Being cautious could never hurt. After all, lives were at stake. There was no point regretting it afterward.
If Bill and Fleur's wedding had been handled with the same caution, perhaps there would not be so much trouble now.
Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world.
After completing the preliminary arrangements, the three of them had no intention of returning to Order of the Phoenix headquarters. Instead, they planned to find an empty house in a nearby Muggle village to rest briefly and see whether they could contact Kingsley for useful information.
There were really only two difficult parts to this rescue mission:
Find out whether the Death Eaters intended to imprison Arthur and Molly in Azkaban, and determine when they planned to leave.
If the intelligence was wrong, they would only be wasting their time.
As for the Dark Wizards escorting Arthur and Molly to Azkaban, they were hardly a problem. With Albert's current strength, which overwhelmingly surpassed that of most wizards, he could deal with them easily.
While resting and discussing the plan, Sirius also managed to contact Kingsley.
Kingsley truly deserved to be called one of the Ministry of Magic's elite Aurors. He quickly obtained definite information from a former colleague: Arthur and Molly had indeed been taken to the Ministry of Magic. Not only them, but all the guests who had failed to escape and been captured had also been brought there for interrogation. Only a small number of pure-blood wizards received the privilege of being released directly. The rest of the unlucky lot got the full detention-and-imprisonment package, while Arthur and Molly were subjected to harsh questioning.
Ron was Harry Potter's best friend. Fred and George were Albert's friends, and the twins' Defense Against the Dark Arts items had caused them no