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"So, wait, you asked to be put on that assignment?" Ron asked. By now, we'd finished lunch and gone into the living room.

"Yeah. I was tired of people wanting us to date or get married. So I left, hoping I'd be almost forgotten by the London Wizarding World."

"Oh. That was a little extreme, don't you think? We could have just released a statement to the press." Ron stated.

"I thought of that as well. At the time, I didn't know I'd come back with a family. I had decided that I'd go on this assignment, then take a long vacation to Australia to give my parents their memories back. If I had stayed, I wouldn't have gotten that long vacation. And I could just come back quietly one of these days. Apparently, Hogwarts had a different idea." I laughed.

"That makes sense." Harry said. "So what happened with the Lucius Malfoy case? And that's where Malfoy comes in, right?"

"He wasn't there immediately. He came in when I did the family interviews. And I didn't do that until the first month I was there. The Wizarding World in Russia was on a two week holiday when I got there, so I wasn't working on the case for the first while I was there. Then I had a meeting with each of the family members, to hear what they had to say. They answered the questions pretty well. Draco was a little difficult, but I did get some answers."

FLASHBACK

I was sitting in a room that had a table and two chairs. That was everything that was in the room. There was a one sided window, that I couldn't see. It was there for if one of them tried to attack me. Who did they think i was? Like I couldn't protect myself.

The door opened. A Russian guard followed by a shabby looking Lucius Malfoy in hand cuffs, and another Russian guard. In the two week holiday, I had learned Russian fluently. I spoke to the guards in their native language.

"You may take his hand cuffs off. He won't be going anywhere."

As they sat him down in his chair, they looked uneasy. "We are not supposed to do that, ma'am." one replied.

"And why is that, may I ask?" I asked smoothly, not showing my irritation.

"He might try to escape." the other said nervously.

"I am quite capable of containing him, if needed. You may lock the door if you must, but take the cuffs off." I waved him off. Lucius kept his eyes on me the entire time. The guards reluctantly did what I said, and then they left the room. It was so quiet, I heard the clicking of the lock.

"That was quite impressive Miss Granger. And thank you." Lucius said.

"The hand cuffs looked painful. I'd rather you were listening and answering my questions than focusing on pain from the cuffs." I shrugged. He nodded silently.

"So, Mr. Malfoy, do you know why you're here with me today?" I asked.

"You're here to question me and my family on my involvement with the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters, in hopes to prove me either guilty or innocent." He paused for a moment. "I only ask that the full story is not released to the press. It is a shameful one, and I would like to keep the small amount of pride I have left. I also ask that you are not too harsh on the rest of my family. My faults should not cause them punishment."

I didn't expect that kind of answer, but my face didn't show it. "I will be the only one who knows the entire story. I only have to tell Kingsley innocent or guilty, and he will consult me on the persecution. Your family will not be punished for your wrongs if I have anything to say about it, and I have everything to say about it."

"Why don't you tell me what made you become involved with Voldemort in the first place? That sounds like a good place to start."

"One thing you must understand, Miss Granger, is that fear can cause people to do foolish things, even when there are better options. I was in an arranged marriage to Narcissa Black. Both of us from families that embraced the Dark Lord and his doings. Cissa and I wanted nothing to do with it, but that didn't mean anything. Narcissa was able to steer clear of receiving the Dark Mark. I was not so lucky. My parents threatened me that if I did not join the Death Eaters, she would probably be killed. I took the Mark out of fear. That was not enough for them though. They wanted me to be as evil as the ink on my arm. They had me kill and be cruel to others. It was an act at first, but then I became brainwashed, if you will. I did what they said, not for the fear of my family any more, but because I thought I wanted to. When the Dark Lord fell, when Harry Potter got that scar, things didn't change. Unfortunately, the 'brainwashing' led me to think that beating my wife and child for their wrongdoings was the best punishment. I was cruel to them, and I regret it. I realized what I was doing, and that it was wrong, during the summer before Draco's fourth year, I stopped the cruelty. Then the Dark Lord came back at the end of the school year, and I avoided my family at all costs, so that I would not harm them again. My efforts did not help, because the Dark Lord enlisted Draco after my failure to receive the Prophecy. I didn't want him to do it, but I could not voice my opinions without being killed. I only wished to stay alive now to help Draco keep his mother alive. During the final battle, at Hogwarts, I knew that we would not win. The Light would. It was the most sensible thing. If we had disappeared right after it started, we would have been followed. Which meant we had to fight and kill. When I saw that the Dark Lord would not be winning, that he would die once and for all, we snuck away. We moved here, to Russia, where we were safe up until about four months ago, when we were found and I was imprisoned."

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