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Adrian Pucey (everupward) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-11-04 11:44:00

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^date: november 01 2003, character: adrian pucey, character: neville longbottom

The first of many days on the case
Characters: Adrian and Neville
Setting: Saturday November 1st, at around 3 pm
Summary: The aurors go through Harry's files and personal effects, and generally tackle the case.
Rating: Work safe.

As much as Adrian already suspected whatever Potter had been working on had in some way had something to do with his death, he approached the case as open-mindedly as possible. He was working with Neville, something he was grateful for, because he respected the other Auror's diligence. Neville's closeness to Harry - enough to know his general thoughts, feelings and habits, but not so close he was crippled by conflicted interest as Weasley might have been, meant to Adrian, that was was a perfect person to partner him on the case. He could handle some of the more objective aspects, while Neville could provide the sort of insight that came from knowing the victim well.

Adrian hadn't had much sleep the night before and he certainly didn't expect much tonight. He was dressed comfortably: slacks, a pale button-down shirt, and grey jumper, with no tie. He did hope to drop by an apothecary and lay in a new store of wit-sharpening potions and sleeping draughts for those times when he had the time to sleep but not the desire. But at the moment he was more focused on going through Harry's personal effects, at least those that were in the office. He felt the more personal items, those in Harry's home, might better be handled by Neville. He diligently recorded each item, setting aside ones that he expected might require further investigation. He was most interested in Potter's notes. In the process he discovered Potter's journal, similar to the one he himself had. Potter had apparently left it in his desk rather than take it home the day before. "You may wish to look through this journal," he said, handing it over to Neville. "If there's anything hexed private in there, we might need to break the hexes in case there's something of import."

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whatgenus
2011-11-07 01:48 pm UTC (link)

Neville took the leather bound journal carefully, he had never thought there would come a time when he would need to break into Harry's private journal, however, Adrian was right. He nodded as he did so and pulled open one of the bottom drawers of his desk. Neville was sitting on the floor, legs crossed indian style with three piles of paper in front of him. The furthest was a pile of papers that were personal and not related the work, the second was a stack of notes about old cases that would need to be filed away properly. The third was a pile of things he thought needed to be looked over because they seemed like they could be important, but Neville couldn't exactly spend as much time as he wanted on it right then and there. The journal he put with the pile that he had to check later.

After opening the bottom drawer, he pulled out a stack of papers and once again began looking through them. The first one was a drawing Teddy had made of the two of them flying on a broom. Neville felt the lump in his throat and sighed before looking up to see whether or not Adrian was looking. When he wasn't, he folded the piece of paper and slipped it into his pocket. As he flipped through the papers, neville sighed. He had been up over twenty-four hours all ready. His brain was probably going to be turned to mush far before he went home. He had been there once before, but only briefly after he had left the gala.

"I think," he croaked before clearing his throat. "I think we're wasting our time with Smith." It wasn't something that Neville could say in front of the department heads, couldn't have been a popular opinion, anyway.

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everupward
2011-11-07 04:35 pm UTC (link)

Adrian was focused on some more Ministry-oriented papers Harry had kept in his desk and didn't look up again until Neville spoke. "You aren't the only one. "Smith was at the worst possible place at the worst possible time. With his particular attitude and feelings toward Potter, as well as his inability to keep his mouth shut, he's painting himself the popular suspect for the case. But we'd be fools to focus on him and ignore other possibilities. He's far to convenient."

Adrian sat up going back to scanning the notes in front of him. "he's not making himself popular with the public though. At least he's got himself protection, whether he wants it or not." He'd managed to find out about Cho Chang's elected duty to keep an eye on Zacharias. Privately he thought it a good idea, because at the rate he was going Smith was going to get himself hexed, killed or perhaps worse. Angry witches and wizards could be creative.

"I suggest whatever other suspects we have we keep quiet. Anyone we like for this is going to be a public target and we don't what him - or her - killed by some vigilante before we can learn anything." He set aside what he'd been reading into his "possibly important" pile that was steadily growing.

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whatgenus
2011-11-07 06:49 pm UTC (link)

"He doesn't have it in him," Neville continued as he looked at a piece of paper with something harry had written, but he couldn't quite make out what it said. As a result, it went into the pile nearest to him. It seemed like such an invasion of privacy, and if Harry was alive, Neville was sure he would have not been very happy with the mess the two were making. He wondered for a moment if the characters on the corner of the paper meant anything. If they were a code of some sort. Perhaps he was overthinking the notes, but with Harry, it was hard to tell. "He couldn't even stand beside us at Hogwarts. That he could do such a thing to Harry is... well, near impossible, I'd say."

Except that impossible had been ruled out of Neville's vocabulary long ago. Improbable was more like it.

"Do you think it could have had anything to do with the case he was working with Davies? Maybe it's something Davies and Warrington should be careful of."

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everupward
2011-11-07 07:39 pm UTC (link)

"Likely not, but frequently people have surmised that about others and been sadly mistaken." Adrian rolled his eyes at a doodle Harry had done at some point or another that had Ginny's name on it. He set it in the "personal effects: unimportant" file, and moved on. "Our opinions on the matter of Smith as a suspect match, but you know as well as I opinion will not carry enough weight. If we want to make it clear to others that he was not involved we'd better find the person responsible as soon as possible."

He glanced at Neville then. "I don't know that the case he was working on was directly related, but I'd be remiss not to consider the possibility. I've asked Davies and Warrington to keep us abreast of anything that might coincide with our case. I thought it fair to offer them the same in return. If you come across any notes there to do with the Zurlo case, please do share them." After they had their own copies fro records of course.

"Your being close to Potter could be an asset here, Longbottom. Had you spent any time with him lately? Did anything seem unusual?" He had spoken briefly to Andromeda about Harry, but thought it best to approach her again after the initial shock wore off.

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whatgenus
2011-11-10 06:20 pm UTC (link)

Neville shook his head at the question about anything seeming unusual. He and Harry weren't exactly attached at the hip. That was probably a question they should ask Ron or Hermione, though. The more papers that the younger man went through, the more he realized how tired he was. His vision was getting fuzzy and he sighed heavily. It had been too long of a day, or two days that melted into one. Whichever.

His mind just wasn't there, and the more he tried to focus on the words scribbled on the sheet of paper he was holding, the more his eyes paid attention to the grain of the paper, and the words seemed to float off the page. He needed sleep, but the case was more important. He had promised to catch whoever did this. And if he slept, he would most likely have another bad dream. He wondered what Harry had dreamt about the night before... Had he woken up with a spot too?

"I wonder if Harry had a spot," he muttered to Adrian, scratching his own from over his shirt and he eyeballed the journal. "I wonder what he dreamt about."

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everupward
2011-11-11 04:55 pm UTC (link)

Adrian expected they'd have to have help from Harry's two best friends during the course of the investigation, for the more personal side of things. Ron Weasley wasn't allowed officially on the case, but Adrian was certain that he'd offer plenty of insight into what Harry had been up to lately outside the office.

Adrian's head jerked up at the mention of a spot followed by dreams. "Spot? What do you mean?" He asked the question carefully, without seeming too suspicious about it. His mother had a spot and had been having nightmares. the two things seemed to have made their appearance at the same time. He wondered now if she wasn't alone in that. Had Harry been suffering nightmares as well?

Adrian didn't really think it had anything to do with his murder, but He had to track down and eliminate anything rather than dismiss it as unimportant.

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