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Chapter 34
Malfoy Misdirection
Anyone that shifted his or her gaze from the younger Malfoy to the one seated in the middle of the room would have seen the elder Malfoy pale. Harry, like most people in the Great Hall, wasn't sure what to make of the new developments. Everyone turned back to Draco as he started speaking again.
"Really Father how could you? I know that you've never liked me that much but come on --- don't you think this is crossing the line a little bit? The muggle lover over there," he jerked his head toward Dumbledore "told me that this is what he thought you were going to say. I didn't believe him but finally we made a deal and I came along just to prove him wrong."
"And just what exactly was that deal, son?" No one could miss the pure loathing with which he said the word son.
"Now now Father, I don't really have to answer any more of your questions any more do I? But I guess I will. If nothing else I'll answer you so that I can see the look on your face when everyone here finds out what I know. I refused to believe what Dumbledore told me that you would say. So he and I finally struck a deal. I would come back to Hogwarts and remain hidden while you testified. If you stayed silent or told the truth, I would be made a Prefect, captain of the Slytherin quidditch team, be excused from Care of Magical Creatures for the rest of the year, and get my own bedroom. In exchange all Dumbledore asked was that if you tried to pin everything I me, I would testify against you."
Draco paused for a few seconds to let his lest sentence sink in before continuing. "Well honestly, what did I have to lose? So I put on Potter's invisibility cloak and came to hear what you had to say. Imagine my surprise when you started telling your fairy tale."
Everyone stayed quiet for a while each was lost in his or her own thoughts. It was the headmaster who finally broke the silence. "Lucius Malfoy, we give you this final chance to tell us what really happened. I suggest you make use of it. We are not nearly as forgiving to those who try to deceive us."
Everyone that wasn't already looking at the Death Eater in the chair now turned to watch him. He sat there staring at Draco before speaking again. "I already told you the truth. Draco was holding us hostage and would have killed Narcissa if I refused to help him get his friends out of prison. I have no incentive to risk my standing in the magical community by trying to get some known dark wizards out of prison. I had nothing to gain!"
"Get off it Father! Everyone in this room knows how you supported the Dark Lord the last time around."
"You cannot possibly remember back then. Besides, I wasn't even charged last time. You can't offer that as proof."
"Fine. Then instead of traveling that far down memory lane, why don't you tell all these people how I supposedly held you hostage all this time while I was here at school? Was I in two places at once? Or perhaps there are two of me?"
"Come on Draco --- give these people some credit. Let's at least start this story at the beginning shall we?"
The scene was starting to remind Hermione of a muggle tennis match. Every head in the room was turning from side to side as the two generations of Malfoys were starting to go at each other.
"As you wish Father, should we start with you teaching me dark magic before I could walk or did you have something else in mind?"
"So you admit that you can perform dark spells then, do you Draco?" The older Malfoy was sporting an all too familiar evil grin as he posed the question to the younger version of himself.
"You're not going to trick me here. I'm not hiding anything from these proceedings. I'll submit to drinking a truth serum. Will you?" Draco's last question to his father seemed to have the desired effect. Lucius Malfoy was sitting quietly trying to decide how to answer the question.
"There's no need for that. I am willing to continue telling the truth. Now let's turn back to that day last year when I had to go inside the Hogwarts Express to awaken you and your friends and take everyone home." Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked at each other. They remembered hexing Malfoy and his friends, with the help of the twins, and leaving them on the train. They hadn't given it another thought since they left the train that day. Surely nothing significant came out of that event.
Lucius continued his tale. "Do you remember how mad you were that night when you woke up in the manor? You vowed right then and there to help your master kill the Potter boy. Do these people know that about you?" Lucius grinned like he was convinced he had beaten his son in this bizarre and warped contest of wills.
"Actually, some of them probably suspect it but you know I didn't mean it. I've threatened to hurt him loads of times but I never really meant it. Perhaps you should have taught me anger management. I was just angry."
"Angry? You were a boy possessed. You could do nothing all summer except practice the dark arts and scheme and connive a way to get rid of your Gryffindor enemies. Does any of this ring a bell? Or do you deny all of this too? Perhaps I am mistaken and you spent the summer attending charm school?"
Apparently the question was rhetorical because Lucius continued. "Do you remember holding your mother and me under the Imperio Curse for the entire second half of the summer? Do you deny doing that?"
The silence was almost deafening in the Great Hall as everyone waited for Draco to answer. Lucius continued. "Are you still willing to take that Truth Serum? Well after everyone finds out that you held us under the influence of an Unforgivable Curse for nearly two months perhaps the rest of your story won't be as believable. Now as to the raid on Azkaban --- "
"AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!"
No one knew the origin of the scream but it definitely came from somewhere in the hallway. Dumbledore assigned two security wizards to take Lucius Malfoy back to his cell and told everyone else to come with him.
"Follow me but do stay behind me," Dumbledore said as he ran toward the source of the ear-piercing scream.
Harry jumped up just as quickly as anyone but he did stop and snatch his cloak back from Draco Malfoy before running out of the room. Harry followed the crowd and literally ran into Snape's back in the Entrance Hall because he didn't realize that the group had stopped running. He still couldn't see the source of the commotion. Indeed he couldn't actually see anything except for the back of a few wizards standing in front of him who had obviously stopped in their tracks.
"What's going on?" someone asked from behind him.
"They're here for the prisoners. I need everyone to spread out and also for all of the students and giants to wait in the Great Hall." Harry could recognize that voice easily by now as belonging to the headmaster. As the crowd in front started to disperse Harry and his friends could see what looked like at least one hundred dementors, but probably more, approaching the school from all sides. Even though Ron and Hermione hadn't learned the Patronus Charm yet, Harry had mastered it and decided to help the greater cause. He turned to Ron and Hermione before heading out of the castle.
"I can help here but you two haven't learned the Patronus Charm yet. Take the giants back to the Great Hall and keep them there. We can't be responsible for them getting hurt, our two communities would never recover."
"But --- " Ron started to protest, as Harry knew he would.
"Ron, you haven't learned the charm. It took me months to master it now for once don't argue with me." And with that last sentence, Harry turned on his heel and ran outside. More than anything he wanted to find his godfather right now so he could fight alongside of him. He doubted few wizards in the world had as painful memories as Sirius harbored. Harry spotted Sirius a few meters off to his right and ran to fight along side him.
"Harry, get inside."
"Get real. I believe I saved your life fighting these creatures."
"Don't be melodramatic."
"Maybe you should get inside." Harry retorted with a grin.
"You're becoming more and more like James. Anyway, if you're going to stay, you should know that Dumbledore asked us to try to steer them toward the Forbidden Forest."
"Why?"
"I don't know."
Harry figured that it really wasn't worth thinking about. "Expecto Patronum!" Harry shouted at the same time that at least three other wizards cast the same spell. Once again, Harry was gratified as he saw the familiar stag erupt from his wand. Even Sirius seemed to be unable to take his eyes off the mist that held the same shape as his late best friend.
"Go get them Dad," Harry whispered to his Patronus.
The next hour passed the same as the first few minutes had. Although the wizards and witches were beginning to tire, they kept conjuring their Patronus' and tried to steer the dementors towards the Forbidden Forest as the headmaster initially requested.
"Here," a voice behind Harry said. They both turned to see Tiny standing there as he handed Harry and Sirius each an open bar of chocolate. "Eat it all you two, we're passing some out to everyone. Dumbledore also wanted us to tell everyone to be ready for the next few minutes out here."
"What does that mean?" Harry posed to anyone that could hear him.
Sirius answered, "I expect that for one reason or another, this battle is about to pick up in intensity and speed."
A few minutes later Harry was looking towards the Forbidden Forest and saw something that he had hoped before that he would never see again --- Aragog and friend.
The two giant spiders were emerging from the forest. This had the effect of driving the dementors away from the forest towards the school again. All the wizards and witches cast the Patronus Charm again and this time they had a more powerful effect. The giant spiders blocked the path of the dementors on one side and the masses of patronus' were blocking their path from the other three sides.
POOF
Some of the dementors, specifically the ones with no way to move to try to escape, imploded. Harry wasn't sure if imploded was the correct term but they seemed to explode from the inside and then vanish leaving only their cloaks behind.
"Don't let up!" Harry wasn't sure if that voice belonged to Mr Weasley or not but it seemed like sound advice. The dementors were obviously trying to escape to Hogsmeade. Harry wondered what Sirius' Patronus looked like but he couldn't spare the time or effort to watch him cast the spell. He made a mental note to ask him later.
Eventually, all the dementors were either destroyed or had escaped. The good news was that many more were destroyed than had escaped though. When all the dementors were gone one way or another Dumbledore was ushering everyone, except Hagrid, back inside.
"Hagrid, I trust you will pass along our thanks to Aragog and his wife." Dumbledore waved at the two giant spiders as he went inside along with everyone else.
"Sure thing Minister." Hagrid was positively beaming as he approached the two giant spiders, both of which were clicking excitedly.
When everyone else got back into the Great Hall Dumbledore announced, "We'll reconvene here in fifteen minutes. Everyone, as always, please partake of the refreshments, especially the chocolate."
"ARTHUR!" Mrs Weasley shouted.
"Molly dear, you heard the Minister of Magic. I can't disobey my boss." Mr Weasley was grinning as he continued eating his large hunk of chocolate cake covered with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup.
"Sirius," Harry tentatively approached his godfather. "Are you all right?"
"Yes Harry but thanks for asking. How about you?"
"I'm fine. Sirius, what is your Patronus?"
"Let's save that story for a later day shall we? One when we have more time."
Harry really wanted to know but he didn't want to push his godfather. "All right" was all he said. "Sirius, are we ever going to return to normal?"
"Yes Harry we will. We have to. To be honest with you, things are going better this time around than they were the last time Voldemort tried to take power. I'm glad we have Dumbledore on our side. He was right about attacking the dark side from the start before they got a solid hold on things."
At the end of the fifteen minutes everyone was gathered back in his or her seats. Dumbledore stood up. "Before we continue with the Malfoys' testimony I have two questions to pose to everyone. The first is does anyone here have any suggestions as to what we should do with the prisoners? They obviously can't go back to Azkaban because that's too vulnerable to another attack. They can't stay at Hogwarts and draw any more attacks here when the students return. Where should we put them?"
Dumbledore proposed a very important question, one that no one had a ready answer for. After everyone took a few minutes to think about it Mr Weasley spoke up.
"Albus it seems to me that we only have two choices. We can either refortify Azkaban or we can put them in the basement of the Ministry building. We certainly can't leave them here. We don't have the time to charm another prison. We don't have the resources to split up the prisoners."
"There is another option headmaster." Snape stood up as he spoke. "We can pass sentence on the prisoners."
As realization set in on some of the faces in the room several wizards paled. Surprisingly, Argus Filch was the one to challenge Snape.
"Are you suggesting that we kill all the prisoners?"
"Filch, I'm suggesting that we pass and execute the appropriate sentences for their crimes. If some of those punishments are permanent, so be it, the sooner the better. We have already seen two attacks this week for Voldemort to get his followers back and we have no reason to think that will change any time soon."
Harry wasn't the only one in the Great Hall having an internal struggle with what they just heard. Some part of most of the wizards in the room agreed with Snape, albeit a small part for most of the people.
When no one else commented Snape continued. "If you all don't approve of my suggestions then pray tell me where you all think that the prisoners should go."
When it became apparent that no one else had any other comments Dumbledore once again stood up. "Everyone think on the suggestions presented here and perhaps we will talk about them later. Feel free to tell me of any other ideas that occur to any of you. Now I think it's time that we turn to my second question for the group."
Again there was a general murmur of consent.
"Fine then, does anyone here have any comments about what they heard about the Malfoys' testimony before we were interrupted earlier today?
The general consensus was that even though both generations were probably evil in one way or the other, no one really believed Lucius Malfoy's version of events at all. Harry was asked to repeat what he knew about the Malfoys' in Voldemort's inner circle and he told the group that he only knew for sure about Lucius, not Draco.
It wasn't very long before the group decided to take up Draco's offer of taking the truth serum. Draco voluntarily went to sit in the chair in the middle of the tables while Snape went to his dungeon to fetch the strong potion.
Although Harry, Ron and Hermione were all glaring at Draco, no one said anything while everyone was waiting for Snape to return. Harry was so busy watching Draco and trying to make up his own mind about his warped family that he didn't notice Dobby standing in the corner shuddering.
Snape finally returned to the Great Hall and walked straight to administer the same truth potion to the young Slytherin that he had given to Barty Couch at the end of last year.
"Mr Malfoy," Dumbledore began "do you know why you're here?"
"Yes"
"Are you here voluntarily?"
"Yes"
"Did you hold your mother and your father under the Imperius Curse for the second half of your summer vacation?"
"Yes"
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Chapter 34
Malfoy Misdirection
Anyone that shifted his or her gaze from the younger Malfoy to the one seated in the middle of the room would have seen the elder Malfoy pale. Harry, like most people in the Great Hall, wasn't sure what to make of the new developments. Everyone turned back to Draco as he started speaking again.
"Really Father how could you? I know that you've never liked me that much but come on --- don't you think this is crossing the line a little bit? The muggle lover over there," he jerked his head toward Dumbledore "told me that this is what he thought you were going to say. I didn't believe him but finally we made a deal and I came along just to prove him wrong."
"And just what exactly was that deal, son?" No one could miss the pure loathing with which he said the word son.
"Now now Father, I don't really have to answer any more of your questions any more do I? But I guess I will. If nothing else I'll answer you so that I can see the look on your face when everyone here finds out what I know. I refused to believe what Dumbledore told me that you would say. So he and I finally struck a deal. I would come back to Hogwarts and remain hidden while you testified. If you stayed silent or told the truth, I would be made a Prefect, captain of the Slytherin quidditch team, be excused from Care of Magical Creatures for the rest of the year, and get my own bedroom. In exchange all Dumbledore asked was that if you tried to pin everything I me, I would testify against you."
Draco paused for a few seconds to let his lest sentence sink in before continuing. "Well honestly, what did I have to lose? So I put on Potter's invisibility cloak and came to hear what you had to say. Imagine my surprise when you started telling your fairy tale."
Everyone stayed quiet for a while each was lost in his or her own thoughts. It was the headmaster who finally broke the silence. "Lucius Malfoy, we give you this final chance to tell us what really happened. I suggest you make use of it. We are not nearly as forgiving to those who try to deceive us."
Everyone that wasn't already looking at the Death Eater in the chair now turned to watch him. He sat there staring at Draco before speaking again. "I already told you the truth. Draco was holding us hostage and would have killed Narcissa if I refused to help him get his friends out of prison. I have no incentive to risk my standing in the magical community by trying to get some known dark wizards out of prison. I had nothing to gain!"
"Get off it Father! Everyone in this room knows how you supported the Dark Lord the last time around."
"You cannot possibly remember back then. Besides, I wasn't even charged last time. You can't offer that as proof."
"Fine. Then instead of traveling that far down memory lane, why don't you tell all these people how I supposedly held you hostage all this time while I was here at school? Was I in two places at once? Or perhaps there are two of me?"
"Come on Draco --- give these people some credit. Let's at least start this story at the beginning shall we?"
The scene was starting to remind Hermione of a muggle tennis match. Every head in the room was turning from side to side as the two generations of Malfoys were starting to go at each other.
"As you wish Father, should we start with you teaching me dark magic before I could walk or did you have something else in mind?"
"So you admit that you can perform dark spells then, do you Draco?" The older Malfoy was sporting an all too familiar evil grin as he posed the question to the younger version of himself.
"You're not going to trick me here. I'm not hiding anything from these proceedings. I'll submit to drinking a truth serum. Will you?" Draco's last question to his father seemed to have the desired effect. Lucius Malfoy was sitting quietly trying to decide how to answer the question.
"There's no need for that. I am willing to continue telling the truth. Now let's turn back to that day last year when I had to go inside the Hogwarts Express to awaken you and your friends and take everyone home." Harry, Ron and Hermione all looked at each other. They remembered hexing Malfoy and his friends, with the help of the twins, and leaving them on the train. They hadn't given it another thought since they left the train that day. Surely nothing significant came out of that event.
Lucius continued his tale. "Do you remember how mad you were that night when you woke up in the manor? You vowed right then and there to help your master kill the Potter boy. Do these people know that about you?" Lucius grinned like he was convinced he had beaten his son in this bizarre and warped contest of wills.
"Actually, some of them probably suspect it but you know I didn't mean it. I've threatened to hurt him loads of times but I never really meant it. Perhaps you should have taught me anger management. I was just angry."
"Angry? You were a boy possessed. You could do nothing all summer except practice the dark arts and scheme and connive a way to get rid of your Gryffindor enemies. Does any of this ring a bell? Or do you deny all of this too? Perhaps I am mistaken and you spent the summer attending charm school?"
Apparently the question was rhetorical because Lucius continued. "Do you remember holding your mother and me under the Imperio Curse for the entire second half of the summer? Do you deny doing that?"
The silence was almost deafening in the Great Hall as everyone waited for Draco to answer. Lucius continued. "Are you still willing to take that Truth Serum? Well after everyone finds out that you held us under the influence of an Unforgivable Curse for nearly two months perhaps the rest of your story won't be as believable. Now as to the raid on Azkaban --- "
"AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!"
No one knew the origin of the scream but it definitely came from somewhere in the hallway. Dumbledore assigned two security wizards to take Lucius Malfoy back to his cell and told everyone else to come with him.
"Follow me but do stay behind me," Dumbledore said as he ran toward the source of the ear-piercing scream.
Harry jumped up just as quickly as anyone but he did stop and snatch his cloak back from Draco Malfoy before running out of the room. Harry followed the crowd and literally ran into Snape's back in the Entrance Hall because he didn't realize that the group had stopped running. He still couldn't see the source of the commotion. Indeed he couldn't actually see anything except for the back of a few wizards standing in front of him who had obviously stopped in their tracks.
"What's going on?" someone asked from behind him.
"They're here for the prisoners. I need everyone to spread out and also for all of the students and giants to wait in the Great Hall." Harry could recognize that voice easily by now as belonging to the headmaster. As the crowd in front started to disperse Harry and his friends could see what looked like at least one hundred dementors, but probably more, approaching the school from all sides. Even though Ron and Hermione hadn't learned the Patronus Charm yet, Harry had mastered it and decided to help the greater cause. He turned to Ron and Hermione before heading out of the castle.
"I can help here but you two haven't learned the Patronus Charm yet. Take the giants back to the Great Hall and keep them there. We can't be responsible for them getting hurt, our two communities would never recover."
"But --- " Ron started to protest, as Harry knew he would.
"Ron, you haven't learned the charm. It took me months to master it now for once don't argue with me." And with that last sentence, Harry turned on his heel and ran outside. More than anything he wanted to find his godfather right now so he could fight alongside of him. He doubted few wizards in the world had as painful memories as Sirius harbored. Harry spotted Sirius a few meters off to his right and ran to fight along side him.
"Harry, get inside."
"Get real. I believe I saved your life fighting these creatures."
"Don't be melodramatic."
"Maybe you should get inside." Harry retorted with a grin.
"You're becoming more and more like James. Anyway, if you're going to stay, you should know that Dumbledore asked us to try to steer them toward the Forbidden Forest."
"Why?"
"I don't know."
Harry figured that it really wasn't worth thinking about. "Expecto Patronum!" Harry shouted at the same time that at least three other wizards cast the same spell. Once again, Harry was gratified as he saw the familiar stag erupt from his wand. Even Sirius seemed to be unable to take his eyes off the mist that held the same shape as his late best friend.
"Go get them Dad," Harry whispered to his Patronus.
The next hour passed the same as the first few minutes had. Although the wizards and witches were beginning to tire, they kept conjuring their Patronus' and tried to steer the dementors towards the Forbidden Forest as the headmaster initially requested.
"Here," a voice behind Harry said. They both turned to see Tiny standing there as he handed Harry and Sirius each an open bar of chocolate. "Eat it all you two, we're passing some out to everyone. Dumbledore also wanted us to tell everyone to be ready for the next few minutes out here."
"What does that mean?" Harry posed to anyone that could hear him.
Sirius answered, "I expect that for one reason or another, this battle is about to pick up in intensity and speed."
A few minutes later Harry was looking towards the Forbidden Forest and saw something that he had hoped before that he would never see again --- Aragog and friend.
The two giant spiders were emerging from the forest. This had the effect of driving the dementors away from the forest towards the school again. All the wizards and witches cast the Patronus Charm again and this time they had a more powerful effect. The giant spiders blocked the path of the dementors on one side and the masses of patronus' were blocking their path from the other three sides.
POOF
Some of the dementors, specifically the ones with no way to move to try to escape, imploded. Harry wasn't sure if imploded was the correct term but they seemed to explode from the inside and then vanish leaving only their cloaks behind.
"Don't let up!" Harry wasn't sure if that voice belonged to Mr Weasley or not but it seemed like sound advice. The dementors were obviously trying to escape to Hogsmeade. Harry wondered what Sirius' Patronus looked like but he couldn't spare the time or effort to watch him cast the spell. He made a mental note to ask him later.
Eventually, all the dementors were either destroyed or had escaped. The good news was that many more were destroyed than had escaped though. When all the dementors were gone one way or another Dumbledore was ushering everyone, except Hagrid, back inside.
"Hagrid, I trust you will pass along our thanks to Aragog and his wife." Dumbledore waved at the two giant spiders as he went inside along with everyone else.
"Sure thing Minister." Hagrid was positively beaming as he approached the two giant spiders, both of which were clicking excitedly.
When everyone else got back into the Great Hall Dumbledore announced, "We'll reconvene here in fifteen minutes. Everyone, as always, please partake of the refreshments, especially the chocolate."
"ARTHUR!" Mrs Weasley shouted.
"Molly dear, you heard the Minister of Magic. I can't disobey my boss." Mr Weasley was grinning as he continued eating his large hunk of chocolate cake covered with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup.
"Sirius," Harry tentatively approached his godfather. "Are you all right?"
"Yes Harry but thanks for asking. How about you?"
"I'm fine. Sirius, what is your Patronus?"
"Let's save that story for a later day shall we? One when we have more time."
Harry really wanted to know but he didn't want to push his godfather. "All right" was all he said. "Sirius, are we ever going to return to normal?"
"Yes Harry we will. We have to. To be honest with you, things are going better this time around than they were the last time Voldemort tried to take power. I'm glad we have Dumbledore on our side. He was right about attacking the dark side from the start before they got a solid hold on things."
At the end of the fifteen minutes everyone was gathered back in his or her seats. Dumbledore stood up. "Before we continue with the Malfoys' testimony I have two questions to pose to everyone. The first is does anyone here have any suggestions as to what we should do with the prisoners? They obviously can't go back to Azkaban because that's too vulnerable to another attack. They can't stay at Hogwarts and draw any more attacks here when the students return. Where should we put them?"
Dumbledore proposed a very important question, one that no one had a ready answer for. After everyone took a few minutes to think about it Mr Weasley spoke up.
"Albus it seems to me that we only have two choices. We can either refortify Azkaban or we can put them in the basement of the Ministry building. We certainly can't leave them here. We don't have the time to charm another prison. We don't have the resources to split up the prisoners."
"There is another option headmaster." Snape stood up as he spoke. "We can pass sentence on the prisoners."
As realization set in on some of the faces in the room several wizards paled. Surprisingly, Argus Filch was the one to challenge Snape.
"Are you suggesting that we kill all the prisoners?"
"Filch, I'm suggesting that we pass and execute the appropriate sentences for their crimes. If some of those punishments are permanent, so be it, the sooner the better. We have already seen two attacks this week for Voldemort to get his followers back and we have no reason to think that will change any time soon."
Harry wasn't the only one in the Great Hall having an internal struggle with what they just heard. Some part of most of the wizards in the room agreed with Snape, albeit a small part for most of the people.
When no one else commented Snape continued. "If you all don't approve of my suggestions then pray tell me where you all think that the prisoners should go."
When it became apparent that no one else had any other comments Dumbledore once again stood up. "Everyone think on the suggestions presented here and perhaps we will talk about them later. Feel free to tell me of any other ideas that occur to any of you. Now I think it's time that we turn to my second question for the group."
Again there was a general murmur of consent.
"Fine then, does anyone here have any comments about what they heard about the Malfoys' testimony before we were interrupted earlier today?
The general consensus was that even though both generations were probably evil in one way or the other, no one really believed Lucius Malfoy's version of events at all. Harry was asked to repeat what he knew about the Malfoys' in Voldemort's inner circle and he told the group that he only knew for sure about Lucius, not Draco.
It wasn't very long before the group decided to take up Draco's offer of taking the truth serum. Draco voluntarily went to sit in the chair in the middle of the tables while Snape went to his dungeon to fetch the strong potion.
Although Harry, Ron and Hermione were all glaring at Draco, no one said anything while everyone was waiting for Snape to return. Harry was so busy watching Draco and trying to make up his own mind about his warped family that he didn't notice Dobby standing in the corner shuddering.
Snape finally returned to the Great Hall and walked straight to administer the same truth potion to the young Slytherin that he had given to Barty Couch at the end of last year.
"Mr Malfoy," Dumbledore began "do you know why you're here?"
"Yes"
"Are you here voluntarily?"
"Yes"
"Did you hold your mother and your father under the Imperius Curse for the second half of your summer vacation?"
"Yes"
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