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A Witch's Tale	By : snowblind12 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 27756 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 5
Disclaimer: This fanfic is based off the Harry Potter books which are owned by JKR. I make no money from this fanfic and these characters as well as the Harry Potter books and world belong to JKR!

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Woot! Got this chapter finished earlier than I thought. Thanks for the reviews and please keep them coming!
Monday Morning
Hermione looked at herself in the mirror. She wanted to look like an executive, but also approachable and like herself. Ultimately, she decided to dress how she was used to dressing and not try to be something she wasn't. She looked at her reflection. Her hair was pulled back and put into a loose french braid, keeping her hair out of her face. She had on makeup. More than she was used to, but not too much. She had on a pair of black slacks and a grey silk blouse. She slipped her feet into her favorite kitten heels and headed to her living room. She was surprised to see Draco sitting on her couch.
She looked at her watch. "Am I late? Is that why you're sitting on my couch?"
Draco stood, looking her up and down. "Uhh, no. You just weren't as early as I anticipated." He smirked. "Nice outfit, Granger."
Hermione didn't like the smirk on his face and took notice of the fact he was in jeans.
She became nervous all of a sudden and Draco rolled his eyes. "Stop thinking so much, Granger." He looked like he suddenly remembered something. "Did you eat?" He was looking at her like she was a small child who had not done as told.
"Well, not yet. I was going to grab a banana."
Draco rolled his eyes and walked towards her kitchen, "Really, Granger. You need to do better than that."
He opened her refrigerator and pulled out the eggs and bacon. He sat them on the counter and then reached under her counter, opening the pan cupboard. He pulled the frying pan out and put in on the stove. Then he waved his wand, an egg coming out of the carton and crashing on the side of the pan, shell going every where.
Hermione shook her head as she walked over and waved her wand. Clearing away the destroyed egg and shell. "Go sit, Draco. I got this."
She put 5 strips of bacon on the pan and put the rest back in the fridge. then she proceeded to mix 4 eggs with a little milk and a pinch of sugar in a mixing bowl. As the bacon fried, she poured two glasses of OJ and put one in front of Draco. "Did you eat?" She asked him.
He shrugged. "A bowl of Wheaties."
"uh, huh. And you fuss at me." She gave him a disapproving look.
Draco sipped the juice and looked at her. "It's not me! Theo has me watching to make sure you eat."
Hermione rounded on him. "What is it about him and me eating! I mean, seriously. It's not like I don't eat!"
Draco gave her a bored look. 'Whatever, I don't know. Just eat, so I can tell him you're eating."
Hermione rolled her eyes. "I'm going to eat so much, I get fat. Let's see how he likes that!"
Draco responded nonchalantly. "Honestly, I don't think he'd care." After a pause he said, "You should have seen his last girlfriend."
Hermione paused. Somehow, she and Theo had never really discussed their past relationships. She found she was curious, but didn't think it was right to pry. She flipped the bacon and tried to act mildly interested. "Really? Why would you say that?"
Draco grinned at her. "Nice try, Granger. I'll leave that to Theo."
Hermione turned to him. "Oh you! You did that on purpose!"
Draco laughed. "What?"
She turned back to the bacon and started laying the cooked strips on the paper towels to drain. She got a smug look on her face. "Tell me or I won't give you any bacon."
Draco gave her a look of indignation. "Oh, that's just low." He watched as she crumpled up a piece and divvied it out to her mangy cat and Leroy.
She proceeded to pour the eggs into the pan, her smug look unchanged.
He sighed. "Fine. She was attractive and very..sweet. But, she could have stood to lose a few pounds."
Hermione turned to him. "Well, given that women these days are expected to be a size 2 to be considered normal and attractive, I'm going to assume she was a very normal weight and your impression has been swayed by billboards, television and magazine covers." This was one of Hermione's pet peeves. It was worse in the muggle world than the magical, but girls and women were pressured by entertainment and media to be unnaturally thin in her opinion. It was unhealthy and wrong.
Draco gave her an irritated look. "Well, why did you ask if you were going to disregard my answer?"
She ignored him, irritated with the male gender at the moment and continued stirring the eggs. She pulled out 2 plates and put 2 pieces of bacon on each plate and scooped out the eggs. A little into crook's dish and a little into Leroy's and then equal amounts onto her's and Draco's.
She put Draco's plate in front of him and handed him a fork and napkin, not saying anything,
She sat down across from him and they ate in silence for minute. She looked up at him and said. "Well, you have to admit I'm right."
He ignored her and kept eating.
Twenty minutes later they hopped on the elevator and Draco hit the 1 on the panel.
The elevator opened to a large main entrance for the building. There were large glass doors that led out to the street and a desk where an attractive blonde sat to greet anyone who entered. She also noticed curtained off, small areas to the side of the large room, which she assumed was where employees floo'd in and out. The attractive blonde stood to greet them as they walked by. "Good morning, Mr. Malfoy."
He paused and turned to her but did not smile or in any way flirt with the attractive woman. "Good morning, Pamela." He gestured to Hermione, "This is Miss Granger. She will be the head of the new quality control division and when I am not available, she is who I expect staff to approach should they need anything."
Pamela quickly gave Hermione a once over and then responded. "Yes, Mr. Malfoy and welcome, Miss Granger."
Hermione smiled at her. "It's nice to meet you, Pamela."
Hermione and Draco continued through glass doors that had large bold letters over them, "POPPINSTOCK MAGOMETERS".
They entered to see another large desk with an attractive redhead this time. She also stood and greeted them. Once again, Draco was all business, much to the obvious disappointment of, Millie, the redhead. Hermione was led around the office and introduced to many people. With the exception of Pamela and Millie, everyone was dressed very casually, mainly in jeans.
Draco led them back to the elevators and after entering, hit the "B" button. The doors opened to a loud, industrial looking space. Men and women were walking around with blueprints and drafts. Hermione could see tables with odd looking machinery. The tables were spread out from each other and each table had a sign hanging over it.
'M 2002", "Mini M", "Personal M 2000", and the table with the most activity, "M 2003". Seeing as it was only 2002, this must be a newer, not yet released model. Hermione smiled as Draco led her over to the newest model and standing there, clearly overseeing the project, was Leonard Poppinstock.
Leonard turned to them and beamed at Hermione. "Well, young lady, I've been eagerly anticipating your arrival, as has my Lexie!" He spoke very loudly so that Hermione could hear him over all the noise. He shook her hand, eagerly.
Just then, Lexie approached them from one of the other tables. She gave Hermione a big hug. "Oh, Hermione! We're so glad you're here!"
Draco spoke up. "Let's head into Hermione's office so we can hear each other."
Draco led them to the right of the large industrial room to a door that said: 'Hermione Granger, Head of Quality, Senior Vice President.'
Hermione turned and looked at Draco. Shock on her face. "Senior Vice President?"
He ignored her and opened the door.
Hermione's jaw just about hit the floor. The space they walked into was huge. To the right, there was a sitting area with a sofa and two chairs. She could see a door straight ahead, leading to a large office and to the right of the office was a large conference room. A receptionist stood from a desk to the left, and rushed over.
Draco introduced them as Leonard and Lexie walked into the office behind Hermione. "Hermione, this is your personal assistant, Jonquil Davies." Jonquil was a beautiful dark skinned woman, probably close to Hermione's age. She smiled brightly and shook Hermione's hand. "Welcome, Miss Granger."
Hermione smiled warmly at her, "Jonquil, I expect we will be working very closely together. I would appreciate it if you would call me, Hermione."
Jonquil beamed. "Then please call me Jonny. That's what my friends call me."
Hermione beamed back. "I like that name for a girl... Jonny."
Draco gestured to her office. Hermione led the way, Draco, Lexie and Leonard following. Her office was huge. She had a large desk with a window behind her chair. Seeing as they were in the basement, Hermione knew the window behind her was charmed to show the view of..she looked at it for a minute, shocked.. it was the London skyline.
Draco looked at it with her. "You can change it if you want. It's charmed to show whatever you say." Draco thought for a second and said, "Hogwarts". The vision before them morphed to a view of the castle. It was raining in Scotland and the sky was dark, but the castle still looked beautiful.
Hermione sighed in disbelief. "Wow." She said quietly.
She turned back to the rest of the office. She noticed a small restroom to the right. On the left wall was a large credenza and over the credenza was a window that looked into the large conference room.
She looked at Draco and then asked Leonard and Lexie. "So, where do I start?"
Leonard smiled and said, "well, I thought this week I'd get you up to speed on the various models and introduce you to the designers...I have manuals for you to read as well, but the machines themselves are quite simple to use, really."
Lexie interjected. "It's not hard to learn the ins and outs of these machines. I'll be around to help after Daddy heads off on his trip to Greece."
Hermione looked at Leonard. "Greece! I hear it's very beautiful."
"So they tell me. Lexie here booked the trip for me. She insists I'm spendin too much time in this place."
Lexie looked at her Dad, disapproving."Well, you're supposed to be retired and you've not spent one day away from here."
Leonard defended himself. "I had to show Draco here the ropes and I need to help Miss Granger out as well. I can't very well just run off and leave them to figure it all out on their own!"
Hermione looked at Leonard, "I insist you call me Hermione."
He smiled at her, "Well, I'm Leonard. I'm like you Hermione, I don't stand on formalities."
Draco interjected, "Well, I'm off."
Hermione turned to him, surprised.
He shrugged. "I've got stuff to do, Granger. Leonard and Lexie will take care of you. I'm around if you need me. I may be in London for a bit. I'm supposed to dine with mother for dinner in.." He looked at his watch. "About 3 hours. But I'll be back by 5pm."
Hermione shook her head in disbelief. London was six hours ahead. It was 9:30 now in Dallas, so it was 3:30 pm in a London. It would be dinner time in 3 1/2 hours or so back home.
She watched Draco leave after he kissed Lexie on the cheek and pat Leonard on the shoulder.
Hermione sat behind her desk and Leonard and Lexie sat down in the chairs in front of her desk. Hermione smiled at them. "Jonny?" She yelled, not too loudly but loud enough to be heard in the other room.
Jonny stepped into her office. "Yes, Hermione? Can I bring you coffee or tea or?"
Hermione smiled at her, "You can bring much more than that, Jonny. Bring your brain. Grab a quill or a pen and a notebook and come join us. If you're going to be my assistant, than you need to be kept up to speed on what goes on in my office."
Jonny dashed to her desk and grabbed a pen and a notebook. She pulled her chair into the office. Hermione said to her, "first thing you have a chance, either order or transfigure a matching third chair in here, Jonny. I expect you to sit in on meetings and we'll need at least one more chair in here."
Leonard looked at Lexie, "Oh, I like her! I like her already!" Leonard smiled widely at Hermione. "You'll do well here, Hermione. Staff are the most important part of a business. Treat them well and pay them well and they will do right by you."
The rest of the morning Leonard reviewed the current magometer models. He gave the basic differences and abilities of each machine. Hermione and Jonny both took notes and Hermione was pleased to see Jonny's rivaled her own. This was a sharp assistant Draco had hired for her.
When lunch time approached, Lexie took Hermione to a little French bistro around the corner from Poppinstock. Hermione invited Jonny, but Jonny insisted she had errands she needed to run during her lunch break. Leonard was heading home for his mid day nap he took every day.
The restaurant, "Le Petite France", was a delicious little restaurant owned by a French couple who had moved to Dallas. The food was authentic and delicious.
Lexie talked about growing up in Dallas and being a Daddy's girl who basically spent her childhood at Poppintock when she wasn't away at school. Hermione had lots of questions about Ilvermorny, but that was a discussion for another time. They kept their lunch short and sweet as Hermione had a lot of paperwork she needed to fill out back at the office.
She spent her afternoon filling out tax forms, payroll forms and had to read over and sign a non compete contract. She was thrilled to learn that Gringotts had an American branch right there in Dallas. This was a huge relief. She would still have to convert Galleons, Knuts and Sickles into Dragots, but that would be easy enough.
By the time five o'clock came around, Hermione was beat. She floo'd from the lobby to her apartment after confirming her dinner plans with Lexie.
She quickly changed into jeans and a grey tshirt and headed into her kitchen that rivaled any she had seen on the Coooking Channel. She decided on fixing spaghetti for dinner and opted for the short cut, using jar sauce instead of making her own. She had an Italian aunt who would be rolling over in her grave if she knew Hermione was going to serve store bought sauce to a guest. She then added insult to injury by pulling frozen garlic bread out of the freezer.
Lexie arrived right on time at 6pm and even brought Hermione some fresh cut flowers. Hermione put them in water and gave Lexie a glass of wine. Lexie hung with Hermione in the kitchen as Hermione prepared dinner.
"So, Draco never told me how you two met." Hermione stated as she sautéed onions and garlic in a pan.
Lexie chuckled. "Oh that's a good one." She took a sip of wine. "So, I don't know if Draco or Theo told you, but I like women. Always have. Men just don't get my motor runnin if ya know what I mean."
Hermione smiled at her, "Yeah, Theo mentioned it. He said Draco hit on you?" Hermione added a little olive oil to the pan and threw in freshly sliced mushrooms, stirring as Lexie talked.
"Lexie grabbed one of the stools from the bar and sat as she talked. "So, my girlfriend at the time, Michelle..boy did she turn out to be a mistake...anyway, Michelle and I were at 'The Pussycat Lounge'. It's a lesbian club in No Maj Dallas." She took a sip of wine and continued. "The club was packed and there were a lot of hot women there that night. In walk Draco and Blaise and their eyes light up like a kid on Christmas morning. They thought they had hit the jackpot spot to pick up women, obviously having no clue that the women in there wanted nothing to do with them."
Hermione was smiling as she listened, now adding the hamburger meat to the pan.
Lexie continued. "Well, they come in the door with that cocky swagger of theirs, thinking they are Merlins gift to woman kind." She looked at Hermione knowingly. "You know that swagger, right?"
Hermione laughed. "Oh yeah, I can picture it perfectly."
Lexie continued. "So they strut into the club and start working the room. Obviously, they found they weren't as charming as they thought they were." Lexie paused and thought for a minute. " I could tell they were wizards. For one thing, Draco's cowboy boots were made of dragonhide. That was a dead giveaway."
Hermione interrupted, laughing. "Draco was wearing cowboy boots?"
Lexie looked at her like she was sprouting another head. "Well, of course he was! This is Texas, Missy! Everybody has at least one pair of cowboy boots, at least one big shiny belt buckle and at least one cowboy hat. Clearly, I'll be taking you shopping very soon."
Hermione laughed. "Oh, I don't think that'll be necessary. I don't see myself dressing the part."
Lexie shrugged, "Well, you know the saying..When in Rome.."
Hermione continued sautéing the hamburger meat with the mushrooms, onions and garlic as she listened to Lexie.
"Anyhoo, I digress. So, they make their way over to me and Michelle, and Draco is immediately turnin' on the charm and tryin' to impress. Blaise was definitely into Michelle and Draco clearly had his designs on me. Draco's goin' on about the sparkle in my eyes or some such nonsense. Then he starts talkin about his private plane and do we want to fly to somewhere.." Lexie paused as if trying to remember. "Oh yeah, did we wanna fly to Maui and watch the sunset." Lexie rolled her eyes.
Hermione had a big smile on her face as she poured the jar of sauce over the hamburger meat in the pan. She started to heat the water in the large pot for the pasta on another burner. Then she walked over and sat in a stool next to Lexie's, encouraging her to continue with the story. "So, what did you say?"
"I just simply told him that I would love to if he didn't have a penis." Lexie grinned. "Ohh, you should have seen his face. The reality of the situation crashed down on him like a bludger had just knocked him off his broom... He looked around the room and his face turned bright red. He started apologizing for coming onto me and immediately gave Blaise some kind of signal to stop hitting on Michelle. He said some No Maj he had met earlier that day had told them The Pussycat Lounge had the hottest women in Dallas and that he should check it out. Clearly that guy was pulling his chain."
Lexie took a swallow of wine. "I told him The Pussycat Lounge did have the hottest women, but not women for him. He was awfully cute and so embarrassed...and his accent was to die for. So, I took pity on him and told him I was a witch. We started talking and made plans for lunch the next day." Lexie smiled genuinely and softly. "He's been one of my best friends ever since."
Hermione smiled, thinking about Draco. "He's a good man," she said softly, thinking about everything Draco had done for her and how he had changed.
Lexie looked knowingly at Hermione. "He is a good man...I just wish he'd come clean about his involvement in that war over there."
For those of you who are waiting for Hermione's magic theory to come into play, it's coming. She's getting her lay of the land at Poppinstock :) Thanks for reading!
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