Raising Albus

CH 25 Promotions

FriendofMolly again caught a couple of embarrassing mistakes, and contributed to the story. As always, thanks.

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The Ministry of Magic would like to announce the following promotions.

The newly created position of Vice Minister of Magic is Hermione Jean Granger-Weasley. Mrs. Granger-Weasley is also appointed to the newly created position of Chief Judge, supervising two additional judges as part of a major reformation of the Magi justice system. Taking over Mrs. Granger-Weasley former position is Nora Geissler, one of Hermione's assistants.

Harry and Arthur Weasley had known about Hermione's promotion and the reorganization of the Ministry, as had Ron, but they could not talk about it or let anyone else know what was going on. Harry did not keep secrets from Ginny, but Ginny never violated Harry's trust by sharing with anyone information that might be confidential. As far as Harry and Ginny knew, the rest of the couples in the family handled confidential information the same way, even within the family. The official announcement was made Friday, the second of January, 2015 and Hermione had been working almost full time Friday, and Saturday till 5:00 PM since the announcement. Harry and Ginny took Rose and Hugo after church Saturday Evening so Hermione and Ron could celebrate, and even Jean Granger left and spent the night at Potters New Burrow, leaving the house to Ron and Hermione.

Sunday morning everybody but Ron and Hermione were over at the New Burrow by 8:30 AM, sitting down to the usual Sunday morning breakfast. Percy was rambling on about the changes that were taking place at the Ministry, about Hermione in particular. "Hermione has a new office next door to the Minister of Magic. I've been in it, of course, and it is the same size as the Ministers! Ministry jobs have always had been prestigious, but they have never been the most lucrative jobs, except for the Minister of Magic. The Minister has always been very well paid, and I understand Hermione is getting about eighty percent of the Minister's salary. Although she will have to be formally elected by the Wizengamot, almost everybody I know thinks Hermione will be the next Minister of Magic, when Kingsley retires.

"Hermione has made it clear that as soon as possible she wants to have the Wizengamot appoint a new chief judge and make the judicial side of the ministry really independent of the executive or legislative parts of the ministry. A Muggle married to a witch is her chief advisor in setting up a legal system more like the English Muggle system. He is working full time for Hermione now, but of course as a Muggle he cannot become a judge. Some of the older members of the Ministry and of the Wizengamot are complaining about all the changes, but most of us realize we need to join the twenty-first Century.

"Maybe the most capable person in Hermione's old department is Eloise Urquhart. She kept her maiden name after getting married to a Muggle who did not know her history. She has a couple of young children. Her reputation for bedding members of the Ministry kept her from getting the top job, even though it looks like she is painfully careful not to give anyone the idea that she is still available. I think Eloise will always be in an assistant position."

Remembering the story of how Eloise had tried to entice Harry to have sex with her made Ginny feel more confident in Harry all over again, but also fed her insecurities. Having all these women after her Harry made Ginny nervous even though she knew it should not. Harry and Arthur, who knew more about the reorganization than Percy, were quite content to let Percy pontificate about the changes.

About 9:00 AM Hermione and Ron came stumbling in through the floo, silly grins on both of their faces. "More celebration?" Ginny kidded.

"Absolutely!" Hermione exclaimed. "Ron can make me forget about everything but how sexy he is. Once in a while I just have to submerge myself in physical pleasure, the pleasure of my sexy husband." Ron had lopsided grin. Harry and Ginny both thought of how different Ron and Hermione's sexual relationship was to theirs. Ginny wanted sex every night, and sometimes when the opportunity presented itself, more than once a day, and occasionally when there was very little time a 'quickie' now and again. She really was not into all day affairs, and that was fine with Harry. Harry was just amazed that Ginny was almost always ready; he knew from talking to other men that this was unusual. Minerva McGonagall had said that Ginny's female ancestors were a 'randy' bunch, and Harry had the impression that Molly and Arthur continued to be very sexually active. Ron and Hermione by contrast did not do it all that often, but when they did occasionally they spent a lot of time doing things a lot of different ways.