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Draco in an unexpected situation

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Dobby even showed Draco how to Disapperate and Apparate using Elven magic, which was safer than the Wizarding kind, but Draco couldn't yet complete the transition. He did manage to make his hair fluff up when attempting to disapperate from the kitchen and caused Dobby to squeak loudly with laughter. Draco then burst into laughter himself, and threw a spring onion at Dobby, that landed neatly on his shoulder. This caused both of them to laugh again.

Maybe it wasn't so bad being taught by an Elf.

Chapter 5) Find the Rodent

Lucius Malfoy was infuriated with the incompetence of the Magical Enforcement Squad. His son had been missing for nearly a month, and no one had told him anything other than it appeared as though his son had run away from home.

"But you can't find a trace of him on the whole planet! Not a scrap of evidence of where he is… how he got there…. You incompetent boob! Get out of here and tell your superior to get over here NOW" Lucius screamed at the large bald wizard in front of him. Officer Cordon shook in his boots, quite literally. Cordon had never been screamed at or made to feel as threatened as he was at this moment. Lucius continued to shout so loudly that the sconces on the ceiling that was 15ft above his head shook violently.

The two allocated officers of the Magical enforcement squad had been putting up with this hot tempered man for almost four weeks. Draco Malfoy had indeed appeared to have run away. This was based on the minimal packing of belongings that a wizard boy could do (with an enchanted trunk at his disposal). No evidence had been found of how he left the house, or where he might have gone to however. No Wizarding apparition of any kind had happened in the house on the day in question. Several Goblin apparations could be identified in the drawing room, and they could sense the faint traces of Elf apparition all over the house from over 4000 individual instances, and apparently 4 different house elves. Discovering a timeframe for Elf apparation was impossible for wizards.

Lucius was infuriated with the incompetence of the department. How hard was it to find one boy? So what if the Aurors told him that six other children had also disappeared? None of their parents and guardians would be flayed alive by Voldemort if they failed to deliver their child as a servant to Voldemort. Lucius was not under any illusion that Draco would be received in honour. Draco would be given to Voldemort as compensation for failing to bring Harry Potter in.

Thankfully, Voldemort had not been in contact with Lucius since the day before Draco went missing.

Lucius was having enough of it and wanted to have higher authority people working on finding and returning his son to him, before he was painfully killed.

Goyle was alone in his bedroom, staring at the forth bed in the corner that had until this year, slept his best friend Draco Malfoy. Goyle couldn't believe that Draco was missing. He had always helped out Goyle, and even Crabbe. Without Draco, Crabbe had predictably found the next most influential person in their room- Blaise Zabini- for whom to perform 'body guard' duties. Goyle couldn't just forget his friend like that.

Giving out a heavy sigh, Goyle slowly put his hands on the bed on either side of his body, and pushed himself up to his feet. He begrudgingly walked from his room, up the two flights of stairs to the Slytherin Common room, and then exited the common room through the dungeons towards the Great Hall.

Since the start of this school year nothing was the same. The body of Hogwarts was quiet, after having seven of its students having disappeared. The only good thing that had happened was that the houses were equally depressed and all helped each other out equally. The school seemed to unite in fear after loosing students from three of its house. As the odd one out, Hufflepuff was not negative. The students of Hufflepuff recognised that they were needed more than ever, and regularly dispersed amongst the other houses to support their peers and help them cope.

Hufflepuff showed a slight bias in their help to the Gryffindor's, but Goyle couldn't blame them. Slytherin may have lost one member as had Ravenclaw, but Gryffindor had lost five students this year.

Goyle commenced his meal, which was just as good as ever but without his friend, he was only vaguely aware of the taste, and more aware of the dryness of his own mouth.

All of Goyle's lessons so far had been subdued. The new defence teacher who was stuffy, churlish just made them all read from the theory book and did not teach them and made the quietness of the school worse. She did seem to be particularly angry all of the time though. Many suspected that she had been looking forward to teaching- or more precisely punishing- Harry Potter. Shame he was one of the missing people.

Lucius stormed into the office of the Minister of Magic, who doggedly followed in his wake.

As soon as the door closed behind the wide body of Fudge, Lucius dug his hand in his pocket for his wand. Fudge flinched backwards and hit his enormous bottom on the door of his own office. Thankfully Lucius had not been intending to curse him. Lucius placed a small black item on a clear area of the floor and pointed his wand at it.

"Engorgio"

The small dark object quickly grew into an equally dark trunk. Another flick of his wand and the trunk opened to display proudly thousands of galleons on the surface.

"Find my son" Lucius demanded before flicking a few coins at Fudge and closing and shrinking the trunk again "and you'll get the rest! I need him back now!"

Fudge showed something like respect for Lucius. The fool didn't know what Lucius wanted his son back for. He thought Lucius cared for his worthless son who couldn't even beat a mudblood in end of year exams.

"I want at least ten aurors working on the case! Just get him back now."

Fudge of course couldn't let this amount of money go. It would mean the outlay and expenses for the first year of the new department in transportation he wanted to set up.

"I'll…. I'll get them right on it Lucius. Ten aurors… twelve if we can spare them."

"Good. Each day you take to find him, 10 Galleons will be taken away from the trunk. Good day Minister."

Lucius put the shrunken trunk back in his pocket, flicked his cloak properly onto his shoulder and stormed out of the room. The sound of the door slamming shut echoed for what felt like an hour, but must have been a few seconds. "Good day Lucius" Fudge said in a small voice.

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This chapter will be long! It will span from this point in early September, to the end of November