Means to an End

Luna Lovegood's life as head healer in St. Mungo's mystery-shrouded torture ward is stressful, especially when her patients include such pleasant personalities as a battered and vengeful Draco Malfoy; yet when a friend from her past demands to interrogate him, threatening not only her hard-earned self respect but also his life, she finds herself absorbed by one of the darkest chasms in the postwar Ministry of Magic. A series of murders carve through the wizarding world, implicating forces that the world thought it would never see again. How can the defense of a man who’s never told the truth be reconciled against the righteous conviction of a man who’s never lied? What remains, when the fall of the world lies within ten strokes of a knife?

Luna Lovegood's life as head healer in St. Mungo's mystery-shrouded torture ward is stressful, especially when her patients include such pleasant personalities as a battered and vengeful Draco Malfoy; yet when a friend from her past demands to interrogate him, threatening not only her hard-earned self respect but also his life, she finds herself absorbed by one of the darkest chasms in the postwar Ministry of Magic. A series of murders carve through the wizarding world, implicating forces that the world thought it would never see again. How can the defense of a man who’s never told the truth be reconciled against the righteous conviction of a man who’s never lied? What remains, when the fall of the world lies within ten strokes of a knife?

Luna Lovegood's life as head healer in St. Mungo's mystery-shrouded torture ward is stressful, especially when her patients include such pleasant personalities as a battered and vengeful Draco Malfoy; yet when a friend from her past demands to interrogate him, threatening not only her hard-earned self respect but also his life, she finds herself absorbed by one of the darkest chasms in the postwar Ministry of Magic. A series of murders carve through the wizarding world, implicating forces that the world thought it would never see again. How can the defense of a man who’s never told the truth be reconciled against the righteous conviction of a man who’s never lied? What remains, when the fall of the world lies within ten strokes of a knife?

Luna Lovegood's life as head healer in St. Mungo's mystery-shrouded torture ward is stressful, especially when her patients include such pleasant personalities as a battered and vengeful Draco Malfoy; yet when a friend from her past demands to interrogate him, threatening not only her hard-earned self respect but also his life, she finds herself absorbed by one of the darkest chasms in the postwar Ministry of Magic. A series of murders carve through the wizarding world, implicating forces that the world thought it would never see again. How can the defense of a man who’s never told the truth be reconciled against the righteous conviction of a man who’s never lied? What remains, when the fall of the world lies within ten strokes of a knife?

Luna Lovegood's life as head Healer in St. Mungo's mystery-shrouded torture ward is stressful, especially when her patients include such pleasant personalities as a battered and vengeful Draco Malfoy; yet when a friend from her past removes him from the ward, threatening not only her hard-earned self respect but also his life, she finds herself absorbed by one of the darkest chasms in the postwar Ministry of Magic. A series of murders carve through the wizarding world, implicating forces that the world thought it would never see again. How can the defense of a man who’s never told the truth be reconciled against the righteous conviction of a man who’s never lied? What remains, when the fall of the world lies within ten strokes of a knife?