While Snape and the others had had a relatively eventless trip, Arran, Harry, Draco and Blaize were not so fortunate. Arran apparated along with Harry while Draco and Blaize apparated by themselves.
They had apparated to the village of Little Hangleton and casting aura concealing charms and notice-me-not charms and silencios on themselves the four of them walked swiftly to the falling down Gaunt residence.
As they crossed the House on the Hill that was the Riddle House where the unfortunate Riddle's had lived, Arran and Harry began to get very uneasy as both of them felt a prickling at the back of their necks.
Harry stopped a second before Arran did and Draco who was walking behind him almost bumped into Harry. He opened his mouth to tell Harry to watch it when Harry suddenly pulled him down and also kicked Blaize with his leg and pushed him down. Arran turned frowning to see around and a stunner caught him in the chest and three more whizzed past where Harry and the other two were standing.
Harry enervated Arran even as he was lying down and removed the silencing charms from all them. Arran opened his eyes but did not get up. He turned his head cautiously to the side from where the shots had come but there was no one there.
He slowly sent out his magic upwards and found invisible lines like the infra – red rays and immediately withdrew his magic as one killing curse whizzed past where the line was.
He removed the silencios and told the others what he had found in low tones. They were horrified as Arran told them the stunner and then killing curse was not fired by a person but came automatically when the line was breeched.
"Now I do not want any of you to move an inch towards the house. Wriggle away slowly the same way we came, as if one of those lines are at ground level we would be sitting ducks for who ever is hitting out at us. The last curse was not a stunner but the Avada Kedavra. Come on."
Hearts thudding loudly, all the four of them went back and after wriggling for almost ten minutes, they got up and ran to the trees at the side of the road and waited for another five minutes catching their breaths and trying to look nonchalant, but failing miserably as it had been very scary out there for a few minutes.
Arran sent a conjured mouse flying at the waist level where the invisible line had been, only this time he sent it among the trees to the front of him and found the mouse flying smoothly. He summoned back the mouse and placing it near the pavement where the road started and sent it forward again. The second it hit the line two trees before them, it was hit by a killing curse and disintegrated.
Arran conjuring as many rats as was needed got an idea about the boundary of the protective lines. Then they went forward keeping well behind the trees and peered cautiously, but none of them could see anything.
After a few minutes of simply gazing helplessly Harry suddenly got an idea, "Arran," he said softly, "Why don't I conjure snakes and try and send them in? Voldemort may have allowed snakes to go through the lines unharmed as no one can control them unless they speak to them and no death eater except Voldemort is a Parselmouth."
Arran looked at him contemplatively for a second before nodding his head once.
Harry wasted no time. He thought hard of Nagini and conjured a huge snake exactly like her and Draco and Blaize yelped a little before glaring at Harry. Arran too, was taken aback at the replica of Nagini but kept silent as Harry hissed to the snake and told her to move towards the Gaunt House and watched impatiently as the snake swayed and moved.
The snake went through the invisible lines safely but could not get into the house. Arran saw that and decided to act as the more time they were spending here the more dangerous it became. He quickly conjured up three pairs of spectacles, as Harry already had his own and placing each of them in his hand chanted once again in that ancient language and handed it to everyone.
"Now yours Potter." And charmed the glasses and handed it over to Harry. Harry put it on and found that he could see the invisible lines that were red in color and emitting some kind of fumes.
"Come on. We have to use blasting curses to blast away those lines. Draco and Blaize you will start using this spell on the lines one at a time. Harry you and I will fight the death eaters who will come the moment the first line is broken."
Harry nodded and Arran turned once more to the other two who had their wands ready to fire.
"There is no wand movement whatsoever and all you have to do is point and fire. Remember the moment you are hit or hurt activate the portkey and get the hell out of here. No standing back to help the others or anything. Is that perfectly understood?" Arran looked sharply at all of them and all of them looked at each other before nodding reluctantly.
Before they could start, Harry flicked his wand a few times conjured about a hundred snakes and Harry hissed to them. The other three were baffled at the amount of rather big snakes that were hissing very loudly.
"All of you stand in front of us and protect us. Twenty five to each." Harry commanded and turned and told Arran and the others what he had done.
"See, there will be about twenty five snakes in front of each of us and by the time the killing curses reach us we should have broken the lines and got to the house. There we can fight with the death eaters and get inside to tackle the horcrux. All right?"
Arran blinked at him once and then, "Brilliant!" was all he said.
Harry hissed to the snakes and commanded them to take their positions and watched as the snakes went through the line harmlessly without being attacked and then Arran gestured to Draco and Blaize when Harry once again stopped Arran and the others. He then smiled at them and lifted his wand
"Protectoremovase." The soft command came from his mouth as Harry hissed the spell in Parseltongue. The spell hit the line and the line vanished completely.
Arran immediately conjured a rat sent it flying through the air at the level where the line was and watched in amazement as the rat flew safely until it hit the second line and a killing curse hit it.
Harry without another word started firing the curses in Parseltongue at the other lines and soon all of them slowly walked down the road to where the Nagini look alike was still slithering there. More than half the snakes were killed as killing curses came every time a protection line was brought down.
The other snakes were now slithering along with them and Arran, Harry, Blaize and Draco lifted their wands as one and standing well behind strong shields and blasted the door away. Harry for good measure hit the door hissing away in Parseltongue.
There were six pops the moment the door was blasted away and Harry spurred the snakes including Nagini to attack them. Arran had already stunned one and was fighting furiously with another of them and Draco and Blaize were fighting one each.
The remaining two turned to Harry and banished the snakes before they could rush at them and bite them. Both of them cast killing curses and Harry remembering Dumbledore's duel with Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries, hurriedly conjured two snakes to accept the curses and followed by a stunner that caught one death eater square on the chest.
"Intestina remova," shouted the remaining death eater as Harry rolled on the floor to avoid the bright orange curse that would have removed his intestines and fired his first dark curse, "parsa boila parsa," that showered a bucket of boiling water on the death eater, who yelled as the boiling water poured on him and he cast another killing curse as he rolled away. Harry conjured a block of stone to block it and ran as the stone broke into tiny pieces.
Then the curses flew thick and fast between Harry and the death eater, 'fervidus, rubeo castra, ferula blasta', and so on. After some time when both of them showed no signs of giving up, and Arran who had just finished with his own duel was about to interfere saw Harry hissing as he rolled away from yet another killing curse followed by a crucio. Harry escaped the avada kedavra but was hit by a crucio and screamed.
Arran lifted his wand to simply kill the death eater when the death eater slipped on a piece of rock and fell face down removing the curse from Harry as he yelled in shock at his stumbling.
Harry turned over, still shivering at the curse and to Arran's amazement, did not pause to take a breath but hissed confoundus in Parceltongue and followed up by the same spell and watched as the death eater blocked the first as he was getting up but was hit by the next and immediately hit three stunners one after the other and conjuring ropes, bound him and the other death eater who was already stunned.
Harry slowly got up assisted by Draco who was trying his best not to look too concerned and hit the other death eater with another stunner for good measure and turned to the others.
Arran and Blaize were standing with the other four bound and tied securely, wands at the ready to assist Harry. Arran took out a vial of the anti-cruciatus and poured it down Harry's throat and watched the trembling slowly stop.
Arran stared at Harry for a second and he was just then beginning to understand the tenacity that Harry possessed and his respect for the young boy who carried the Wizarding World on his shoulders went up a notch as saw how Harry had without fuss and with a harsh cruciatus on him still managed to stun the death eater and bind him.
Harry smiled at all of them and leaving Blaize with the death eaters went inside. Arran then did what Snape had pretty much at the Ravenclaw castle and giving instructions to Harry and Draco to assist him, started dismantling the enchantments on the horcrux that was inside an old and dusty cauldron.
Once they had finished Arran leviated the horcrux and placed it in a box and went outside and placing a portkey on the horcrux, sent it to the cottage. Then asking Harry to stay on guard here, Arran, Draco and Blaize apparated to just outside of the cottage with a death eater each, on their arm and there leaving Blaize on guard, Arran and Draco returned to take the other two, requesting Harry to stay hidden there.
They came back and as soon as Draco went back with the last death eater Arran started removing any trace whatsoever of their presence, both magical and otherwise. He had asked Harry to stay as he taught Harry on the job as he was effortlessly casting spell after spell to do so, explaining to Harry all the while.
Once they had finished, Arran took Harry's hand and apparated to the cottage where Draco and Blaize were standing and promptly dismissed them to go back to their homes so that they would not be suspected once the loss of the horcruxes came to light.
The moment they left, Harry ran inside to check if Snape and the others had returned and found Snape restlessly pacing the floor and McGonagall and Hermione sitting in the sofas and sipping hot tea. The horcrux had come but there was no sign of the others and Snape was beginning to feel very restless and worried.
All of them turned as the door opened and Harry peeped inside. Snape strode over to him and hugged him briefly and looked him over.
"Severus, you are fine and did you get it?" he asked as Hermione and McGonagall came over to him and Hermione smilingly hugged him hard making him blush just a little.
Snape smiled at Harry's blush and he nodded his head, "We had no problems."
"Well we had and we fought our way through and we have got the death eaters out side the cottage with Arran standing guard. He wanted me to call you if you had come back."
Snape wrenched the door open and ran out followed by Harry, Hermione and McGonagall.
Arran was waiting there and he was very relieved to see Snape. That meant Snape was successful as well.
"You got it?" Snape nodded his head looking at the six death eaters. Arran had removed their masks and Harry saw their faces. Four of them he did not recognize but the other two were known to him. One was Marcus Flint and the other death eater who had crucioed Harry was none other than Rabastan Lestrange.
Harry looked at him shock; he was Ria's father and Arran's uncle.
Snape was enervating the death eaters and all of them shook their heads bemusedly as they found themselves tied down in the middle of no where. Rabastan looked around for a second before his eyes fell on Harry and he spat at him, before turning to see who else was there.
He almost fainted in shock as he saw Arran standing by Snape and glaring at him. "Arran, did this half blood put you through the Imperio? Child what are you doing with Potter who is the greatest enemy of our Lord and this traitor Snape whom our Lord will surely kill for his betrayal?"
Arran did not answer him, but went a little away and spoke into his ring to Ria. A minute later he came back and nodded at Snape.
Snape oblivated all the four death eaters and Arran chanted in the ancient language of the Celts and locked the charm and also removed any trace of their magic from them. Arran then stunned them and turned to his uncle.
"Your daughter has given me permission to kill you uncle." He said softly as Rabastan looked at him with wide eyes and open mouth.
"Impossible." Rabastan spluttered as his face took on a pleading look. "Arran our Master trusts you the most, and for Merlin's sake do not betray him. You have the world at your feet and he has already hinted to Bella and Rudolphus that you will be his heir. Do not throw all the power and the glory that is at arm's length away."
As Arran stood there impassive, Rabastan's face took on an ugly look as he continued, "You know first hand what the consequences for such betrayal would be and I know personally that Ria would never say that Arran, you know it as well. I love her as I do you and she knows that. In the name of Mordred please Arran come to you senses, come back to where you belong."
"You don't know me well then do you father?" came a voice from the darkness as Ria walked out of the cottage to where she had portkeyed in.
"Ria!" Rabastan was astounded as he looked at his daughter and for the first time there was a look of fear in his face as he looked at Arran and Ria alternatively.
"I do not mind dying for a cause daddy, but you are asking for my life because of a madman's personal revenge against a sixteen year old boy. After the horcruxes," Rabastan drew a sharp breath but she continued as though she had not seen that, "that thing you call Lord and master is not even human and what is he doing for our world daddy? To save it from many evils that is surrounding it today? Nothing daddy as he is the one who is contributing to most of it."
"Ria!" Rabastan bellowed in fear, "What has happened to you that both you and Arran that you are speaking like this?" struggling with the binds Rabastan turned to Snape and Harry as he snarled, "You, you… what have you done to my children?"
"Daddy they have not done a single thing. All that has been done, all of you have done it. You will never understand Daddy. Goodbye." Ria turned away tears in her eyes as Rabastan gaped at her, "You have gone mad. Our Master will kill you Ria. Arran you will die as well. This is how you want to live so be it, but remember before you even plan to live my Master will kill you both and, you Snape! You will die a most horrible death for your part in all this." Rabastan shouted at them.
Arran who had been standing silently until now came forward sneering at Rabastan, "My dear uncle, it is not us who have chosen wrongly, but it is you and your death eaters. You wish your daughter and nephew dead because we do not agree to bow down to a madman. And what a madman he is uncle," Arran's voice turned very bitter as he glared at Rabastan pulling Ria who was now weeping openly to him, hugging her tightly.
"What a shame he is and what a shame you are Rabastan. Your Master died at the hands of a fifteen month old child and, could not, even with six horcruxes, regain his body for thirteen years and now, all his energies are spent only on one thing. Capture Harry Potter. Kill him while he is bound and magic subdued, because in a duel the blasted boy might just get away like he did in the graveyard; and after killing the Boy-who-Lived, become the undisputed ruler of the Wizarding World?"
Rabastan gaped at Arran as though he did not understand what the boy who was deemed to become Voldemort's heir was speaking.
"Well I do not work that way. I am Slytherin uncle dear as mother told me that the Slytherin House was the House I would have been sorted in if I had gone to Hogwarts and I am afraid as a Slytherin I chose the winning side. That is definitely not Voldemort's side or even Dumbledore's. Goodbye. Oblivate!" Arran's voice rang out in the stillness of the night and he started the chant in a soft voice and soon he had stunned Rabastan as well.
Arran's face was very bitter and angry as he stood there and Snape briefly touched the brave boy who had the gall to go against his uncle. Arran turned a frowning face to Snape and struggled to get his emotions under control.
"What do we do now with these gits?" he bit out.
"Portkey them to the Ministry and we will let the aurors take it from there. Pull up your Occlumency and act properly. All of us will be called the moment the Dark Lord comes to know of two things, the loss of his horcruxes and his servants. But first we must destroy the horcruxes before we send them to the Ministry of Magic. Come on Arran. Harry, Minerva will you stand guard here?"
As they nodded Snape and Arran went inside and came out after half an hour, successfully destroying the horcruxes as Snape and Regulus destroyed one so many years ago.
Arran hugged Ria who hugged him fiercely and clung to him as Snape made the portkeys and disguised them so that no one would know who made them and the place from where they were sent to the Ministry of Magic.
Arran and Ria then apparated to their home and Snape sent all of them together to fall in a heap at the Atrium in the Ministry of magic.
Then all of them went inside after once again Snape removed any trace of magic performed there as he and Arran had done quite a bit of Black magic and ancient magic outside the cottage.
Harry recounted all that had happened after Snape told him how easily they had got the horcrux from Rowena's castle. When Harry told them how he had been hit by the cruciatus Snape got up at once from his seat to sit down with Harry who had been leaning against Snape's legs and checked him once all over not minding Harry's protests that he was alright and would Snape stop fussing please.
Once he was satisfied Harry was alright except that he was tired, he summoned another vial of the sleeping potion and a healing Draught and told him to go straight to bed.
Harry hugged Hermione, thinking how nice it was to hug her and promptly blushed at that thought and where it was leading him. He stepped back to see Hermione blushing as well and Snape and McGonagall trying to hide their smiles. Harry scowled at Snape and then suddenly yawned hugely and Snape laughed outright at that and pushed him gently towards his bed.
All of them said their goodnights and went off to their respective rooms and beds to get a well deserved rest. All of them slept soundly knowing there would be total chaos the next day and wanting to be fresh for it.
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Two A.M at the Ministry of Magic the next morning….
Amelia Bones was the Head of the Auror Force in Wizarding Britain after Rufus Scrimgoeur was transferred to the Special Forces that took care of wizard security after the rise of Voldemort once again, stepped out of the floo and into a chaos. She had been sleeping soundly when a message had woken her up.
She had been called on an emergency to the Ministry by Moody. Auror Shaklebolt and Mad-Eye Moody had been going home after a long day of raids and they had filed the paperwork on the work they had been doing and had been on their way out tired and wanting to get home at about a quarter to two in the morning and had found six death eaters stunned very powerfully and magically bound very securely in the Atrium.
The portkeys that were obviously used to transport them from somewhere had vanished, telling Moody and Shaklebolt the power of the castor, who had not only the ability to transport someone into the Ministry in the first place, but had vanished the portkeys after use in the second place. That was power that was almost equivalent to Dumbledore's and according to Moody that was not a good sign.
He had called Amelia at once and also sent a patronus to Dumbledore next. Shaklebolt also sent messages to Arthur Weasley and Tonks so that they could snoop around and see if there was anything more to this.
Amelia stepped out of the floo and walked briskly to the questioning cells in the Ministry. Dumbledore was already there along with Shaklebolt, Moody, Tonks and Brian Wheeler her deputy. He grinned at her as she came in and gesturing at Dumbledore scowled at her for his presence.
She frowned as well. She had never liked Dumbledore as she found him too manipulative and very inconsiderate of others, but he was too powerful and all she could do was to grit her teeth and get on with it. Brian too, did not like Dumbledore as he was a Ravenclaw with many friends in Slytherin and he knew just how harsh Dumbledore could be.
Now though she put everything behind her and smiled at Dumbledore, glancing warningly at Brian to behave. Brian grimaced but kept quiet. "Hello Albus, what is this we have here? Are your people responsible for this by any chance? I thank you from the bottom of my heart for Rabastan Lestrange alone and the others are bonuses."
Dumbledore smiled at her as he replied gently, "No, I do not have a clue as to what happened. I was waiting for some information from Alastor when I received his message that he may be delayed because of the six death eaters and here I am."
Amelia smiled though she frowned inside. How dare Moody message Dumbledore about death eaters? He was not an auror was he, that he thought that he could just waltz right in and sit down on the investigations with them. She sighed inwardly. There was no use contemplating such things. Dumbledore ran the Ministry. She had to grouse to herself and get along with it.
She looked at Brian. He was scowling too and looking at the warning in her eyes he grimaced once again before adopting his professional face and led her to the bound death eaters. There were six of them and the main death eater so as to speak was Rabastan Lestrange.
"All of us came here just a minute ago. They were stunned but I enervated them and they have been like this unnaturally quiet." Brian told her. She frowned as she looked at all of them.
She flicked her wand and ran it through Rabastan and found traces of oblivate. "He has been oblivated that is all. Brian get the anti oblivating potion and the veritaserum please."
The anti oblivating potion was one of the truly magnificent inventions of the Wizarding World. The wizard who created it was none other than Severus Snape at the request of Albus Dumbledore and it had been tested and proved magnificently accurate and had led to many amazing discoveries. No one apart from the inner circle of the Order of the Phoenix and the top aurors knew about it.
What Amelia did not know while Dumbledore did was that all the death eaters knew about it as Snape had told Voldemort before handing the potion to Dumbledore. Dumbledore had been angry at first but had to back off when Snape had pointed out the fact that if any death eater in the Ministry went to Voldemort with it the Order would lose its only spy who was almost in the Inner Circle.
Brian Wheeler went swiftly to get the potions and returned in a minute with a big vial of each. He poured them into smaller vials that Shaklebolt conjured and Tonks and he poured it down the throats of all the six death eaters. They drank it without any objections or struggles and kept silent.
There was absolutely no reaction whatsoever. All of them sat like they had before the potions. This was the first time the potion had not worked and Dumbledore was scared that Voldemort may have brewed an anti dote without Snape's knowledge.
Amelia frowned as the implications of the failed antidote to the oblivate charm but also the veritaserum was not working. The eyes of the death eaters had not glassed over nor had they any other sign of being under any type of curse or spell other than the oblivate and even that was not very strong.
She turned to the others and sat down in her chair, gesturing the others to sit down as well.
"Well what do you think? Who has the power today to do something like this?" she asked baldly.
"Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rudolphus, Rabastan himself, Lucius Malfoy, and I are the ones truly capable of casting the charm today. Draco's aura is powerful no doubt but whether he has the will or the temperament is debatable."
Amelia was shocked. "Albus are you trying to say on our side you are the only one capable of casting such a charm?"
"Yes Amelia. This type of spell casting would need sheer power and a knowledge that can come only by age or by intense study or all types of rituals. In my case it is a combination of age and painstaking work." He smiled at her astounded expression.
"You must not take the death eaters lightly just because they indulge in torture, my dear. They are truly fearful because they have the knowledge and the power that is extraordinary. That is why we have been fighting a war for so long." He said softly very worried.
Amelia heard the worried expression in his voice and frowned at him deep in thought, "Whose work do you think this type of spell casting could be Albus and what is this anyway?"
His answer stumped her and terrified her immensely and she understood why the usually unflappable Dumbledore was so worried. "I do not know." He said gently. "That is why I am worried Amelia. I do not know the spell that has made them so still in mind. They have no recollection of anything and have no magic in them, almost."
"How in the name of the Great Goddess did these death eaters get portkeyed in here? That should have been impossible, shouldn't it have?" she asked.
Dumbledore nodded but gently shrugged his shoulders as he had no clue as to how these death eaters had bypassed the wards and had come inside. That was another mystery.
"Perhaps we should call for the unspeakables…" Amelia's voice trailed away as she looked at her deputy and glanced around at the others.
Dumbledore nodded his head at once telling Amelia the seriousness of the lack of information about the condition of the death eaters.
She pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed as she walked over to the floo and spoke the secret word to gain access to the unspeakables reception.
The unspeakables were always hooded with a special robe that would hide their physical statistics like, height, weight, hair and eye color and aura etc. they also had a voice modification charm so that even their near kith and kin would not recognize them.
Amelia spoke to the witch who was there. She was not an unspeakable but would, by means of a communication device not unlike a telephone would relay the message to Merlin knows where and someone would come striding out.
Three unspeakables came striding out of nowhere and Amelia knew the next time they would come out into the reception room from another direction and she smiled at the unspeakable and withdrew her head only to have the three of them floo in right away.
They went to the death eaters and each of them took two of the death eaters and started working on them at once. All the others present in the room watched with fascination as the unspeakables went to work.
The unspeakables worked silently casting many charms and spells on the death eaters who had to still open their mouths and utter a word. Two hours later they admitted defeat as nothing they did had any effect whatsoever and they had called in reinforcements as well and four more unspeakables had joined them and there was no change nothing.
All the unspeakables save one went through the floo to their offices. The lone unspeakable cleared his throat and spoke directly to Amelia Bones.
"They have been removed of almost all the magic in them. They have been oblivated and then they have been spelled to lock the charm in place. We think it was a death eater squabble as; as far as we know there is no one on this side who is capable of magic like this."
"Is… is it Black magic?" Amelia asked the unspeakable who was already turning to leave.
"No it is the ancient magic of our land and it is not an ordinary witch or wizard who has done this. We have no records of any one who knows ancient magic. That is why we could not reverse it as this type of magic is almost impossible to reverse without the right knowledge or power."
Dumbledore was astounded. Ancient magic was one branch he did not know. That was why he could not do anything. But he also did not know who could. That was alarming as who ever did was a fount of power that should by right be harnessed by him, Albus Dumbledore. He was very worried indeed.
"What is their condition now?" Dumbledore asked the unspeakable who already had one foot in the floo.
"They are good for nothing and have no working mind left and they are as good as dead." And the unspeakable stepped inside.
Amelia Bones turned in shock to the death eaters who were simply sitting there. Their souls were not sucked but they had almost no magic and no working brain.
"The merciful thing to do with these people Amelia would be to kill them off; they will be of no use to us or anyone else as without their magic they will die most painfully." Dumbledore told her his mind racing with so many thoughts the prime one being who was the person responsible for this type of magic.
He or she had removed the magic and started the process of slow death that was a torturous thing and could not be reversed. The best thing would be to spare them the pain and kill them in mercy.
She nodded, "I will get the Orders from the Minister and do it. Until then, Brian, Moody, Kingsley and you Tonks please guard over them." She smiled at them, "I know you are tired but you may go home for the day after we finish this." All of them nodded in agreement and waited for Amelia to come with the Order from the Minister.
She came back with Fudge and Malfoy half an hour later.
"Dumbledore! What are you doing here?" Fudge spluttered as he saw the man he hated on the Light side and on the Dark it was Voldemort and both of them were always giving him huge headaches.
"What do we have here?" Lucius Malfoy drawled even as he shriveled inside at seeing the group that was meant to guard a horcrux. And Rabastan Lestrange. Merlin! How had he been captured and found like this here?
No one answered him and Lucius Malfoy really did not need any; he knew what they had there and the only thing in doubt was who had done this. Malfoy shivered slightly. Who ever had was so powerful it was going to be yet another problem for his Lord. He shivered a bit more noticeably when he realized he would have to give this information to his Lord.
Fudge asked Amelia many questions and Malfoy noted carefully both the questions and the answers and then Fudge finally gave the Order for their execution.
Sending the six death eaters to their deaths, all those present in the room went to their respective homes deeply disturbed, worried and alarmed at what had happened.
Dumbledore called for a top level Order meeting and he sent a Patronus to Snape as well asking all of them to come over at lunch time.
Amelia Bones called for a high level meeting with all the top aurors to discuss the capture and the state of the six death eaters.
Fudge went to his home smiling as he could now proudly say six death eaters were captured by his Ministry who was fiercely fighting this war for the people and become their hero.
Lucius Malfoy went home to take an alertness potion and two doses of a calming draught and to pray to the ancient goddess Hecate to save him from the wrath of his Lord.