The auror monitoring the wards was immediately alerted and tapped a specific set of runes on the back of his auror badge that alerted the aurors on-site to what was going on. Next, he sent the same detection alert to the on-duty auror at the DMLE.
The aurors on-site wasted no time and began to move.
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The Granger household was quiet, but somewhat tense. All four residents were in the parlour at the time. The aurors asked them to be together in one room until it was time to go to bed.
The two Granger adults were reading professional journals or doing business paperwork, Hermione was sitting on the floor trying to meditate while she was experiencing heightened stress and Harry was reading a text on magical combat and pretending to cast the charms and curses he came across with a pencil and memorising them.
Suddenly an auror ducked into the room and said, "Someone's casting detection charms at the wards."
A moment later he snatched out his auror badge and looked to the back of it. "The magical signature is Dumbledore's."
Then he looked at Harry in surprise. While Harry had explained to the lead auror how he came to the conclusion Dumbledore would turn up, even they were doubtful. However, they respected his intelligence enough to know he seemed to accurately predict these sort of events happening.
Harry smirked back for a moment before he slid a bookmark into the page he was reading, snapped the book shut and stood up.
A second auror, a Senior, stepped in and said, "I'd like you all to make your way down to the Quarters, please - the servants' quarters, that is."
"We understood the reference, Horatio," said Wendell as he and Monica stood.
Monica had to give Hermione a tap on the shoulder to break her out of her meditation state. "We need to go downstairs, dear."
"Oh!" said Hermione. "I take it Harry's right and Dumbledore's here?"
"He is," said the auror, trying to chivvy them into moving quicker.
With all four on the move, the Senior Auror hurried out the back door, donned a disillusionment charm and peeked around the corner of the house towards the front, where he knew the old man's charms were impacting the wards.
He was shocked to see him simply standing on the path, not even masking his presence other than to wear the most godawful-coloured muggle suit he'd ever seen and waving his wand as if conducting an orchestra.
Pulling his head back he sighed and muttered, "What an idiot."
Tapping his badge he was soon joined by another two aurors, two younger, one male and one female. Both were dressed muggle.
Curiously he looked at the two before he smirked and motioned both back from the corner. Once clear, he quietly asked, "How well do either of you know if Dumbledore knows you on sight or not."
The male shrugged while the female just shook her head. The male quietly replied, "I was a 'Puff. He tended to ignore us. And I didn't get into trouble while at Hogwarts."
The witch softly replied, "I was in Ravenclaw. I don't think he ever said one word to me, directly, the whole time I was there."
Grinning even more the Senior said, "Here's what I want the two of you to do..."
As he explained, the two junior aurors grinned.
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A couple minutes earlier, Alastor Moody was sitting in Madam Bones's office giving his report as to his surveillance of Dumbledore, when a young auror gave a quick knock on the door, opened it and stuck his head in.
"Excuse me barging in, Madam Bones," he said. "But, we've just received word from Golf Romeo that Dumbledore's just outside the wards out the front and casting detection charms at them."
"Send the back-up, right now, via floo," she immediately ordered. The back up already had the floo address and temporary password for just this situation.
"Yes, ma'am," he said and immediately yanked his head out, firmly closing and latching the door as he did so.
Bones smirked at Moody and said, "Well, well. Potter was right again."
She cast a quick Tempus, read it and added, "And only a few minutes after he guesstimated the old man would turn up."
"That's not bad," said Moody, clearly impressed.
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In the Great Hall at Hogwarts, there was a fair bit of excited chattering between students going on.
One of the main topics was all the new Professors, for those were who the folk clearly were, sitting at the head table talking between themselves just as the students were.
When it appeared that everyone who was going to arrive, had arrived, Madam Marchbanks stood from her chair and walked around the head table and, cane tapping away, approached the big golden eagle lectern.
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