With Good Intentions

Seven weeks after the “Community Diversity Ambush” a combined attempt was made on the lives of Kingsley Shacklebolt and Lucius Malfoy by the more extremist faction of M.A.D.E.

The assault came as the two were presiding over the latest lottery for the latest planned community approved by the Ministry and funded by Malfoy galleons. Applications to this newest enclave — “Harmony Haven” — were evenly split between pure-bloods, half-bloods, muggle-borns and couples in muggle-magical marriages (of which there were more than predicted); sentient non-human being and those afflicted unwillingly with lycanthropy or vampirism.

While unexpected, neither wizard proved to be at significant risk, one having fought beside Dumbledore against the darkness and the other having tried to kill Dumbledore and all his followers for the sake of the darkness (and the madman causing it). The terrorists were dispatched efficiently without a single hex from the two seasoned fighters.

Harmony Village’s first lottery winners dispatched the threat with extreme prejudice.

Indictments flew from the Wizengamot when details of the conflict reached their chambers — including one for a former Wizengamot judge, out on bail from a prior M.A.D.E. encounter, who’d lost perspective about justice at some point.

Not a single Harmony Village citizen-combatant received a court summons as the political tide had turned in their favor.

Two months after the “Community Diversity Ambush”, Barrister Hermione Granger-Malfoy prosecuted the living assailants and co-conspirators in M.A.D.E. for attempted extermination of a bloodline — an obscure law that Narcissa helped her find, dating from the establishment of the “Sacred Twenty-Eight” bloodlines. 

The sentence should have been death but the Prosecutor pleaded for mercy in their collective behalf. In consideration of her plea, the defendants each served 5-year imprisonment and banishment from Britain. The guilty group included the former Wizangamot judge Hortense Sitzburger. Her conviction led to another private celebration in the Head Judge’s office. 

A very pregnant Independent Counsel begged off attending the (in her mind) bittersweet “celebration”…

Late that same evening, Lucius and Galen celebrated privately in the Guests’ House’s smaller salon room — each congratulating the other for conjuring sufficient “evidence” to put that bitch of an ex- judge (who’d hurt Hermione more than physically) behind bars without aggravating Hermione’s suspicions as to the proof's origin or authenticity…