood near the platform and listened while Percy went on about his hope for the future of the magical world, then another hopeful got up and speak and then a third hopeful spoke. Then, Hermione heard her name being called followed by a deafening cheer from the crowd. She walked up to the podium and just smiled down at the crowd merely watching them and thinking about what she wanted to say. She had written down points she wanted to make but not a speech because she did better under pressure.

“Wow” She started once they were all quiet again “I stand here, a muggleborn witch, looking out at the faces of witches and wizards in the world I love and am reminded of when I found out that I was magical” She found Minerva and smiled at her “Minerva McGonagall came to my house when I was eleven and told me that all the crazy stuff that I could do when I was feeling a particularly strong emotion was magic. I, being Hermione Granger, of course already knew that because I’m an insufferable know-it-all…” There was laughter around the room “I had always thought that what I could do was magic which of course made me think that I was an absolute nutter” That elicited even more laughter “Then I came to Diagon Alley to get my school things and realized that it was all amazing, it was true and even though everyone was so strange and new I wanted to be a part of it” She smiled again “Throughout the years I learned not only how to harness my magic, but how to be a friend and how to be a hero. I learned not to be afraid and not to allow someone to tell me no, to tell me what to do, how to think or how I should act or behave. I learned how to be powerful as a witch, a woman and a human in general. That is what I want to teach our world in the future, not just to the muggleborns who come in to our world at age eleven” She had tears that filled her eyes “But to the purebloods who may be very sheltered, to the half-bloods that may or may not be learning about our world as well as the muggle one. To the magical creatures that everyone’s afraid of, Vampire, Centaurs, the Merfolk” She looked at Remus and smiled at him “And the Werewolves. I want the children to go to school and to be friends, I want what I learned about darkness to be taught to everyone” People looked confused “I learned that the scariest of people can be the nicest, the cockiest of people can be the most giving and that darkness can be found in the nicest most charming and harmless looking people in the world. Not to make the next generation suspect everyone but so they won’t be as naïve as me and my friends were going in to the war” She looked at her hands for a few minutes while everyone absorbed all that she had said “I don’t want you to vote for me to be the next Minister because I’m a war-hero, no…I want you to vote for me because you believe that I can and will make this world be as amazing to everyone as it was to me when I first stepped in to Diagon Alley” There was clapping and she saw Ginny wipe her fingers under her eyes “So, I leave you with this last thought: I want everyone’s experience in wizarding world, whether they be pureblood, half-blood, muggleborn or a magical creature to be magical to them every day of their lives”

There was intense clapping and cheering and Hermione waved and when she was done and it quieted down she walked away to shake hands and wish the other hopefuls luck. The noise had subdued enough so that when there was a thud everyone heard it, the echoing scream from Astoria was heard even better. Hermione looked in to the crowd in time to see Lucius grab his left arm where his mark had been and then drop to the ground. A few more people dropped that everyone knew had been low-ranking death eaters. Hermione’s eyes slid over to Severus who was standing there holding their daughter. He looked at her confused for a moment before his face registered a sharp pain through his left arm and she watched as if in slow motion as his black eyes rolled up in to his head. His arms went slack and as his body started to drop to the ground she saw Aibhlinn making her fast decent to the ground. Hermione let out a blood curdling scream as she watched her baby about to slam in to the cement floor. But she never did, Hermione saw her float for a minute before she was placed in to the outstretched arms of Remus Lupin. Tonks was pointing her wand at the baby for a moment before she let the spell go now that she was safely in her husbands arms. Hermione looked back at Severus to find that he hadn’t hit the ground like the others had, he had fallen but Sirius Black had managed to catch him on his way down. Sirius was now sitting on the ground with his legs out and Severus, unconscious, laying back against his chest.

“What’s going on?” Harry asked “What the hell is happening?”

“I don’t know” Hermione answered “I need to get Severus to Saint Mungo’s”

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