DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR ANY CANNON CHARACTERS, I CAN ONLY CLAIM THE PLOT AND ANY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS PRESENT
A/N All French will now be Underlined and italiced
He's my WHAT?!
Chapter 9
Harry POV
We all sat around the table in an awkward silence for about a minute, sipping our tea. "So Jean-Sebastian what's the situation like at the ministries?" I asked carefully trying to avoid sounding too harsh or defeatist. "Well the French Ministry is trying to distance itself from the whole situation, me being mentioned by name in the horse faced bint's article didn't do that effort much good however and the ministry in London is… well it's still running around like a headless chicken to be honest.
On the one hand you two have the first two magical divorces in nearly a century, so the statutes pertaining to divorce have to be found and copied and reviewed by the entire Wizengamot so they know what they can and cannot do in this situation. On the other hand you are the head of the Auror Department and the Deputy Head of the DMLE; you are one of three living people to have earned the rank of Master Auror; Harry in the last hundred years only seven people have ever held that title, to top that all off you're the 'Hero of Hogwarts' so to speak, you defeated Voldemort. You being so publically suspended even for what you were suspended for; is a huge blow to the ministry, you are, whether you like it or not a figurehead for the ministry. Having to suspend you like this is going to hurt them."
He took another sip of his tea. "Now; that's enough of the serious stuff. How are you two holding up?" I looked at a shaken looking Fleur. It had hit her hard. Not that we didn't deserve it, we probably did. We should have just came out and told everyone after the war ended, but then again hindsight is a terrible thing.
Fleur was the first to speak up; "We are only 'olding up. I just want this to all be over Papa." Tears then started to run down her face as she just repeated her last few words over and over, while Jean wrapped his arms around his little girl. "Shhh. It's alright. Everything is going to be alright." A worried expression on his face, suddenly for only the second time since I've known him he could have looked as old as Dumbledore he was so serious.
After about half an hour Fleur left the room saying that she need to have a bath and then lie down. Jean-Sebastian and I just sat at the table in silence for a few moments, before we started talking about the plans for the coming days:
"So Harry what are you both going to do about this … What I mean to say is how are you going to 'andle this over the next couple of days?" I sighed. "There isn't really much we can do J.S. I mean Amelia is trying to keep Skeeter off our backs as much as possible; the kids are all at school so there is little to do on that front. Given the archaic laws we must be questioned be the DMLE, and Amelia has assured me that she'll conduct them all, as my friends in the auror department are dwindling fast…" Jean- Sebastian just nodded sagely and waved his hand ushering me to continue. "…As for the actual 'hearings'; quite frankly I think trial would be a more appropriate word but anyway… All we can do is tell the truth and hope that the Wizengamot is feeling lenient…" just then an owl catapulted itself through the open kitchen window beak first into the table. "Well I can see that the owls here 'ave not gotten any better at navigating their way around windows" Jean-Sebastian laughed as I pried the bird out of the table took the letter it had been carrying and set it over by the stairs to rest.
"It's from Amelia" I said thinking aloud after recognising her neat and proper workplace calligraphy on the front.
Harry,
As you are aware Ministry Aurors are required to submit to blood sampling every six weeks during training and every year when they qualify or immediately after an undercover operation, to insure they have not taken any restricted potions or in the case of missions poisoned.
Just before you were suspended you had such tests performed at my request as you were acting a little odd, but bore no signs of the imperious curse, which as we both know you can throw off quite easily. The results revealed several potion ingredients in your system that are only used in three potions. The Draught of Living Death, Polyduce potion and … Amortentia.
So I looked back on some of your previous tests apart from the ones where you were deliberately taking Polyduce at the time all of your tests from the Auror academy have been spiked with some variation of love potion.
I just thought you should know about it before the interview tomorrow.
Amelia Bones
Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Ministry of Magic
As I finished reading Amelia's letter I felt all the colour drain from my face. And even with a head of state sitting in the room I said the first thing that came to mind
"Bollocks!"
A/N: And that's chapter nine folks. Sorry its abit short but I just needed to get this one up before I forgot about it all together.
As always please review and tell me what you thought of it and hopefully there will be a longer better written chapter on the way soon.
-Slygrifflepuffclaw.