AN: Sorry this one is so short. Hopefully it keeps you interested for the time being. Thanks for reading! And I do plan to go in a fix previous chapters, but I need a little more time to get everything accomplished. Why can't there be more than 24 hours in a day?
Chapter 10: Turmoil in the Ministry/p
Kingsley Shacklebolt considered himself a fair, hardworking man, but some days he missed the Auror's Office a little too much. Today was one of those days. His 8:00 appointment was almost an hour late. His 10:30 ran over into his lunch break. And now, right before he was to leave for the day, an airplane from another department landed on his desk. Normally his secretary would screen his mail, but this one was different.
The parchment seemed older than him. He could smell the fresh ink on the page. The penmanship rivaled the finest calligraphy he had ever seen. This memo was not from a department he had ever gotten a memo from before. This memo seemed to radiate importance. So Kingsley opened the carefully folded page.
No.
No.
He would not do it.
He could not do it.
But what could he do?
Nothing really.
His hands were tied.
The wizarding would be in upheaval.
Why did this job have to be like this?
Kingsley resigned himself to staying late, yet again. He slumped into his chair. He was stunned. What could this possibly mean? If there were any other options, he would find them. There had to be something else. Anything.
He called his assistant, Percy Weasley, into his office. When Percy entered, he was stopped short by the look on the minister's face. What could be that bad? Another uprising?
Kingsley simply handed the parchment over the Percy. As Percy began to read, he could not believe his eyes.
"What are we going to do, Kings?"
"I honestly don't know. I might be able to hold it off for a little while to find some other way, but as soon as the Wizengamont finds out, we won't be able to do anything else if we haven't found another way."