Exile
Author's Note: Hi, all! This is my first fanfiction in about six years. Oh, how time passes! I'm a bit rusty on my writing skills, but the old noggin's full of ideas that are bursting to get out! So, here I go! The Malfoys have long been my favourite HP characters to read/write ff about. They're just so delicious, don't you agree? Anyway, this is the first chapter of a story about Draco and Lucius having to live as Muggles and the shenanigans they get into. I apologize for the woefully short chapter, the next one will be longer (and better!) Please read and review if you want more! 3
Prologue
Nearly four months had passed since the Battle of Hogwarts. Funerals had been held for the fallen, good and evil, and trials had been going non-stop for the captured Death Eaters. Azkaban was rapidly filling up with prisoners. Which was proving to be quite a problem for the Ministry.
"You want to what?" yelped Minister McGonagall. "Don't be absurd, Miss Granger!"
Hermione sighed. She had expected this sort of reaction. "I know it's a lot to wrap your mind around, Minister, but I think if we just try it then we might find it to be very effective!"
"Sending dangerous Dark witches and wizards out into the Muggle world is simply out of the question! Imagine the damage they could do! The innocent people they could torture, or worse! Not to mention the amount of times that the Ministry would be forced to send Obliviators to clean up their messes! I'm sorry, Hermione, I know you mean well by your-"
"Minister, please, just listen." Hermione interrupted the newly-appointed Minister of Magic. "Imagine if we just test this on one or two of the prisoners in Azkaban. We can use some of the less violent ones who turned at the end of the war to our side. Why waste cells in Azkaban on them when we can...rehabilitate them? Take them away from their wizard lifestyles where everything is done by magic and force them to live like the people that they used to look down upon? It could knock them down a peg or two, and when their sentence is up they would come back to the wizarding world as completely new people."
McGonagall stared at the young witch. "And I imagine you've already chosen the best candidates fr this little scheme of yours, haven't you?"
Hermione chuckled. Of course she had. "Well, actually... I've been looking through the Ministry's files on all of the people still awaiting trial, and have selected two wizards who would be ideal candidates."
"And who might that be, Miss Granger?"
Hermione smiled a toothy, rather devious little grin that reminded the ex-professor of a certain pair of red-haired twins. "Lucius and Draco Malfoy."