Youth Representative Granger

This page is dedicated to Hermione's term as British Youth Representative after winning the election.

By being the British Youth Representative in the Wizengamot, Hermione is tasked to advocate for the needs of wizarding youth (anyone ages 11-17) . These sessions run every other Tuesday, plus important trials. Since her seventeenth birthday will be near the start of 1997, she has at most three years to her term.

## First Year (1993-1994 School Year)

As her biggest voting block were the Hedge witches, her main focus in her first year was on their needs. The hedge witches wanted amenities such as silver wards, bigger grain allotments, floo links, and for landlords to use their magic to help the tenants.

### Tenant Funding Bill

She started first on silver wards. Initially by researching werewolves by (blackmailing) talking with Remus Lupin. These talks helped both in understanding how to best protect hedge witches (including testing silver runes on Lupin), and in learning the werewolf perspective of what werewolves themselves would like in society. Shortly afterwards, she proposed to the Wizengamot to allow a trade agreement between the Sacred 28 and the goblins. Hermione, along with Phaedra Lestrange, Melker Travers, and Royce Fiddlewood were tasked to write a Bill for this proposal. Though Fiddlewood did not attend their meetings, the other three created a bill outlining a trade agreement where the goblins would buy parchment, quills, food, and other supplies; while the Sacred 28 uses 65% of the funds to supply materials for the silver wards (and future funds are to be used for grain allotments, literacy programs, building restorations, etc.) The **Bill to Fund Improvements to the Tenancies of Wizarding Britain through Restricted Trade with the Goblin Nation** was passed by a solid vote in the Wizengamot, and was enacted as of January 1st, 1994.

### Werewolf Bill

#### Research

After Hermione learned of Lupin and Snape's teenaged confrontation, she found herself disturbed at how close a student came to be mauled to death, even with all of Dumbledore's safety measures. Especially so as Lupin was never punished for it. This story inspired Hermione to look into a preventative plan against werewolf attacks in a way that helps *everyone,* not just hedge witches.

After gaining more information on werewolf transformations from Lupin, Hermione resolved to find a way for werewolves to avoid being affected by nightly full moons. The best solution, in her mind, is to portkey werewolves to the antipode of the UK (conveniently, the UK's antipode is around New Zealand.) She informed Fiddlewood of this idea, and he confirmed that his department and the Department of Magical Transportation has the funding to support her idea.  Hermione then met with Julian Selwyn, Britain's ICW representative, who then introduced her to Amaia Materoa, one the New Zealand ICW representatives. Amaia took her proposal to the New Zealand wizarding government and got approval for the idea.

#### Proposal

In May Hermione presented her bill to the Wizengamot, titled: **A Bill to Prevent the Transformation of Werewolves**. The bill is designed to take effect on September 1st, 1994, with all previous/conflicting laws to be null and void once it takes effect. The bill is designed to ban all werewolf transformations on British soil, by giving all werewolves an ankle-cuffed portkey (called a Moon-key). Every full moon night, they will be portkeyed at sunset to a facility in New Zealand called Auckland House of Irawaru's Chosen. Once the British dawn occurs, they will be portkeyed back to Britain. This bill stipulates that Britain has to provide similar housing for New Zealand's Moon-Mad population (equivalent to werewolves).

The bill stipulates that the Moon-keys are going to be funded by Fiddlewood's Department (DRCMC). They are also in charge of the werewolf registry and maintenance of the Moon-keys. That said, initial funding to construct the facility Moon-Mad of New Zealand is to be done via a charity fundraiser, to be named by whomever donates the most money. (The Greengrass family volunteered to host the fundraiser.)

While this bill benefits werewolves to not go through the pain of transformation, it has a mix of punishments that range from mild to extreme. At the mildest example, first-time werewolves who are unregistered will simply get registered and be provided education about being a werewolf. Middle ranged punishments involve fines and jail time. If a werewolf ever bites a person, they'll be put to death, and the victim will inherit the werewolf's possessions and estates.

#### Vote and Public Reaction

On May 25th a group of werewolves attacked the Ministry in retaliation to the proposed bill. It's believed to have been orchestrated by Fenrir Greyback (based on a nametag left behind) and there's evidence that at least one werewolf had used Wolfsbane in order to write threatening messages in blood on the walls.  In reaction to this attack, the next Wizengamot session straight away gave the bill a unanimous pass. Since the bill doesn't take effect until September 1st, the decided to jump straight into preparations. Mainly to get portkeys set up ASAP before the World Cup starts and to figure out where to send the werewolves for the time being.

### Trials for Sirius and Peter

#### Preparation

Once Hermione realized that Sirius never had a trial, she decided to find the best way to arrange for him to have a trial. Over Easter break Draco arranged for her and Sirius to meet with Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy at Malfoy manor to come up with a strategy. They agreed that, as Regent for the Black family, Narcissa will present a formal complaint to the Wizengamot on Sirius' behalf during the next meeting, while making it look like she's being strong-armed to do so. However, Lucius will appear uncooperative so that people don't think that this is a Death Eater ploy. To further help their case, they worded things in such a way that Harry and Susan (notably Light wizards) are summoned as witnesses for their Blood Debt ritual.

On April 5th, 1994 Narcissa and Lucius worked as planned, resulted in a passing vote for the Wizengamot to investigate the claim. They held a closed session two days later to get testimony from Harry and Susan.  Ron was called to testify in the next meeting. He was also supposed to bring Scabbers, but since Hermione was holding him captive, she was the one to present Scabbers to the court. The wizards at the session cast the animagus-reversing spell on him, reverting him back to Peter Pettigrew. Peter was forced to speak inside of a Truth Circle, confirming his identity and his role a Secret Keeper and traitor of the Potters.  That meeting led to the Wizengamot revoking the Dementor's Kiss On Sight order.

#### The Trials

In May they held trials for Sirius and Peter. There was witness testimony from Fudge and Crouch against Sirius. During Sirius' testimony, he was able to proclaim his innocence within the Truth Circle. He also revealed that he informed the guards of his innocence, but the guards laughed him off and never reported his claims. He named Scabior, Oliver Snyde, and a third person as the guards he told. Hearing this information, the Wand of the Realm asked the Wizengamot to dismiss the charges. In opposition to that idea, the Defence argued to have him proclaimed innocent. Both sides argued over which should be done, meanwhile the Wizengamot made their votes. The voting ended with 47 to 2 in Sirius' favour, declaring him innocent of all charges.

Next meeting held Peter's trial. There was witness testimony by Sirius. During which time the defence, by Rhamnacaea Rookwood, tried to argue that Peter had acted under duress by Voldemort. Unfortunately, once Peter took the stand, he clarified that it's impossible to become a full Death Eater (take the Dark Mark) unless you are willing. Stating that the ritual involved required a willing desire to join. He joined them for safety, believing that Voldemort was going to win anyways so he "might as well get in early." When it came to the situation with the Potters, he tried to *not* be the Secret Keeper, knowing that he would have to betray them to stay in Voldemort's good graces.

That said, even Rhamnacaea showed disgust when Peter said that James and Sirius encouraged him, that "they trusted him (Peter) with their lives". That feeling expanded when he justified the deaths caused by the explosion to escape Sirius because "they're only muggles." So when it came time for the Defence to call on witnesses, Rhamnacaea decided to not bother. In her mind, his guilt is assured, so it would be a waste of everyone's time to continue with the trial. They went for closing arguments and voting, though there was little actual arguing. The vote ended with 48 - 1 to Peter's guilt, sentencing him to life in Azkaban. This did not come to pass, as Peter escaped his Ministry jail cell with the help of Fenrir Greyback.

## Second Year (1994-1995 School Year)

1. ↑ Chapter 229: The Yard https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/229/New-Blood
2. ↑ Chapter 284: November https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/284/New-Blood
3. ↑ Chapter 285: Wizengamot Work https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/285/New-Blood
4. ↑ Chapter 287: The Budgetary Committee - Part 1 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/287/New-Blood
5. ↑ Chapter 289: Proposing Legislation https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/289/New-Blood
6. ↑ Chapter 321: Quiet Thihnking and Quiet Wordshttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/321/New-Blood
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 368: Ron and his Rat https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/368/New-Blood
8. ↑ Chapter 376: International Confederation of Wizards https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/376/New-Blood
9. ↑ Chapter 390: The Werewolf Bill https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/390/New-Blood
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 392: The Werewolf Attack https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/392/New-Blood
11. ↑ Chapter 394: The Wizengamot Vote https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/394/New-Blood
12. ↑ Chapter 325: Sirius Black https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/325/New-Blood
13. ↑ Chapter 355: Slytherin Tongues https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/355/New-Blood
14. ↑ Chapter 362: Intrigue at the Wizengamot https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/362/New-Blood
15. ↑ Chapter 385: Sirius Black's Trial - Part 2https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/385/New-Blood
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Chapter 388: Peter's Trial https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13051824/388/New-Blood