'Mother please,' Draco said exasperatedly. 'I have no time to be going on dates.'
No, he had much more important things to do with his time, like find proof that Potter was James Evans. Weasley had tried to brush him off, tried to tell him differently, but Draco was unconvinced by his act. With Potter on leave due to school holidays, Draco had not realised he had not seen her considering how busy their department was. Well, how busy their office was. Draco along with Weasley had been going through all of the case file details again. Trying to find clues. But the files only seemed to confirm Potter's suspicion.
'Yet you have enough time to sit here and have coffee with me.'
'That is different,' Draco replied. He had no issues with seeing his mother if he wished to.
'If you wished to just have coffee with me, you would not have brought your work along with you.' his mother said.
'This is not anything to do with the case,' Draco said, well at least not really. He had brought old papers with him. For every moment he was not working on their killer, he was trying to see if Potter slipped up. Potter was good, James Evans left no trail. But what if he did? Potter had used her parents' names for the author's name, what if she had used other people's names. It wasn't old newspapers of the Daily Prophet he needed to read, it was James Evans books. 'I've got to go mother. I've just thought of something - it can't wait.'
Draco escaped before she could press the issue of another date upon him. When he got back to his small flat, he pulled the books off the bedside cabinet. He flicked through them, writing down each character's name. None were any names that he knew, they seemed to be all made up. The only ones that reoccurred, were the two Aurors; Kai Mason and his partner Mathew Withers. But hadn't Potter said she killed off the partner recently - so she had no emotional attachment to that character. So it had to be the main character.
But who the hell was Kai Mason? Draco did not think that there were any Masons' in the wizarding community. She had watched someone she loved die. That had been what Granger had told him. Had Kai Mason been the very person she loved?
Draco was going to have to start a new search. This time for deaths announcements, around the time Potter would have had her accident. Though he didn't know the exact date, he had a rough timeline of when to look for. When that did not work, he searched a wider timescale. Eventually coming to the conclusion that Potter must have made the name up.
Until an announcement of the sentencing of Jonas Selwyn caught his attention. He was the son of a Death Eater; Llewellyn Selwyn. Jailed for the crimes he had committed against the Mason family. Though it gave no other details, other than how long Selyn's sentence was, the date was a perfect match to the timescale Draco was looking for. He glanced down at his watch, checking the date and time. Astoria would still be working at the archive desk. Taking no chances, Draco made a trip back to work, rather hastily. As he thought Astoria was sitting at the archive desk.
'What is this time?' she asked the moment she saw that it was him.
'The Selwyn case.'
Astoria asked him no further questions, she let him through, and he followed her to the filing cabinet itself. The file was thick, thicker than others he had seen. Mainly because the paperwork had photographs attached to it, each picture that had been taken was of the same room, old and worn out furniture, dusty - the room looked like it had not been cleaned for years. Chains upon one of the walls. With a trembling hand Draco turned the first page over, which only held the case number, name and the arresting Auror's name upon it; Weasley's name.
The victims were only ever named as Theo Mason or Mrs Mason. The woman's forename was never mentioned. Not even the crime that had been committed had been mentioned, when she was mentioned. Draco had a vague idea of what those crimes were if the photographs had been anything to go by. But there was no mention of a Kai. And she had kept it oddly quiet, the fact that she had got married. There was no mention of it in a Daily Prophet anyway, and something like Harianna Potter getting married would have been huge news. It was like she had led two lives. Potter to the wizarding community, hero, and saviour, and Mason for that of her married life. The file did give one useful detail - the last known address for Theo Mason's parents, who had been listed down as the Masons next of kin.