Chapter 1
“Granger! My office NOW!” Hermione groaned hearing the low booming voice through the howler that was waiting at her desk, Hermione stood up from her plush leather desk chair gathering up her last case file with a flick of her wand straightening her maroon blouse and her deep brown slacks when she was done with her physical check of her appearance she let the file fall to her hand as she tucked her wand away in its holster and began her journey across the quiet hall to her leading officials office.
The faded gold letters on the milky glass were hard to read in the dim lighting but with the sounds of yelling anyone could make out the voices of one Kingsley shacklebolt and the highest ranked unspeakable Joesph Kline, joesph was an interesting person yet boring as ever he was the only man to successfully track down grindelwald and grindelwalds followers yet he still doesn’t know how to say hello without yelling at someone, Hermione took a deep breath as she twisted the golden knob and let herself into mr.klines office noticing both men had stopped their shouting match and had turned their attention towards her making her hand twitch slightly as she took another deep breath and closed the door behind her “mr..” joesph held up his dark olive skinned hand and silenced Hermione motioning for her to take a seat in the newly conjured leather wingback chair that sat next to Kingsley “have a seat Hermione we’d like to discuss a very important project with you” joesph replied ,with a stressed voice making Kingsleys smile seem even wider as Hermione strode across the floor and graciously took her spot “Hermione it’s been so long how have you been is everything doing well for you?” Kingsley asked his voice didn’t shake but the way his eyes shifted with joy and then to a worried stare Hermione put on her sweetest smile up at her old friend “yes kings thank you for what you’ve done for me I really do appreciate it” she nodded and almost chuckled when she saw Kingsley do the same making a silent truce and they were definitely talking later.
Hermione slid her files onto Kline’s desk and took the offered case file from Kingsley flipping through the pages and newspaper clippings “so I’ll be investigating an old castle in Ireland? Doesn’t this sound more like an aurors job?” Hermione questioned looking down at the news paper clippings “muggles are afraid to enter and that very castle housed Ireland’s very first wizard we need you Hermione to take a look around and find something that’s rumored to be there” Kingsley answered looking anywhere but at Hermione, leaving her with more questions.
Kingsley pulled out an old piece of parchment the yellowed and ink stained parchment uncurled infront of Hermione had shown a drawing of a cube that oddly looked like a puzzle box the drawing had arthimancy equations scattered everywhere and notes in a language Hermione couldn’t decipher “this...this is What you’ll be looking for you need to secure it and bring it back here at all costs do whatever you have to, to bring it back to us” Kingsley stated his voice sharp and held a domineering hilt to it causing Hermione to shiver slightly at the tone.
Hermione was dismissed from the room with the case file and portkey in hand it was a small wooden fairy figurine. Hermione sighed as she flipped through the case file feeling Luna brush through her hair taming certain unruly curls to lay down like the rest of the soft silky curls Luna had fixed “Ireland is beautiful Hermione, my father used to take me on adventures there to see the fae it was absolutely wonderful” Luna went on about the stories her father told her making Hermione laugh softly, she couldn’t help but feel like she judged Luna to quickly while growing up, Luna was sweet and a bit ditzy but very bright and easy to talk to and no matter what was going on Luna was there for her friends, that’s why Hermione chose Luna when she broke up with Ron she knew if she went to Harry’s he’d try to help and try to get them to talk again but Hermione didn’t want that she just wanted solitude to be able to mend that’s when the idea hit her, Hermione hopped up for the small stool giving Luna a fright as her big dreamy blue eyes seemed to grow wider “go with me” Hermione stated seeing Luna start to grin “Hermione that’s an unspeakable mission not a girls trip” she shook her head, Hermione copying the motion “ no I meant as my guide you know that area better than I do and it’d look better if I had a partner with me Luna” Hermione kneeled down staring up at her only confidant and gave her a cheeky grin “well as long as the stars are right then I’ll go” Hermione rolled her eyes at her friends answer but accepted it nonetheless knowing she wouldn’t be alone put Hermione at ease.