Preposterous

[Christina Davies (Bel)]

Christina was at work two hours early, as usual, dressed in deep purple robes. She had received an inter-departmental memo from the Head of Magical Law Enforcement, Bellatrix, requesting an urgent meeting. The woman kept bothering her with nonsense about someone pulling vicious pranks. Admittedly, they were quite disturbing, but nothing to get too worked up about. Bellatrix seemed to think there was a new Dark Era approaching, but such things were preposterous.

There was an urgent knock at her office door. “Enter,” Christina called. She sighed heavily as the paranoid Head slipped in and shut the door quickly behind her.

“Good morning, Minister,” Bellatrix nodded taking a seat in front of the great oak desk. “You got my memo?”

“I did, Bellatrix,” said Christina, folding her hands on her desk. “But I really think there is nothing to worry about.”

“You don’t understand,” Bella shook her head. “I know who’s behind these incidents, I know her personally. This is not a matter to take lightly.”

“If you know who it is, then why haven’t you been able to arrest her by now?” Christina interrogated. She didn’t like when her employees were lax with their work.

“This is no ordinary criminal,” Bellatrix said earnestly, trying to make the minister understand.

Christina dismissed an enraged Bellatrix without another word, and she exited the office in a huff.