Aftermath part 1 - Amelia Bones

Ministry of Magic - DMLE head office

Amelia Bones was sitting behind her desk going through a few files. Although, most of the work was taken cared of by the heads of the departments under her, she still read everything that happened in every department, this especially applied to the Auror Department. As she was reading the progress report of a mission issued in Liverpool, her assistant rushed into her office. Amelia frowned, her assistant had been with her for many years, he only did this when there was a major change outside.

"What is it?" she asked her assistant that was trying to catch his breath.

"The sporting club set up by the dark lord has been discovered, Madam, the people involved has been apprehended," said her assistant in one breath.

Amelia got to her feet and said, "Finally some good news this week, who cracked the case? Moody?"

"N-no, it was not an auror that apprehended them. I-it was K.B., here, this letter is for you," said her assistant.

Amelia did now know what to make of this K.B. On one hand, she wanted to thank him for the help he had given them, on the other hand, she wanted to give him a piece of her mind for meddling in affairs that should only be taken by highly trained individuals. Few people had even brought up the the topic of putting a arrest warrant on K.B. as a vigilante, but as he had only done a good service, no one was willing to look bad in front of the public. Amelia's heart skipped a beat when she read the word "condolence", it could only mean one thing.

She did not lose her cool, and ordered her assistant, "We will proceed with the usual practice, as for the Toby Crabbe and Albert Goyle's memory capsules, bring it to me."

"Here, I already have it," said the assistant as he handed her to requested items and dismissed himself.

Amelia took out a pensieve that was stored in the cabinet behind her desk and place it on her desk. She took a deep breath before placing the memory into the pensieve and diving into it. Even though what she saw broke her heart, the emotion was drowned by the rage she felt. This was a effect Kenneth was hoping for, as the muggle protection act was still not accepted, he did not know what would happen to the 12 wizards and witches, but he still wanted Crabbe and Goyle to end in Azkaban, where they would spend the rest of their lives living without magic and having their happiness sucked out of them. Kenneth hoped that when people watched the memory, not only Goyle and Crabbe would be sent to prison, but the Muggle protection act would be brought up. If Oscar Green grass keeps his word, then the bill would pass.

With clenched fists, teeth and slightly red eyes, Amelia took a few deep breaths to calm her self down and re-watched the memories a few more time. The more she watched the memory, a small detail came to her notice. Her nephew, Kenneth Bones, was taken alive for an experiment.

"Kenneth Bones... K.B. ... it must be a coincidence, right?" she whispered to herself, but after being the head of DMLE, she never let an issue rest unless she had answers to her question. With a tiny bit of hope in her heart she called for her assistant.

"Where are Crabbe and Goyle held? take me to them," ordered Amelia.

Her assistant lead her to the interrogation rooms where the two was held in, Amelia enter the room that Crabbe was in. When she looked at the man, her eyebrows lifted, Crabbe had a swollen black eye and split lips and broken nose. Crabbe looked at Amelia and then looked down looking depressed, not having magic was worst than death to him, he grew up with magic, lived with magic, hated those who could not manipulate magic and was taught that he was superior to them. Now he had become something he hated.

She asked her assistant, "what happened to him?"

"They still have not done the complete assessment, but ___," said his assistant, giving a rough story of what he had heard from the other witches and wizards that was interrogated under the truth serum.

Amelia raised her eyebrows the second time and said, "They have become squibs?"

"I'm not a squib! I'M NOT A SQUIB! HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A SQUIB!" Crabbe broke down.

"Feed him the truth serum and take your leave, I need to get some answers from him," she orders, her assistant complied and excused himself after giving Crabbe the dosage. Once the potion took effect, Crabbe calmed down and looked at Amelia confused.

"What is your name?" asked Amelia.

"Toby Crabbe Sr." Crabbe replied.

"Can you really not preform any magic?" asked Amelia.

"I-I tried, I tried many times, but it would not work. I suspect there is a problem with my wand, yes, that must be it," Crabbe stuttered.

"Tell me what happened at the sporting club" she asked.

Crabbe recollected everything that happened, Amelia simply could not imagine the creature that had attacked them. "Is it because of the after effects of the experiments? is that why he had not come to find me? maybe he does not even know who I am, no, that not right, if he did not then why go by the name K.B.?" she thought to herself.

She asked Crabbe in anticipation, "What did you do with my nephew after you killed the rest of the Bones Family?"

"The dark lord wanted to experiment on him, I don't know the detail. It was the Snydes, both husband and wife helped the dark lord with it," said Crabbe.

Amelia paced up and down in the interrogation room, thinking, she did not know if K.B. was her nephew, but if he is, then he had made a mistake by bringing up this memory. There are many people like her who could make the connection, maybe even faster than her because initially her judgement was clouded by her emotions.

"If he really is Kenneth, there must be a reason for him to stay hidden," she thought to herself. She took out the two memory capsules and destroyed the ending where it showed Kenneth was taken alive. Then she went erased that last part of Crabbe's memory, and went and did the same with Goyle before going back into her office and rethinking everything.

....

Fast forwarding two weeks, Amelia was standing in front of the cave where Kenneth was experimented on in Albania. She had visited the Snyde couple in Azkaban and gotten the location of the lab and heard the couple say that Kenneth had died in the experiment and the lab was destroyed by the fire. Amelia still came to take a look herself.

To her surprise, she found the lab was set up to house a living person, it was even dust free as though someone had recently had come to clean up the place. Her heart sped up by a few beats as it might mean that her nephew might be a live and that there was a good chance that he is K.B.

She looked around and left after leaving a letter on the bed.