It looked like it would be a dark and stormy night the clouds where rolling in and in the distance thunder could be heard. The was a crack and a flash of light as a tall hooded figure appeared there was another crack and a short chubby man tumbled head over heals down the bank and landed in the river. The hooded figure chuckled, "You still can't apparate properly Wormtail, Pathetic."
One by one people began to appear, Voldemort peered into the darkness and saw that they were all there, "Welcome," he said in a cold menacing voice, "It appears our plan has worked." There was a large crack and a flash of lightning in the distance, a figure emerged from the trees. There was a collective gasp "Ahh, My dear Lucius so glad to see you." as I was saying it appeared that the plan worked. Many of the deatheaters started whispering amongst themselves wondering what was going on for most of them had been told Lucius had been killed. "For those of you who where not involved with the plan I shall explain.
"See, after the fiasco at the ministry Lucius was almost caught but thanks to some very quick thinking he managed to make a getaway and has been in hiding. We needed to get the ministry to stop searching for him so Lucius came up with a great idea, Fake his death. Note we are missing the two big goofs Crabbe and Goyle. Goyle got himself captured by the ministry.
So we used Crabbe, who was the least useful deatheater. I put him under the imperius curse, having drunk the potion Malfoy had made Crabbe to climbed up the Castle looking like Malfoy. We hoped he would fall off and kill himself of course I could have told him to jump but that would look to suspicious. The Potter boy helped us by using the killing curse on him.
However the curse wasn't strong enough to kill Crabbe but it knocked him off Balance and he fell off the tower. The school then discovered him and Dumbledore ordered Snape to contact the ministry. Snape Owled the ministry, very unwise in such times. The owl was then intercepted by us, we had earlier put some of the ministers under the imperius curse. They turned up and disposed of the body.
We then modified their memories so all they would remember was the conversation with Dumbledore and that Lucius Malfoy was dead they then returned home. So not only is Malfoy still with us the Ministry think he is dead so are not searching for him any longer."