Arcturus had house elves pop them all back to the schoolroom. "Are you all right, Harry? Milly?"
Petunia threw her arms around the two who were standing close together. She gave them a tight hug and then did the same to Dudley and Neville. "Oh, I'm sure I aged twenty years, seeing that man point a wand at you. Milly, such a good thing you threw that knife! He would have kidnapped Harry, I just know it."
Milly sat down hard on one of the school chairs. Arcturus stood behind her and rubbed her shoulders. "I think another round of dessert is called for." He called for Juby. "Chocolate milk and biscuits, pie, a little of everything. And have Andi come here with calming drops."
Soon the schoolroom table was covered with pie, cakes, biscuits and tarts, along with tea, milk and pumpkin juice. Harry plunged a biscuit into ice-cold milk, something not allowed at the table. "I don't think I need potions. Man, Aunt Petunia, the way you snatched up that wand! That was pretty amazing."
"Yeah, and making it spark onto his beard!" Dudley about fell off his chair laughing. "That'll teach him to mess with us."
"I'll make sure Dumbledore learns that lesson," Uncle Arcturus said.
Cousin Andi came with tiny vials. She persuaded all the kids to have two drops. "It will help. It is still a very long day, with the feast and ritual tonight."
Aunt Augusta rushed into the room to see Neville eating cherry tarts.
"Everything is all right, Augusta. We are going to get some pensieve memories from the children and then I think we'll keep them here for a bit. I want to have either myself or Gore with Harry when they are outside the private rooms. They can go to the beach before tea. Gore should be done in a couple of hours." The entire story was told and Uncle Arcturus and Andi extracted memory filaments as they talked about the encounter. Aunt
Pansy, Astoria, Draco and Daphne came into the schoolroom.
"Because of all the excitement, I would like you to stay here in the schoolroom until Gore can accompany you to the beach. Gore is having a very busy day, so try not to cause him any commotion, "Uncle Arcturus said. "We have to talk about some serious things, plus we have hundreds of guests. Can I trust you to stay here?"
"Sure, Uncle Arcturus. Ervi can bring us our swimsuits." Harry said,
They played and snacked while the adults looked over the incident.
"Also, when you get to the beach, don't mention anything about the break-in. Nothing at all. You may only speak of it here in your private quarters."
The children agreed.
Arcturus took Petunia's elbow and led her from the room, Andi and Augusta following. "Petunia, my dear, we must talk about your new wand. In my study."
After an hour of playing with Legos and the paints,(Astoria painted frogs, Dudley painted a spaceship ) Petunia came back.
"Want to get your suits on? Gore will be here shortly." Ervi and Silvi popped in with suits and towels and soon they were heading to the beach.
Petunia followed the children down to the beach along with Narcissa and Gore. Her mind was whirl.
"Petunia," Arcturus said while they waited for the older women to join them, did that wand of bond with you?"
She looked uncertain. "Did you feel a rush of warmth, or tingling?"
"Oh, yes, through my whole body. And the wand started shooting sparks out ten feet! It was like fireworks."
Arcturus nodded. "Petunia, I believe that is a very famous— infamous, really— wand. I think we should study it. I'd like to lock it up here."
"Oh, certainly," Petunia said and handed him the wand with no hesitation. Arcturus locked it in his safe with a relieved sigh.
The Aunts joined them and Narcissa and Andi had all met in the study to decide what must be done.
Gore popped in with Juby. "The prisoners are magically exhausted, Dumbledore had pulled their magic to crack through the wards. We won't be able to question them until tomorrow or the next day."
"I was able to use Legilimency briefly on Mundungus Fletcher, a low life flunky of Dumbledore's," Arcturus said. " They were just a power boost for Dumbledore. Also with the group is Remus Lupin, a werewolf who had been friends with Harry's parents in school."
"The only werewolf allowed to attend Hogwarts," Narcissa said. "I'm sure Remus owes Dumbledore a great deal. Or thinks he does." She raised her eyebrows. "If he were to learn Sirius was innocent and still lives, and that Harry is happy, we might be able to sway him."
The two teens in the group were also werewolves. All three of them were thin. "Andi, I hate to give you even more work, but will you look the prisoners over? Not today, perhaps tomorrow afternoon will be calmer. Most of our guests will be sleeping or resting from the potions."
She agreed and the ladies left to get ready for an afternoon on the beach with the many children.
Dumbledore's port key dropped his unconscious body in Poppy's hospital ward. Unfortunately, Poppy was visiting her grand nieces and nephews in the south of France.
A house elf popped into the hospital ward, saw the massive amount of blood and placed a stasis spell on Dumbledore. She sent Dumbledore through the floo to St Mungoes. The elf could answer no question about what was done to Dumbledore.
"The blood is clotting from a curse, Initially it saved his life due to an arterial wound, possibly a cutting curse, or perhaps a blade. But if we take him out of stasis he will die of massive blood clots. We don't know the counter curse, if there is one," The healer specialist in dark magic said. "We should call the Unspeakables. Also the Aurors."
Harry could barely stay awake for the midnight feast and ritual, even though he'd had a nap. Andi finally gave him a pepper-up potion, since as the heir he did need to be at the ritual.
It all went by in a blur for him. Luckily he had no lines to speak.
A large cauldron of Black strengthening potion was prepared. Arcturus gave a goblet full of blood. Harry gave three drops, and Aunt Petunia was hesitant about that. Cousin Andi gave him a drop of blood replenisher to calm Aunt Petunia down, though Harry felt fine. Not even a scab.
After the ritual was midnight feast and dancing. After a couple hours of tag and hide and seek, Harry and Milly sat down by a tree, exhausted. Petunia had been keeping an eye on them, along with Narcissa. "Come children. We have set up a girls' slumber party room and a boy's. You know Luna and Ginny, they'll be joining you, with Ron and the twins with the boys. Ervi and Silvi will sleep in your rooms tonight, in case you need anything."
Narcissa, Gore and Petunia followed the tired group of children to the slumber party rooms and helped them get to bed. Petunia went to her room, a bit tipsy and completely ready for sleep.
"Gore, would you like to join me for some elven wine?" Narcissa asked as they walked toward the center staircase. "Or are you going back to the party?"
"No, I plan to stay in the castle for the rest of the night. I'm tied into the Tower wards, so am extra security." He gave Narcissa his arm, a courtly gesture she didn't expect from him. "Yes, I'll join you for a drink."