I Do What I Want (Drarry)

Think Tank

            The next couple of weeks started to fly by. The group spent many days in the Manor as they hunted for a way to get rid of the darkness. Lucius and Narcissa had set up a think tank room that had a board of parchment full of ideas and theories on how to best go forward. A lot of the ideas were dead ends that had been crossed out, much to the disappointment of the group.

            Everyone had been split into teams. Severus and Remus were on rune duty. They had split the work trying to decipher the runes and the possible meanings. Remus took on the ancient symbols while Severus looked into modern ones to see if there was another way to look at it. They try to explore new ideas and a fresh mindset when translating but unfortunately nothing significant had been discovered on that front.

            Remus almost always has Teddy with him, occasionally Teddy will spend the day with Andromeda but that isn't too often. Teddy splits his time looking like Draco and surprisingly Severus. To Harry's dismay Teddy only changed his eyes to look like him a handful of times. But Harry didn't mind all that much, he found it adorable every time Teddy made himself look like Draco. It made him wonder if that would be what their child would one day look like.

            The rest of the group could see the way that Severus and Remus grew closer and closer to one another as the weeks went by. They would always arrive separately but leave together and everyone was quite curious as to where they go but no one said anything just in case they were still dancing around each other. They would wait for the two of them to bring it up first. 

            Operation: Get Severus a Man, that's what Pansy calls it anyways, was put on hold when it was obvious that they would get together without any outside influences eventually. Not to mention when Severus caught them all gossiping together the suspicion in his eyes was enough to make everyone nervous. Harry could still remember a lot of the unused spells in the half-blood prince's diary. He didn't fancy pissing off the guy who created sectumsempra.

            Lucius was on dark ritual duty. He always had a book in his hands and a scowl on his face. Harry didn't need to ask how the research was coming, it was obvious by the man's face that it was not going swimmingly. Sometimes Lucius would leave to approach some 'friends' of his and see what kind of information they might have on some obscure rituals. Harry wondered about what kind of people Lucius was talking to. Anyone that had a ritual that wasn't in the Malfoy library kind of worried him. He knew that Lucius would be discreet and stingy with the details so as to not raise suspicion from anyone but he still worried that the Flamels might get wind of their research. Not that they would know what Lucius was up to in requesting information on peculiar or uncommon rituals.

            Harry had Kreacher pull all books related to rituals from the library in Grimwald Place and brought over to the Manor so that Lucius could look through those as well. Harry had thought that he was helping out but by the narrowed eyes of the aristocrat he knew that the man was not looking forward to more books. Geez, try and be nice and look where it gets you. No appreciation these days.

            Narcissa was the floater. She would go from each group and help out where she could. Due to a lack of rune knowledge she wasn't a whole lot of help there. She did however retrieve any books that anyone was needing and she spent time going from select bookstores looking for any books in the backrooms that weren't open to the public to see if there was anything of interest that might help them out. Most of the time she would help out her husband when she would catch him glaring at the mountain of unopened books on dark rituals. Like it was the books fault that they were in this mess. Honestly, sometimes she wondered about his maturity level.

            Sometimes the twins would join them but they were usually busy with the store. Apparently they were having a hard time hiring people for the shop. George blamed it on the economy but the look of utter disbelief on Fred's face made Harry question that statement. He wasn't a business owner so he couldn't really provide any input on today's economy or rather it's downfall. But he had a hunch that it was more towards their line of work than anything. No amount of money under the sun would make him work for the twins. He liked his limbs attached, thank you very much. Being a silent partner was the extent of what he was willing to do for them. Pansy and Blaise helped out three of four times a week but spent the remainder of the time with the twins getting ready for the new shop. He would love to see more of them but he knew that the twins really did need their help and he couldn't ask them to choose. Besides, they were doing fairly well with the help that was given.