Collateral Enemies

Alastor Moody arrived back at the low end hotel that was serving as the staging ground for their attack. He groaned when only himself, Trent, Williamson and Dawlish appeared. "Two minutes we portkey back to England."

"But…"

"Parkinson and Avery were firing sectumsempra. A rare curse we started seeing at the end of the last war. They hit Black and the boy, no healer here is going to know the counter. Which means odds are they're already dead. Magical America has the death penalty for murder and we were part of that group. Which means we get painted with the same brush. Get it?"

Alastor waved his wand and packed his trunk. Then tapped it to shrink it. Inwardly he cursed, this turned out so fucking FUBAR that he almost wanted to stay and take his just desserts for getting James' boy killed. If it weren't for wanting to make sure Fudge got his desserts for insisting he bring those two Deatheaters along, he would.

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Paige Moran wondered which wizard that just got portkeyed out was an elemental wizard. Well that wasn't her concern. She was here to investigate the wizards that attacked she would look at the dead then go to the WIS facility. She examined the two bodies. What had killed them was by accounts a lightning bolt and their bodies bore witness to that fact. Aside from the obvious electrical burns the two bodies had few identifying markers and neither carried identification. Both had a sort of faded mark on their left forearm. It looked a bit like a skull with a snake coming out of the mouth.

Paige was an investigative trainer for WIS. At seventy she seldom was called to do field work, but when the alarms had sounded she had mustered along with all the other trainers. With their appearance the attackers apparently decided to leave. Given who had been attacked, the school director approached her and put her in charge of figuring out who, where and why.

"Paige I hope I don't have to tell you how bad this looks. The Presidents son-in-law attacked under our watch. I wasn't happy when he first came, but since then I've read the interrogation transcripts. He's a good man that got screwed over by his homeland, so do your best."

She walked the site. Figuring out where the attackers had laid in wait to ambush the exercise. It was pretty clear that the targets were Sirius and his ward Harry. When she got back to base she was surprised to be met by Walter O'Shaunessy. "Paige I want to help with the investigation."

"Okay list of all individuals you can think of that could be behind this."

He handed her a typewritten page. She blinked.

"Sirius isn't stupid; he maintains a list of people that would have an interest in doing this sort of thing."

"Any word yet?"

Radar shook his head.

"Want in on the interrogation of the captured subjects?"

"Hell yes."

Twenty-five minutes later they were with the interrogation room with the one suspect that didn't fit with the others because he wasn't local.

"Name?"

The suspect gave them a bored look.

"Look we can do this the easy way of we can do it the hard way." Paige stated.

"The easy way is we ask a question you answer." Radar growled. "Hard is I get to petrificus all of you except your jaw which I get to pry open then I get to give you veritaserum . I hope I have a steady hand it be a shame if I gave you more than three drops."

"Like I care about what you do, consorting with the likes of Sirius Black."

"Sirius is a fine person. I ought to-"

"Radar." Paige said sharply. "What our British guest doesn't seem to realize, is that he and those two bodies down in the morgue are going to feature quite prominently in an international incident. Right now the Magical President has summoned the British ambassador of magic to answer for this cowardly attack. I have no doubt that in order for good relations between our countries to continue you will be left to swing in the breeze, and I don't doubt that is what going to happen. Roderick Stevens takes attacks on his family quite seriously."

"Black is no relation to Stevens." The man was shocked into saying.

"Black married the Presidents step daughter. A year ago last February and they have three adorable tots. He is most definitely family in the president's eyes." Radar calmly stated. "So are we doing this the easy way or the hard. Name?"

"Jason Keeler."

"Who ordered the attack and what were the specific orders?"

Keeler frowned then looked down.

"Easy or hard Keeler." Paige reminded him.

"The attack itself was planned by Alastor Moody. My presence was ordered by Corneilus Fudge. The orders were to capture and retrieve the boy Harry Potter, and capture or take out Sirius Black and to not hurt anyone else there because they were Americans and we didn't want to start a war."

"Who all from Great Britain participated?

"Myself, Mad-eye Moody, John Dawlish, Robert Williamson, Bobby Trent, Simon Avery and Bill Parkinson."

Radar pulled out his cell. After dialing, "Hi Trudy put me through to President Stevens." Radar paused and smirked only to stop smirking when the President came on the line. "Yes sir. What I mentioned I suspected when I called before, we've been able to confirm. Add to that they planned to kidnap Harry. Good hunting sir." He hung up. "Next question which two are down in the morgue? Who were you paired with for the attack?"

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