We have an official statement from Mr. Harry Malfoy-Potter, Head of the Auror office:

“Around 5PM yesterday, one of our officers, Mrs. Hermione Krum, was investigating a smuggling operation, and was ambushed by a cell of four people adjacent to the Voldemort regime. She was disarmed and petrified, and her life was in immediate danger. She used wandless magic to neutralise all four assailants, whose remains were dealt with by our officers after she called for assistance, and she is uninjured and is currently recovering from work related stress.”

We also asked Mr. Viktor Krum, a member of the Auror office and her husband, for comment:

Mr Krum, how do you feel about your wife being sent on a dangerous mission? After all, you have two small children?

“My wife is an Auror and my partner at work. She can very much take care of herself, as you have seen, in what was pretty much the worst case scenario: she was alone, she had to investigate a hut that was magically protected from both remote surveillance and apparition, so we couldn’t see what she was getting into, and she couldn’t get away quickly, and she was ambushed, disarmed and petrified before she could even get a spell out. Regardless, all four assailants were neutralised within seconds and she was unharmed. As you can see, it’s the thugs and villains who were at greatest risk here, and honestly, had they not attacked her so aggressively, she could probably handle them in a more survivable manner. This way, they committed suicide by Auror, and as far as I am concerned, good riddance”… “Yes, I can confirm that our sister Lyra has been teaching us both wandless magic”…”Yes, *that* Lyra”.

We also contacted another member of the Auror office who wishes to remain anonymous:

“That scene was the single most disgusting and terrifying thing I have seen in my life. They say the thugs were neutralised, and that’s not actually wrong, but that’s like saying that a Hungarian Horntail is something like a flying iguana, only bigger. It doesn’t portray the full picture. If by neutralised they mean liquified or put through a meat grinder on a very fine setting, then we’re talking. It looked like those four thugs were processed by an industrial-sized food blender. Lady Hermione was unharmed, other than vomiting due to the exposure to the aftermath. To be honest, we should be using visuals from that scene in a ‘crime doesn’t pay’ campaign”…”No, I don’t think it was a case of disproportional use of force. She was assaulted, disarmed and petrified, and she was surrounded by four armed attackers who issued threats about what they were going to do with her next. It is fortunate that she was capable of handling herself or otherwise we would be having a different crime scene, with a dead Auror who just happens to be a young mother, and one of the most competent, brightest witches in the world. I just wish she would have dealt with them in a more contained and less disturbing manner, but that’s a purely aesthetic consideration”.

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Lyra giggled as Hermione read her the news. “Honestly, I agree with Phinneas here, assuming that was him. I wish you used some less disturbing way of killing villains in the future, because that”, she shivered “That was disgusting”.

“You’ll get no arguments from me”, Hermione hunched into herself. “I kept smelling that for hours after I showered. I used the simplest, most effective method that was easiest to tap into in that condition, but I’m sure I can do better in the future”.

“He’s also right that this will discourage future attempts of the kind, since nobody wants to end up like that, especially after having every kind of advantage over you”, Lyra smiled. “You truly handled yourself wonderfully and I’m proud of you”.

“Thank you”, she smiled at her sister. “There’s more. They are mentioning that all four of us live together and that we are immensely wealthy, and they wonder why we decided to work such a dangerous job when we have enough money that we wouldn’t need to work an hour in our life, and especially something this dangerous and nasty. Harry told them that it’s not a matter of money; we wanted to make sure that the community is safe and all the members of the fallen regime are dealt with, and we thought the best way to prevent losses was to do it ourselves. The journalist concludes that evidence so far speaks in favour of that argument, but asked Harry how he feels about his childhood friend and sister of choice being exposed to mortal danger for the second time in less than two years, and he told them that we had two attacks with nine criminals dead, no collateral damage and no Auror casualties, and he prefers that to having to come to some less deadly Auror’s funeral and having to explain things to their family. He says he’s sorry you and I had to deal with that, but we can obviously take care of ourselves”, she smiled. “He has a talent for handling the public”.

“I truly married well”, Lyra smiled brightly.