Better Potter

Conducting Danger

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Harry smirked, "I'm happy to help, Headmaster Dumbledore."

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Lucius and Narcissa looked at the most recent newspaper. They were shocked to see that Sirius was arrested. At least, this time he actually was guilty, but it was still surprising.

"FOOLS!" Someone screamed furiously from the floor above making everyone flinch. "Find a way into Hogwarts and free my loyal followers! Now!"

"Yes, sir!" The Malfoys saw Peter Pettigrew race down the stairs. "Our lord-"

"We heard." Both Malfoys said bluntly.

Lucius sighed, "Let's start with breaking everyone out of Azkaban. That might be easier than dealing with the new staff at Hogwarts." He said, but then a thought came to mind.

Years ago he remembered hearing something about a pair of vanishing cabinets. One or both halves of the pair should be in Hogwarts. However, he recently heard that several things were removed by the new headmistress.

Apparently, students have been offered some activities in school to earn points. The excited students were treating it like a treasure hunt and a group did find a hidden room filled with artifacts, but some were dangerous so the staff took over everything from there. During winter break and Yule the dangerous and damaged ones were removed. A few of the safe ones were kept for class lessons. Considering this headmistress' logical way of thinking, it only makes sense that she'd remove the cabinets.

"I'll check and see if I can find something to get us into Hogwarts after we get more people after we free everyone." Lucius said calmly, making Peter nod shakily and scurry away to get some information on the infamous prison.

Relief spread through the two Malfoys. The last thing they wanted was their son getting caught in the middle of a battle. If they're careful they can stall until the summer vacation, since it's far too late to use the winter break to hide Draco, and their son will be safe ... At least, as safe he can be while in the same house as the bloodthirsty disembodied dark lord in their guest room.

After summer starts they'll focus on the infiltration task. Perhaps finding such a useful artifact, like the cabinets, will help them somehow. All they'd need to do is find the place the cabinets ended up.

Narcissa frowned, "You're not actually going to wait on finding a solution, right?" She asked quietly, knowing very well that if they take too long the dark lord would be pissed. It's fine to stall a certain amount on breaking out their fellow Death Eaters, but they should be ready to appease their lord by providing an instant solution for the infiltration task in case he's angry after waiting.

Lucius understood and nodded, "When no one else is around I'll look into it. No one else will know."

"Of course. We have a child to think about ... Any credit comes to us." Narcissa hissed, dead set on gaining favor with the dark lord if only to keep Draco safe. "Let Peter get any backlash."

Lucius nodded and they both left to begin the dark lord's tasks. Neither he nor his wife liked Peter. The cowardly rat dragged that monster back into their lives and they intended to make Peter suffer for it.

It didn't take too long for Narcissa to get the first lead for the vanishing cabinets. Lucius was busy keeping Peter distracted with excuses on why they couldn't hurry the Azkaban escape task along. With her husband busy she decided to check to see the cabinets in the Gringotts auction, which was today.

No one noticed the witch sneak out and head to the goblin run bank. After checking in and stating her business she was led to the auction room. Of course, she was given a paddle, but to her disappointment she ended up not using it. After all, there was only one half of the vanishing cabinet pair for sale and it was badly damaged no less so why bid on it?