[HP] Dancing with the death #12 (Patreon)

Chapter #12: World at war, part III.

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“Mom, Dad, I’m going to visit some friends from the ministry!” A brown-haired young woman said with a happy expression.

“Have fun, Hermione. I still can’t believe you got a job at the Ministry of Magic!” Her mother said with almost tears in her eyes.

Hermione continued smiling.

“Are you apparating from your room?” Her father asked and she nodded. “Then have a good evening, dear,” he said before he kissed her hair and the brown-haired witch’s smile never disappeared.

“See you later!” Hermione looked at her watch for the last time before she ran towards her room.

She was about to do something when she noticed the presence of two men with dark marks on their arms, anyone would be scared at the sight but she could only sigh defeated.

“Captain Crabbe, Captain Goyle…What do I owe the honor? I’m getting late and I’m sure Master Severus won’t be happy if I do that,” she said without a hint of emotion.

“Don’t worry, we have orders from the ministry, there’s this seven-year-old boy in Chilbolton who seems to have an interesting control in magic,” Crabbe said with an angry expression.

Hermione couldn’t help but tremble, she knew what was coming.

“We have orders to recruit him as soon as possible, he’s a mudblood but you know that the dark lord appreciates the power regardless of the origin,” Goyle had a wicked expression.

“Take the potion and your mud-symbol and let’s get you there,” Crabbe hurried her.

Soon, she did as she was told and after a few seconds her body started to change and take the form of another person, her hair suddenly turned red, she became paler than she already was and her eyes changed into a beautiful emerald color, if it weren’t by the fact that she looked to be in her twenties, one would say that she was practically a copy of Lily Potter but the woman was already past that age despite her beauty.

After she finished transforming she grabbed a badge that looked like the poop emoji and put it on her chest only magical people were able to see this, it was a status symbol, which clearly meant that as a muggle-born she was even lesser than shit.

They apparated from the room and now they were in the middle of many wheat harvesting fields, in a certain home that clearly belonged to a farmer who didn’t look happy as he carried a shotgun there was a big crowd coming out of one of the crop fields.

It seems like a crop circle had been found this morning or at least that’s what Hermione managed to get from the interesting crowd and the donation box to support the angry farmer.

"I can't believe they draw that symbol...It represents a change, something big as about to happen!" One of the visitors said with an excited tone.

Soon Hermione's train of thought was interrupted the moment her tallest companion spoke.

“Remember the protocol, you convince the boy to come with us and then we’ll threaten his family so he understands why he needs to become a soldier for our organization!” Goyle’s tone is cold but effective in bringing bad memories to Hermione.

She knew the protocol very well, after all, it’s been years since she’s been in the same situation. Those two fools who were always following Draco Malfoy’s shadow, they’re completely stupid except when it came to violence.

Once they reached the home of the affected farmer, they were greeted by a young boy who opened the door but he was far away, it seemed like he did it with magic.

“Richard, I told you to not open the door without asking who is on the other side!” An angry mother said. “Hello, how can we help you? If you want to see the crop circle thingy I’m sorry but it's already closed, please leave us alone,” the woman didn’t look happy.

“My name is Lily Evans and actually, we came here to talk with your family about…Young Richard’s abilities,” Hermione poly-juiced as Lily said.

She sensed that the mother became scared, maybe she thought they were from the church and were going to crucify him or something.

“Rest assured ma’am, we don’t come here to harm him, actually we came here because we want to offer him the opportunity to start his magical studies!” Hermione said cheerfully.

However, internally she was praying that they would accept, there were only two options, either the boy willingly come with them or they kill his parents and take him to Hogwarts so he could start his training by force, having the parents as blackmail material was good enough for the organization but when death eaters want something they don’t hesitate to kill to get it.

The mother stared at them for a few moments, she sighed and five minutes later they were in the living room, the father was there too, the man had put the shotgun on the other side of the room, the TV was on but silent and Hermione was now giving a demonstration to the parents as she transfigured a rock into a tea cup and Hermione was about to say something else but then Crabbe spotted something on the TV.

“Wait a minute…Isn’t that the dark lord?!” Asked the idiot forgetting he was in the presence of muggles.

The first rule when it comes to introducing new possible recruits was to not mention the dark lord, Goyle realized the mistake his partner made and he was about to follow the protocol, he was going to kill the parents until Hermione decided to cast a sleeping charm on the family.

“Granger, what the fuck?” Goyle was clearly angry.

“Listen, we need to see why the dark lord is in New York, we can kill them after that!” Hermione said with a desperate tone.

Goyle didn’t change his angry expression but he was able to see the logic in Hermione’s words.

“…Magic is real people…We wizards and witches are very real,” the dark lord said on TV.

“Wait a minute…Does that mean that we’re going to finally attack the muggles…Then that means we don’t need this kid anymore, we can kill the whole family—” Crabbe couldn’t continue as his head was suddenly blown by the shotgun.

Goyle couldn’t believe it, he was so shocked by what he was seeing on TV that he didn't realize Hermione moved to grab the gun, he was so stunned that he wasn’t able to pull his wand in time.

“Expeliarmus!” Hermione said angrily and the spell not only destroyed his wand but also caused the wizard to be slammed against a wall.

“G-Granger…You’re crazy…They’re going to kill your parents once they find out what you did, also, you used magic, the Aurors are on their way!” Goyle was smirking evilly at her.

“Goyle…As long as the dark mark is nearby, the ministry will never send people, after all, they don't care if a death eater decides to attack muggles, the dark mark is the thing that allowed you and your piece of shit friends to not be punished and thanks to that no one will come to save you!” Hermione couldn’t stop smirking.

She paused for a moment, she wanted to enjoy the look on this bastard's face, from the two he was the worst.

“And about my parents, I would worry but that’s only if they find them, after all, the ones assigned to watch over them are you and Crabbe, the latter has just lost his head and soon you're going to join him,” Hermione was clearly enjoying this vendetta. “Don’t worry, the death eaters have enough things to worry about, that'll give me enough time to hide my parents,” She added as she prepared the shotgun once again.

“Granger…There’s nowhere you can hide, can't you see that the dark lord is about to take over the muggle world too!?” Goyle was laughing maniacally but Hermione chuckled.

He stared at her with confusion, she should be scared of him and the dark lord.

“Goyle, it’s clear that you’re more vicious than smart, that my primitive friend is not the dark lord,” Hermione said as she pointed at the TV.

“But—” Goyle didn’t want to believe it and Hermione was getting tired.

“Goyle…I don’t know who’s impersonating him but it’s clear why they’re doing it, they want the ICW to get involved in the war, and by breaking the statute of secrecy they’re going to achieve that and I don’t want to be on the opposite side of the ICW,” Hermione drank something and now she was ready to finish him.

“Granger I swear—” Goyle was about to say.

He couldn’t continue because Hermione didn’t have the patience nor the time, she had to obliviate the family, get things back to normal, hide Crabbe and Goyle's bodies, and get her parents in a safe place as soon as possible, so, she blew Goyle’s head with the shotgun without mercy, there were tears in her eyes as the effect of the Polyjuice potion started to fade.

After taking care of the family so they wouldn't remember them, she apparated the bodies in the middle of the English Channel before burning the badge on her chest, not only it was insulting but it was also used to track muggle-borns like her. After murdering those two, she couldn't help but sob like crazy, but she wasn't sobbing because she was sad, no, she was sobbing because she was finally free