Even so, it was hard to tear away. Hermione loved her job. Her friends thought maybe a little too much but could she really help the fact that so many creatures needed her department's advocacy? Since starting in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, newly minted the Care of Magical Creatures Department, she'd been thoroughly dedicated to her causes. All sorts of cases came through her office, including only recently an entire clan of banshees who were almost forced to relocate after a crotchety old Wizengamot member had decided he'd wanted to plop down a fifth summer home. He'd obviously hadn't bothered to investigate the land's potential "protected" designation. Honestly.