Chapter Nineteen: The Capture
"No! I won't believe it until I have the autopsy report in hand, done by Ducky, and he's in the ground." Tony said, his voice straining not to break. The D.C . team nodded their understanding as to why Tony reacted this way. His eyes grew a very determined look.
"Tony, I promise this bastard won't get away. She'll pay for this." Gibbs said. Tony nodded. Everyone filled down the stairs after checking the ground floor.
"Woah, it wasn't this big last time." Callen remarked when he saw the throne room-like basement.
Behind the throne was a triangle with a line going from the top of the triangle to the bottom and a circle that had three contact point with the triangle. Next to the throne was a man with greasy black hair and a long nose. Sitting on the throne decked out in a crown and cape was a woman. Blonde, not slim but not
overweight either. Her face looked better frowning but she was wearing a ridiculous smile. Her height was about five six.
"Ah, my first visitors are here to congratulate me for collecting two out of the three hollows and the third one's just a matter of time." She said.
"Are you Mandy Brucklehurst?" Gibbs asked.
"That used to be my name, yes." She answered.
"Mrs. Brucklehurst, you're under arrest for six counts of murder." Gibbs said.
"And four counts of using the unforgivable curses." Justin added.
"Bah, I'd like to see you try to arrest me when I have a wand that allows me to be undefeated." She taunted, as fired a spell in the general direction of the law enforcement officers. They all dived out of the way but never got a chance to get close because she was constantly unleashing a barrage of spells. This continued for a while when suddenly they heard the sound of skin against skin. The officers all looked from their respective covers to see Harry standing next to a fallen Mandy. He kneeled down and started to cuff her.
"You haven't seen the last of me!" She yelled in typical melodramatic fashion.
"Of course not. I'll be there for the entire arraignment process and you might want to double check the wood. It's holly, not elder." Harry said, smiling softly as he said it.
When he was done he took out an evidence bag and proceeded to put his wand into it. Signing and sealing it he put it aside. He then put his invisibility cloak into another evidence bag. After he was done he added.
"We should also add two counts of theft to the charges she's facing."
"You're alive." Ziva said simply.
"I would hope so. I'm not sure an arrest by a dead guy counts." Harry said. Gibbs walked up to him and Gibbs slapped him.
"I earned that one more then I usually do." Harry remarked.
"You think?" Tony said.
"I've been told that I do that occasionally." Harry continued to joke.
"Though I am sorry I couldn't tell you about my ploy. I connected the dots and wasn't sure if she'd keep her lair in the same place." Harry
explained.
"What nothing from you McQuiet?" Tony asked.
"Oh, no I was just planning on telling Abby." Tim replied coolly. Harry paled considerably.
"Tim, I thought friends didn't use friends to murder friends?" Harry said.
"Murder? No, no, no, she'll probably get off on an insanity plea." Tim said.
"Why not wipe his mind of the idea?" Ziva asked.
"Because charms aren't really my strong suit and memory charms are really difficult ones. Though I have no such inhibitions when it comes to you Tony." Harry said, the last part in response to the light in Tony's eyes.
"Why not?" Tony asked.
"Because unlike Tim, we can retrain you fairly painlessly should something go wrong and I wipe more then the idea of telling this to Abby." Harry said. Everybody but Tony and the non-officers laughed at this.
"Anyways, we should probably get finished here." Harry said.
There were several nods. They finished up pretty quickly. The enchantment was taken off the Snape look-alike to reveal somebody who didn't even look anything close to Snape. They loaded both of them into two cars.
"So see you guys at the trial?" Callen asked.
"Definitely." Gibbs and Roberts said.
The three teams went off into different directions except for two people. The L.A. team went to their bull pen. The D.C. team went out of the doors to load into their rentals, except for Ziva, and Roberts apparated away. Justin and Ziva apparated away together.
"Where's Ziva?" Tony asked.
"Getting some coffee." Harry replied simply.
"I hope she brings me back some." Tony remarked.
"I wouldn't hold my breath. She went with Justin." Gibbs said.
"Ah, their first date. I wonder how it will go?" Tim said.
"I'm going to guess fairly well, mostly because that's how first dates go. Either fairly well or their a terrible disaster without much blowout, though and that's weird for terrible disasters." Harry commented as everybody got into the rentals. Harry and Tim in one and Gibbs and Tony in the other.
"So, how did you figure it out?" Tim asked.
"Well, Divination is unpredictable at best. For example my third year was filled with the image of a large black dog. As an omen that image is called the grim. The grim foretells of death and sorrow." Harry said.
"So who died?" Tim asked.
"Nobody. The image was being misinterpreted. It was really the universe's way of trying to tell me to trust the big black dog I kept seeing." Harry explained.
"So what did the dog show you?" Tim asked.
"Said dog was actually my godfather: Sirius Black." Harry said.
"So what did you reject?" Tim asked, on the subject of their prophecy.
"Nothing. I just changed what the cards stood for. Death I took to mean the perp's goal and the bottom was a tactic from the marauders." Harry said.
"Misdirection." McGee clarified. Harry nodded.
When the team touched down in D.C. Abby was waiting for them. When she saw them she gave each of them a hug and then pulled Harry down. She grabbed a handful of hair and started to count each strand of hair.
"One, two, three, four…" Abby started.
"Uh… Forge, what are you doing?" Harry asked.
"Quiet, Gred, I'll lose count and have to start over again."
She replied, accompanying her statement with a light slap on the head. At this point Tony is laughing and Tim looked to be on the verge of laughter, only Gibbs remains his usual stone faced self.
After a half an hour Harry and Gibbs finally convinced Abby to let them go to the Naval Yard.
"Good enough, I suppose." Abby said, relinquishing her hold on Harry's hair.
When they got there Gibbs looked at the time.
"Go home. You guys earned it." He said.
Harry, Tim, and Tony expressed their gratitude. Tony and McGee started to the elevator. Harry went to his desk.
"Potter, what are you doing?" Gibbs asked.
"I'm going to leave a note for Ziva." Harry replied.
"I'll tell her. Now, get out of here." Gibbs said.