Chapter 5
Immediately, Crouch was followed by the other Death Eaters. "He's really gone mad." muttered Amycus. "I wonder who he stunned," said Amanda Annen. "If it's someone from the Order, I'd like to use the Cruciatus Curse a little. I'm getting better at it." "If it is," replied her sister. "Bellatrix will probably finish them off before any of us can even say the incantation." "That would be nice too." said Amanda. Amanda could sound innocent and benign no matter what she was saying if she wanted to.
"I suppose it never occurred to Barty to open the window first before casting that Stunning spell," murmured Alecto, staring at the broken shards of glass. "Did you actually expect him to open the window?" Bellatrix sneered. "Barty would burn down the whole building if he thought it meant catching someone in the Order. Come, Draco." Draco followed his aunt outside.
The other Death Eaters were crowded around a small clearing. As Draco got closer, he saw that there was a woman, whom he'd never seen before, lying flat on the ground. Her skin was perfectly smooth and her face looked like the face of a young woman, however her short hair was grey and her delicate hands were wrinkled.
Draco joined the circle of Death Eaters that surrounded the woman. "Is she dead?" he asked quietly. "Of course not, you imbecile!" said Amanda a few feet away. "She's stunned." "Barty," said Sky Lorrel. "Do you know who this is?" Crouch shook his head and said, "No, but if we wake her up, perhaps she can tell us. Do we have any truth serums?" "Unfortunately, we do not." Sky said.
"We have no need for truth serums," said Bellatrix. "The Cruciatus Curse is much more efficient." Crouch looked at her dubiously. "The Cruciatus Curse?" he said. "You do realize that using the Cruciatus Curse could cause permanent mental damage to whoever this is. Then, any hopes of her telling us any useful information would be gone. Don't you remember what happened to the Longbottoms?" "The Longbottoms were mentally unstable to begin with if you ask me," muttered Alecto to Amycus and the two laughed. They both had very squeaky and wheezy laughs, very much like their voices.
"Well, do we really have any other options, Barty?" said Bellatrix. "Unless you're suggesting that we should just let her go…" "I'm not saying that we shouldn't interrogate her," Crouch said, glancing at the unconscious woman. "I'm just suggesting that you don't use the Cruciatus Curse the way you did with the Longbottoms." "I can control myself," snapped Bellatrix. "Now, why don't you wake her up?"
Crouch took out his wand again, pointed it at the unconscious woman, and muttered, "Ennervate." Instantly, she awoke, and as she did so, her grey hair grew a couple inches and turned the unusual shade of bubble-gum pink and her hands became as smooth as her face. She looked around in alarm. She murmured something about her wand, hastily got to her feet and tried to dart away. Bellatrix was faster. With a swift flick of her wand, the young woman screamed and fell to the ground. Bellatrix pounced on her.
"Nymphadora Tonks!" shrieked Bellatrix, pointing her wand at the young woman's throat. Draco took a few steps towards his aunt and the woman called Nymphadora, but his mother held him back. "Draco," said Narcissa. "Let Bellatrix deal with this. Nymphadora is an Auror and a member of the Order. She's dangerous." "She's a lot more than that," Amycus sniggered. "She's family isn't she?"