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Posted 21/09/2011

Weapon (Possession Chapter XCX)

Chapter XLIX - Solving a Problem

Auror Captain Sturges sat in his office quietly. He'd dismissed his staff earlier and he had meant to be home by now but he'd been thinking. There were many things happening at the moment and most of them concerned defeating the Dark Lord. The Ministry had made peace with the Vampires, true, with the help of the Order of the Phoenix and they were in negotiations with the Goblins and trying to negotiate with the Veela, merpeople and almost any non human sentient who could fight. He'd heard rumours that the Unspeakables were even trying to contact phoenixes, unicorns and other traditionally light side magical beasts for their aid. It was unprecedented and it was leading to a good feeling.

But, despite all their efforts, the dark forces just kept doing what they wanted.

A case in point; the werewolf.

They'd captured him, and were holding him in custody, questioning for any information that would help. And then a single dark wizard waltz's into their Headquarters, stalks through the corridors like he owned them to the cells and had released the werewolf. They'd then gotten to a floo point and had floo'd away before apparating. And of course, while the floo travel had eventually been tracked by the time they filled out all the paperwork and gone through a heap of diplomatic hoops to get access to the floo-out point, the apparition trail had been erased. It hadn't been masked as most usually did to hide their magical signature, it was as if the apparition trail wasn't even there, or as if no one had apparated from that point. The Unspeakables had used some ceremony and had assured them that the apparition point had been there, though they couldn't find anything else. The apparition point was confirmed by the muggles who'd seen the prisoner escape in the custody of that dark wizard.

Sturges been in a rage at the thought of muggles seeing their prisoner until one of the Unspeakables had taken him aside and explained why this place was on the floo network, which in turn had explained why the diplomatic hoops and paperwork had been so tedious for what should have been a high priority but routine part of the investigation. True the Ministry had to work with the muggle governments but he didn't necessarily like the fact that there were some high level muggles connected to the floo network. Worse than that, what if the dark wizard had of taken them hostage? Then how would anything have been explained?

But apparently the dark wizard either didn't know or didn't care, though given that the wizard knew about the floo point, it was more likely that he picked that floo point because he'd knew the confusion it would cause in the Ministry and that confusion had given him the time to erase the apparition trail. The Unspeakables were putting in more security for the muggles.

The rescue of the werewolf raised more questions than it answered and Sturges resolutely put any thoughts of the muggles or the apparition trail out of his mind. It was the Unspeakables job to now ensure the security of the muggles and he didn't want to know and with the lack of anything at the apparition point chasing their escapee became pointless. That left them studying what security pictures there were of the dark wizard. He'd been over every picture with Shacklebolt and had even surreptitiously created a copy for the Auror, knowing full well he'd take it back to the Order.

Not that they had learnt much about the wizard in question. Ironic as it was, it was about now that Sturges wished that they could get some of the Muggle security things working in headquarters, but the press of magic was just too strong for any of the devices. They were left with fixed point photos, not those... video camera's he thought they were called. So, they'd tracked the dark wizard through their headquarters but didn't have any evidence of what he'd done to avoid detection. That was the most disturbing thing. It was disturbingly obvious that he knew the ward codes to break out of the apparition point, the fact that he'd then just walked through the corridors was worse. They had gone over the corridors with the finest sensors they could afterwards and had detected nothing. The wizard had apparantly just walked through the corridors, that had been on high alert and had cast no charms to conceal himself? That was not possible yet it was what the evidence was pointing towards.

Beyond a few charms to unchain the werewolf and the magical signature on those was unusable due to the silver, it appeared that the wizard had done no magic and had still been able to avoid all the Auror's searching for him. Sturges shook his head. They knew who the wizard was, well, they knew where he had appeared previously, in the Atrium, protecting He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, but they knew nothing beyond that. They were no closer to finding out who lay behind that mask. Surprisingly though, one thing they were reasonably sure on was that the dark wizard was not a Death Eater. Even their werewolf captive had confirmed that during his brief incarceration. As the werewolf had said, no Death Eater would be allowed their own mask. And that of course lead to more questions.

Was You-Know-Who allied with other forces?

Who was strong enough to ally with him? And more importantly, what did they want?

Would it be possible to either break the alliance or buy them off?

All those questions had been asked to the werewolf and while he'd confirmed that the Dark Lord was allied with something he hadn't been able to give more details than that. He just hadn't known. Not surprising since they'd known that the werewolf was merely a footsoldier. Baross had been in charge of that but Sturges, like all Auror Captain's, was dealing with the fall out.

One thing the werewolf had confirmed though was that the werewolves as a whole had not yet sided with anyone. They were still deciding though given the way the media had played up the capture, there was likely to be only one side the werewolves would now consider. He'd said as much to Shacklebolt and the Order Member had merely nodded sadly. "Remus hasn't said anything," Kingsley had said, "but I get the impression that while he will help individually, the werewolves as a whole will side with the Dark Lord. They won't come to the Ministry for anything less than what the Vampires have, and you know as well as I do that while that is due to the werewolves, with this Death Eater being captured, that's not going to be possible." Kingsley was politically astute and that was the reason he was Sturges chose successor should anything happen to him.

Besides, someone from the Order would no doubt need to be dealing with Sirius Black and Harry Potter. Sturges shook his head again, bemused. His thoughts would not settle tonight. Thankfully the disposition of Mr Potter as a potential combatant for the Ministry had been given to him. There were a couple of Aurors who were quite literally rubbing their hands together in glee over Mr Potter's preliminary school results and they were doing that, not because of the skills Mr Potter would bring to the fight but because of Mr Black's statement that Mr Potter's future not be jeopardized. With the results Mr Potter had shown, his future was more than assured and Mr Black had outsmarted himself some what. Still, those Aurors had to come to him and Sturges had made it quite clear that anyone going outside of the channels of communication would have to deal with him.

Though that did now leave him with a problem. Mr Black was realist enough to know that even if he didn't want his Godson fighting, Mr Potter had no choice while He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was targeting him specifically, so it was better to actively fight back than attempt to set up some sort of protection. Though, they couldn't just have Mr Potter running around lose on the field. That would completely confuse any manoeuvres.

The only logical thing was to give him some sort of official status.

And that would cause an uproar!

The thing was Sturges couldn't see any other way to do this though. The young Mr Potter may be a member of the Order of the Phoenix but technically that organisation didn't exist and even if the Ministry admitted to it's existence membership of that organisation or any organisation did not grant any Ministerial rank. And to be given orders and to be expected to carry them out, Mr Potter was going to need that. But there was no way, phenomenal results or not, that they could give him the position of an Auror and Auror-trainee rules specifically prevented combat. So with the current system there was little Sturges could do to fit Mr Potter into the existing power structures.

Unless... a thought formed deep in his mind, whispering gently, so softly that it almost wasn't heard but Sturges was used to following those little pulls of instinct. They'd saved his life once or twice so when he felt that subconscious tug, he tended to pay attention. Mr Potter couldn't fit in the existing power structures, so therefore the power structures needed to change.

Not greatly. Sturges wasn't so stupid as to attempt a major overhaul in the middle of an impending war. But just enough that they could fit Mr Potter into the Auror teams and have him work with them, enough so that there would not be a lose cannon on the battle field. If Mr Potter couldn't be an Auror-trainee and there would be too much political outrage to make him an Auror in full then they needed a new position.

Auror-Apprentice.

Sturges smiled somewhat ironically at the thought. There was little doubt in his mind that if things hadn't been quite as stressed as they were, then Mr Potter would have been apprenticing to someone to gain Mastery in some of his stronger disciplines and most likely one of them would have been Defence against the Dark Arts so perhaps the position of Auror-Apprentice should follow the general layout of a normal Apprenticeship, except in this case, Mr Potter would be subject to the orders of his Auror Master in battle. If they worked it out right, he could possibly even work on a Mastery.

Sturges closed his eyes as he fleshed out the idea further in his mind. Pending further inspiration from one of the other Auror Captains, he would propose this idea, that of an Auror Apprentice to them as the solution to one Mr Potter and his guardian, Mr Black. Now there was something...

Mr Black had been an Auror... to sweeten the deal, that status could be returned, in fact it should be returned and with the official position, Mr Black could then be one of the Auror Masters Mr Potter answered to. There would have to be another of course, himself perhaps, or maybe Kingsley... That would satisfy both the Order and the Ministry at the same time. Hopefully it would satisfy Mr Potter and his guardian.

Feeling more at ease, Sturges stood and flicked his wand around his office, extinguishing the lights. In the sudden deep shadow he stepped up to the glowing remains of his fire and threw the floo powder in to return home, never noticing how the shadows watched and waited and smiled at his choices.

Very short chapter, but this bit was almost more of an after thought that had to fit in here on the time line.

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