Lucius Malfoy and the Youngest Prisoner of Azkaban
AN: I am super excited about this story! You see, I came up with this idea a long time ago, but finally got around to writing it down with a plot hee hee XD. Anyways, some key notes for this are: Harry Potter is in 6th year in this setting, Draco doesn't get to be a chosen one for the dark side because the Dark Lord doesn't trust the Malfoys, Lucius never went to Azkaban because he wasn't at the Ministry in Harry's 5th year (but the event still occurred, just to clarify).
Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy flooed into their manor from their last Death Eater meeting at midnight, Lucius was in rough condition and Narcissa was helping him into the house. He had been tortured under the cruciatus curse by the Dark Lord, Lucius along with almost half the Death Eaters there had to suffer. But Lucius had been under the curse for a lot longer than the others because of the old Diary Incident from Draco's second year. Strangely though, Bellatrix received no punishment from the Dark Lord even though she was directly involved in the Ministry attack; she was seen instead hanging off his chair and giving him kisses of lustful ecstasy on his feet and robes. Lucius had wished he was a woman at that time, he would have been able to seduce the Dark Lord out of torture like Bellatrix, but he assumed that if he did become a woman that he would still keep his dignity.
"Find Severus, he can h-h-help m-me." Stammered Lucius,
"Yes dear, I'll do that when we get you on the couch. Severus should be available, he knew about the meeting." Said Narcissa quickly, she was nervous about her husband's condition.
Narcissa went over to the couch once she settled Lucius who was quietly moaning on about his whole body being in pain. She threw some floo powder into the fire and said, "Severus' Quarters, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"
Suddenly Snape came into view in a cloud of smoke, he said: "Ah, Narcissa. To what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Lucius came back from the last meeting and his conditions has gotten worse, he needs your help." Said Narcissa, hoping Severus could help them.
"I see, let me gather me supplies and I'll be right through." replied Snape.
"Oh thank you Severus!"
Minutes later Severus came through the floo with a doctor's bag in hand. He rushed over to Lucius who was still riling on the couch.
"What happened this time?" Severus asked wearily as he saw Lucius' trembling figure on the couch.
"Our Lord was angry, and he never got over the Diary Incident from Draco's second year. And he is still griping about the prophecy from last year, it's insane how long he can hold a grudge." Said Lucius in his agony and clenched teeth.
"Still?" said Severus outraged that the Dark Lord had kept a petty grudge against one of his most loyal servant for so many years.
"Yes! Would you please get on with it!" shouted Lucius wanting the torture to end.
"Of course." Severus said quickly and healed Lucius' injuries quickly, knowing that Lucius never liked feeling weak in front of others. Then he packed up his supplies and prepared to leave.
"I'll see you later then, feel better Lucius, Narcissa. Shall I send your regards to Draco?" Said Severus and Lucius and Narcissa nodded, "You will find a way to solve this and gain the Dark Lords trust again, I'm sure." He clapped Lucius' shoulder reassuringly and turned to the fireplace and left
Narcissa levitated Lucius to bed and they slept peacefully for the rest of the night. Lucius woke with a start the next day feeling much better than yesterday, and looked to Narcissa who was speaking to a house elf about breakfast.
The house elf left and Narcissa turned to see Lucius upright in their bed, she came to his side immediately, "Are you okay dearest?" she asked with worry clearly in her voice.
"Yes, I'm okay. It's just, Severus' words keep haunting me. We have to find a way to get into good graces with the dark lord again for our lives and sanity at least."
"I agree, how are we lower than the other dunces of Death Eaters? They know nothing about being a Death Eater or even a Slytherin. They need to learn perhaps they should go back to Hogwarts." Narcissa joked.
"Or we could get a person to tutor them." Lucius mused.
"Yes we could break out a criminal from Azkaban to teach them." Said Narcissa.
"Wait! That's not a bad idea!" said Lucius, "What if we did do that, break out someone we could control and mold them into the perfect Death Eater! We could make them do what we want to do what we want to help us regain the Dark Lord's trust!"
"Lucius you're not serious darling, how would The Ministry let you take a full grown and dangerous prisoner out of Azkaban? Furthermore, how could we get them to help us?" said Narcissa.
"Does it have to be an adult Narcissa?" said Lucius with a wink. "Let's go to the Library!"
Lucius and Narcissa got dressed and went to the Library, where breakfast was already set by the house elves upon Lucius' instruction. Lucius ate rather quickly and got up first and Narcissa remained waiting to see what her husband was doing. It turns out Lucius was looking for a rather specific book in their massive two story library, and he was on the second floor.
Lucius trotted back to Narcissa happily with a medium sized book in hand and slammed it on the table as he sat down. Narcissa got a look at the title that said: The Prisoners of Azkaban: The Updating Log, she looked up her husband who smirked at her and he flipped the book open. She watched him for several minutes as he continued to flip through the book in haste, stopping to look at pictures of people every once in a while. He finally stopped at a page almost near the end of the book, read it thoroughly, and looked up at her.
"Have you found someone dear?"
"Yes, yes I have." Said Lucius with a devilish grin, "I have found the perfect person for our plan, I found the youngest prisoner of Azkaban ever."
"Wait, what? How old is she, why is she there, what about the Dementors?" cried Narcissa.
"Shhh, I'll explain." Said Lucius soothingly.
"Well you better!"
"Yes dear, so her name is Ariel Ann Clemons. She was arrested when she was 11 for murder; she is two years younger than Draco and attended to Hogwarts for 1 year before she was convicted. Her family, the Clemons, were a legendary pureblood line back then if I remember, her parents were magical prodigies and they had tutored her in all forms of magic even before she went to Hogwarts.
Her parents were killed by Aurors two months before she went to Hogwarts because they were thought to be in line with the Dark Lord, which it turns out they weren't they were neutral. She lived with her grandparents that were the last of their family before she went to Hogwarts, but they died while she was at school. She was upset that they died in such vain that she became angry and bitter at the Aurors and vowed revenge in both her parents and her grandparents' memory.
She was sorted into Ravenclaw, and manipulated and deceived every single person there, even Dumbledore and Severus. It doesn't say exactly what else she did or how, but she somehow lured the two Aurors who killed her parents to Hogwarts for a fake investigation where she trapped them in a mysterious room and attacked them with a knife. In the end she killed one and severely wounded the other, who lives to this day but has retired since.
Upon discovery of the scene she was immediately taken to the Ministry for a hearing, where they decided that she was too young to go to the Azkaban with the Dementors that they made a whole Juvenile Delinquent Center in their office building just for her. She has and is to remain there in partial solitary confinement with minimal lessons and half the sentence spent under the silencing spell so she cannot speak or attempt to manipulate others, her sentence is for seven years she has served three of them so far, and she is fourteen right now." explained Lucius.
Narcissa was shocked silent, this girl life was made terrible by two Auror's mistake and it wasn't surprising how she turned dark and killed those people for revenge. She seemed like the perfect Slytherin, it's a wonder she was sorted into Ravenclaw.
"What do we do Lucius she seems to be in high security?" she asked.
"Simple." He replied, "We must retrieve her."
Lucius got up from his chair and went to leave, he turned to Narcissa: "I shall go to the ministry and get everything in order then go retrieve her. While I'm out if you could prepare a room for her with everything someone her age would need, I imagine she will need clothes and normal necessities so do that. We will deal with her family estate later. Now, she may be a little unruly at first so instruct the house elves on how to deal with her, and I will be back with her by tonight." Instructed Lucius.
"Yes dear, good luck."
To be continued...
So tell me what you thought! If you have any questions or suggestion feel free to review or message me! If you are curious about Snape's role: it's undecided yet. He will be here for sure but I don't know how big or small his role will be yet!
Do you think that Ariel will come quietly with Lucius? Of course not! XD See you in the next chapter!