A/N: The response for this story has been great. Thank you so much, I'm planning that there are going to be four to five chapters left of this story. Then there might be a sequal. I'm not sure. It was a bit of a struggle to even finish this one.

Chapter Ten - The Note.


Ginny rushed along the dark corridors of the Ministry of Magic. James tried to keep up with his mother, but there was not point trying, she was in such a hurry she hadn't even noticed she passed her brother, Ron, on the way to Harry's office.

Lauren was busy giggling at the portraits that were moving, she waved goodbye to each one, frowning at the ones that didn't wave back to her.

Ron picked up James so he wouldn't have to walk so fast and he tried to catch up to his sister.

She entered her husband's office. Harry stood up and didn't say anything, there was no need to. She knew from the look on his face that the rumors were true.

"The phone has been ringing off the hook since people got the paper," Ginny told him.

He just nodded. Ginny paused, wondering whether to tell him or not, he already looked pretty depressed.

"Parvarti rang," she said quietly, finally deciding to tell him. Again he just nodded. "She said she wanted me to tell you that Draco left a note at the scene," Ginny didn't get any reaction from her husband.

"Parvarti has it and the Auror's haven't seen it, she wants you to be the only one who does."

Harry disappeared, Ginny was startled for a minute and she realised he must have Disparated to her house. Ron came in with James shortly after and he filled her in with some more news that Harry had just found out before Ginny had come.


Harry knocked on the door of the Finnegan family's house. Parvarti was married to Seamus so she would be there.

She answered the door, her hair was messy, her clothed were wrinkled and her face was stained with tears, she looked a complete wreck.

"You want it?" she asked, not every saying hello, he couldn't blame her, not like he was in the mood to spread joy and happiness around the world.

She disappeared and came back as quickly as she'd gone. "Here you go," she shoved a piece of parchment into his hands, "don't want it back, I've read it so many times I've memorized it, bye Harry," she said and shut the door in his face. Not that he noticed, he didn't really care anyway. He scrunched open the parchment and read it quickly, then again for the second time, and the third, fourth, fifth and finally the sixth.


To who ever cares and is bothered to read this,

Here is the letter of why I killed Padma Patil, or Malfoy, I don't care, never did. Actually that's a lie, I always cared. My mother, the only decent person in my life was killed. She was always the one saying to date the one you love. So for me, that was Padma. It didn't take her long to see that I was a decent person hiding behind an act of pureness and evil.

My family was always important to me, my father, my cousins, my aunts and uncles, and most importantly my mother. The one who always believed in me.

Potter? If you're reading this I want you to know that this was your fault. Actually scrap that, this was Voldemorts fault. If he hadn't started this whole thing in the first place, you wouldn't have had to of killed my mother. She would still be here, and so would Padma.

I also want people to know that mothers are funny, Potter knows, they'll die for you, and you would die for them (if you were old enough, hey Potter?) and I want people not to take advantage of them, but to love them, and tell them that, every chance you have.

Stupid, isn't it, what one little boy (you, Harry, you) can do to so many lives.

This wont be the last.

Good-day.


Harry was taken a back by the letter. It was confronting, it showed the new Malfoy, or the Malfoy that had always been there, but he hadn't shown anyone.

The next place he had to go was a muggle highway where three muggles had died. According to Karen, his secretary, Bellatrix had killed them.

"How Neville must be," Harry thought. He had been wondering ever since he got the news how Neville was taking the escape of the Lestranges.

When he got there, Ginny and Ron had already arrived.

"What's it like?" he asked Ron.

"Not good mate, they suffered. A painful death if you ask me. She tortured them first, Neville would know the curse well," Ron paused. Harry had never known Ron to say the curse he was talking about. "And then she killed them."

Harry didn't say anything. It was horrible. "Any note this time?" he asked.

"No, mate. Sorry, but we do know it's them."

"Why muggles though?"

"You know Slytheirns, hate them, don't they?" Ron answered.

Harry knew he was right. But there was something wrong.

It was bugging him. He read the note again and realised something he hadn't before. He read it out loud to Ron, just the second last line, the one before "Good-day."

Ron looked at him weirdly and repeated it, "This won't be the last."


A/N: Ok, weird way to end the chapter, but I thought it was a bit spooky, and I had not other ideas. Please review.