As soon as Bones received it, noticed who it was from, she immediately read it. With the Meeting the next day, WAS memos had priority. And, as soon as she read it, she was out of the office and heading to the WAS to talk to the Agenda Secretary, in person.
'Not a chance, Longbottom,' she thought, somewhat furious at the audacity of the woman. 'Not a snowball's chance in Hades.'
Before Longbottom had even passed through the security gate and into the atrium proper, the agenda was already being changed back; with no mention of the Longbottom Regent's intent to have Lord Potter questioned remaining anywhere on the agenda, let alone as the first item.
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Once the two teens and their 'entourage' returned to the Granger residence, Sirius was about to leave again without even walking inside when Hermione asked him to stop by for a few minutes.
Once they were inside, she rounded on both 'menfolk' and said, "Sirius, tomorrow you will wear the grey. It will look good on you and make you appear as if you were a businessman and not the hooligan you try so hard and so often to portray yourself to be."
Before Sirius even had a chance to say anything other than simply blink in surprise, she had already rounded on Harry.
"And you will be wearing the Black with green trim," she declared. "It will show you to be the Lord you are and contrast nicely with what Sirius will be wearing. On top of that, the green trim will hint at your cunning and intelligence and resonate with most of those stuffed robes, who attended Slytherin while at Hogwarts."
Harry blinked back while Sirius snickered in amusement. "As my lady commands," he said before he deeply bowed.
She ruined it by smacking him on the top of the head.
That had Sirius laughing at him until she glared at him. He immediately shut up.
When she headed off with the stack of new stationery, Sirius quietly said, "Damn, Pup! She's turning out to be as scary as your mother was!"
Changing the subject, Harry asked, "What time is Ted getting here?"
"As soon as I get back. We then come back, together."
Sirius had told him earlier Ted would be coming over to discuss final changes, if any, for the strategy for the trial the next morning. Harry thought they were all set, though. However, if Ted wanted to discuss it, he wouldn't quibble about it.
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Harry had only just returned to writing his letter to Frank and Alice when one of the aurors, Senior Auror Flamebright, informed him that Madam Bones was coming to pay a 'friendly' visit. She had news.
"Please don't go making her look like a... daft moron, this time?" the man almost whined.
"I won't,' smiled Harry. "This morning was just to 'wrong-foot' her. She needed to be knocked off her wonky-headed thinking, so I could actually talk to her."
She arrived only fifteen minutes later. This time she only came with one auror in tow; one Harry didn't recognise.
"Lord Potter," she greeted him.
"Madam Bones," he smiled. "Or, am I again speaking with Regent Bones, this time."
"The former," she said, taking a seat at the dinette opposite him.
Her easy manner and the fact she immediately took seat told Harry she wasn't angry with him, this time.
"How can I help?" he asked.
"I'm just here to inform you that Regent Longbottom had just visited the WAS about an hour and a half ago - the Wizengamot Administration Services. She attempted to have the agenda for tomorrow's meeting of the Wizengamot changed so that the first agenda item to come up, even before Lord Black's trial, was her demanding of the Wizengamot to demand off you the location of her son and daughter-in-bond.
Harry gave a snort of amusement and said, "They don't have the authority."
"I'm aware," she drolly replied. "However, it's just a 'heads up'. If she tried that, once she sees the actual agenda, she's going to demand an emergency motion be immediately heard."
"As she has not the grounds for it, I hope you'll be immediately calling a Point of Order and calling her to task for it."
"Of course," she replied. "However, it will get the members talking about it. The other allied Houses won't want to get into the middle of this."
"They won't have to," he replied. "I have this strong feeling... you could call it a premonition... this will be resolved well before we even break for lunch."
That had her suddenly freeze in place and stare intently at him for a good five seconds.
"How do you know that?" she asked in a flattened voice. "What aren't you telling me?"
"In reverse order," he replied. "There's a lot I'm not telling you. I am the Lord of a Noble and Most Ancient House, after all.
"And, as I said, you could call it a premonition. If you don't believe in that sort of thing, you might even consider calling it a hunch."
"And this... hunch... of yours," she said. "It tells you this matter for which she's angry with you will be resolved before lunch tomorrow?"
"I'm sure of it," he replied. "However, I do not want her to know that."
"Why not?" she demanded.
He smirked and said, "Because I do not want her to run and hide from justice - lawful justice. And, before you get worried, I do not mean someone's going to deal with her in a way you, for instance, would not approve of.
"As a matter of fact, this will be a joyful occasion for everyone - except, possibly, a few Death Eaters. Even her... for about a minute. Then she is going to feel both elated and terrified at the same time. Her behaviour towards her grandson is coming home to roost."
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