Balaur

The tracer placed on Draco by the Ministry screamed at Kreacher, the house elf presently responsible for Draco’s surveillance. Soft-hearted when it came to the Black family members, he’d been lenient with his charge — allowing him privacy at the Manor and in the farmhouse in Romania. Draco’s emotional decision to vacate Hermione’s rooms without notifying the elf, set off a caterwauling his chaperone almost didn’t recognize since it had never happened during his assignment.

The Deputy Probation Elf’s recovery from sentimentality got further delayed when the tracer landed him not at the Leaky Cauldron pub but in the bedroom of a very pregnant — and clearly very ill — witch whose writhing and sobbing unnerved the him. Surrounded by the Malfoys and the cretins he recognized as the blood-traitor Weasleys, Kreacher quickly determined that Draco wasn’t among the concerned people ringing the bed and popped out again to locate his missing master/prisoner…