"As I was saying, when we got to London, we made a stop at the store Fred and George Weasley opened up. They are friends of ours who we knew had some products that might help us in case it was a trap," Harry continued, "these hats, the swamp and powder that causes those clouds of darkness."
Amelia was jotting more notes down. "Fred and George Weasley?" She asked.
"Yes ma'am. Their store is at ninety-three Diagon Alley," Hermione responded. "They aren't in trouble are they?"
"Oh no," Amelia replied. "We'll have to corroborate your story with them of course, but I'm very interest in that darkness powder. It could be very useful and I would like to discuss it with them."
"There is already someone here looking at these," Harry said as he showed his hat to her. "It's a shield hat. It is supposed to block a couple of spells."
"It works great," Luna said as she twirled her hat on her finger. "Bellatrix Lestrange hit me with a stunner and I didn't even feel it."
"Bellatrix Lestrange?" Amelia eyes shot up to look at Luna. "She was here?"
"Yes ma'am," Harry said. "She went through that portal thing."
Amelia looked over at Fudge and then back to Harry. "Let's get back to what happened," She said. "You got some things from your friends and then came here."
"Yes ma'am," Harry nodded. "I knew we needed to go to the Department of Mysteries," He paused as if he was organizing his thoughts. "We started looking for Sirius and the place with all the blue orbs in it like I saw in the dream or vision. We found a room with a tank full of…" He looked over at Luna. "What did you say those were?"
"Aquavirius Maggots," Luna replied with the answer they had put together. "Daddy wrote all about them."
"That's not what they were," Madam Bones replied. "They are living brains. The mystery of thought is studied in that room," She looked again at Fudge. "Croaker is examining all the damage down there now. He'll have a complete report later today." She turned her attention back to Harry.
"Well we thought there were the Maggots things and would sting someone if they hit them, so we put some in jars to use as well," Harry explained. "Then we found that room with the benches. When we looked at the Archway, the fabric seemed to move and we heard voices. We tossed a rock into it and it disappeared, so we presumed it was some kind of portal to another place. We first thought that if it was a trap maybe we could escape through it to safety," Hermione had thought of adding this, it gave an alternative for Fudge and Amelia to think about that could be far worse than what happened.
A collective gasp rose between Fudge and Bones. "Mr. Potter it is a very good thing you didn't do that."
"Why? Where does it go?"
"It doesn't go anywhere," Amelia explained. "It's called the Death Veil and its instant death for anyone who enters it."
Harry forced himself to swallow hard before continuing. "Oh...uh well," He stammered on purpose.
"Please continue Mr. Potter," Amelia said.
After a few seconds he pushed on with the story. "We finally found the room with the orbs and started looking for Sirius," He continued. "When we were at the place where he was supposed to be, Neville found the prophecy with my name on it. Not knowing what it was, I took it and suddenly we were faced with a dozen Death Eaters who had been disillusioned."
"We have Vincent Crabbe Sr., Augustus Rookwood and Theodore Nott Senior in custody," Madam Bones started listing the people they had recovered. "Mulciber and Rodolphus Lestrange are dead..."
"Yeah another Death Eater, uh Jugson I think, killed him by mistake," Harry said.
"How do you know that?" Bones asked.
"I threw one of the…Mag...I mean brains at them and it hit the ground near Lestrange. Jugson panicked and used the killing curse on it and the curse hit Lestrange as well. He then chased me until I was able to trick him into going through the portal…uh I mean veil."
Bones nodded at the explanation. "Can you tell me who the others were?"
"The other Lestrange, Rabastan I think, Bellatrix, Avery, Macnair.."
"Walden Macnair? The one who works for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures?"
"Yes ma'am," Harry replied as he watched her jot that fact down. "And Antonin Dolohov was the last one besides Lucius Malfoy," He looked over at the Minister of Magic who was looking extremely pale at the mention of the last name.
"And all of the others went through the Veil?" Bones asked.
"Are we in trouble for that?" Harry asked. "They were threatening to kill us and…and..."
Fudge knew that pressing any kind of charges against Harry Potter after the morning display, especially for the accidental death of Death Eaters would be political suicide. "Of course not Harry," He said. "In fact I think you have done a great service for our community."
"Thank you sir," Harry replied as he breathed a true sigh of relief.
"Nonetheless I do need the rest of the story of what happened," Bones replied after a glare at the minister.
"Yes ma'am. After the Death Eaters appeared, Lucius demanded the orb I had. Bellatrix threatened to torture Luna if I didn't hand it over," Harry continued. He glanced over at Luna before proceeding. "I knew though, if I did, they'd kill us on the spot."
Amelia nodded, agreeing that is exactly what would have happened.
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