The fact that Potter didn’t bring up the conversation that Draco had walked in on wasn’t a surprise to him, but he also didn’t really feel the need to dig into it. He knew that he wasn’t a person most people within the wizarding community, much less someone who worked in the ministry, would want to trust, so that fact that Potter vouched for him in such a way was overwhelming.<br/>It made him feel that he had indeed made the right decision in agreeing to help Potter with his ailment, no matter how impossible and weird it all seemed.<br/>It made him feel good about his abilities as a researcher, knowing that Potter easily could have gone to someone else, if he had felt that someone else would have been more capable of solving it. It really spoke to what Potter thought of him and while it was something that Draco tried not to think too much about, he was very aware of what it meant for their continued work together.<br/>“Literally anything that you think will be helpful in my work,” he stated, following Potter in just talking about something else. It was easy to focus on the work they had at hand, Draco fully aware of just how much work was still ahead of them.<br/>“Anything relating to your exposure to dark objects, especially volatile ones, or if there is anything at all about magical signatures,” he requested, trying not to feel too bad in asking for such documents. After all, he was on a contract for the ministry as well and Potter<span style="font-style: italic">did</span>ask if there was anything he needed.