So Much for No Strings Attached

Chapter 49 Deserters and Investigators

 

‘None,’ Whitehead said grimly. ‘It would be better if it had been potions.’

 

‘What was stolen?’ asked Jamieson.

 

‘The semen of a patient who has been having fertility issues,’ Whitehead said grimly.

 

Jamieson closed his eyes as realisation dawned as to exactly why a Senior Auror had been brought into investigate what Jamieson had thought of as just a theft. This was no simple addict stealing potions to sustain their habit or a dealer hoping to make some money off of addicts. No this was looking like a case of Line Theft which complicated everything.

 

‘Who’s?’ demanded Jamieson.

 

‘I am afraid that patient-healer confidentially prohibits me sharing my patient’s details without the patient’s permission,’ Whitehead said grimly. ‘And my patient wishes to remain anonymous.’

 

‘He does realise that it will be far harder to catch the person responsible if he does not cooperate,’ Jamieson said frustrated.

 

‘Of course,’ Whitehead said, ‘but he does not want the wider public to know about what has happened.’

 

Jamieson nodded understanding what Whitehead was all too correctly implying. That the Ministry didn’t just have information leaks but full blown floods. And no one got punished as long as they could buy their way out of trouble even if Bones had been doing her best to stamp out the corruption in the Ministry she was fighting a battle lost before it had even begun.

 

‘So it is someone influential?’ asked Jamieson.

 

Whitehead raised one pale eyebrow in response to that ill thought out question. Indeed as soon as the words had left his mouth he knew the answer to that question. Whitehead Healer’s practice was a Healer’s practice exclusively visited by the wealthy and the connected purely due to how extortionate the Healer’s bills were. Jamieson knew that the clients were mostly paying for the Healers' discretion more than anything else.

 

‘Yes,’ Whitehead replied after a minute.

 

‘Was he infertile?’ asked Jamieson.

 

It would be a bit stupid for the thief to have taken the semen only to find out it was useless for his purposes. After all although there were a few potions that needed a wizard’s semen line theft had a far greater chance of financial gain as you could either kill off the Head and be made regent or blackmail the father for money to keep the child unharmed. If you did not get caught and sentenced to the Kiss in process, of course.