The killer card was always something that I was to keep close to my chest. It was a card that I held no matter what. Despite feeling powerless. There were times that I felt enraged with him. I wanted him to pay for everything he had done to me, to my mother and to my family. This card, I soon realised was something very special and it was something that he had been carrying as a burden for many years. He had been forced by Bellatrix Lestrange to get rid of her. I sometimes wonder if this carried with it a burden of its own because as I grew to know him, understand him, he and Draco are not quite as different as you may think. He carried out work through fear. If I were to guess I would say that his father may have acted in the same manner to him. Cold, ruthless and with a need to be a pureblood. It is how the Malfoys think and it is what they become. I have been attacked many times by Death Eaters and as you can tell all unsuccessfully. He was always a part of it. You could always tell simply by his manner.

He knew that I had a great influence on my father and I used that to manipulate him. I told him, warned him that there would be consequences to certain actions that I could find myself in good or bad situations. I’m not pleased with myself for that. By the time of the Battle you could say that he was a broken man. He feared my father, I have no doubt, and he was one of the last to speak Death Eaters to speak to my uncle.

He and his family have not only cared for my sister but he has looked after me. He has made sure that I always had a place in the ministry even when Draco did not want one. When I found that being an Auror was not the right fit for me I went to him to ask for the Department of Mysteries. I was the right sort of person for that, with the right background. I don’t know if he felt duty-bound but he has always helped me when I needed it. These days you can say that he is more like an uncle. A man that I turn to for guidance because I feel that we have grown on each other. As odd as that may sound.