Best Friends with Benefits

Chapter One - Best Friends

It's a good idea until it becomes a bad idea and it becomes bad really, really fast...

'Luna Lovegood, I swear I will kill you with my bare hands!' Hermione hissed as her blond friend set the five-year-old girl on the couch of Hermione's sophisticated living room and looked at the brunette with completely calmed eyes. The two women moved to the kitchen and closed the door before they could talk.

'Come on Hermione, I need you take care of her, my father can't help anymore and you know it, I have to go to Greece in search of the Basilisk breeders, my discovery will be historical!' Luna finally said with her dreamy voice and Hermione rolled her eyes as she straightened up the simple black dress she was wearing.

Luna Lovegood was known for a lot of things, her part in the Second Wizarding War, for her friendship with Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, for her fatherless daughter, little Morgana Lovegood as Luna never accepted to reveal who is the father of her child, she was also known for her crazy believes and Hermione right now was rolling her at one more.

Everyone knew the Basilisks' reproduction had been stopped through law because of the level of danger such creatures could cause, the Greeks were the ones who had made them first in ancient years but they had been stopped, especially after their civil wars when they used the Basilisks as weapons. Now Hermione had no idea how Luna could believe they were still in the making and she certainly couldn't believe that she had to babysit her Goddaughter for Lord knows how long when she was to be getting in Hogwarts in the next day as to teach for the first time.

Hermione Granger had finished her final year in Hogwarts in the class that started in the fall of 1998 and ended in the spring of 1999 along with her best friend, Harry Potter, they both needed their NEWTs to keep up while Ron had decided to follow his dream and become a Quidditch player. Harry had gotten in the Auror training program in 1999 and Hermione had decided to try and be a part of the Ministry's New Age as people called it, in the Department of Law Enforcement.

She was soon disappointed and dropping out after almost three years of trying to make changes and always encountered people who either stopped her, brushed her ideas away or ultimately passed laws that none cared to follow. People don't change and Hermione realized that with a heavy heart, a realization that led her to quit from that position but not give up completely, she was a fighter and she believed in change, and what better position to make a change than educate the young?

For the next two years after her quit from the ministry, she remade the tales of Beedle the Bard and then made two more books of history and magic from a clear point of view, but even if the books became best sellers –something rare for books of education and not romantic novels- Hermione wanted more, she wanted to be more drastic, and so she became.

Her decision to become a professor for Hogwarts School was something that made many people smile and think positive of the education the young people will be having from such a bright woman. Minerva McGonagall was glad to accept her best student back in Hogwarts as the Professor of Transfigurations.

'What am I supposed to tell McGonagall? That I will have to take Morgana with me? She won't accept such thing,' Hermione said exasperated but Luna smiled and shook her head.

'She already accepted, I flooed her and she agreed, she knows you're 'Ana's Godmother and she knows my researches are truly important...' Luna said and Hermione looked at her friend with her jaw dropping.

'You talked to McGonagall behind my back? And she accepted?' Hermione asked in shock and Luna smiled dreamily.

'I didn't talk to her behind your back, I talked to her for your behalf, it's my child and I didn't want you in any kind of trouble... She said there's no problem, and the fact of Harry being at Hogwarts a lot also helped as McGonagall knows how important is for Morgana to be around people she knows.' Luna said with a victorious smile that made Hermione groan, unbelievable!