"Elijah Senior came to us and said that he would take your place in Azkaban. His life was near over but you had yet to live and with a child on the way and-and me, he wanted to see you live out your potential. He would claim himself to be the head researcher on your project and they would convict him instead of you. Your father was a wonderful man." She paused there and sighed, because this was the part he was going to hate her for, the part that might possibly ruin the very marriage she'd been trying to save. But she'd done it for Jason and she had to think about him before herself. "You wouldn't agree to it. You didn't want your father to have the credit for your work. We both understood your misgivings, you did deserve merit for your own work, but in the end it didn't matter because the findings weren't going to be useable by you or the Ministry; they weren't going to touch them because of the nature with which they were handled."
Samara's voice became shaky as she continued and her hands mirrored the movement, but she plowed on. "So we met together in secret and began working on what best to do. We thought up a few possibilities, but in the end the only feasible thing was to modify yours and Elijah's memories with one another's current projects so that when he was convicted they would have the memory of yours and Benjamin's project to pull from him and think nothing more of it. There would be no reason to. I used your and Elijah's original research project memories for study, as you had removed yours when they first began convicting people as a fail safe and I stole them from your study. Once Elijah's memory was set, all that was left was to modify your memory." She couldn't look at him when she spoke, even though she knew he deserved it. It was too difficult. "It was almost too easy to do, even though it was the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life. If it had been only for myself I would not have done it, but I couldn't let Jason grow up not knowing the amazing man his father was, not when there was a way that he could be saved. He needed you and he still does and if it means that I lose you, I am willing to pay the price - I always was." She closed her eyes and a few tears fell onto his hands that covered her own. "I'm truly sorry."