The mention of the Dark Lord’s name made Draco feel sick to his stomach. He knew that it was becoming more and more widespread to just mention his name, the last lingering fear that it would do anything dissipating with the last reminders of his existence. That still didn’t do anything to quell the fear that had been so deeply ingrained into Draco, having seen the Dark Lord up close more times than he had cared for, and the name was enough to remind him of just how awful it had been.<br/>Yet, Draco didn’t allow himself to linger, knowing that it would likely only cause him to spiral and now wasn’t the time for something like that. He felt that he had shown plenty of weakness in front of Potter already, and now that he for once had the upper hand, he was not very willing to let it go.<br/>“It is not unheard of for a dark artefact to disappear once it has served its purpose,” Draco stated, mostly thinking out loud, figuring that Potter would already know this. However, he needed to think and he was so used to being able to think out loud that that was how he best kept his thoughts organised. He felt that here was a bigger picture that he needed to see and he hoped that he would be able to piece everything together somehow.<br/>He had seen more dark artefacts and dark objects than any one man probably should, finding every single one of them deeply fascinating. He knew just about everything there was to know about different types of dark objects and yet he knew that making one disappear like that was advanced magic.<br/>“If it is indeed an old Death Eater hideout,” he started, finding himself unable to name the Dark Lord, even if he wasn’t much more keen on mentioning Death Eaters by name, “it doesn’t sound unlikely that that is something that could happen, but I would have to run some tests.”<br/>Draco took a break from talking, using the moment to look at Potter properly. There seemed to be nothing physically wrong with him, other than the fact that he clearly had been stuck in the floo network at the ministry, so he knew that he was going to have to pull out something more advanced.<br/>“Fine, I need to get my hands on some other equipment than what I currently have, but come back in a week and I will be ready.”