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Potions Classroom, Dungeons, Left Viaduct Tower, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1st September, 1992.
Several hours later, after a very tense chase between them and a Muggle fighter jet, a really hair-raising near-death experience by the Hogwarts Express and most notably, a close encounter with the Whooping Willow, Harry and Ron were now in Snape's office.
While Snape was giving them a really severe dressing down on how their actions risked the entire Statue of Secrecy, there was a knock on the door.
Snape, snapped his head over to the door, and before heading over, sent a sharp look at Harry and Ron, clearly stating that he was not finished with them.
Opening the door, Snape found himself face to face, with Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, and Head of Gryffindor House Minevra McGonagal, in addition to a third man, who was dressed in burgundy robes, along with a lapel pin that had an stylised "M" on it, indicating that he belonged to the Ministry of Magic.
The man spoke in a thick Welsh accent, "Ah, Mr Potter, Mr Weasley, I'm Iorwerth Cadwaladr, from the Department of Magical Accident and Catastrophes. I'm here to talk about incident that took place at around 11:48am, over Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Would you mind answering some questions in regards to this incident?"
The both of them looked at each other, before they nodded their heads and said, "Yes sir" at the same time.
Cadwaladr smiled, "Excellent", then he sat down before the two of them, and then asked questions on why they choose to fly the car over to Hogwarts.
Harry and Ron explained at how they could not get pass the barrier due to it being mysteriously blocking them before they could get on the train. Mr Cadwaladr nodded before he asked why didn't they just send an owl telling the school of this problem.
Harry and Ron looked at one another, before Harry sheepishly said, "Well, I think we just didn't think..."
Professor McGonagall interrupted, "That, is obvious", before Mr Cadwaladr glared at the Head of Gryffindor House.
After receiving silence, he continued on, saying, "So, you're saying that that exact thought, of sending an owl to the school, never once crossed either your minds?"
The only response to that, were shaken heads, and to that, Professor Snape snorted, which prompted Mr Cadwaladr to snap his head at the Potions Master and ask him sharply, "And may I ask for you, Professor, to enlighten us on your thoughts?"
Professor Snape then offered his response, at Mr Cadwaladr's insistence, "This is just typical of Potter, Mr Cadwaladr. A serial trouble-maker in the making, just like his father before him. His first year, he was breaking curfew with Weasley and Granger on multiple occasions and..."
"That'll be enough, Severus, thank you".
Dumbledore's voice cut in, stopping Snape from continuing on, much to Mr Cadwaladr's relief as he then said to Harry and Ron, "Well, despite all the damage that you've caused, we at the Ministry are hard at work to repair it. Even though the Office of Misinformation is having a field day, trying to come around a plausible explanation for everything that happened, and of course, there's all those Oblivators at work, trying to cover this up..."
And soon, Mr Cadwaladr's thoughts turned to those very people, working to solve the situation and salvage the current situation they were in.
It was night-time at RAF Wattisham, and outside the perimeter fence, a series of loud cracks ripped right through the air.
If anyone had been anywhere near there, they would have been curious and gone to investigate.
But luckily, no one was around to notice it. After all, everyone except for a few RAF Regiment personnel at the entrance, RAF ground crew at the Hardened Aircraft Shelter and the next shift of RAF aircrew for the QRA at the Aircrew Ready Room were still awake.
The lead Oblivator, looking at the airbase through the gate, soon turned to his assigned team, a mix of Oblivators and members of the Muggle Liaison Office (who were there to guide them on where they needed to go), before saying, "Alright, you know what we're here for, you've been properly briefed back at the Ministry, now let's get to it".
After getting affirmatives from them all, the lead Oblivator then watched as the whole team of Oblivators and members from the Muggle Liaison Office apparated right into the airbase, to the air traffic control tower, the Aircrew Ready Room and the Hardened Aircraft Shelter amongst all other buildings on the base, and got straight to work.
Within around 5 minutes, the job was done, and when they reported back to the lead Oblivator, they had told him that they managed to find everyone, modify their memories, as well as obtain the flight logs and incident reports written down, the flight data recorded in the aircraft and even the photographs of the incident taken by one of the pilots.
Asking if they had made the necessary modifications, the lead Oblivator was happy to see that it had been done, and asked if the people at the gate were dealt with.
After receiving nods on the head, the lead Oblivator then apparated back to the Ministry, before he and his team went straight to the Oblivator Headquarters, where they reported in to their boss, who asked if the situation at Wattisham had been dealt with.
The lead Oblivator replied in the affirmative, and was elevated when the boss smiled.
Moments later, two owls came in, and the boss read the letters.
Then, the boss said, "Well, good news. The other teams dispatched to Leuchars, and Marham managed to successfully complete their part in the Operation. So safe to say, we've managed to minimise the damage caused by this flying automobile incident".
However, the lead Oblivator asked, "But what about the aircraft weapons, and the air fuel? That's not exactly something we can explain away", only for the boss to say, "Oh, well, can't be helped, can't be helped. In any case, the Muggles will just be scratching their heads over why those rockets and fuel have vanished".
And well, that's that.
I was initially planning for the lead Oblivator to go in and do the modifications himself, but I was getting stuck on that front, so I decided to let him relegate that responsibility to his other Oblivators and make this a bit shorter.
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