Azkaban Prison, Island in the North Sea
Ron Wealsey shivered in the prison. Him and Lyra were going to be interviewing Greyback first. They were sitting behind a protective barrier. Greyback would be on the other side of it. Lyra looked through their notes on Greyback for the 12th time.
"You're going to do fine," Ron said
"Easy for you to say" Lyra said
"He's going to be behind the barrier, and if he refuses to talk, then oh well, we move on."
"Ron, unlike you, I don't do death eater werewolves who have a taste of human flesh, unless they are firmly behind a screen"
"Didn't you fight in the battle?" Ron asked
"And look how I ended up because of Greyback, half metal. Look, let's just get this over" they sat in silence until the guard announced.
"Fenrir Greyback," two different guards carried Greyback in. He was a tall, muscular, wolffish man. He sat down at the other side of the table. He looked up at Neville and Lyra
"No Potter or Longbottom ?" He asked gruffly, showing off his sharp teeth
"Just me today," Ron said
"Shame, I was hoping to get to see them" he licked one of his teeth. Lyra shuddered
"Who's the new chick?" He nodded to Lyra
"Auror Lyra Castellano" Lyra introduced, trying to keep their voice steady. Greyback ignored them
"So, how are Potter and Longbottom ? Saw in the paper Potter got the wolf's kid. I hear you got nieces now too" he chuckled. Ron hid his curling fists under the table.
"I thought you preferred boys" He said
"At that age does it really matter?" Greyback asked. Ron opened the file in front of him.
"We have to ask you a couple of questions" Ron said
"Go ahead," Greyback said, glancing at them
"What do you know about the Risen Followers?" Lyra asked
"Can't say I've heard of them," Greyback said.
"They all seem to have the dark mark" Ron pushed
"So? I never did. If they are death eaters can't be a big group, considering that you threw us in here to rot" Greyback growled. Ron sighed. Greyback slammed his hand on his side of the table "Don't you act so high and mighty-" two guards ran forward and pulled him back and out of the door "you think just because you won this round you've won? We will rise-" the door slammed behind him.
"You ok?" Ron asked Lyra
"Yeah, that got intense"
"They sometimes do, ready for part two?"
"As ready as I'll ever be"
Meanwhile, in the interview room on the other side of the prison, Neville sat at the table with Zaima. The guards brought in their first interviewee, Alecto Carrow. Neville recognized her. The torturer. He studied her for a minute while she sat. Her usually expertly styled red hair was a matted, stringy mess. Her once light filled blue eyes had lost their evil gleam. After everything, he was surprised to see her like this.
"Alecto Carrow," one of the guards called. She was dropped onto the chair. She stared at them in disgust.
"Hello, Alecto. My name is Auror Zaima Nabih. This is-"
"I know who he is" Carrow said
"We've met" Neville said, glaring at her
"Well, now that introductions are done-" Zaima said
"Tell me Longbottom, how have you been?" Carrow asked
"Fine, pretty good actually" he had a smug expression on his face.
"How's Finnigan, haven't seen anything about him in a while"
"He's really happy. So's Dean. Him and Dean finally got together now that they've got their whole lives ahead of them"
"Really? What about my pet? Lovegood?" Carrow smiled. Neville stiffened
"She's doing great, she started her magizoology studies"
"Right, now that you two are done catching up, Alecto, we need to ask you some questions." Zaima said
"Go for it" she said, her arms crossed over her chest
"What do you know about the Risen Followers?" Zaima asked
"Can't say I've heard of them" she said
"They bare the mark" Neville said
"Good for them" Carrow said
"In the last few weeks they've killed at least 4 muggles and tried to kidnap an Auror" Neville pushed
"Really? Good for them" Carrow said
"You truly know nothing?" Zaima asked
"Hadn't heard of them until you mentioned them" she shrugged. Zaima sighed "Although now that you mention it, I might have heard something"
"Care to fill us in?" Zaima asked
"Well, you see, telling you might hurt me, so I need something in return"
"What do you want, Carrow?" Neville asked
"Oh that is a tough one" she clapped her hands together "I got it, you can bring my pet for a visit, I haven't seen her for so long. I miss her"
"Yeah, that's not happening." Neville growled
"Wait, Nev, can we talk for a minute" Zaima said
"You are never getting near Luna again."
"Such a shame" She said "I think, with that, we are done here. Oh, Longbottom, tell her and that little whore I said hello." She turned to one of the guards as he carried her out "Hey, Jeffery what do you think the mystery meat will be today? I hope it's, liver" she smiled at them as she was dragged out.
"Neville, we should have talked before you shut her down" Zaima said
"She is not getting anywhere near Luna again. That's not negotiable" Neville said
"Neville, we could have gotten something out of her,"
"No Zaima" Neville said
"Neville, what happened to make you shut down like this?" Zaima asked
"During my 7th year, the Carrow took over the school. Ginny, Luna and I restarted the DA. We were good at hiding but the Carrows knew the minute word of DA got back to them that it was us. They began a campaign against us. Someone ratted us out before the winter holiday. The Carrows woke up the seventh and sixth years and forced us into the dungeon. They had Luna, Ginny and I taken and shackled to the wall. They had the other student practice the cruciatus curse on Ginny and I. They weeded out who was in the DA based off of if they refused. If they decided that someone was in the DA, they got shackled up there with us. The one thing was that no one was allowed to touch Luna. After everyone went or got shackled, they kept us up there but Alecto took just Luna into another cell. She never told me what happened there but I remember hearing her screaming. They let us out in the morning. We didn't see Luna until the next morning in the hospital wing. She wasn't ok afterwards. Luna's tough as they come, but she would flinch every time Alecto came up to her. She avoided Carrow whenever possible. I made a promise that I was never going to let Carrow near her again and I'm not going to now"
Back at the other side of the prison, Ron and Lyra waited for Yaxley Sr. The guards announced his arrival. He was a man with hard features and a cruel smile. He had blonde hair like his son, but his was much longer that Ivan's wavy shoulder length hair. His hair went down to his lower back.
"Take a seat Yaxley," Ron said. Yaxley just glared
"You don't have to but you'll get tired if you just stand there." Lyra said. One of the guards shoved him down
"Right Mr. Yaxley, we have some questions for you." Lyra said. Yaxley continued to just stare at them "what do you know about the Risen Followers?" Lyra asked, Yaxley did not answer
"We have reason to believe that your son is involved" Ron said Yaxley still refused to speak.
"Ron, what do we do?" Lyra whispered
"Let me try something," Ron whispered back
Right Yaxley, you don't need to help us, but if I was rotting away in a prison for helping a megalomaniac,— not that I would ever value power over being a decent human being— and the Aurors needed information for a case, I would make it my priority to give them that information, Yaxley. Do you understand me?" Ron mocked. Yaxley growled but otherwise did not answer. Ron gestured to the guards to take him away.
At the other end of the prison, Neville and Zaima waited for Lestrange. The two had not spoken since Neville had shut Zaima down. The guards called Lestrange. He sat down in the chair across from them. He smiled at Neville
"Longbottom right?" He asked
"Yes" Neville growled
"How's mum and dad"
"Doing pretty good actually," Neville said
"Really?" Rabashton asked
"Yes,"
"We have a few questions for you," Zaima said. He nodded for her to continue "what do you know about a group calling them the Risen Followers"
"Well, given your refusal to make this worth my while, I would say nothing" he gestured to the guards to take him away.
"Mr. Lestrange, please wait," Zaima asked
"No, I think we're done," he said. He got up to leave. The door slammed behind him.
"What does this leave us with?" Zaima asked. Neville checked his notes
"Absolutely nothing." He said