The fact that Potter had already gotten answers probably shouldn’t be a surprise to Draco. It wasn’t like anyone at the ministry would want to deny their golden boy anything, yet Draco found it hard to harbour much resentment for the speed with which all the letters had arrived.<br/>After all, it meant that Draco would be able to get more work done, finally having something that could potentially tie his notes together with things that was already known about Potter. There was likely to be some link that Potter hadn’t considered himself and Draco hoped that his research would be able to highlight something from the files.<br/>The thing that left him stumped was Potter suddenly talking about contracts and consulting work, much less being paid for said consulting work. While Draco knew that Potter wasn’t in a place to ask for favours just for favours sake from him, he had never expected that he was going to get paid for it.<br/>“Go ahead,” he said as he accepted the envelopes emblazoned with the logo for the ministry of magic. It was definitely official and Draco found it exceedingly hard to believe that Potter had convinced the department of mysteries that he had to get paid for his work, much less that he should appear on the official pay roll.<br/>Once he opened the envelope, he immediately realised what the motivation behind the entire thing likely was, as the first thing that met him was a non-disclosure agreement.<br/>“You know, you don’t have to pay me anything to stop me from blabbing,” he stated, feeling a little offended that Potter would find it necessary. Not that Potter had much reason to trust him, but he thouight that their tone together would at least be better than this.