Tonks spotted Hadrian immediately. She bounded forward, tripped over her own feet, landing on her face in front of Hadrian. Rolling over she grinned up at him, "wotcher, Harry!," offering her hand she announced "names Nymphadora Tonks but you can just call me Tonks."

Hadrian bemused, reached down to shake Tonks hand, "nice to meet you Tonks, my name is Hadrian."

Getting to her feet as Kingsley joined them she asked "so what's this I hear about a professor using a blood quill on you, Har-hadrian?"

Hadrian squinted up at them in confusion before looking over at Theo. "Not me," he mumbled, then looking up at the pair or Aurors he stated, "Professor Umbridge used a blood quill on Theo, my husband."

As the pair of Aurors stared at Hadrian in shock Jacob, having finished his notes, came over. Clearing his throat, he offered his hand to Kingsley, "Jacob Brown, solicitor for the Potters. And you are?"

This shook Kingsley out of his shock, grasping Jacob's hand and giving it a short pump, "Kingsley Shacklebolt, Auror, this is trainee Nymphadora Tonks."

Tonks grinned and waved, "please, call me Tonks."

Kingsley turned back to Hadrian, "now Mr. Potter, I understand that your husband was injured by a professor. Can you please tell me more about that."

As Hadrian explained what had happened to Kingsley, Jacob passed on his notes corroborating Hadrian's statement to Tonks.

After Tonks read through Jacob's notes on Theo's medical condition and Hadrian's explanation of the events surrounding his injuries, she passed them over to Kingsley.

When Hadrian had finished giving his statement the two Aurors retreated to the other side of the room and began a furious discussion on what their next move should be.

After about thirty minutes of discussion and going over both their own and Jacobs notes returned to where Hadrian and Jacob were waiting.

"Well Mr. Potter," said Kingsley, "it looks like we have enough information to make an initial arrest. Would you like to press charges?"

Hadrian gave a sharp grin, "yes, absolutely."

Kingsley gave a sharp nod, "very well, as I'm sure Mr. Brown explained to you, we will be making an initial arrest and bringing Umbridge in for questioning and holding. However that doesn't necessarily mean that she will stay in prison, or that she won't return to Hogwarts. In the event that she does return to Hogwarts we recommend that you stay away from her as much as possible, and report any interactions to your solicitor or me and Tonks at the Auror department."

Hadrian frowned, "yes, I understand. If she does return to Hogwarts I intend to hire a private DADA tutor for me and Theo."

Tonks grinned, "great idea, Hadrian. Well me and Kingsley will get out of your hair. Wish Theo well for us, alright."

Turning to Kingsley she said, "let's get a move on, Kingsley. We need to go arrest a Professor."

Hadrian couldn't be sure but he swore he heard one of them mutter, "I never did like that old toad," as they left the Hospital Wing.

Turning to Jacob, Hadrain asked, "is there anything else that I need to do for tonight?"

Jacob patted him on the shoulder, "for tonight, nothing. Just get some rest. I'll keep you updated on any information relevant to the upcoming trials.

"Ok. Thank you, Jacob. If you don't mind I think I'd like to get some sleep now," Hadrian yawned.

"You do that Mr. Potter," chuckled Jacob, "I'll see myself out."

As Jacob left Hadrian laid down in the cot closest to Theo's and drifted into a restless sleep.


In Dolores Umbridge's office the Professor was having tea and writing up what she called her first educational decree when there was a knock on her door. She frowned in confusion as she looked up from her work.

'Who could that be,' she wondered, 'it's too late to be a student and I'm not scheduled to patrol the corridors tonight.'

At the second more forceful knock she squeaked in her sweetest most innocent voice, "come in, the doors open."

At her words the door opened to reveal two Aurors.

Getting up from her desk the asked "what may I help you two dears with?"

The man stepped forward, "ma'am, you are under arrest for the extended use of a blood quill on a student. You'll need to come with us for a bit if you don't mind."

Umbridge gasped in horror, "someone used a blood quill on a student. Who could do such a thing? Of course I'll come with you, we must get to the bottom of this immediately."

The two Aurors looked at each other seemingly having a silent conversation before the girl said, "thank you so much Miss. Any information you have would be a great help. Right this way."

As Umbridge followed the pair down the corridor she grinned to herself, 'this is too easy, it would be childsplay to convince these idiots that the stupid boy was framing her and had done it to himself.'


In the Gryffindor common room Hermione, Ron, and Ginny sat near the fire discussing what the older two had learned in DADA.

"I can't believe that Harry would betray us like that and marry a slimy snake," complained Ron.

"I can't believe he would marry a boy instead of me," whined Ginny, "I mean look at me. I'm obviously way better than boring old Theodore Nott."

"You're both right," assured Hermione, "Harry would never betray us like that. So that means Nott must be manipulating him in some way."

Ron looked at Hermione in surprise, "Merlin 'Moine, I think you might be right."

"If my Harry's being taken advantage of then we have to help him," said Ginny.

"But how?" asked Ron.

"Hmm," Thought Hermione. "Professor Umbridge didn't seem to know that they were married, that seems odd."

"What's so odd about a professor not knowing about it?" asked Ginny and Ron.

"Well," reasoned Hermione, "if the professor's don't know, then that means that they weren't notified, and Dumbledore typically notifies the other professors about status changes."

"So maybe Dumbledore doesn't know," Ginny said as she caught on.

Hermione gave a nod, "right so maybe we should go to Dumbledore about this."

"And he can set Harry right," finished Ron, "after all the-boy-who-lived can't be married to a slimy snake and the son of a known Death Eater, he'll make sure that they get a divorce."

Hermione grinned at him, "right, and if that doesn't work maybe we could have Rita Skeeter write an article about the ministry allowing minors to marry, I'm sure people would be outraged."

"Maybe we should go with the Skeeter plan first," suggested Ginny, "after all Professor Dumbledore seems to have a lot going on with running the school and helping the order with you-know-who, besides an article might help give him leverage to do something within the ministry."

"Gin, has a point there 'Moine," said Ron.

"Alright then, first we'll write to Rita Skeeter first then we'll go to Dumbledore after the article comes out," agreed Hermione.

"Alright, sounds good," said Ron and Ginny.

"Good, let's try to get our letters to Rita out tomorrow morning," directed Hermione, "then the article should come out by Wednesday morning."

With that the three friends went their separate ways to write letters to Rita Skeeter.