The Pirates Malfoy

5

On the docks, a disheveled, motley and weather-beaten group of about a dozen swabs stand in a ragged line-up.

"Feast your eyes, Cap'n. All of 'em
faithful hands before the mast, every
man worth his salt." Gibbs says sotto, making his point. "and crazy, to boot."

"Why would it, be crazy to a boot?" Seamus asked confused.

"They don't look like much help but you got to do what you got to do so." Amelia pointed out.

Jack holds up a hand enough. He moves down the line, Gibbs at his side. Then he notices AnaMaria in line, dressed like a man. He raises an eyebrow.

Everybody looked closely at the people on the screen curiously wondering which guys on the dock was gonna be choosen to help Jack and Gibbs with the quest of saving the siblings.

Will is not impressed. "So this is your able-bodied crew?"

"I'm with him they don't look like much." Blaise pointed out.

"I was expecting better but that's what he got." Neville mutters to himself.

Jack doesn't say anything, continues. One sailor is quite fat, another thin and sickly. Jack is not happy with his choices.

He stops in front of Cotton, a short sailor with a large, colorful parrot on his shoulder.

Jack raises an eyebrow. "You, sailor!"

"Cotton, sir." Gibbs answered.

"I don't understand why he's calling him a sir especially when he's not royalty or anything. It's pathetic really." Lucius scoffs.

"Cotton? Who would name their own child Cotton?" Snape sneered in question.

"Mr. Cotton. Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?"Jack looks at Cotton, waits for the
answer; none comes. "Mr. Cotton ! Answer me!"

Gibbs moved closer to Cotton and Jack. "He's a mute, sir. Poor devil had his tongue cut out."

"What, who would do such a thing to an innocent man??" Molly screeched out in question.

"If he's a mute then he's no use. He can go back to where he came from." Draco rolls his eyes.

"That's terrible." Hermione looks wide eyed.

Everybody in the room had different reactions to learning that about Cotton some felt sorry for him while others didn't feel sorry for him in the slightest bit.

Cotton opens his mouth to show this. Jack grimaces as he sticks out his own tongue and Will made the same face while watching closely.

"So he trained the parrot to talk for him. No one's yet figured how." Gibbs explains to him.

It goes silent as Jack moves slightly with Will moving with him.