AN - We are taking another jump in time.
Teddy and Victoire oldest, twins Arthur and Harry are in their last year at Hogwarts. Their youngest, Nymphadora Andromeda and Ginevra Flurette, (Dora and Vera), are two, almost three.
Teddy is the auror trainer and number two. It is assumed he will take over from Kate Finnegan when she steps down as head Auror.
Vic's business has grown to be the largest magical grocery supply company in Europe. Both Art and Harry have interned with the company the past two summers. Art plans on going to Uni to get his business degree and then work in the office with his mum. Harry wants to continue to learn the hands on farming.
Dominique had finally retired from quidditch after going in the record books as one of the Harpies best ever chasers. She is currently working for her mum and taking classes toward a degree in business.
She is single but exclusively dating the keeper of the Cannons, Stewart (Stewie) Campbell. Son of successful importer Marcus Campbell and singer Belinda Campbell.
Louis has become the magical/muggle liaison for the aurors, in addition to being an outstanding investigator. He is single.
James and Rosie had a rough couple of business years when the Cannons went into a slump. Rosie becoming the coach, combined with excellent recruiting has placed the team in contention again.
James and his wife Maggie, have Andi, almost three, and Duncan eighteen months. Maggie has decided that she prefers a career as a stay at home mum.
Al's practice is flourishing. The barrister he was impressed by in the last chapter, Marie Snowden, is now a partner. They specialize in family law.
He is still single.
Lily is quickly becoming the preeminent pediatric specialist in magical medicine in the U.K. she is dating Alex Jordon.
Rose is thriving professionally. Scorpius and her marriage is thriving also. Her main grief for so long was infertility. A year ago Scorpius had been in the middle east with Lucy's team responding to a muggle uprising where many magical people had been displaced. A tiny eighteen month old girl had been orphaned then abandoned after she had shown signs of magic. Scorpius had fallen in love with the fragile beauty. Rose traveled to the orphanage where the little one lived and where her husband spent most of his time off.
Instantly she knew this was their daughter. Al, Hermione and Percy had worked every available opportunity and loop hole. Warda Jane Malfoy was thriving and the apple of both of her grandfather's eyes.
Ron and Draco quickly rearranged their sceduals in order to help take care of their princess while her mum and dad worked. If at twelve you had told either one of them that they would be talking daily they would have thought you mad.
Scorpios, besides being a dad, was busy with the aurors. Chief Finnegan insists he has as apt a mind for puzzles and strategies as his father in law. Plus he is an excellent liaison in times of disaster and strife.
Fred II and Charlie Weasley's magizoological park is up and growing. He is happily married to the former Paula Creevy and they have a baby on the way.
Roxanne is vice president in charge of development with Weasley's wizarding wizes.. Her twins are active three year olds who terrorize the company daycare regularly. Her wife, after staying at home with Georgina and Gideon for the first two years is currently studying for an early childhood education degree.
Molly has expanded the memories project successfully. She and her husband have quickly become well known historians. They have an almost three year old son, Newton Percy and a newborn daughter Abigail Audrey.
Lucy's leadership of the disaster relief charity the cousins began is world renowned. She is single and prefers to stay that way.
Now after that exhausting update, the story for this chapter;
Drug use and alcohol abuse had always been just as prevalent in the magical community as it was in the muggle community. Magical law pursues the sources just as diligently also.
The hit wizards had noticed an uptick in heroin overdoses and brought the evidence they had to the aurors. This was going to be basic, dogged, boots on the ground police work.
Scorpius was the lead. Louis was working closely with the muggle agencies.
So far they had worked their way up the ladder to the middlemen.
A private visitor's room at Azkaban. Kate Finnegan, head auror and auror Scorpius Malfoy sit across from a shackled witch and her nondescript legal representative. The witch is painfully thin, with sparse matted hair and a sickly grey color to her skin. She is one week into heroin withdrawal. Kate is speaking.
"Marcy, don't you want a better life? Wouldn't you like to be truly free and happy?"
Scorpius: "We know you have more information than you are giving us about the distributor. We can and will get an order to use verstantemum. But you giving us your memories freely will go a long way toward your sentence being reduced and getting you moved to a treatment center."
K: "Here you sit, locked in prison, with everything to lose and a monkey on your back while he or she is making millions and as free as a bird."
Later that day. Scorpius closed and secured the desk drawer with a wave of his wand. Another unsuccessful attempt to get information on who is responsible for the uptick in available heroin.
The request to use Versatimum was working it's way through the legal system. Maybe they would catch a break.
Now it was time to put that aside and pick up his daughter. Let's see, it is Wednesday, Warda would be with her grandpa Draco. Maybe his mum and dad would like to have dinner at that new Ethiopian place Al was telling him about. Even if they declined a dinner out would mean no leftovers in the fridge. He and Warda were heading to Paris in the morning. Rose and her Cannons had been playing some preseason warm up matches against European teams. Tomorrow night was the last match. James insisted that Rose and the team take until Monday off. Aunt Gabriel had offered the use of her Paris apartment to his little family. How could they say no?
Dominique was excited! Tomorrow night, after his Paris game, she was meeting Stewie for a long weekend on his parent's yacht in Monaco. How romantic! Maybe he would finally pop the question.
Lily was more than just a bit concerned for the mum she had just seen. Belinda Campbell was seven months pregnant with twin girls. As a mum of advanced maternal age it was important that a neonatologist be involved.
Add to that Belinda's history of anorexia, depression and substance abuse this was a tricky pregnancy.
While her blood and urine had come back clean, Lily was certain something was going on. Belinda was rail thin with hardly enough weight gain for a singleton, much less for twins. She had ordered more tests and just sent a recommendation to her OB for bedrest at St Mungo's. She hoped she was wrong but she would bet that the anorexia was back.