“Dismantled or collapsed?” Draco asked, unsure if the difference really mattered, but it felt important to Draco to get confirmed one way or another. In the end, Draco was convinced that it was something minute that was going to crack the case open, so he was going to have to keep following even the tiniest of leads, just to make sure they didn’t miss anything.<br/>Draco looked lazily at the two balls, comparing the wards to how the house seemed completely unprotected now. It was a weird thing to look at, seeing something that had clearly served its purpose, something that Draco was far too familiar with, just be able to crumble and disappear like that.<br/>Sure, most of them had probably been dismantled by ministry workers, but Draco also knew that some of them had just gone to the passing of time.<br/>“These all seem old, even in the before, yet also solid.”