As the Dark Lord and his people began to descend, Josephine Harris, director of the Magical Creatures Control Division, Apparated beneath a smashed streetlamp on Privet Drive, appearing in front of Hermione, who had already arrived at the scene.
Josephine handed Hermione a potion bottle filled with blue-glowing Swooping Evil venom. "Mr. Scamander gave me the venom readily enough. Hermione, he's very interested in your Thunderbird. If you're willing, take it over for him to have a look."
Wolf Mom of the Umbrella Squad arrived with her team and several wizards.
"Miss Granger, we brought them as you instructed," Wolf Mom reported to Hermione.
"Thank you for your trouble." Hermione nodded to Wolf Mom and the others. Clutching the potion bottle, she spoke in a firm, ringing voice. "You've all been busy all day with the expansion of Hogwarts, and I shouldn't be disturbing you now, but you can see the situation before us. To restore the Muggles' buildings as quickly as possible, I had no choice but to ask Wolf Mom and the others to invite you experts skilled in construction-related magic over to help. Thank you for your hard work. I'll have Finance issue your labor fees promptly afterward."
The construction wizards who had been temporarily pulled over from the Hogwarts expansion site were overjoyed. The resentment they had felt just moments ago at being forced to work overtime for Muggles at night vanished in an instant.
But what terrified this group of wizards, who had never personally experienced war, was that as soon as they arrived, they saw the famous old Auror Mad-Eye Moody being held down by two Aurors, crouching in a sorry state beside the broken streetlamp. Though the nearly all recognizable Order of the Phoenix wizards had not been bound, they were all under