That had the Unspeakable's healers all glance and softly murmur to one another.
Seeing them, Croaker stepped forward and asked, "Bandage? Your opinion on her success?"
One of the healers hesitated a moment before stepping forward, themselves. "The concept is intriguing. It is not an avenue even we have considered. Permission to monitor her and her efforts?"
"Granted," Croaker immediately replied. "However, you are not to risk 'Knight's Shadow' in doing so."
"No," she replied. "If she is successful, the Black healer will write a report, anyway."
Seeing the side conversation end, Scimitar continued, "The Black healer's... intensity... in addressing this issue leads us to believe the surgery is not just to remove the scar. We believe, however it occurred, a sliver or fragment of the soul of Riddle has attached itself to it."
That had a ripple of shock pass through the gathered senior Unspeakables.
"Now, that does not mean Lord Potter is a Horcrux," Scimitar firmly stated. "We do not see how it is possible Riddle could have completed the Horcrux ritual before his soul attached itself to the boy's scar."
"It couldn't have," said the section leader of the Soul Magics section. "However, that does not mean it cannot act as if it was a Horcrux."
"That the boy is free of any signs of possession leads us to believe that it is both contained in that famous scar and can be excised as the Black healer seems bent on accomplishing.
"If she is successful, the young Knight will not need to be tossed through the Veil, as we initially believed he might need to be."
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After leaving the Grangers', Ted apparated to his office and made sure the House of Potter documents were sorted by his staff.
One of his law-apprentices asked, "He managed to get through all this, on his own, in just a couple of weeks?"
"With his betrothed's help, yes," replied Ted. "Both of them are highly intelligent. And, don't forget, he's also accomplished a lot more than this in that time, too. The latest trial of Lord Black, figuring out and organising the waking of Lord and Lady Longbottom... etcetera."
While the apprentices, interns and paralegals worked through it he contacted, via floo, the company who's contract Harry had just signed to give them their copy and let them know they could start right away.
"Lord Potter accepted?" asked the company manager on the other end of the floo call.
"He did," replied Ted. "However, he has one request."
"Oh?" the man warily asked.
Ted replied, "That I be informed the moment the Fidelius goes up that it's gone up. He wants the Acting Madam Minister informed immediately, before anyone at the Ministry can then panic and go looking for it."
The man gave a grunt and nodded, "I'll do that. Probably a wise idea."
"My and his thoughts, exactly," said Ted
The man seemed to mutter about something and said, "Expect me to floo you with that information at about lunch time, tomorrow."
Ted nodded and said, "Thank you." Then terminated the call.
He then set up the 'dot points' for the press release Harry had asked him to write up and had one of his staff develop it into a proper press release, while he moved onto his next task.
Next, he collected the vial of blood from the suspected Malfoy Heir that was in stasis from his safe and headed for Gringotts.
'Time to confirm it for sure,' he thought.
Once in the bank he was sitting before the desk of the Gringotts's Inheritance Office and handed the vial over.
It was actually against bank policy to do it without the actual person in attendance; but the goblin, Snaggletooth, had just been handed a small bag of gold to carry out this test. The gold would both ensure his silence and his compliance.
After the blood was poured from the vial and into a small bottle of enchanted ink, a quill was dipped within before being moved to a sheet of parchment. It began to write as if by an invisible hand, similar to a Dicta-quill.
Less than a minute later the quill returned to the ink for the final time and stopped.
The goblin picked up the parchment, placed a small pair of pince-nez glasses on his long nose and peered through them to read.
"Interesting," he muttered.
Looking to Ted he asked, "Were you aware the blood is of the missing Malfoy Heir?
Ted gave a huff of pleasure and replied, "Almost certain, yes. I take it you can confirm the blood is of one Corina Cephei Malfoy, born the tenth of August, 1982?"
"It is, indeed," replied the goblin.
"Thank you," said Ted, standing up. Indicating the sheet, he said, "Burn that, won't you?"
The goblin smirked back and dropped the sheet into a small brazier that sat in the corner. It was instantly alight and burned away to ash.
"Burn what?" the goblin asked.
"Thank you, Snaggletooth," said Ted. "May you vaults fill and your enemies perish."
"And may your business flourish," replied the goblin with a very slight head nod of a bow.
Letting himself back out, Ted headed back to his office.
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