Paul had really only intended on briefing Malfoy on the context needed for them to take the appropriate safety precautions, wary of sending Malfoy into such an unstable building blind. At some point, however, they had gotten into a tangent, not because Malfoy struggled to understand, but quite the opposite.<br/>In front of them was the spherical map of the Thowthorpe house, enlarged ten times its size. Wand in hand, Paul kept it suspended at eye level, but the map kept bobbing up and down a few inches, his attention wavering, too engaged in the conversation to maintain the spell.<br/>He had been midway explaining Malfoy the way the Ministry logged and mapped the detected curses and wards real time into these three dimensional maps, when a courteous, albeit awkward knock at the tentpole was heard.<br/>It dragged Paul’s attention off of Malfoy, reluctantly, but his expression eased upon seeing Hannah Connor peer in through the flaps.<br/>“Inspector Potter sent me up,” she stated, eyes flickering towards Malfoy with unmistakable interest.<br/>“Please,” Paul invited cheerfully, eternally pleased by his newly-appointed sergeant.<br/>He waved her inside, lowering the map back onto the table. “Malfoy, Connor’s trainee on the case.”