Draco had been about to simply answer Clarke, obviously not in all the details, but just enough to get the ministry off his back, when he heard Harry’s voice from behind him. It took everything in him to not turn around and look at his I’m, knowing that it wouldn’t look too good for him if he did.<br/>Instead, Draco simply nodded at what Harry was saying, almost as if this was something that they had already discussed and wasn’t just something they were winging.<br/><br/>The answer from Potter startled Clarke, who hadn’t expected Potter to speak much during the interview at all, much less to say anything in defence of Malfoy. Surely Potter was just vouching for an employee, but Clarke was still struck by the feeling of being the outsider.<br/>Trying to regain his stride, he simply cleared his throat and turned his attention fully to Malfoy, expecting him to answer most of the questions from now on.<br/>“Right,” he started again, trying not to let it get him, but he was visibly rattled by the entire interaction. “Please elaborate the work that you are currently participating in.”<br/><br/>It was the same question as he had just been asked, that much Draco knew. He was so used to the back and forth of Clarke by now that he could likely answer the questions in his sleep. He had even prepared answers to the questions that he knew that he would already get asked, but with Harry sitting right behind him, he felt that the situation was entirely different.<br/>“Well, I am only doing consultant work for Mr. Potter,” he admitted, surprised by how foreign Harry’s last name felt in his mouth, but he tried not to overthink it.