Scene 5
At 6am the next morning LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE wakes up with a start. She goes down to the kitchen where the breakfast is already being laid out by MOLLY WEASLEY. ARTHUR WEASLEY enters, greeting everyone as usual.

ARTHUR WEASLEY
Morning all ! Lovely day

MOLLY WEASLEY
Wonderful dear but the gnomes are still in the garden and your breakfast is on the table.

ARTHUR WEASLEY
Yes, absolutely wonderful, ooo sausages!

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
This is perfect Mrs Weasley, exactly what they need for their first day.

MOLLY WEASLEY
Grabs louisa, putting more on her plate How many times? It’s Molly!!! Well my boys need their food

RON, HARRY and GEORGE come down, piling mountains onto their plates. GEORGE kisses LOUISA on the cheek and whispers in her ear, she blushes and runs her hands through his flaming red hair.

RON WEASLEY
Brill, thanks mum.

HARRY POTTER
This looks great

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
She glances at the clock Time to go Arthur!

ARTHUR WEASLEY
Goodness so it is! Well done girl. Come on boys.

HARRY & RON
WHAT???? They stare at each other and panic

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Come on boys. You’re not going to school anymore. Don’t be late. Kingsley hates late arrivals, especially on you first day! Raising an eyebrow with a smirk she kisses GEORGE and apparates out

MOLLY WEASLEY
Have a good day! Kisses ARTHUR and turns. Now GEORGE gnomes or the shop? Not that I’m pushing it on you but they do need sorting.

HARRY and RON look at each other in horror, grab a ton of toast and quickly apparate out.

KINGSLEY SHACKLEBOLT
5 – 4 – 3 – HARRY and RON appear 2 – 1 Morning all first-timers. Nice to see that you made it out of bed glances at HARRY and RON

RON WEASLEY
To HARRY - Few that was close!

KINGSLEY SHACKLEBOLT
And it would have been closer, but you have MISS LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE to thank for that. Usually we don’t cut it quite this close BUT this is an exceptional year and our other Auror trainees are more than capable of helping you out and I’m sure it is a mutual feeling. Is it not MR POTTER?

HARRY turned bright red. It was just like Hogwarts again.

I will take rollcall each time. You will either have training of some sort, an assignment or other skill orientated project. You have all been chosen and brought here because you possess skills and powers that few people do.
Your job as Aurors is to hunt down and capture dark wizards and hand them into the authorities.
This year, each of our first years will team up with a second year

HARRY POTTER you are with JADE JONES
RON WEASLEY with GREGORY GREENGRASS
And NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM you will be with LOUISA SNAPE of course these may change but for now these are your partners in crime.
For now, first years you will be having an introduction with us and second years you will be going with your assigned Aurors and going to work. So if you can all come with me.
JADE and GREGORY make their way to SAVAGE and JOHN DAWLISH. Louisa stands behind, waiting. She had no idea what was waiting for her.

PROUDFOOT
Hi Louisa, I’m sorry about Tonks, I know how close you were. I’m Proudfoot. You’ll be working with me. I may not be a metamorphmagus but I hope you don’t hold that against me! Smiles

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Of course not! I just want to make Tonks and you proud. So, what’s our first mission?

PROUDFOOT
Easy there. Well we are still hunting down Death Eaters. I hope you’re ok with that? I hear you were quite a part of the operations last year.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
I had a feeling it would be something like that. Do I have to give names?

PROUDFOOT
Looks suspiciously at Louisa How many do you know?

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Enough.

PROUDFOOT
Well, with me you’ll be needing to track down the names I give you. Happy with that?

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
No problem. What if the person was never a Death Eater?

PROUDFOOT
Then that’s not for us to decide.
You know that as well as I do.
We’ll leave that to the inquirers.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Course we do… It’s been a long summer.

PROUDFOOT
clearly not impressed
I just hope you can do better in actual assignments.
I thought the Tonk’s mentee would be far more capable.
You have much to prove. First one. Pius Thicknesse

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
No point.

PROUDFOOT
Oh, do tell…

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Imperius Curse

PROUDFOOT
Yes, yes that’s what they all say every time.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Don’t believe me then, but he was under the imperius curse. I saw it myself.

PROUDFOOT
You saw him being put under or what?

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
I – I saw more than I should have.

PROUDFOOT
So it seems… what about these people? Hands louisa a list.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
These are all Snatchers! Fenrir Greyback’s group.

PROUDFOOT
Snatches the list away - How do you know that?

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Snatching the list back – because I do my homework.
How do you NOT know that?
PROUDFOOT had no answer. She looked ashamed.
I’ve spent enough time at the Malfoys to know who was coming and going.
Just not everyone. She looks at her list.
I don’t know this one.

PROUDFOOT
looks at the name Alec Fanner?
No, I can’t say I know him either. You say these are all snatchers?

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Yes, all of them and all been to the Malfoy house.
This one is either a low ranking one or a trainee but it sounds dodgy if you ask me.

PROUDFOOT
Oh, it’s dodgy if YOU haven’t heard of him.
The thing is he could be so dangerous that you were being protected from him.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
All the more reason to hunt him down.

PROUDFOOT
That’s the spirit.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
As they are all part of the Malfoy group, perhaps we should pay them a visit first. Surely it would be rude not to. Simply as a curtesy call? Of course.

PROUDFOOT
Now you are thinking like an Auror.
I don’t think they’ve been seen for a while though.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
You mean Lucius hasn’t been to work?
That’s very strange. Surely someone should look into that.

PROUDFOOT
Not so strange. But if you want, we can use it as our first line of enquiry.

LOUISA SNAPE-RIDDLE
Gives us a foot in the door at the very least.

PROUDFOOT
Ok, let’s start at his office and work from there.