Harry sighed as he took a sip from his coffee. The raid had been hard. In fact, it had been pointless. As soon as they had appeared, the Malloys vanished from their home. He was lost at what to do. He had two options – try to trace the couple that vanished for 11 years, or just plow ahead with the final investigations – DNA testing. By the time he had finished his cup of tea, he knew what he was going to do the next day.


Rose, Al and Scorpius were sat eating breakfast when Harry's owl dropped a small note in Rose's lap.

"What does it say?" Scorpius asked, knowing that it would be about Lyra's case.

"He wants us to meet him in Flitwick's office with Lils and Lauren" Rose said. "He's taking us all out for the day on the case."

"To do what?"

"Who knows" Rose said, grabbing a six muffins, and stuffing them in her bag. "I need to go to your dorm, and we need to get Lily and Lauren, so let's go down to the common room" she stood up, taking Scorpius' hand.

"Why do you need to go to our dorm?" Al asked.

"To ditch some stuff and pick up some more stuff" Rose explained. "Finish your breakfast then meet us outside Flitwick's office" she instructed, dragging Scorpius away.

"I'm not carrying a bag full of books around if we're out all day" Rose explained to Scorpius as she emptied her bag onto his bed.

"Why my bed ?" he groaned quietly.

"Because I like you more than Al" Rose grinned.

"Good" Scorpius smirked. "Now, you wanted to pick up some stuff as well you said?"

"Yeah, I need you to bring your photo of Lyra. You also need to change out of your school robes. I'll pick up a spare set of clothes for Al, then I'll go get the others to change" she explained. She found out some clothes for Al, shrunk them down and put them in her bag. On top, she carefully put Scorpius' photo, and then the muffins she had picked up this morning.

"Why the muffins?" Scorpius rose an eyebrow.

"We don't know when we'll get to eat today, so I'm bringing them just in case we get peckish" she said, pulling one of Scorpius' tshirts out of his trunk.

"Hey that's mine!"

"I know. I'll borrow some of Lily's jeans, but her tops never suit me" Rose smirked, also taking his Slytherin jumper. "And I need something to keep me warm" she grinned before walking out of the room.

"Lils, Lauren, GET UP!" Rose yelled, walking into their dormitory. She knew they would be in their beds still, so sent an itching charm their way.

"Why? Piss off, Rose" Lil groaned into her pillow.

"We're going out with your dad on the case, shift it!" Rose said, helping herself to a pair of Lily's jeans. "Dress in comfy clothing as we don't know if we're going into the Muggle world or not, and be quick, Uncle Harry wants to meet us within 10 minutes"

Five minutes later, Rose met Scorpius in the common room, dragging Lily and Lauren behind her. They walked into Flitwick's office and saw that Al and Harry were waiting for them.

"I bought you some clothes to change into" Rose said, throwing the clothes at Al, who quickly charmed them to replace his school robes. "So, where are we going Uncle Harry?"

"Mungo's. I'll explain everything once we get there" he said. "Just follow me into the floo. St Mungo's Hospital" he cried, jumping into the flames.


Minutes later, they all stood in the St Mungo's reception. Harry walked over to the reception desk.

"Harry Potter plus five minors, here on the Lyra Malfoy case" he said.

"Of course, Mr Potter. Granger Ward, Room 19" the blonde at the desk smiled.

"Thank you" he smiled before leading the five students up to his best friend's ward. After the War, Mungo's dedicated a ward to each of the Golden Trio. It was typical that they would be assigned one of these wards for their case.

"Right, we're here because the Malloys did a runner last night" Harry explained as soon as the door to Room 19 closed. "The only real option we have left to discover if you really are Lyra Malfoy is to do a DNA test. To do that, we're going to be joined by Draco and Astoria in a few minutes. Rose, Scorp, I'd like you to explain the situation to them. Lauren, you, Draco and Astoria will all have to give a small sample of blood when the Healer comes in, and then we have to wait for an hour while they test it" he explained.

"What if it comes up negative?"

"I have complete confidence in it being positive" Harry smiled, "but if it does come up negative, we will arrange holiday care for you straight away, seeming as the Malloys have vanished again"

"Thank you, Mr Potter" Lauren grinned, just as the Malfoys walked in.

"Harry, what exactly are we doing here?" Draco asked, immediately shaking his old enemy's hand. After the War, they'd agreed to start fresh, and had worked together closely throughout the years to catch criminals.

"I'll let Rose and Scorp explain" Harry said, but made sure both the Malfoys were sitting before he allowed Rose to continue.

"My Uncle Harry and I have been working on your case" Rose said.

"Our case?" Astoria asked.

"Lyra's case, Mum" Scorpius almost whispered. Both Draco and Astoria froze in shock, Rose continued.

"Scorpius accidentally mentioned that his sister had gone missing as a child. He had a photo in his trunk, so out of curiosity, I copied it and sent it to Uncle Harry" Rose explained. "He managed to get Colin Creevey to adapt it to create a prediction of what Lyra would look like now."

"The day that Rose received this picture, Lauren here transferred ton Hogwarts form Beauxbatons" Scorpius took over. "She shocked Rose, Al and Lily because she was identical to the image that was produced"

"Since then, we've discovered that it is possible that Lauren here is actually Lyra" Rose said. She looked over to see both Malfoys looking at Lauren with the most shocked expressions of their lives. So today, we're going to do a DNA test to prove our theory"

"You have more evidence, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't have called us in to get our hopes up" Draco whispered in a strangled voice.

"Yes. Lauren's 'parents' Michael and Anita Malloy fled England when Lauren was 3. They also have criminal records for kidnap and we have documentation proving a name change" Harry added. "I went to arrest and interrogate them last night, but they've vanished, so our last attempt at proving that Lauren is actually Lyra is through a DNA test"

"Well, let's get this done with as soon as we can" Astoria said. Harry quickly left the room and came back a minute later with a healer. The healer quickly extracted a few millilitres of blood from Draco, Astoria and Lauren. He then rushed off to the Mungo's lab, saying that he'd be back with the results in under an hour.

"Now what do we do?" Rose asked Harry.

"We sit and wait"

"Right then, I'm going to go and get a coffee from the Café. Same for everyone else?" she asked.