The Yule Ball

Courtney nodded. "Who are his two best workers at the ministry?" she asked.

Maik thought for a moment then said "Johnson, I think. And Moore."
"Couple of brown nosers" Elrohir added helfully.

Courtney laughed softly. "I said best not favorite. There's a big difference."

"Well, you failed to clarify that." Maik replied. "So, what do they have to do with anything?"
She didn't like either of them, on account of the brown nosing. Elrohir didn't think highly of them either, and neither did most of the other aurors.

"yeah, what do they?" asked Morgan. It was all 2 confusing. "Fudge is stupid. I think he would go 4 the gold."

"Ordinarily I'd agree with you." Maik said. "But in this case, Fudge has a particular animosity towards the Huberts."
"He hates them, to put it simply." Elrohir added. "Or the Hubert family in general. take your pick."

"Oh." said Morgan, still confused.

Maik was getting the feeling Morgan didn't know as much about the Hubert's history with Fudge as the rest of them. She thought that maybe they needed to explain it, but since it followed so closely with her and Elrohir's history, perhaps it was better if they didn't.

"Which really is partly my fault since it was me and mr. hubert who 'terrorized' fudge." Courtney said.

Maik laughed at that. Anyone who terrorized Fudge was a friend indeed.
"How are we going to fix this?" Elrohir asked quietly, wiping the smile off Maik's face in an instant. "The Huberts are convicted criminals, like it or not. And now Fudge knows we've been helping them and will be out to get us too."

Morgan nodded. this was serious.

Courtney sat back and racked her brain for some solution.

"so gold wont work, and he's after u guys...hmmmmm." said Morgan, thinking aloud. she stood up, and paced around, her face set. "OH, I no! u could...no, that wont work. Or, u could.....no, not that, either. Have u thought of a mind wipe?" asked Morgan hopefully

Courtney shook her head. "And we couldn't go with my favorrite. Tramatize him into insanity and have him beg for us to let him leave the huberts alone."

Maik opened her mouth to say she loved that idea, but Elrohir shot her a warning look, and she promptly clamped it shut.
"Unless you want to leave the country, I really don't know what we can do." Elrohir sighed. "We can't hide forever."
Maik leaned tiredly on Elrohir's shoulder, trying not to fall asleep. This was just too confusing. She half wanted to storm the ministry and get it over with.

" How about get him destracted w/ something else? them he wont have time to bother u guys. Or, u could use a timeturner, and go back to the point Fudge discovers ur idea and change that around. That might cause a little more trouble, but it's better than nothing." SAid Morgan, plowing through thoughts and racking her brain.

"i'm not going to play with time. It's too dangerous." Elrohir said. "Besides the fact that we don't have a time turner anyway."
He looked down at Maik, who was on the verge of falling asleep and asked her opinion on the matter. She cracked an eye open and mumbled she liked the idea of a distraction, depending on the nature of the distraction in question. She then promptly closed her eyes again, giving Elrohir the instruction to wake her up if the moon turned green.

"Really, u dont have a timeturner?Well" Morgan pulls a tiny hour glass out of her robes "what if i was to lend u mine?"

Elrohir gaped at the timeturner for a few seconds before he was able to speak. "How did you get that?"
Maik slowly opened her eyes and regarded the time turner. So Morgan really had one. Interesting.
"Do you have any idea how complicated this situation is?" Maik asked her. "This goes back to the Huberts being death eaters. No amount of time travel can change that." She stared down at her feet, piecing her thoughts together. "Nor can it change what they did, or what they set in motion."

Courtney sighed. "But you can stop the letter from being found. The letter Sonia's parents wrote her the night of the yule ball that started the whole trial."