"Close - but with yours and Potter’s assistance, they’ll be significantly closer. The Auror’s have been given strict instructions that the Department of Mysteries is lending them your services with the understanding that you two are to be given preferential access to the scene when you find him," when, not if - Crocker had a lot riding on this, "I’ve already spoken to Potter," of course he had; they might be on the same mission, but neither could know what the other was truly up to after all, "He said he would wait for you in Seminar Room A - there’s a not inconsiderable amount of paperwork from the Auror’s waiting for you there. Out of the kindness of my heart, I also asked catering to put a coffee machine in the room," to Draco at least, the implication was clear - they were about to put in a lot of very long days, "I expect results, Malfoy," Draco knew a dismissal when he heard one. 