Dumbledore had been analysing the wards for about five to ten minutes when he heard someone coming up behind. Quickly sliding his wand up the sleeve of his off-arm, he turned to see who it was.
In the gloom of the early evening he saw two young adult muggles walking towards him and quietly talking, as proper the young lady was on the left. By the way the girl was using both hands to grip the young man's left upper arm and kept leaning her head on his shoulder, it was easy to see that these two were 'lovebirds' out for an evening stroll.
As if seeing him for the first time, the male of the two saw him and grinned. As he walked closer, he pulled something out of his pocket.
Thinking it might have been a weapon, Dumbledore at first tensed and readied to snap draw his wand, before he saw what it was and relaxed. The man had pulled a packet of those horrid muggle cigarettes from his pocket.
"Hey, gramps!" said the male, as he slipped a pre-made cigarette between his lips. "Got a light?"
"Errr... sorry, no," replied Dumbledore, wishing they'd go away. He had not even realised how close the two had approached.
As the male seemed to sigh in disappointment, he withdrew the cigarette from between his lips and quietly said, "Oh. Damn."
Then he gave it a flick into the garden of the house next door in a high arch.
As Dumbledore's eyes were drawn to follow its trajectory, thinking what a disgusting thing to do, there was a sudden flash of red light and his lights went out.
As Dumbledore slumped to the ground from a stunner fired by the female from a range of about eighteen inches, both young aurors quickly separated. The young witch auror flicked her wrist, causing her wand to slip back up her sleeve into the auror quick-draw holster and reached for her hidden magic-resistant manacles that were hanging on her belt at the back. As she bent down to manacle the old man, the male summoned the flicked away cigarette back to the packet, then vanished the lot, before drawing his badge out and tapping a set of runes.
While the female was finishing manacling Dumbledore's hands behind his back, after first bodily flipping him face down on the pavement, there was a quick flurry of activity as half a dozen aurors came from the front doors of the Granger residence and from down the side of the house.
Master Auror Robards was leading the pack, so to speak. He was grinning away. After looking around to see if any muggles were watching, he asked, "Who's idea was it to pose as a couple of canoodling lovebirds on a midnight stroll?"
The male immediately, but softly, replied, "Senior Auror Cummerbatch's, Sir."
Looking about, Robards quickly spotted him. "Well done, Senior. Expect a commendation for this."
Cummerbatch smiled back and replied, "Thank you, Sir. But, Aurors Watkins and Cupperman flawlessly executed it." Then he turned to look at the male, Brendan Cupperman, and said, "Nice distraction trick with the muggle cigarette, by the way."
Cupperman grinned and gave a nod.
"Alright," said Robards. "That's it for the due pats on the back for jobs well done." Looking at the two young ones he said, "Since you two bagged him, you get to process him. I'll let The Boss know you're doing that. Expect her to join you while you're processing him."
"Right, Sir; thank you, Sir," said Cupperman as he and Watkins bent down to each stick a finger on the manacles affixed to Dumbledore's wrists. A moment later and they portkeyed away.
Robards then said, "The rest of us, inside to the Quarters for a quick debrief. And we can let Lord Potter and the Grangers know we've got him."
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As the aurors re-entered the house to relieved joshing between them, MacNair, who watched the whole thing from the other side of the road in his favourite spot under the tree of the opposite house's front yard, was feeling quite excited. 'Dumbledore tried to break in through the wards and was arrested!' he thought. 'I'll finally have something for the Dark Lord!'
However, as the front door on the house was closing, there was a close by flash of pale blue light behind him and everything went fuzzy.
A few moments later and he was blinking his eyes awake and feeling sleepy.
'Another boring night,' he thought with a mental sigh. 'I'll never learn anything, this way.'
A few moments later and he was quietly packing up his set up. And, a few moments after that, he apparated away.
The on-duty Unspeakable watcher from the Knight's Shadow team, Owl, stepped out from behind the tree and took another long look around. When it was apparent MacNair was definitely gone for the night, she returned to her watcher's nest and settled down.
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