Harry wasn't going anywhere near that upstairs suite where the Malfoy Matriarch, now Dowager Matriarch, was as he did not want to cop the blame for her being hurt. Besides, an elf was looking after her and it would have been reported to him if she was in danger of dying.
Having missed his picnic lunch he was getting a might 'peckish'. Since he had to now wait, he set himself up on the landing at the top of the stairs between the ground and first floors and called Tippy to provide him something to eat. "Thick sandwiches would do," he suggested. "Oh, and something to drink to go along with it."
He'd managed to get about three to five minutes of that into him when the wards alerted him to an incoming portkey.
Quickly abandoning his hasty lunch he moved to the rail overlooking the entry hall and drew his wand.
As the portkey began to arrive, he could see there was a good dozen people crowded around it, holding onto it. Then, as soon as it stopped he called, "Greetings!"
Though somewhat expecting it, he was still surprised when his call was greeted with curses cast at him.
Magicked up, he ducked the three fired close or at him and began casting back. 'Stun! Break! Stun! Stun! Pud-Trip! Stun!' Aurors scattered and tried to find places to hide. Those who dared turn their backs to him were some of the first to go down. 'Stun! Stun! Pud-Trip! Stun! Stun! Break! Stun! Break! Pud-Trip! Stun! Stun! Break! Pud-Trip! Stun! Break! Break! Pud-Trip! Break! Stun!―'
"Cease fire!" barked Bones, after she'd managed to dive through the open door opposite the doors to the drawing room.
That had a couple of idiot aurors immediately drop their shields and begin to stand up. 'Stun! Stun! Break! Stun! Break! Pud-Trip! Stun! Stun! Break! Stun! Break! Stun! Pud-Trip! Stun! Stun! Stun! Break! Stun! Break! Stun!'... "Fuck it!"
"I said, 'Cease fire!', damn it!" called Bones.
"Bit lay-aate," snarked Harry right back from the top of the stairs. He was already summoning wands off the floor to his hand.
Bones stuck her head out the door as Harry began to walk down the steps, still summoning wands.
"What the Hell?!" she barked at him.
"Indeed," he snarked back. "I invited you here. I call 'Greetings!'. And three of your aurors immediately opened up on me. Care to explain that?"
"As far as we know we were going into a hostile situation," she snapped. "And yet you didn't come in prepared?" he asked. "Why didn't you conjure metal shields you could strap to your off-hand forearms and don them before you portkeyed in? You know such shields will even block the killing curse, right?
"At the minimum, a Finite would have to hit it, dispelling it, before a follow-up curse could hit you.
"That would have given you at least a precious few seconds to set up to properly defend yourselves."
She looked back in shock. However, she still didn't come out from behind the door. At least she was smart enough to do that.
Harry had already summoned up all the wands before he reached the first stunned auror. And cast a Detect Polyjuice Potion charm on the person. The Davis ladies showed him it was a good idea. It glowed green, showing they didn't have Polyjuice in their system. Then he vanished the sleeve off their robe to see if he could spot the Dark Mark - no mark. He left them and moved on to the next.
"What are you doing?" she demanded.
"Checking for Polyjuice and the Dark Mark. I'm not checking for glamours as I know that monocle of yours can detect them," he replied before checking the next. "How about you stay right where you are while I complete my... investigation."
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
'All good,' he thought.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
No Polyjuice... Dark Mark.
"Oh, we have a winner!" called Harry. "One Dark Marked Auror."
"Wwwhat?!" exclaimed Bones. "An Auror with the Dark Mark," he replied, conjuring a hard-backed wooden chair with armrests. "I would have thought regular, but unscheduled, checking of your aurors, let alone the rest of the Ministry personnel, for the Dark Mark would have been de rigueur."
He levitated the auror up and into the chair, before using an overpowered Incarcerous charm to tie them in place. He also made sure the man's Marked forearm was bare and clearly displaying the Mark.
'Next,' he thought.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
"Polyjuice!" he called, when the auror glowed red.
Another chair, another vanished sleeve, another levitation and another over-powered Incarcerous later and the second auror was now sitting tied up in a chair next to the first. That one had no Dark Mark, but he thought that could be due to the Polyjuice.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
No Polyjuice, no Dark Mark.
No Polyjuice, Dark Mark!
"Another Dark Mark," he called.
Another chair, another vanished sleeve, another levitation and another over-powered Incarcerous later and the third auror was now sitting tied up in a chair next to the first two.
As he worked through them, he carefully watched Bones to make sure she didn't try to stun him. She didn't. She just watched in, at first, horrified shock; before the shock morphed into anger. "Polyjuice!" he called, when the auror on the floor before him glowed red. It was Connie Hammer.
"Morgana's saggy tits!" Bones exclaimed. "HER?!"
"Yup," said Harry, still busy.
'Faux-Hammer' joined the other three. She was also the last.
Standing after he finished the last of them, leaving them all unconscious, he turned to Bones and said, "Alright, Minister. Your turn. How's about you come out of there and let me check you over. Once I've done you, if it makes you happy, you can do me."
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