By afternoon, Sirius had mostly recovered. Well, recovered, anyway.
If one ignored the brace around his neck.
"So, we still haven't found the bastard who framed Harry?" Sirius asked carefully as he sipped a cup of tea.
"You could say that," Kayson replied gloomily.
"Then what do we do? I mean, what about Harry?"
"There's no particularly useful plan right now. We can add a Polyjuice Potion antidote to the food and see whether anyone at Hogwarts snuck in using Polyjuice Potion. The other option is wand inspection, but that doesn't seem very useful. If he's a Dark Wizard or a Death Eater, he definitely has more than one wand."
"There's also an Imperius Curse test, but that's difficult too. Snape told me that the Imperius Curse can make people carry out the caster's desired actions in two ways. One is by planting thoughts in the victim's mind, and the other is by directly controlling the body."
"The former can be investigated with Legilimency, but there's nothing we can do about the latter," Kayson said helplessly.
"What about Neos? Why don't we just tie him up and force-feed him Veritaserum?" Sirius immediately picked out the prime suspect and spoke viciously.
"You seem a little too extreme, really," Kayson remarked dryly.
"But it's efficient, isn't it?" Sirius retorted.
"Maybe... Tonight, I'll get some Veritaserum from Snape. You go to St Mungo's, find a man named Lockhart, and bring him back." Kayson's eyes shifted as he considered it. It could be called the best plan they had.
And with a memory expert like Lockhart, they could even let Neos return to his tent as though nothing had happened, provided he was cleared after drinking the Veritaserum.
"Lupin is still working for him, right?" Sirius suddenly asked.
"Perfect. Then Lupin can lure Neos