A/N: Yea, well I was in the mood to write a mystery so here it is. XD Please read the summary, it is very important! If you don't you'll be very confused throughout the story!

Summary: Draco Malfoy is now a lawyer. During his 6th year of Hogwarts, his father was killed by the Dementor's Kiss. For his 7th year, his mother transferred him to Beauxbatons so he could get a better law education. Nacrissa herself died in the middle of the year because she was sick and fed up with grief over the death of Lucius. Draco stumbles upon a case that will explain what exactly happened during the 7th year at Hogwarts.

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the idea.

Note: '…' means a character's thoughts
italicized words are part of a letter

Draco Malfoy sat back in his chair with his feet up on his desk and his arms crossed behind his head. It hadn't been a busy month so far, so lately he was found just sitting back and relaxing.

He thought that this would be another free day, but he was terribly wrong. For out of the blue sky emerged a small brown owl that rapped on the window to Draco's office, waiting to be let in.

Draco lazily got up and opened the window. The owl dropped a package on his desk and Draco gave it a galleon. The owl hooted in delight and zoomed out of the window.

Draco closed the window and then proceeded to open the letter, hoping that it would be an interesting case.

On the paper, it said:

Mr. Malfoy,

We have another case on hand and we feel that you will be the perfect lawyer for this one. A house has been burned, killing twelve occupants of the house at the time.

At this, Draco's eyes widened. 'Twelve people?!' He continued to read on, anticipation overtaking his body.

The home of Arthur Weasley has been burned down on the night of the twenty fifth of March. That night at "the Burrow" as it was called, a family reunion was taking place. The fire was set and it surrounded the house, trapping the whole family inside with no escape root. Not one person survived.

On the enclosed papers, we have a list of all those who are dead, and a suspect who you must defend if this offer is accepted by you.

I hope that you do accept, and that we will be seeing you soon.

Sincerely,

Elaine Deffler
(President of Law and Order at the Ministry of Magic)

Draco took out the other papers and flipped through them. He immediately signed the contract saying that he would take the case, because he was desperately in need of money to support his single, 19 year old self. Plus, the case sounded interesting enough.

Immediately after he signed his name, the piece of paper sparkled and was clamped shut. Draco knew this would happen, because in a wizard contract when you sign it, the contract becomes unbreakable.

Draco continued to look through the papers (mostly junk explaining a wizard contract's rules and such, which Draco already knew of) until he got to the list of the deceased and the name of the suspect.

The killed:

1) Arthur Weasley

2) Molly Weasley

3) Charles Weasley

4) Amanda Weasley

5) William Weasley

6) Fleur Weasley

7) Percy Weasley

8) Penelope Weasley

9) Fredrick Weasley

10) George Weasley

11) Ronald Weasley

12) Ginerva Weasley

The (suspected) killer:

Hermione Granger

After reading this, Draco dropped the paper in shock. 'Granger?! Killing the Weasels?! What the bloody hell did I miss in 7th year?!?!"

A/N: Sorry, it's a little short because I thought that this was a good place to stop. D I hope I did a good job with the letter; I have never been a lawyer nor have I ever dealt with any business relating to the law. Also, please tell me if I did the full names of the characters right. If anyone knows that they are incorrect; please tell me in your review! Also, I know that you will review because you are reading this story! (starts cackling madly)