A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts: Granger

Entering the end of June, even the British Ministry of Magic, which was built underground, could feel the scorching heat in the air.

Hermione pretended that her bad mood these days was caused by the upcoming match. All kinds of news related to the floating island suddenly increased. Mafalda Prewett, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mystery Wall" who came out of Hogwarts, commented on this phenomenon: "No matter when, you You can see at least one guy riding around the island on a public broom with a camera on his shoulder, needless to say, that's my lovely companion. ’

Rita Skeeter, another sharp-tongued and sarcastic reporter, finished her reports on "The Dirty Smugglers" and "Excellent Naturalist?" After popular articles such as 'Bad Fashion Designer', the focus is on tourists landing on the island. But this time she almost put herself in the news. When someone asked her about her source, she hinted that she had bribed the staff on the island and obtained a list of celebrities in advance, including some members of the Order of the Phoenix, the frontline lookout station and the tail Members of the Snake Club, including politicians, celebrities, pianists, and tennis players ranked second in the world last year are all on the list, but the most important thing is the chain reaction caused by the "alternation of power behind the World Cup" and "people panic." She gloated.

Journalists from other countries are not far behind. This seems to confirm the point that Mafalda wants to express, "there are more journalists on the island than tourists." This is of course an exaggeration. Application for landing on the island.

"There are 120 people who signed up this morning. If the information synchronized by the Muggle government is included, this number will increase... 2000. And this is only the number of one morning!" Hermione rubbed her forehead, "The door keys are not enough, and the number of people the fireplace can receive every day is limited, and it must be unblocked at critical moments...Didn't we remodel a passenger ship for the British government?"

"The Prime Minister wants that ship to be used by the Queen and her entourage of officials," replied the man from the Department of Magical Transport.

Hermione opened her mouth as if to mock, but she didn't say anything.

"I can only provide 20 more temporary fireplaces, and the coordinates are on a small island 30 nautical miles away from the floating island. If they agree, arrange a pick-up boat, or let them figure out their own way." She wrote herself He added his name at the end of the document, "Give it to Kingsley." The office fell silent.

Hermione glanced at the time, the hands of the clock stopped at four o'clock and seemed to have stopped moving. She went through the documents at hand again, the new law entry clause, review of the list of potions, private broomstick license, opening date of the wizarding town, "Draft Anti-Space Smuggling Law"... After confirming that everything has been processed, She began to stare blankly at the photo on her desk, which was taken by her and Felix on Mars, sitting on a reddish-brown rock, with desolate sand dunes covered with gravel in the background; An oasis; Valen is jumping around with great interest under the bubble head spell...

A smile of reminiscence appeared on her face, and her fingers inadvertently stroked the photo frame. The experience of the past few years has passed by in a flash:

As the assistant to the previous Minister of Magic, Ms. Burns, although she entered the Ministry of Magic from a high starting point, it is not surprising: the Minister of Magic can have many assistants. A special department—the Office of the Assistant Minister serves the Minister of Magic. The number ranges from one to more than a dozen. These people generally act as staff and assistants. Of course, occasionally some people who only get paid and do nothing are mixed in guy.

But Hermione got plenty of exercise here.

From initially being responsible for reporting information related to Muggle affairs, to gradually getting in touch with the specific affairs of the Pan-Magical Alliance, participating in and formulating the contact details of various magical races, and contacting government personnel as a deputy, her political talent has been realized. show. Three years later, Hermione applied to become an observer of the International Pan-Magical Union. In the following two years, she traveled all over the world and wrote a series of observation reports combining the local magical environment and an international perspective. The headquarters provided a rigorous and detailed analysis case.

For Hermione, her horizons were further broadened.

When she returned to the British Ministry of Magic, she was only 24 years old, but her experience was far beyond that of her peers. She became the head of the Assistant Minister's Office after an interview with a harmonious atmosphere, which was not even called an interview. Theoretically, she could then give orders to Felix, who was still holding the post of aide (Felix has not yet understood the relationship between these posts, and no one dared to order him).

If she follows the steps, she is likely to go farther and farther on the road of politics, promoted all the way, and finally becomes the Minister of Magic. But her magical road will also become narrower and narrower. In fact, unlike Harry's smooth road, she realized her own limit earlier. Although her ability is far beyond that of ordinary wizards, only she realizes that she may never be able to become an archmage, and an invisible wall stands in front of her. I don't know how many outstanding wizards have been trapped by this wall.

It was the trip to Mars that brought Hermione an unexpected change. In her words afterwards:

"The transformation of every wizard's magical power is inseparable from the huge impact on the soul. For me, it was the month of living on Mars. I don't need to consider various realistic influences, and completely cast aside all constraints and concerns... and the vastness Compared with the universe, I am so small, but when I do my best to light up a small piece of starry sky, I can feel the shock and heroism from the heart, as if the previous cognition has been subverted.”

After returning from Mars, she wrote more than a dozen papers on the nature of magic. Most of them were conjectures, but they were enough to prove that she had a new understanding of magic. Felix picked one of them and suggested that she publish it publicly. , which was later considered to be a perfect demonstration of the difficult problem of 'magic adaptability under extreme conditions'.

In the office, Hermione said to herself: "That feeling is really amazing."

"What 'wonderful'?" a voice interjected. She raised her head, just in time to catch Harry's weird expression, and Hermione said teasingly: "You performed the scene of Ronsky's fake moves in public at the wedding."

Harry coughed unnaturally twice. He is getting married for the first time, and some excitement is inevitable. In addition, he and Ginny made an oath under the sky. After the oath was over, Fred and George shouted the momentum of the game, and a large number of lively guests rode brooms toward Swooping down, he couldn't help himself...

"By the way, why are you here?" Hermione deliberately changed the subject, "I thought you'd be too busy to come out recently."

"Almost," Harry muttered, "I've been absent from at least three family gatherings, and little Albus has a problem with me. There are too many things to deal with. It's a city of millions of people. Most of the countries and forces in the world are involved, and the relationship is intricate...To be honest, I can't handle it."

"Perhaps you can refer to Felix's practice?" Hermione suggested.

"Great idea," said Harry, "delegating things to others, showing up now and then to solve a problem or two, and getting rid of the troublemakers as well... I thought about it, it's not a good style. Works for me."

Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"Are you here to seek comfort, or to complain?"

"Neither," said Harry sternly, "it's because of another thing."

Hermione watched him across the table.

"The Ministry searched a time-turner from Knott's house, right?"

"How did you—"

"You tell me first," said Harry.

Hermione thought about it. "Yes, the Ministry has been systematically recovering lost Time-Turners, damaged or not, over the centuries; this has been going on since Ms. Burns was in office over a dozen years ago. Because... well, You know the specific reason."

"Oh, I see..." Harry said slowly ~IndoMTL.com~ One of the two people in this conversation happened to have experienced time travel, and traveled far beyond the time limit allowed by the Ministry of Magic, Indirectly led to the breach of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, and someone stole a large amount of time energy and the hourglass of the time converter; the two knew who this person was.

"Ms. Burns believes that it is necessary to conceal the existence of the time-turner, especially in the special period when the magic world is opening up." Hermione explained to him: "It was Principal Dumbledore who applied to the Ministry of Magic. Now that this policy is terminated with his departure, the Time Turner will not appear in the school and public view, and Kingsley and I agree with this approach."

Harry was thinking about Dumbledore's attitude towards the Time-Turner, and about the silverware that had been sitting on the long-legged table for years, then he took a small gold timepiece from his pocket and put it on the table .

Hermione's eyes widened at first, then the surprised expression on her face gradually disappeared, and she became thoughtful.

"It can't be yours," she said.

"It's from the Malfoy family," Harry said frankly, "Draco originally wanted to give it to Professor Haip, but he wasn't sure what he thought, so he made a compromise and entrusted me to deliver it to you. He said, Uh," Harry scratched his head, "Astoria is in good health and can participate in the opening ceremony of the World Cup."

"That's good news." Hermione smiled.