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The tragic story of Draco Malfoy
1. Chapter: new lead
It has been 6 Years that Draco Malfoy vanished. So it was surprising that than, 6 years after he went missing Misses Malfoy was sitting in front of my desk, begging me to find her son. The case wasn’t really taking seriously. A lot of Death eaters fled the country and even though it was weird that he would flee without his family it wouldn’t have been far fetched. He was always a slimy little git.
“Miss Malfoy... as my colleagues probably already have told you beforehand, there’s nothing I can do. The case is cold now and we don’t have any leads or reason to believe that he’s been taken by force. He’s of age now and probably just fled. I’m sorry to tell you this but you have to accept the truth”, I tried to reason with her for an hour by than and it started to get on my nerves.
“Please Mister Potter... you’re not listening! I know! I know that he’s been taken! Please believe me!”
It seems that Misses Malfoy got frustrated as well.
“And... I also think I know who it was... But no one wants to believe me!”
Suspicious I raised my brow, now interested.
“Who do you think it was?”, I asked and leaned forwards, onto the table before me.
“Greyback... Fenrir Greyback”, she answered with determination in her voice and features.
But that was impossible and the little interest I had in the case vanished.
“Misses Malfoy. You probably know as well as I do that he died in the battle. You can come again when you have real evidence or indications but as long as you don’t there’s nothing I can do for you.”
With an irritated huff she placed a stack of photos on my desk. Every one of them show Fenrir Greyback very much alive.
Shocked, I took the Photos and looked at them more closely.
“And why do you think that he took Malfoy?”, I asked and dug out a notepad and Draco Malfoy’s file.
The fact that I finally took her seriously seemed to relieve Misses Malfoy and so she relaxed a bit more into the chair.
“He always showed a sick interest in him. When he came to see my husband he would always ask weird and intimate questions about him. Even when he was still little. I tried to get as much distance as I could between them but when... you know who moved in with us he did too and... well... his interest grew and....”
misses Malfoy fell silent and looked at her hands that were folded into her lap.
She didn’t have to say it for me to know that something horrible happened.
I write everything down and looked at Misses Malfoy with a deep sigh.
“Okay... I‘ll take on the case and I promis to take it seriously. I’ll talk to some people and with your photos as prove that Greyback is still alive we’ll be able to search for him. Let me make it clear, that I can’t promise anything and because he’s gone for so Lang there is the chance that he maybe won’t be alive anymore. But I’m sure you know that already.”
Pained the woman nodded and thanked me profoundly as I saw her off.
With this new evidence and the possible lead I had something to work with. Now I just had to start further investigations and talk with the higher ups which brought with it the biggest problem.
Most Aurors were more than happy when Death Eaters just vanished and they didn’t have to deal with them anymore.
That‘s why a lot of death eaters murder cases weren‘t even investigated properly.
With a deep sigh I packed my things and made my way to my boss’s Miss Daisy‘s office. She was known for her fair treatment but also for her hatred towards Death eaters, after her whole family was killed by one.
I could imagine that she won‘t be happy about this new case. The prospect of arresting Greyback was the only hope I had for her to accept and prioritize the case.
My knock was met by a sweet voice inviting me in.
Miss Daisy was a sweet, middleaged woman with a strange obsession with green, always had that gentle smile on her face.
“Good afternoon Mister Potter, what do I owe this pleasure to?”, she asked and pushed her reading glasses from her nose into her hair.
“We have a new case... well... not new but it has new leads. Misses Malfoy was here again”, I told her while giving her all the new evidence and the report about Misses Malfoy’s suspicions.
Mrs. Malfoy came by once or twice a month to get the aurors to continue investigating Draco’s case.
Miss Daisy rolled her eyes, which was atypical for her.
But nonetheless she read through all the files and looked at the photos. The further she went through the new information the further her eyebrows furrowed.
She seemed to be thinking for a while, before she nodded and stood up.
“We’re going to prioritize this. If we can get this monster and maybe finde the boy this would be quite the breakthrough.”, she agreed and started to build a small team that would investigate the case exclusively.
We all knew that the ground of our investigations was shaky and that we didn’t have much to go off of but we would try to find that bastard and maybe even solve Draco’s case.
This would finally set his mother at peace.
And even though he was probably dead, there was still this small chance... that and the possibility for Grayback to escape made us work trough night and day for six months...
until we found them.