"Well, he wouldn't, would he?" Ross posed the rhetorical question, "If he had, he would have reported her missing sooner." Or at least done something so that he appeared even mildly worried for his daughter. Instead he just - didn't.

"And Bates hasn't done anything illegal yet?" Ross said. He considered it a matter of time; that Bates had never been indicted for anything more than conspiracy was a failing of the aurors of five years ago, and the sooner he was back in Azkaban, the better.

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