One Honest Heart

19. Pick-up

Lappertappers
are only – illegally – sold in Knockturn Alley.

This,
of course, posed no problem to Lucius Malfoy, striding into Queer,
Questionable, and Quality Creatures one late evening in late April, 2002,
to pick up a special delivery, their very strongest breed. For even though
overly aggressive Lappertappers fail to meet Darwin’s evolutionary
requirements, they keep appearing – a common enough mutation – and they bring
an exceptionally high price when bought en masse.

Of
course, like the shadiness of Knockturn Alley, money posed no problem to Lucius
Malfoy. Especially not as the owner of Creatures was dead twenty seconds
after his greedy fingers had closed around the poisoned Galleons.