Our Truest Love

Chapter 41

[The very next week on Monday, the fifth floor was finished, and everyone was so excited that the museum would finally open up fully to the public the upcoming day. Hermione started to work on getting rights towards werewolves, centaurs, and house elves and soon enough she had finished her pitch. She held a meeting with the Minister for Magic, the heads of the other sections of the Department for the Control and Regulation of Magical Creatures, the whole section of the wizengamot, and the whole section of magical law enforcement patrol on Tuesday 23rd]
{With Hermione}
Kingsley Shacklebolt: Alright, Ms.Granger, show us what you got
Hermione: Yes sir, I'm ready
(She stands up with her documents)
Hermione: The purpose of my speech today is to discuss the issues and rights of Werewolves, Centaurs, and House Elves. Ladies and Gentlemen, we all know that werewolves face lots of discrimination in various ways such as job opportunities and general equality just because of their condition. This is not right, whatsoever, werewolves deserve equal opportunities just like any other witch and wizard in the world. Deep down, they're people with feelings, beliefs, opinions, capable of doing right and wrong like any other person. We all know that during the second wizarding world, they joined Voldemort, but have you asked yourselves why they decided to join him in the first place. They joined him because we as witches and wizards drove them to him because of our treatment towards them and if we had given them equal opportunities from the very beginning, they would have fought alongside us in the first place. However, not all the werewolves joined Voldemort, most if not all of them decided not to partake in the second wizarding war and just went into hiding to avoid more conflict than they already had. The ones that fought alongside Voldemort are already being punished just like other criminals. We are all capable of bad and good, I mean just look at these two examples, Fenrir Greyback and Remus Lupin, two different people, one from the dark side and one from the side of light. Greyback did many atrocious things and deserves to be in Azkaban for them all but now look at Remus Lupin. A great man that did great things. Amazing student, amazing prefect, amazing friend, kind, brave, one of the best professors that ever taught us, and a courageous warrior that fought for the downfall of Voldemort two times. Werewolves are allowed to vote for the minister for magic but have a hard time finding jobs and receiving equality just like any other citizen. We need to act now and put things right while we still can. My next point is on Centaurs and their unfair treatment. Ever since I was eleven, the territory of the centaurs has been shortened, quite possibly even longer than that, and that is not right, ladies and gentlemen. Many people consider them half-breeds with near-human intelligence and even joke about the centaur liaison office, I mean what is that about. That is awful and so wrong especially since they are way more intelligent than all humans combined. They are extremely brilliant, courageous, strong, and deserve our utmost respect. Firenze saved Harry from Voldemort during his first year and many of them fought during the second wizarding war alongside us even though it wasn't their fight. Without them we wouldn't even have discovered our history, our wonderful realm of Narnia, without them we wouldn't have an amazing museum. They need their territory back, fully, just like they were always meant to have it, they need equality, and if they want to take it, the right to vote for the minister for magic. They deserve so many good things that many witches and wizards have denied them and this stops today. Now, my last point is for House Elves. I know that they like serving us and when I was in school, I wanted to set them free whether they wanted to or not, and that was very wrong of me because I wasn't listening to them. I can't change their minds but what I can do and what I am willing to do is make their lives a little easier. House-elves have feelings and opinions just like any other citizen does. They should feel free to express themselves and be able to voice their opinions, disagreements, and thoughts. They shouldn't be forced to punish themselves when they talk ill of whichever family they serve. They should voice their concerns and have fair treatment. They should have a right to vote just like we do and they should get paid for their services. Dobby gets paid one galleon a week and gets a day off every month and when he was working at Hogwarts, I thought that wasn't enough, but he was content, so we should offer that same deal with every house elf. Whether they take it is up to them, but we should try to help them. These are just a few reforms that need to change in order to redeem all of our negative actions towards them. With these points, I end my speech, and hopefully, with these changes we can be a better ministry not just for us, but for our citizens. For all of our citizens, thank you
(Everyone claps and cheers)
Kingsley Shacklebolt: You make very good points, Ms.Granger, and you have great ideas and ideals worthy to be admired
Hermione: Thank you
Kingsley Shacklebolt: All these changes will make use a better ministry than ever before and this is exactly why I am willing to put your ideas to laws, that is if everyone agrees with Ms.Granger
(Everyone claps and cheers making Hermione smile)
Susan: It's settled then, let these laws pass
[Hermione passes her petitions over and the leaders of every department sign them along with the members of the wizengamot, and the minister for Magic. They put some hot wax and put the seal of the ministry on all three petitions, making all three changes as official laws. These new passed laws would make the lives of werewolves, centaurs, and house elves much better than in the past]
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[The very next week on Monday, 29th, Hermione got her picture taken by many reporters along with the article on the new laws that had just been passed. Harry had been climbing to the top of the Auror department at a very high pace and was becoming the best Auror ever to be seen since Moody. Harry and his team were preparing for the 423rd Quidditch World Cup against the Bulgarians where the title of the best seeker in the world was going to be chosen between Krum and Harry. Hailee had retired from being an Auror and just focused on Quidditch since it was her passion. The museum had gotten very popular in a matter of days and wizards from all over the world came to visit it constantly. Hermione was continuing to make sure the rights of the centaurs, werewolves, and house-elves were being respected and followed. Megan was a healer at St.Mungo's hospital and trying to find a counterspell for obliviate. Susan of course had already taken the place of her aunt in the wizengamot. Luna and Rolf ran the Quibbler, helped Hermione with the reforms for magical creatures, and worked in the museum as well as Fleur, Percy, and the rest of the staff. Ron was playing for The Chuddley Cannons and Ginny for The Holyhead Harpies. The time passed and Hermione had been working on the next magical creatures reforms alongside Luna and Rolf. The new reforms would include all of the Narnians, all types of Dragons, and merpeople as well. Hermione had now a head position in The Department for the control and regulation of magical creatures. it was now June 16th, 2000 and it was the day of The Quidditch World Cup and Hermione decided to go to support her fiancé and best friend. The time was 4:30 pm and the game was about to start]
{At the arena}
[Both teams make their entrances as everyone claps and cheers them on. The game begins in a matter of seconds and the chasers from Harry's team being scoring amazing goals and start getting ahead of The Bulgarians. After around 3 hours the English League was in the lead and the snitch had been released. Both Harry and Krum dived for it doing amazing tricks as they were chasing it, but ultimately Harry did an amazing trick that helped him get the snitch and end the game. The English League had beaten the Bulgarians and had won The 423rd Quidditch World Cup. The referee gave the cup to The English League captain, which was Harry, and each member of the team took an identical trophy to the cup, but their trophies had just a tiny little less gold in them