Daniel Granger sat in the den after pouring a glass of thirty-year-old Glenfiddich scotch. He glanced at the clock on the wall and took a sip before laying his head back against the couch he was resting on. He felt rather than heard his wife come into the room. A raised eyebrow expressed her opinion of what he was doing.

"Care to join me?" He nodded to the mostly full bottle.

Emma Granger shook her head before she poured herself a glass and sat perched on his lap. "So is there a reason you opened that bottle which you swore up and down wouldn't be touched until Hermione finished school or got married whichever came first?"

Her question was met with silence as her husband of twenty-five years took another sip from his glass his arm wrapped around her waist. "...The final task has started you know that as well as I do. We could be there. Be at the cemetery even! We could stop this, all of it from even starting. But, instead, we're sitting here in Cambridge in our safe home acting like nothing is unusual about this day." He took a long swallow closing his eyes as the liquid mildly burned his throat.

"We swore to keep out of that world Daniel… You and me, we both decided we wanted nothing to do with any of it." Emma raised her hand and ran her fingers through her husband's chronically messy black hair.

Daniel snorted as he set the mostly empty glass on the table beside them. "A fat lot of good us swearing that did. We are involved in that bloody world even if we don't want to be. Ever since Hermione was born we've been steadily dragged more into it." He buried his face in Emma's bushy brown hair breathing in the fragrance of her shampoo. "It near killed me, Emma… It near killed me when McGonagall showed up on her eleventh birthday. All I wanted to do was throw her out and take you and Hermione and just… run, I don't know to where but just away."

"Danny…" Emma whispered. "You know… you and I we both knew when the Professor arrived that we had to let her go." She smiled as Dan's arm squeezed her waist a bit tighter. "She had to be on the train to meet the two lovable scamps who would be her best mates."

"God help me Emma don't you think I know that? Just how I know everything our baby has gone through had to happen. I… Em, I can feel her starting to pull away from us. Her letters are coming less frequently and they… She's censoring herself. I am not going to lose our daughter to that world I refuse!" Daniel stood up as Emma scooted off his lap. "I am her father it is my job to protect her and God help anyone who gets in my way!" He frowned at the clock and shook his head before walking to the coat rack and sliding on a thin jacket.

"Where do you think you are going at this time of night Daniel James Granger?" Emma stood up her hands on her hips "If you are planning on getting pissed over what's happening right now in Scotland then sit back down we've got enough here."

Daniel just shook his head giving the same cocky smile that always made his wife's heart do flips. "No worries about that. No, I'm headed to the Leaky Cauldron."

Emma's brow wrinkled as she slowly crept closer looking up into his green eyes. "Why are you going there… We're muggles remember?"

"I told you Em, I'm going to protect my little girl. I'm going to do what we should have done in the first place." Daniel reached into his pocket and pulled out his car keys. "I'm changing history. I already lost my Mum and Dad to that righteous wanker. I'm not about to lose my baby girl." He bent down and captured her lips in a long passionate kiss.

Emma was slightly flushed when he pulled back as she grabbed her own jacket. "Your saving people thing is showing."

"And if I have anything to say about it. It'll keep showing but right now I've got a wand maker to wake." Daniel smiled as Emma slipped her hand into his.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you this passionate, I've missed it." Emma stood on her tiptoes to kiss his cheek causing a goofy grin to form on his lips as he squeezed her hand.

"What can I say. I've got a horrid weakness for my two brown eyed girls." Daniel began whistling the tune to Brown Eyed Girl as Emma just shook her head.

Garrick Ollivander was just settling down with a good book and a final cup of tea when he heard a polite knock on his door. Puzzled he got up and answered to see the muggle parents of one Miss Hermione Granger [i]Vinewood with a Dragon Heartstring ten and three-fourths inch[/i] "Yes Mr. and Mrs. Granger how may I help either of you tonight?"

The black-haired man seemed to be looking almost through him neither of them seemed happy as his wife clutched his hand rubbing her thumb up and down his. Finally, the man spoke.

"I was hoping you'd be willing to open your shop for me. I mean to buy a wand tonight."

It took a few moments but the Muggle man's request finally set in as Olivander shook his head. "Mr. Granger-"

"Doctor if you please? I worked bloody hard to earn that degree." Ollivander watched as the female Granger rolled her eyes as he nodded.

"Of course, Dr. Granger, I could sell you a wand certainly but I'm sure your daughter has explained that without a magical core you'd be unable to be matched. In a word Dr., you'd be buying a pretty stick. Do you still wish to proceed with your purchase tonight?" He sighed as he watched Dr. Granger nod in understanding. "Very well I'll unlock the shop and meet you at the counter. They are your galleons after all." He watched for a moment as the couple headed down the stairs and to his storefront. He hurried through his own personal door and paused as the couple walked in the chime signifying a magical core rang out as he came out.

"I thought you both seemed odd, most muggle parents I see can't help but look around. Rather in fear or wonder. You both. I wish to say you seemed obligated. You forced a smile and excitement for your daughter but you… Did not want to be here. You left the magical world?"

Daniel chuckled. "Always knew you were a smart one Ollivander. Yeah, we left I even broke my own wand. My brother and lovely wife kept theirs but they are put away. It's amazing what choosing a non-magical last name to go by does to Hogwarts precious book." He snorted as he thought of Hogwarts to be comforted by his wife's hand on his back.

"You attended Hogwarts then? I must have sold your first wand to you. Though for some reason I simply can't recall you or your wife… Curious… Very curious. Well, why don't you tell me what your first wand was Dr. Granger and I think this will be a very short visit." Ollivander blinked as Dr. Granger shook his head.

"No, I don't think I'll share that information with you at this time." Daniel shrugged. "Besides I sure as hell am nothing like I was at eleven. I've changed in ways I never could have believed. So I'm afraid we'll have to do this the long way, Sir." With that, he held his right hand out.

It took near twenty minutes before Daniel was finally matched to his wand Ash wood with a unicorn tail core fourteen inches nice and supple. Ollivander nodded as the wand began to give off sparks of gold and red.

"A Gryffindor?"

Daniel shrugged as he handed over the seven galleons for his wand "Sorting hat told me I would have done well in Slytherin." With a nod of his head he and his wife left the wand maker's shop his arm around Emma he frowned. "Think Ragnok will be of a mood to speak with us tonight or shall we get a room at the Leaky Cauldron for the night?"

"Danny stop look at me what is it you are planning." Emma pulled back from Daniel and stood in front of him. "We are already meddling more then we should…"

"I'm done Em… I'm done playing the good muggle. I did as the old coot wanted I stood back. I let Hermione be attacked by a troll God help me I let her be petrified! But if you think for a moment I'm going to let her be cursed by Dolohov…" Slowly Daniel traced a line from Emma's left shoulder down to her right hip. "That I'm going to allow the only family that Harry has to die? Then I have no idea who you are anymore."

With that said Daniel brushed past his wife and headed towards the large white building in front of him as he felt A hand grab the back of his jacket.

"If you think for a second that I was okay letting those things happen you must have taken more bludgers to the head then I thought. Come on. Director Ragnok always has time for us." Emma grasped Dan's hand in her's "And be glad my wand is in the bedside table or I would have hexed you for that stunt!"

Dan chuckled as they walked up the stairs bowing politely to the guard by the door before they both entered to see a familiar face waiting. "Evening Griphook, is the Director expecting us then?"

Without taking his eyes off of the presumed middle-aged muggle couple Griphook silently led them both to a back room where they both paused and bowed low to the Goblin waiting.

"Thank you for seeing us, Director. May the blood of your enemies forever coat your blade."

Daniel said as he rose to find the director smiling and gesturing to the chairs in front of his desk.

"And may I wish the same to you." Ragnok paused as the couple sat down "Now how may I assist you tonight Lord and Lady Potter?"