Harmione One Shots

We Make Each Other Better

Summary: 'We make each other better': Harry and Hermione Granger-Potter talk Hogwarts, fame, kids — and making a difference. The Power Couple of Magical Britain sit down with Colin Creevey for a rare, exclusive interview.

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Colin Creevey

3rd October 2020

No introduction is needed when talking about two of the most famous individuals in the Wizarding World, and by far the most famous couple. Find a newspaper and one or both of their faces are on the front page. Open a chocolate frog and neither of their faces show because they're too busy making out in the world between windows. No introduction is needed, but I'll try to give it a shot.

I was lucky enough to attend Hogwarts at the same time as Harry Potter and Hermione Granger — in the year below them — and I got to witness first hand the people who were destined to become great. Granger — fiercely intelligent, endlessly compassionate — could often be found with her head stuck in piles of books, helping younger students with tricky homework, or setting up a rebellion against Ministry influence within the castle walls. Potter — intensely private and shyly authoritative — could often be found with his broom in the skies, infuriating authority, or delving in the deepest depths of the castle.

Granger would go on to enter the world of politics and become the youngest ever Minister for Magic, unleashing a storm of progressive policies including, but not limited to: making all sapient species equal under the eyes of the law; the most comprehensive workers' rights laws ever; the elimination of unpaid house-elf labour and criminalisation of the mistreatment of house-elves; and cementing Magical Britain as the safest haven for refugees of the conflict currently taking place in Northern Europe. She is nearing the end of her first term as Minister for Magic, and is seeking a second term on the promise of educational reform by creating a dozen new day-schools of witchcraft and wizardry around the country, diluting the influence of Hogwarts and allowing children to live with their parents during their studies. Critics have accused Granger of 'casting a killing curse at tradition' and 'disrespecting the institutions that graciously allowed her into power in the first place'.

Potter took a less direct journey into power than his wife. Following the Second Wizarding War, he famously went into isolation for a year, refusing all public appearances and celebrations. The only people known to have seen him in this time was his now-wife and the Weasley family, to whom Potter, he says, 'owes everything and more'. He left his isolation in the autumn of 1999 hands swinging, when he successfully lobbied the Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt to allocate funds towards reintegrating muggleborns unsettled by the war and helping those new to the wizarding world. He would join the Auror force shortly after, at the behest of Shacklebolt, following the outing of over 70% of the department due to connections to and sympathies towards the Death Eaters. Potter would be involved with the hunting and capturing of on-the-run Death Eaters, declaring the organisation extinct in the winter of 2006. Potter is now known colloquially as Granger's 'spymaster' since having been assigned the role of Head Auror by her, though he categorically rejects the term. "I prefer 'husband'," he says.

The couple got married in a private ceremony in Godric's Hollow in September of 2002.

Whilst I was lucky to attend Hogwarts with them, I am even luckier to be able to conduct this interview with the couple so famous for their sheer presence and influence in the Wizarding World, and so infamous for how difficult it is to have a quaint conversation with them.