Daddy's Birthday Girl

Hermione has grown used to spending her birthdays alone. Her mother is always away on work trips and most years those trips fell on September 19th. Why should this year be any different?

Today she turns nineteen – nineteen on the nineteenth – her golden birthday. One might think that she would be extra disappointed in her mother for being away for such a momentous birthday. But no, that is not the case at all. Why should she care whether or not her mother was here when she had Daddy to make all of her birthday wishes come true?


And oh god, is he doing a marvelous job of that already.