You
Title: You
Author: drcjsnider
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Notes/Warning: For labor day challenge - prompt 22. Minstry Employee - Department of Mysteries
She’d been pulled down to the Department of Mysteries to answer some questions about time-turners. As one of the few people who worked in the Ministry who had used one, she was seen as an invaluable source by the Unspeakables. Apparently, they were attempting to recreate some of the magic objects which had been destroyed when Death Eaters had invaded the Department five years ago.
Hermione had been happy to assist them; at least she’d been happy until discovering that Draco Malfoy was the wizard assigned to question her about her time-turner experiences. She had absolutely no desire to tell him about the helping Sirrus escape Hogwarts or how she’d used the device to save Buckbeak.
“Can’t I do this with anyone else?” she asked him.
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’ve been assigned to question you. There are rules and procedures for doing things and we don’t go upsetting them just because some people can’t get past childhood rivalries.”
Hermione glared at him, but there was no way she would back down now.
“What is your name?”
“Hermione Granger.”
“When and for how long did you use a time-turner?”
“For about nine months during my second year at Hogwarts.”
“Where did you get it?”
“Professor McGonagall loaned it to me.”
“If you’d had a time-turner during the year you were searching for Horcruxes, what is the one thing you would change?”
Hermione’s eyes opened wide in shock. “What kind of question is that?” she demanded.
“It is one of the questions I’ve been told to ask,” Draco emotionlessly informed her.
Hermione thought back to that year - the year that Voldemort was finally defeated. So many good people had been lost that year. If she could save one of them, who would she pick? Perhaps, she could protect Tonks so that poor little Teddy would not have to grow up motherless. Maybe, she could save Professor Snape, so that he survived to receive the recognition his bravery and honor really deserved. She would have loved to save Fred and kept the Weasley family whole. She began to shake. How could anyone be expected to answer a question like this - to make a choice about the value of one life over another?
“I’m waiting.”
“Sod off, Malfoy. This isn’t easy. There are too many things about that year I’d like to change. Could you pick just one person to help?”
“I did,” he informed her quietly. He unbuttoned the top of his shirt to reveal a time-turner on a chain around his neck.
“W-who,” she stammered. “Who did you save with that?”
“You... I went back and kept Bellatrix from killing you.”
Author: drcjsnider
Rating: PG
Word Count: 440
Notes/Warning: For labor day challenge - prompt 22. Minstry Employee - Department of Mysteries
She’d been pulled down to the Department of Mysteries to answer some questions about time-turners. As one of the few people who worked in the Ministry who had used one, she was seen as an invaluable source by the Unspeakables. Apparently, they were attempting to recreate some of the magic objects which had been destroyed when Death Eaters had invaded the Department five years ago.
Hermione had been happy to assist them; at least she’d been happy until discovering that Draco Malfoy was the wizard assigned to question her about her time-turner experiences. She had absolutely no desire to tell him about the helping Sirrus escape Hogwarts or how she’d used the device to save Buckbeak.
“Can’t I do this with anyone else?” she asked him.
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’ve been assigned to question you. There are rules and procedures for doing things and we don’t go upsetting them just because some people can’t get past childhood rivalries.”
Hermione glared at him, but there was no way she would back down now.
“What is your name?”
“Hermione Granger.”
“When and for how long did you use a time-turner?”
“For about nine months during my second year at Hogwarts.”
“Where did you get it?”
“Professor McGonagall loaned it to me.”
“If you’d had a time-turner during the year you were searching for Horcruxes, what is the one thing you would change?”
Hermione’s eyes opened wide in shock. “What kind of question is that?” she demanded.
“It is one of the questions I’ve been told to ask,” Draco emotionlessly informed her.
Hermione thought back to that year - the year that Voldemort was finally defeated. So many good people had been lost that year. If she could save one of them, who would she pick? Perhaps, she could protect Tonks so that poor little Teddy would not have to grow up motherless. Maybe, she could save Professor Snape, so that he survived to receive the recognition his bravery and honor really deserved. She would have loved to save Fred and kept the Weasley family whole. She began to shake. How could anyone be expected to answer a question like this - to make a choice about the value of one life over another?
“I’m waiting.”
“Sod off, Malfoy. This isn’t easy. There are too many things about that year I’d like to change. Could you pick just one person to help?”
“I did,” he informed her quietly. He unbuttoned the top of his shirt to reveal a time-turner on a chain around his neck.
“W-who,” she stammered. “Who did you save with that?”
“You... I went back and kept Bellatrix from killing you.”