"Why does anyone need a thief? To take something they want without anyone tracing it back to them or having to deal with unnessicary witnesses," He replied blandly. "As I said, the Marauders are skilled at one thing. Subtlety is not their forte and having them retrieve items and information for me usually amounts a few needless and occasionally wasted deaths. Followed by their own if they mangled it bad enough. All of which cost me resources better put to use elsewhere. So much so I've taken to doing the important information retrieval myself. A waste of time and energy I wouldn't have if I had you back in my employ. The fact is, I know I can trust you to do a job properly once you've accepted the contract. You are a professional and I don't have to worry about what to do should it go wrong as you can handle yourself in the few situations where that might happen."