a petty crime, boring in my opinion

[Tristan Clarke]

This hallway was very familiar to Tristan Clarke. The law enforcement and the lawyers were intertwined in this legal system. The aurors caught the bad guys and the lawyers tried to prove them guilty. It was a never ending cycle involving cooperation between the two parties. That was why Tristan had come to realize that he spent more time up on this floor than he did in his own office. The aurors were the ones who were prime witnesses in cases and therefore were important people to talk to.

As Tristan had been working here for over a year, he was moving up in cases, having more difficult and, in Tristan's opinion, more interesting cases. Still, they had yet to be as huge as the murder cases he used to have to work with in Greece. He had always fought harder for the innocent victim because he had been in that place before. When Rachael died mysteriously, all eyes had turned to Tristan and he had to stand before the jury and convince them all of his innocence. Now, he wanted to work on the other side, helping those innocent souls as they stood before the jury. However, he had not dealt with a murder case since coming to London yet.

Instead, he was coming to the aurors' office with a stack of paperwork in his hand involving a petty crime. Someone had tried to break into the Ministry and the aurors were the first to stop him and get him out of there. Unfortunately, though Tristan knew that the man was not innocent, he had been assigned to be this man's lawyer and try to figure out some way to convince the jury of his innocence. Getting any information from the aurors that would be helpful in this case was going to be difficult.

Knocking quietly on the door, Tristan stood back, waiting for any of the aurors to respond.

[William Drubsky]

William was sitting in his office trying figure out somethings that he needed to do before returning to Norway. There was important business that he had to do in Norway but the state of things kept him in London for the time being.Sometimes,he wished that Fred or Tidane were Aurors so he could delegate some task to them.But sadly that was not the case,so he did what he had to do. He did not complain,he loved his job even though sometimes it was very stressful.

He looked at the stack of papers and start sorting through them, there was alot of work to be done. And he just did not know how he was going get done with all before he head out for the day. William started signing papers way and stamp them and sending in their way. Some poor soul was heading Azkhaban when the papers,he had sign reach the proper authority. He did not care,it was part of his job and for his job, he was reward very good, so he did not complain.

As he was finishing signing the last batch of papers, he heard knock on the door. William looked up, he did not know who could it be that had come needing his attention. He smile and just said,
"Come in,please."

[Tristan Clarke]

[[ooc: sorry it took me so long to reply. I was going to this weekend but then my family went on a trip which turned out to be in the middle of nowhere so obviously no internet. :/]]

Tristan frowned at the unfamiliar voice. As said before, he spent a lot of time at the Auror's office and had come to recognize the stern voice of Hermione or the laid-back laugh of Straw. However, this voice was different. Tristan paused to look at the plaque to the side of the door. Yes, this was indeed the auror's office. Then Tristan shrugged and opened the door into the office.

The interior of the office, not to anyone's surprise, was also very familiar to Tristan. However, seeing this new man in the middle of the office made the entire room seem alien. Tristan felt that slight increase in heart rate when it came to experiencing a new situation but he thought nothing of it. What was life worth if you didn't meet new people? Taking a deep breath he stepped forward to the man's desk.

"Hello, sir. Tristan Clarke," he introduced himself. "Um, sorry to bother you but I'm representing Mr. Kurtz in the Ministry Break-in case. I'm here collecting evidence from witnesses and I am curious to know if you were in the Ministry the other day when Mr. Kurtz supposedly broke into the ministry?"

[William Drubsky]

[OOC:Sorry for late response, I been busy with school and other things.]

William did not like people coming into his office snooping even less asking information about cases. If somebody was to be presented in the wizard court, then he always though they must be guilty. There was too much rubbish in investigating the case to make sure that he correctly accuse,if he had not been then Auror had not picked him. Sometimes, William was frustrated how wizardly law system worked in England if it was back in Norway,that person would be rooting in dungeon already. But this was not Norway and he had to follow their system if he wanted to keep his job and he loved his job too much to lose it.

He just looked at the young lawyer and just though for a couple minutes, he had stack of papers of Mr.Kurtz. William was one of the Aurors that process the Kurtz after had been capture,if the young lawyer wanted investigate, he would let him. There was alot of evidence to prove the guiltyness of the man the lawyer was representing,but he understood that they had a job to do even if he did not like it. William just looked at him for a couple minutes and open one of file cabinets and grabbed stack of files.

"Hello,Mr.Clark."WIlliam just looked at him as he leaned back in his chair,
"It is no bother,Mr.Clark,I can try help you with as much as I can disclosure without jeopardizing the case against your client."He paused,"I was here working when I heard a breaking when I got to where suppose breaking him had happen a couple Aurors had detain already, I processed his paperwork and interviewed him." William told him as he pushed forward a couple files from the case,
"You can look through those files and ask anything you want,Mr.Clark."

[Tristan Clarke]

"Excellent sir. Thank you," Tristan smiled before walking a bit further into the office. He glanced at one of the empty chairs in the room. "You mind if I sit here?" Before he got any response, he sat down anyway and took the files out the auror's hands and glanced at the first few pages. They were witness accounts from several of the aurors who were there as well this auror who had interviewed him. This would definitely be useful later when Tristan was trying to form the argument for his client.

He looked back up at the auror. "Thank you very much for all this. You don't mind if I ask you a couple questions then? I'm sure a lot of what I need is in these files as well but I would also like to hear things from your point of view," he began as he pulled a small notepad and pen out. "Um, first of all, may I have your name please? And if you would prefer to remain anonymous that is no problem. However, I will have to state that you are an auror and therefore someone may be able to make the connection. If, at this point, you choose to not make any comments, then I'll just use these files.

"And for my first question: You said by the time you reached my client, he was already detained by several other aurors. My client claims that he was not trying to break in and felt that he was detained on the grounds that he 'looked suspicious.' Do you believe that is a possiblity?"