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Chapter Six
This was a situation Blaise had predicted himself to be in before the evening was over. Sitting directly between Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, acting all 'posh and smart' as Draco would describe it.
Ah yes. Draco Malfoy, that son of a bit-. No, Narcissa was definitely not what Blaise had almost described her as. Draco, the bloody git, the foolish wizard, the bastard, the asshole, the man-whore, okay not really, had purposely intoxicated himself during dinner, so he would not have to face the consequences from engaging in a conversation with both his parents at the same time.
The idiot had downed almost six glasses of the strongest elvish wine known to wizard, and then promptly passed out at the table, his head falling into the chocolate mousse that had been promised by Narcissa as dessert.
As payback for the childish stint that he had pulled, Blaise had kindly offered to take Draco back to his room. He cast a wordless silenting charm on the inebriated man, and levitated him up the stairs, 'accidentally' knocking his head on every second step and swinging his body into the railing several times.
When he reached Draco's bedroom, he opened the door and headed straight into the adjoining bathroom, his friend's body still floating behind him as he went. He casted a cooling charm on the bathtub, lowering the temperature down to almost ten degrees celcius. He then proceeded to end the levitating charm causing the man to fall upon the tiled bathroom floor in a heap.
Blaise bent down and hoisted Malfoy's body up before dropping him into the cooled bathtub. He then transfigured his dress robes into lacy pink lingerie, before locking the door on his way out and leaving his best friend to freeze until he finally woke up from his drunked state.
He ran back down the stairs and into the main living room where the two elder Malfoys sat waiting for him.
'Is Draco alright?' Narcissa asked, her voice full of concern for her only son.
'He's perfectly fine, I tucked him into bed, where he's nice and warm and definitely comfortable,' Blaise smoothly lied, Narcissa letting out a sigh of relief.
Lucius on the other hand saw through this and smirked at the younger man causing Blaise to subtly shrug as if to say 'what else was I supposed to do with him'.
'Well now that that problem has been dealt with, could you please explain any recent developments of the case to us? Draco has been rather, scarce with the details.'
Nodding at Lucius, Blaise switched his playful persona off, and began to speak in a complete business mode.
'As you both already know, Astoria has gained temporary custody of Ophelia until either Draco agrees to sign full custody to her, or the case goes to court and the results determined by the Wizengamot.'
'Well the case will obviously go to court because Draco would never sign Ophelia over to that woman,' Narcissa commented, before gesturing for Blaise to continue.
'That will most definitely be the outcome in this case. Astoria and her lawyer owled us early this morning. She's threatening to not let Draco see Ophelia, if he does not drop the case, and they win at court.'
'What are the odds?' Lucius quickly asked, beginning to mentally calculate their chances of winning.
'The Wizengamot will hand Ophelia over to which ever parent they deem as most suitable. This is determined with a few major points. First of them is which ever parent is pureblood, which in this case is both of them, causing the question to be invalid. In the case of one muggleborn parent, the child would be given to the other parent.
In many custody cases, the mother is given the child, especially if the child is a girl. It is also in matter of which parent is likely to spend more time with the child.
Now we all know that though Draco holds a high position at work and has a flexible schedule, he still spends quite a significant amount of time there. Astoria on the other hand works only part time, whilst Ophelia is at school.
With all of these factors in mind, I'd say Draco has a thirty percent chance of winning the case, giving Astoria a seventy percent chance.'
'A thirty percent chance? But Astoria is an unfit mother, if that can be proven, would it raise Draco's chances?' Narcissa asked worriedly.
'I would say thirty percent is high in this case Narcissa,' Lucius said swiftly.
'If proof can be found. Lucius is right that a thirty percent chance is very high for Draco when put into this scenario. But unfortunately, I wouldn't count it as a thirty percent chance any longer. Theres word on the streets that Astoria hired a new lawyer today. They're experienced, have never lost a case and their identity is a completely mystery.'
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