Portentous Degenero
Chapter 9: The Envelope
Percy stooped to pick up the fallen envelope. Confused he glanced at its label then back at Ianna. "Where did you get this Ianna?" Ianna looked at the ground.
"I found it. I wanted to know what was in it." Ianna mumbled. Percy would more than likely lecture her about the importance of a ministry official's desk and the contents upon it. Ianna knew her father would have done the same…before all this mess. She just wanted to know why Burns had had a file on her dad. It had to mean something, right?
"Where'd you find it?" Percy interrogated looking at her closely. One didn't just "find" files in a ministry office. They had to be looked for, or given to a person. How Ianna had come across this file was beyond him.
"On Burns' desk…I snuck it out while you were talking to him." Ianna waited for the lecture. Instead she found that only silence fell upon her ears. She looked up to find Percy moving towards his desk and opening the envelope. He pulled out the pages and started to read them.
"These are documentations of all your Dad's previous cases. Mostly undercover work it seems. How did Burns get this information?" Percy asked quietly going towards all of the paper. Ianna looked at all the papers. The terminology confused her, and some were encoded. But Percy was right it did cover all of her Dad's missions…or at least all of them that she had been aware of. Something hit Ianna.
"Perhaps…"she said as she thought. " Aparecium!" Ianna pointed her wand at the papers. Instantly hand written notes appeared in the margins. Percy quickly began to read over them.
"No…" Percy whispered in disbelief. He reread the notes. "This can't….We have to talk to my dad NOW." Percy said grabbing the files and running out the door to downstairs. An owl and some apparating later, Arthur was gasping sitting in the kitchen looking at Percy.
"Would you like to explain what I'm doing here, son?" Arthur asked. It wasn't like Percy to interrupt a work day like this and when Arthur had seen the Come Home ASAP note from Percy he had dropped everything only to find there seemed to be no emergency. Percy set some files infront of him.
"Read these." Percy said and sat down next to him at the table. Ianna stood to the side confused. She didn't know what was going on. Hopefully someone would tell her soon. Arthur read two pages. He started sputtering and reaching for a piece of parchment and a quill. Dumbledore had to be notified. Something had to be done and quickly.
A/N: Well, this was….interesting to type. More coming soon….Or as soon as my work schedule will allow.
Aparecium- makes invisible ink visible ~ thanks to Harry Potter Lexicon