A/N: drabble #3 - One drabble must involve Hogwarts, Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley in some way
Some Treacle and a Fudge
3. Out of His Reach
He'd loved Hogwarts as a kid, but it had seemed like such a strange place, even for the magical world. A place he could spend seven years and learn next to nothing about his secrets, and that made him a little uncomfortable, knowing there was so much more in that world he wasn't aware of yet.
And when he became the Minister, he thought they were secrets like all others that would be answered for him. Except they weren't. Hogwarts was outside Ministry control, and every time he went there it hid those secrets in the dark.
It unnerved him, but nobody would offer those secrets up to him. So when he had the chance he put his own woman in there to try and get them. Because he was in charge of the entire wizarding world; there couldn't be a secret within it that escaped him.
But Hogwarts was a jealous guard of her secrets, and not even when the Headmaster was removed would she give them up to him.