After Harry, Amy, Susan, Hannah, Heather, and Amelia enjoyed a lunch of hamburgers with mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, onions, lettuce and pickles with fries on the side and Jack Daniels to wash it down with, Heather turned to Amelia.
"Amelia, " said Heather, "I want to ask you a favor."
"Any time, Heather, " smiled Amelia.
"Do you have any pressing work you need to do at your office tomorrow?" Heather asked Amelia.
"No, " said Amelia matter of factly, "The most urgent thing at the Ministry right is identifying, finding, and destroying all of the Horcruxes. That job is being done by the unspeakables. Do you wish me to be somewhere tomorrow?"
"Yes," said Heather at once, "I want you to go to Hogwarts and gather evidence against Severus Snape. We have two goals; Getting Snape removed from Hogwarts and getting him convicted of being a Death Eater."
"I will do it, " promised Amelia a nanosecond later, "Tomorrow I will go to Hogwarts. I will interview students who have been in Severus Snape's classes. I will interrogate Snape using Veritasiurium and I will force him to give me memories. I will also be looking at both of his arms to see if he has a Dark Mark. If he does have a Dark Mark, I will arrest him."
"What is a Dark Mark?" asked Harry in confusion.
"It's the Death Eaters symbol, " explained Amelia, "It's a kind of greenish skull thing. Voldemort and his Death Eaters would fire it into the sky from their wands when they killed. But all Death Eaters also have the Dark Mark burnt into their skin. When Voldemort wanted to call them, he would press his Dark Mark and the Death Eaters would feel their Dark Marks burn and know they had to answer their master."
"That's barbaric!" yelped Amy.
"Voldemort was never known for being humane, " said Heather.
"Heather?" asked Amelia, "Do you want me to interrogate Dumbledore while I'm at Hogwarts tomorrow?"
"No," said Heather firmly, "If we are to bring Dumbledore down, it must be done slowly and subtlely. If we try to remove Dumbledore from Hogwarts or go after him legally, his supporters from within would make it very difficult for us. That's actually another reason to go after Snape first. If we can get Snape removed from Hogwarts AND convicted of being a Death Eater, then Dumbledore's position will be greatly weakened. The one person who will go to any lengths to defend and support Dumbledore is Severus Snape."
"My plan, " said Amelia briskly, "Is to interview a few older non Slytherin students about what life in Snape's Potions classes are like. I want to hear this from students who have been in his classes for several years. Then I'll give Snape the Veritasiurium and watch his memories. But checking for the Dark Mark is the biggie. If Snape has a Dark Mark, he will be arrested on the spot. The biggest legal mistake the Ministry made during the old Death Eater trails was failing to check their persons for the Dark Mark. Had this been done, far fewer of them would've gotten off."
"Very well, Amelia, good luck tomorrow!" said Heather.