Chapter 134: Plans in Motion
Harry nodded in agreement and as he stood up, Andromeda hugged him and said softly, "Take care, Harry."
Winky was already in the room and before he could call out, she said, "I can take you back to school, Master Harry."
"Thank you, Winky. Let me go get changed and then we can go." Harry said as he watched his adoptive father and his, for lack of a better term Aunt, leave the house.
Once he was ready, Winky shifted them from the house to the kitchens in Hogwarts. Seeing Dobby carrying a tray of hot rolls, Harry snagged one and said, "Thank you both for everything. I'll see you in a few hours."
Harry paused just inside the kitchen and tuned everything else out except for his connection to Hermione. After a few seconds, a smile broke out on his face when he realized where she was on the grounds. With a wave goodbye to his elves, he headed out towards their garden down by the great lake.
While Harry was heading down to meet up with Hermione, Ted and Remus were busy making Goyle, Sr. comfortable in his new cell.
After removing Goyle, Sr.'s clothing, they covered him in a thin blanket and stuck him in another one of the cages. Their task done, Remus stood up and transfigured a wall to separate the two cells and placed Silencing Spells up to prevent the two prisoners from seeing or talking with each other.
"Do you want to wake him up?" Ted asked Remus while he looked at the unconscious man in the cage.
Rubbing his chin in thought, Remus said, "I do, but we should wait until Dora gets here and then dose him with Veritaserum first. I want answers about why he murdered that goblin."
Ted grunted in agreement and moved towards the door to the basement to fetch the truth potion from the pantry.
Dora rushed into the kitchen of Number 12 and spotted her dad coming out of the pantry with a bottle in his hands. Relief flooded through her and she flung herself into his arms and exclaimed, "Thank goodness that you are all right. I was worried when we found the dead goblin."
"There, there, Dora. Everything turned out fine." Ted soothed his daughter as he rubbed her back. When they separated, he told her, "Remus stunned my attacker, it was Goyle, Sr., and we have him in another cell downstairs." while he shook the small vial of Veritaserum in front of her.
Dora gave a half-hearted smile, beckoned towards the basement door, and said, "Shall we then?"
Remus looked up when he saw Ted return followed by Dora. He had been trying to figure out why Goyle would kill a goblin and all signs pointed to nothing good at all. "Ready?" he asked his two companions as he opened the cell, levitated the large man into a chair, and bound him magically.
Ted stepped up to the unconscious man and administered the three drops of Veritaserum. Once he was sure that the potion had taken effect, he waved his wand and woke Goyle up.
Not wanting Goyle to get his bearings or see his interrogators, Dora shone a bright light into his eyes from her wand tip. She had been reading up on techniques used in the muggle world to disorient people under questioning and knew that the light would help.
Goyle blinked stupidly at the bright light when he awoke. He couldn't remember how he got here but he instinctively knew that it wasn't a good thing. Unfortunately, the potions induced haze was keeping him from thinking too hard or he would have been more concerned with his situation. As it was, he made a feeble attempt to move before realizing that he was bound to the chair.
"Why did you kill that goblin?" Remus asked in a calm voice while adding his own light into the mix when he saw the confusion on Goyle's face.
Sweat was breaking out on Goyle's brow as he desperately tried not to answer the question. However, the potions grasp was too strong and he slurred, "The Dark Lord has been paying the goblins for years for information on all major account holders and anyone he deems a person of interest."
Remus nodded in acceptance, it was as bad, or worse, as he feared. Who knows what kind of information the goblins had sold over the years that had been put to use by the Death Eaters that escaped justice after Voldemort's fall from power.
Ted and Dora both let out low whistles as the Death Eater confirmed a horrible plot against the majority of the Wizarding world.
The next question and answer made them all just a bit more paranoid, "What were you doing in the Alley?" Dora asked once she had recovered from the earlier revelation.
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