Just Walk Away

The Queen

Kevin Fischer was not having a good week. He had thought that the campaigns and work that it took to become Prime Minister was the hardest part. It wasn't until he was actually in office that he realized just how difficult his job really was.

The day that his fireplace glowed green and a man in a green bowler had stepped out of it had changed his life forever. Magic is real and there was a whole secret world that was invisible to him. A world that was within his own, but had its own laws, its own government, and its own traditions. He tried not to think about it too much as it tended to make his head hurt.

Since then his job just got harder and harder. Fudge had come to him more times than he had ever wanted and with it came more and more problems. Eventually it got to a point where a new "Minister of Magic" came to meet him and he realized that there was a lot more to this hidden world that he had been led to believe.

In the past year, the strange disappearances and events increased, and yet Kevin heard nothing from the New Minister. He had even tried talking to that silly portrait handing on the wall of his office, demanding to speak to someone. But the ugly painting stayed suspiciously still and silent.

Then about three weeks ago, the stupid portrait had spoken for the first time in almost a year. Kevin prepared himself to meet a new Minister for Magic and so was therefore surprised when Kingsley Shacklebolt, a man who had been part of his guard before disappearing without a trace stepped through the fireplace. He could remember how, through his shock, he had nearly shouted,

"Kingsley! What is going on! What is happening? I thought that the Minister of Magic was coming"

Kingsley had smiled tiredly but brightly as he explained that he was acting minister of magic currently. It was then that Kevin noticed the slight bruising on his dark face and how he seemed to be walking with a limp. He was sure at that point that something terrible had happened.

Kingsley had then sat down and explained everything that had happened in the last year. The Ministry of Magic had been taken over by this Voldemort person. The minister of Magic had been killed and replaced by one of Voldemort people. He explained how the Wizarding World had turned into a very dark place.

Then he started talking about someone named Harry Potter and how he and two others had disappeared but were rumored to be fighting against Voldemort. He then recounted the battle at the only wizarding school they had (seriously, who decides to have a battle at a school) and how Harry Potter had died and come back to life and then single handedly defeated Voldemort.

Kevin felt like from that point on the only thing he heard was, "Harry Potter said..." or "Harry Potter did..." or "Harry suggested..." or "Harry thinks..." If he didn't know any better he would have thought that this Harry Potter was the one running the wizarding world instead of Kingsley.

He had trouble accepting everything as he had before. Normally he would let the wizarding world do what they wanted. He really wanted no part of it. However, as he listened to Kingsley gush over this man who was apparently a superhero of some sort, he couldn't help but wonder if there was anything he could do on his own. He knew that war destroyed everything. Yet it seemed that the only one who knew what they were doing was this Harry Potter. Could the wizarding world really stand firm by itself?

It was then that he wondered what Her Majesty would think. She of course knew of the Magical World but, like the Prime Minister had left it alone. He had told her everything he knew up to this point. She was not happy with his last report but still didn't feel that there was much they could do. He had a feeling that she would change her mind after reading his next report.

Kingsley had apologized for everything and tried to assure the Prime Minister that from now on everything would be better and they would hopefully, "not see each other again"