Characters: Rastaban Lestrange & Barty Crouch Jr. Setting: 11/10/1979. Law office of Rastaban Lestrange Summary: Barty goes to Rastaban looking to join the DEs.
It had all started with a lawyer joke, and Barty wasn't even sure how that had started. But the lawyer joke had led to a discussion about lawyers in general, and then Regulus had made an offhand remark about the Lestranges and how Rastaban was involved with the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters, and Bart was instantly hooked.
He'd heard about them, of course, and knew that there were far more to the story than what the Prophet or the Ministry would own up to, and he wanted to know more. If nothing else, it was enough that the mere mention of either You-Know-Who or the Death Eaters would make the veins on his father's forehead bulge out in a most amusing manner. What better way to make sure they truly pop than to get involved himself?
But Regulus had promptly clamped his mouth shut and refused to say anything more on the matter, leaving Barty to search out possibilities on his own. That was why he was at the office of Rastaban Lestrange now, having made an appointment under a false premise. If he wanted to find out more about these Death Eaters, he was obviously going to have to do his own sleuthing.