Chapter 14
Revelations

It seemed like hours before Dean finally found the right file for 'NOTT' there had been several other drawers marked with the same name, but none included the latest generation of Theodore Nott, only what must be his ancestors from the very distant past. Dean wasn't surprised that the Nott Family had six drawers dedicated to them, they were a very old and very rich pureblood family, Dean didn't know what he would expect from them.

Thumbing through the files in the drawer, he realised that he had no idea who exactly Theodore Nott's parents were or if his mother would be in the same filing cabinet as her husband and son just because she had married into the family. The filing room wasn't a familiar place for Dean, he sorted the filing and left it in piles for people to put away, somehow he started wishing he had taken the putting away part of that job; it would probably be less boring anyway, and he would know more about the ins and outs of what happened in the filing room.

Figuring that his best bet would be to find the section on Theodore, Dean ran his finger down to the very front of the drawer where he knew that the youngest members of the family would be, surely Theodore would be among the youngest in his family. He didn't have any brothers or sisters that Dean knew of, he would've seen them at the sorting ceremony during his many years at Hogwarts. This was when Dean found out that he was wildly wrong. At the front of the filing cabinet was the file of a girl who was, upon consulting her file, eight years old. Shocked, Dean quickly scanned down a copy of her birth certificate. She had been born in 1994 to Theodore Nott senior and a woman called Josephina Young. Looking at the age gap between Theodore Nott senior and Josephina Young, Dean could tell that Josephina Young had not been willing to create a child with him. Theodore Nott senior had been born in 1926, making him sixty-eight years old when she was born and Josephina Young had been born in 1979, making her only fifteen years old when her daughter was born. To Dean's dismay, there was no file for Josephina Young in there so he made a mental note to have a look in the 'Y' section for her name.

Moving onto the next age up, expecting to find Theodore, he was shocked to find another person, younger than Theodore in there as well. Pulling the file out he saw that the boy was eleven years old, a Slytherin at Hogwarts and was mothered by Katherine Waters. Dean almost threw up when he saw Katherine Waters' year of birth; 1978, making her just thirteen years old when her son was born. Dean didn't need to go through all of the files to know that most of the children were illegitimate and were not born because the parents loved each other and were married. Dean was almost certain that both the boy and the girl had been the result of rape. Disgusted, he pulled the files for all of Theodore Nott senior's children out of the drawer and stuffed them into his bag, intending to look over them later. After doing this, he finally came across Theodore's file. Opening it curiously, he looked inside to see what his mother's name had been so that he could find her file. Looking down the birth certificate, he could see that Theodore's mother had also been very young compared to his father, but not to the extent of the others, which was just sick and wrong.

"Fiona Martinez," he said slowly as his finger landed on the name of Theodore's mother. He made a mental note of it and stashed the file into his bag before doing the same with Theodore Nott senior's. Climbing down from the ladder quickly, he ran through the list of names that he had to find; Fiona Martinez, Josephina Young, Katherine Waters, Victoria Cast and Daisy Grant.

It didn't take him long when he realised that the room wasn't accio-proof. He probably should've tried that earlier and come to think of it, it was probably how the filers put away things and the ladders were for stupid people like Dean. As the files of the five different women that had mothered Theodore Nott senior's children soared towards him, Theodore sat down on the ground, pulling the files of the five children out of his bag and setting them down next to one another with their father's head at the centre. With the skill of a chaser, he caught all five of them effortlessly and lay them down next to their respective children. Dean had never considered himself any good at mystery solving, but seeing as he had all of the files on record right in front of him, he was definitely going to try. The problem was, where to start.

He supposed that he had better start with Theodore's father's file, because that was probably where all the drama started.

The first few paragraphs were things that Dean already knew; that he was in Azkaban for being a Death Eater, his pureblood heritage and his date of birth and early years, none of which Dean was particularly concerned about. It was when he reached the second paragraph, however, he started to feel sick as he read through what ministry officials had compiled on him.

On February 24th 1979, Nott, 53 at this time, married his first wife, Fiona Martinez (23) Despite accusations from family and friends that the marriage wasn't love as Martinez was thirty years younger than Nott, the couple insisted that they were genuinely in love. This was confirmed when in July of the same year, Nott and Martinez announced that they were going to have a child.

Theodore Nott junior was born on January 13th 1980 and for a while the three of them seemed to be residing in complete happiness with Martinez taking care of their child while Nott worked, until in 1985, Martinez attempted to run off with her son, escaping what we now know as domestic violence. Nott managed to catch up with Martinez and their son and bring them back to the house. Later investigation into the mind of Theodore Nott junior showed that he had beaten Martinez until she was unconscious, Nott junior had tried to crawl to her to wake her up but his father had picked him up and thrown him against the wall, breaking his spine. Nott junior stayed conscious long enough to witness his mother's dying moments.

Martinez was found dead in a ditch about half a mile away from her home at six-thirty in the morning by travelling muggles, at first Nott denied all claims that he had murdered his wife and passed himself off as 'shocked and grieving' this strategy may have worked if a reporter hadn't asked young Theodore what he had thought of his mother's death once he was out of St. Mungos for his broken spine and he responded with 'Daddy was very mean to mummy. He hit her until she fell asleep and when I tried to wake her up, he threw me against a wall.'

Nott senior also initially denied these comments but refused to give his memories of the night, resulting in and investigation which lead to Nott junior being subject to the viewing of his memories of the night in court. The Wizenagamot sentenced Nott senior to life in Azkaban for murder.

However Nott senior, on being escorted to Azkaban managed to escape and go into hiding, leaving his son with his unmarried sister, Isabella Nott.

Three years later, in 1988, Nott senior resurfaced again with the birth of his second daughter, Fiona Nott, named after his last wife because, knowing that the ministry would be notified of another Nott birth, this would start the trail of looking for him again. By the time Ministry officials got to the place that he was living at with his girlfriend of the time, Victoria Cast, they arrived to find Victoria lying in a pool of blood and a two month old baby lying in a cot. Fiona Nott was sent to an orphanage and adopted out under the name of Fiona Cast, after her mother.

In 1989, Nott senior, who had evaded the ministry for quite some time and now faced two lifetime sentences in prison, had another child, a daughter with twenty-year-old Daisy Grant who was left bound and gagged with a slit in her stomach in her own house when Nott realised that Ministry officials were after them. They arrived in time to save Grant and Grant was able to testify against him in court with memories and all. Grant now lives with her daughter Amelia; they have had no contact with Nott since.

In June of 1991, thirteen year old Katherine Waters was reported missing. Six months later, she was found deep in the woods also bound and gagged like Grant had been, although the only injuries that she had had administered to her were cuts and bruises which were later revealed to be marks from Nott's abusive ways. When Waters was found she was heavily pregnant, malnourished and heavily traumatised from her experience. The presentation of her memories in court told Ministry officials that she had been walking home from the local shops when she had been grabbed by Nott, taken to the cabin deep in the woods and raped and abused for several months afterwards. As Waters entered the sixth month of her pregnancy Nott abandoned her, stating that he did not want to look after her child. Upon giving birth to the child, Waters gave it up for adoption, stating that she couldn't be reminded of what had happened to her every day of her life.

In 1994, fifteen-year-old Josephina Young was sitting in the Hogs Head in Hogsmeade on a school trip when a man in a hood offered to buy her a drink. She had been having a rough day and accepted without a second thought. Throughout the afternoon, Nott kept buying her more and more drinks until she was so drunk that she couldn't tell if she was sitting or standing. According to memories later presented in front of the Wizenagamot, once Young was drunk enough, he lead her up to the bedrooms above the Hogs head and raped her, however this time he was not lucky enough to be able to move on after what he had done and when Young woke, he had no choice but to kidnap her. He couldn't let word get out about his identity now that she had seen it. Nott took her, like Waters to a hut in the middle of the forest where he became abusive when he was drunk, but when he was sober he would have sex with Young and tell her that he loved her. Young spent four months tied down on a bed before Nott realised that she was pregnant and abandoned her. Young managed to untie herself bye wriggling her hands free of the binds and then being able to free her feet. She was found in Hogsmeade, starving, cold and four months pregnant. Young carried the baby to term and when she gave birth to it, she set out to try and find its father. She was successful and in 1997, she and her daughter, Alisa found him in a bar in the North of England. Enraged that she had had the nerve to try and find him, Nott performed the killing curse on Young, knowing that she would never be allowed to go back to civilisation. Ministry officials, who had been searching for Nott for almost a decade now, found three year old Alissa in the same pub that her mother had died in and put her up for adoption under the name Alissa Young.

On May 2nd 1998, the ministry was successful in capturing Nott alongside most of Lord Voldemort's supporters. Nott is serving three consecutive life sentences in jail plus eighty years for cases of abuse, rape and lying to ministry officials. He is never to be released from Azkaban prison.

Dean looked up from the paper, not knowing whether he wanted to strangle Theodore's father or throw up right then and there. What he had done was disgusting, horrible, unnatural, cruel, Dean had run out of words to express his hate of what Theodore's father had done. He had taken three women's lives. Raped two girls under the age of seventeen, fathered five children, probably only one of which he stayed with the woman past the child's first birthday and he had made a lot of enemies. Dean felt like he didn't need to read any of the other files now. He knew that Martinez, Cast and Young were dead and that Waters had given the baby up for adoption and Grant kept it. All he needed to know was in that one biography of Theodore Nott senior. Everything he wanted to find out about why Theodore was like he was when it came to being married to Parvati had just been answered. Dean could see why Theodore had thought that beating and rape was normal in a marriage. His parents were the only married couple he was ever around as most of the Wizarding world knew quite well that Isabella Nott was an old hag that smelled of dead cats and was most definitely single.

After reading what he had just read, Dean couldn't help feeling sorry for the poor bastard. Abuse was all he knew and taking that out on Parvati wasn't his fault although Dean thought that if he had bothered to look at other happy couples he would've got the idea that abuse wasn't normal in a marriage.

Then came the debate.

Dean couldn't decide whether to turn his findings in or not. Turning them in would get Theodore released as he wasn't right mentally but keeping them hidden and pretending that he never found them wasn't very appealing either. Yes, he didn't want Theodore Nott back in the world but he didn't want to be responsible for someone's imprisonment.

Clenching his fists in frustration, he banished the other files of Theodore and his half-brothers and half-sisters and their mothers back to their respective drawers, which all shut with loud clangs. He stood up and stowed the file into his bag, making a note to show it to Padma once Parvati had fallen asleep.

He began to walk towards the door, itching to get out of the filing room. It wasn't so much the fact that it was a confined space (it was massive) but the fact that it was so eerie in there that he couldn't help feeling haunted by what he had just read. He was so glad to get out of here when he finally stepped back out into the office. It was just after lunch time as most people started to filter back in from break. He caught sight of his friend Hamish and waved. Hamish smiled and hurried over to him.

"Hey Dean," he said quickly, slapping a copy of the Daily Prophet into Dean's hand, "Take this for me or Darzky will have my head."

"Nice to see you too," Dean said sarcastically as Hamish walked off, giving him a wave goodbye. Dean shook his head and proceeded to try and make it across the throng of people to the fireplace. He was just about to burn the prophet in the flames as he had no use for it when he noticed the cover story. It jumped out at him because it was exactly like the one that had been published when Parvati had been found in Theodore Nott's cellar.

ARRANGED MARRIAGES TURNED TO ARANGED FATALITIES

His mouth slightly open, he looked at the sub heading.

Pansy Parkinson found dead in home. Husband, Blaise Zabini is nowhere to be found.

"Oh shit," Dean said, tossing the paper aside and diving for the floo powder. Whatever happened he could not let Parvati see that newspaper.

AN: Well this is my last update for a week because I'm going camping tomorrow and won't be back until the 25th so I double updated this week so you'd have two chapters regardless of whether I went away or not. I hope you've been enjoying the story! If you have, please let me know by using that review box or PM as I'd really like to know what people think of my story.

Also, before I go, every week this year, I'll be gifting someone a fic of their choice. All you have to do is PM me before all the spots are taken! What to do is on my profile under "GIVING BACK IN 2013" I'd love it if some of you could help me fill up my spots!

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