Veritas Vos Liberabit [Drarry Fanfiction]

Ebb and Flow

"Draco, come in," Headmistress McGonagall opened the door to a small classroom and the Slytherin walked in to see an Auror in simple dark-blue robes with a long ponytail of strawberry-blonde hair.

Harry stalked past the door into the room with them, hidden safely under his Invisibility Cloak.

"Oliver Williamson!" the man introduced himself, "I am appointed as your new probation officer."

"Well, you already know who I am," Malfoy huffed, giving a pained glance to McGonagall, who left them alone, and leaned over one of the desks, crossing his arms and looking bored out of his mind.

The meeting was surprisingly dull and mundane, the Auror went over the checklist while Malfoy tried to answer the questions using as few words as possible. Under the Cloak the Gryffindor was listening to every word, trying to catch anything that would incriminate either of them.

"Your mother has recently been discharged from Saint Mungo's," Williamson mentioned, "your letters to her have been very uninformative, are you trying not to upset her?"

"Of course they would be uninformative since your lot keeps on reading them," Malfoy retorted glaring at the Auror.

"Draco, I know what it is like to have a strained relationship with family... You have gone through a lot and your parents were unable to protect you." the man smiled sympathetically.

"You don't know what you're talking about," Slytherin spat, "don't try to pretend you understand!"

Harry held his breath, waiting for them to say something worthwhile.

"My mom was a bit of a mental case," Williamson laughed to himself, "she was telling me that our neighbor's crup dug through all the mandrakes in the garden. The neighbors never even had a crup, bless her."

"What happened to her?" Draco asked quietly.

"We don't talk anymore... She became a hermit during the war. Thought I was a Death Eater when I last saw her."

So Williamson's mom was a tad loony... Maybe the Auror wasn't actually missing and that was a genuine mistake. Harry wasn't sure what to believe anymore.

"But enough of this. I have some good news for you. You will be helping the War Victims Orphanage in London this Halloween as a part of your community service," Williamson passed him the brochure and Malfoy's face became positively green.

Harry crept up closer and snuck a look over Slytherin's shoulder to remember the date and the location of the event in case the git tries to do something notorious while outside Hogwarts. He caught a pleasant whiff of Malfoy's cologne. It was fresh, citrusy and a faint hint of tobacco smell was strangely complementing it. Harry mentally cursed himself, he shouldn't be sniffing Draco sodding Malfoy while trying to catch an imposter.

Before he knew it, the meeting was over and nothing out of ordinary happened. The Gryffindor saw the man join McGonagall in the corridor and thought that the matter needed further investigation. Constant Vigilance, Harry remembered the words of late Alastor Moody. He learned the hard way, that if something was ordinary, there were still reasons to be suspicious.

* * *

"Harry! I need to talk to you!" Ginny had ambushed him when he was about to leave the common room and go up to the boys' dormitories.

"If you are going to go on about Malfoy..." Harry started to speak.

"No... now I understand!" she interrupted him, "I overheard Ron and Hermione talking. And I wished you would have told me sooner."