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Other Worlds	By : OrdinaryMortal Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Threesomes/Moresomes Views: 15372 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Mycroft Holmes sat in his favourite chair, reviewing the past 36 hours. It was unfortunate that Severus had not been able to receive more mental training or preparation before the Marking ceremony, but on the whole the insertion had thankfully been successful. Now the way needed to be cleared to induct a more permanent operative before extracting Severus, including rigorous protective mental and emotional training. Given the toll exacted on the body, the operative would need to be in the peak of physical health.
The Department of Mysteries was, by definition, the least understood department in the Ministry of Magic, a position that suited Mycroft and those he worked for well. People fear and avoid what they don't understand, and years of well-planted rumour and partially glimpsed activities had disguised them well.
The Muggles took a different approach, of course, with their culture of heroic and dashing espionage legends, which Mycroft completely failed to understand. The whole point of espionage was to operate, unseen and unsuspected, within the enemy organisation. The most successful operatives were part of the target culture already, or desired by them for various reasons, and the smooth, dashing operatives of muggle fiction stuck out like a Hungarian Horntail to those practiced in counter-espionage. No cover was stronger than the target wanting to recruit the asset themselves.
Severus was the perfect spy for the initial placement, with the targets actively seeking him, but long term he would be emotionally and mentally damaged by constant exposure to the violent fieldwork and, frankly, wasted on the assignment. Black, on the other hand, had been intriguing. Of course, both he and Potter had come to his attention within weeks of joining the Academy; that their synchronous working style would mesh to make a near perfect investigative team was obvious from early on. But while Potter split his attention between Black and Lily Potter, making him an excellent future leader but not, perhaps, Mysteries material, Black also had high commendations for his solo field work. Surprisingly, given his outward persona, he was reported as being tenacious, measured and considered in his approach and willing to take the long view to solving cases rather than the somewhat flashy approach that might have been expected. His age and physical condition were also in his favour, as was his unregistered, but not unobserved, animagus ability.
Mycroft gazed, deep in thought, into the golden whiskey handed him by his house elf. The self-styled 'pack' was close knit, publicly so, which, while necessitating a slow public breach to be believable, meant that there would be an excellent support network already in place should Black be amenable. As far as the field agent tasked to Severus had been able to ascertain, there was no traceable connection between him and the other pack members, which meant that unless Voldemort was far more skilled than they suspected, the Death Eaters were unaware of the friendship. A public breach; failed attempts at reconciliation; a request to work apart and tentative family rapprochement; all would work to create a public cover for Black in which his moving into the Department could fit well. His parents were known to be dark and to have disowned Black, yet a concerted digging effort had showed that the magical documents confirming his exile and Regulus' Heir status had not been filed. Clearly Orion had not wanted to confirm Walpurga's proclamation legally, perhaps hoping for rapprochement.
With his brother and cousin already inside the organisation, and the misguided Rookwood within the Department already, believing himself unsuspected, a 'disaffected' Black would be a perfect target for Voldemort to recruit.
He rose from his chair, placing his glass on the table, and crossed to the window. The apparent Diagon Alley apartment door actually opened into the Holmes' summer house in the small Cornish village of Trewissick, and his study overlooked the wild autumn beauty of Kemare Head. There was wild magic here too, which played havoc with surveillance spells and rendered wand magic unstable, but for those who had the ability, the wards here were unbreakable, and it made for a perfect training place to learn to guide the pure magic within them.
He sighed. So many wizards believed that wild magic needed to be tamed by wands, bonds and redirection into 'light' or 'dark' magic, depending on the family's innate leanings, not realising that every 'accidental magic outburst' by an untrained wizard was proof that so much more was available to them. The Prince and Holmes, Prewett, Potter, Malfoy and Black families were all descended through bloodlines strong in wild magic thanks to their occasional magical creature intermingling, which also explained the strong magical cores, animagi and metamorphmagi ability in so many of their offspring. It also led to less desirable traits -the psychotic instability of many Blacks, the rampant narcissistic personality disorders displayed by so many Malfoys, the squibs that dotted the Holmes' tree, true; but strong infusions of magic led to extremes in any magical creature, wizards included.
Luckily, Black showed none of the Black family psychosis, which tended to manifest at puberty's Magical Inheritance and was the key reason for so many arranged early marriages in that family before the affected Black lost control of their magic in their fifties. Unusually for a Black, his magic was evenly balanced between Light and Dark, according to his Hogwarts intake report (the Hat had not been created to assess Wild Magic capability), and according to Dumbledore's preferences such children were always directed away from Slytherin. While this had undoubtedly kept him from being recruited earlier, and led to his eventual rift with his family, it would ironically have made him a better asset for this op, as the will of those wanting to believe one form of magic was naturally superior to another would lead them to also want to believe that the Blood would eventually prevail.
A simultaneous extraction project would have to be undertaken to remove Severus from the organisation and retrain, while infiltrating Sirius in. The public feud would be useful, there, in keeping their actual relationship hidden. Time was also needed to secure the Goblins aid in working out how to free them both from the Mark's penalty curses while leaving potentially useful aspects in place, as well as working to strengthen Black's natural Occlumency shields, obvious both from his animagus ability and the Hat's inability to talk directly to Sirius's mind, leading it to placing him in Gryffindor more on his initial assessment with Dumbledore than the Sorting Ceremony.
The most disturbing element of the evening, as far as Mycroft was concerned, was the targeting of the victims. Sensing no magic from any of them, Severus had naturally presumed all were Muggles. Dumped in Winchester town centre overnight, however, the bodies had been found in the early hours, and preliminary testing had shown that each body had a very faint magical signature. The victims all were muggle born or abandoned Squibs, any one of whom, on having children with a magic user, would have had a 75% chance of bearing magical offspring. Voldemort clearly had access to the Ministry's Hall of Records, where each magical birth was registered, if only by trace levels. The aim was clear - to not only target Muggleborns and Squibs, but to prevent the next generation from being born.
Voldemort, or someone in his organisation, understood genetics. Eugenics, to be precise.
The Wizard/Muggle veil had been breached beyond the Department and Magical/Muggle Liaison organisations in the higher levels of both Governments.
Severus was too important to waste on the Death Eaters, but the Death Eaters were too important to not have a dedicated agent inside to track down the scientist.
His mind was made up. He would observe Black tomorrow, but based on his current research, he would be recruiting him for the role.
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