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Chapter 3: Death Eaters Anonymous

Lucius Malfoy was not happy. The stupid Boy Who Wouldn't Die was back and now he had to go to one of those bloody meetings with his fellow death eaters. On top of all that Narcissa was crying over the fact that Draco his stupid son was all grown up and a man. Apparently his idiot son had met his Wizards Soulmate on the train and it was none other than Astoria Greengrass a sixth year at Hogwarts. Well, he thought, at least the brat will be moving out at the end of the upcoming school year.

As Lucius approached the meeting's room which the bloody idiots had decided should be held at Borgin and Burkes. He really did not want to be there. However he put his chin up and marched into the shop and was met by the leader (which was a joke in his opinion) Peter Pettigrew. How that baffoon became the leader after the Dark Lord's death Lucius never understood.

"Ahh Lucius, welcome, welcome. Have a seat." Peter said pointing to a seat around a large table. Lucius sat and noticed that the shops stock had been pushed to the sides to make room for the table. Around the table was Yaxley, Crabbe, Goyle and more of the death eaters that had avoided prison.

"Well might as well start this meeting with the obvious." Yaxley said pulling out a daily profit from 2 weeks ago. "The boy wonder is back." Around the table the other death eaters stiffened knowing what this meant for them.

"Yes. It's a shame he decided to appear. Now we won't have the fun of finding him and then killing him." Peter laughed. Lucius wanted to be anywhere but there at this point in time, he felt like once the dark lord had died he would be free of these people, but alas he was there in Borgin and Burkes stuck with a lord who didn't care about who he used to get what he wanted.

"Crabbe, any word on the boys Wizarding Soulmate." Crabbe worked in the Soulmate division of the ministry and had access to whose was whose soulmate as soon as that meet.

"No. Today was my day off, but i doubt anything changed. I'll check again tomorrow." Crabbe said in the low baritone voice of his.

"Good. I need to know when this happens and it will. It means the boy will have a weakness and I can not wait to exploit it." Peter smiled a chilling smile that made the hairs on Lucius's back stand up. "What news of the others?"

"The Old Potter's wench is teaching at Hogwarts and so is their pet wolf." Goyle replied. His eyes giving away his emotion. It was obvious to everyone there that Goyle was loving being back in the game. "But we don't know about Jones, Potter or Black yet."

"There's a rumour that Jones will be joining the auror department." Lucius spoke for the first time since attending the blasted meeting. "Another rumour that Potter will be writing for the sports section of the daily prophet." Lucius made the daring attempt to look at Peter and found him smiling at this news.

"Brilliant, we will have to keep an eye on them all won't we? What about Black?"

"Black's rumoured to be going into department of magical law enforcement." Avery stated with a complete poker face so no one could tell what he was thinking. "Should be easy to keep an eye on him."

"Right then, what else should we discuss, oh yes the problem of the teenagers ruining our plan last June. We should be asking ourselves gentlemen, what went wrong?" Peter asked ruefully daring anyone to answer.

"We underestimated those six students." Lucius started brave enough to answer the question. "We thought a bunch of school kids would not be able to defend themselves well but we were wrong. The Weasley Children, The Mudbloods, The Longbottom Brat and Loony Lovegood were able to nearly leave us defenseless. If it hadn't been for Yaxley's curse at one of the mudbloods we would not have been able to escape."

"You're quite right Lucius. I'm glad not all of my followers is blind to our faults. The rest of you should learn from our dear Lucius here and not be scared to speak up. The Dark Lord is no longer here and you needn't be worried about me killing you. Understood?" A resounding Yes followed Peter's question but Lucius knew better, that Peter had become just as bad as the Dark Lord over the past years and you had to be stupid to not know this. Gone was the scared rat that Peter was and here was the confident leader that demanded absolute loyalty to him.

"Right, Next what is this interesting news about Dumbledore?" Peter asked even though he most likely already knew the news.

"Apparently the old fool might not be as good as everyone thinks he is. I got an owl from my child stating that the mudblood Granger spoke about what happened in June at their prefect meeting on the train today and according to her the old crackpot did not come to their rescue in June. Pansy stated that the mudblood and the weaslette had sent a first year to get him at the start of the fight and for some reason he did not come to the fight." Parkinson said with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"Really?" Peter asked the question in an obviously rhetorical manner. "Well, well someone needs to find out what he was doing that was so important he couldn't go to the rescue of his precious students." Peter looked around expectantly at the other Death Eaters. "Well? Any volunteers?"

"I will." Severus Snape said as he stepped outside of the shadows from which he had been hiding. "I have the old fools trust. He will most likely tell me why." Snape smiled as he looked around and everyone gathered stopping at Lucius for a few more seconds then everyone else before quickly moving on to the next person.

"Great. I know i can count on you Severus." Peter smiled obviously happy with the development. Lucius was starting to get less and less comfortable and was relieved when Peter said the meeting was adjourned. Now he could go home to his wife and pretend to be happy about his brats new found soulmate. As he stood to leave he noticed something shiny coming out of Snape's pocket and thought that that was odd for the potions professor to have, as it was well known that Snape did not care for anything expensive. Lucius shook it off and made his way out. He reached the apparating point and went home.

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Well, now we get to see the other side for the first time and a look at what happened in June. Thanks to Emerald (The other IronGirl) for Beta-ing and if you have not checked out her story on our profile please do! It's called Never Forgotten, Never Forgiven. That's all from me. I'll see you in the next chapter. Please Review don't be shy.

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