"Oh, I slept," she replied. "I just didn't get in until after midnight and I need to get back to work early this morning. I got about... six hours, I think."
"Barely enough," he said. "The body can survive on that much, but not if you have an active lifestyle, which you do. Your minimum should be seven to eight. See if you can organise it to get you at least eight hours tonight.
"A lack of sleep will slow your reaction time, your ability to reason and dull your awareness. It can get you dead, Tonks. Calculate for that, won't you?"
She sighed and said, "That depends on getting everything accomplished Madam Bones wants accomplished today. The round-up of all the Death Eaters is still going on and there's no end in sight, yet."
"Tell her to make sure she makes it a priority to bring in all the ones who have sufficient galleons to bribe their way out of going to Azkaban," he suggested. "Get them behind bars and there'll be less chance of anyone being able to get into Gringotts to withdraw bribe money for them and anyone else." She looked back at him for a moment before she said, "That's a damn fine idea, Harry."
She was about to leave when she asked, "Harry? You and Luna..."
"Is nobody's business, but our own," he firmly returned.
"I... sorry, but I don't want to see her hurt. She's a sweet kid, ya know?"
"She's a young woman, Tonks," he said. "She's not just over the age of consent, she's of-age."
"I know, but..."
"But you care," he nodded. "I understand. However, you need to understand I did not seduce her. She came on to me." He gave a snort and said, "She just came into my room when I was in bed, stripped off and hopped in. She knows what she's doing."
Tonks nodded back and said, "Thank you for assuring me." He just gave a shrug back and she was gone less than a minute later.
Luna came in only a few minutes later and asked, "Tonks give you, what the muggles call, 'the third degree'?"
Harry sheepishly nodded. "Yeah. She wanted to make sure I wasn't taking advantage of you."
She gave a snort and asked, "And when's she going to ask meif I'm taking advantage of you?"
"I don't think she cares if you are or not," he grinned. "Personally, I think she'd be more... 'You go, girl!'"
Luna snickered in response as Dobby put a plate of breakfast before her.
"So," he said. "Whatever shall we do today?"
She looked up and smirked. "You're not taking me back up to our room and having sex with me so much I end up walking bow-legged, Harry." He looked at her in shock, which had her snicker again.
"How about you take me out to see some of the muggle sights, instead?" she suggested. "We could go to a theme park. I heard some muggle-borns say they're a wonderful way to spend a day."
Harry thought about and it and said, "Well, I'll have to find out which ones are open. It's not the season for it, this close to winter. However, I'll see what I can find out."
"Well, if it's not the season, as you put it, for amusement parks," she said. "How about going to see some of the sights. Is Buckingham castle open this time of year?"
"It's Buckingham Palace and I don't know if we can tour it or not, as it's Her Majesty's primary residence in London," he explained. "I do know we can go and visit some of the other important landmarks, though. We should probably take the bus tour."
"Sounds like fun!" she grinned.
"Right then," he said. "I think the first place we need to find is a souvenir shop."
"We need souvenirs?" she asked.
"Nope," he replied. "At a souvenir shop we should be able to find information on all the 'touristy' things to do; including, how to find and board the tour buses that run around London and other places. Besides, it's a good place to find out what else we can do that tourists often do."
"So, we're going to be tourists?" she asked. "In a manner of speaking," he replied. "Sound like fun?" She grinned back. "It does." "Well, finish your breakfast, we'll let it settle for a while and then we'll head out," he said. "We'll go out via the floo to the Leaky and on into Muggle London. We shouldn't have to go far north before we find a souvenir shop."
Over at the DMLE, the 'skeleton crew' of aurors who had been up all night had just finished handover to the incoming otherwise full complement of aurors, who already knew they were going to be busy. The only aurors not active for the day were those going off due to being up and active all night and those aurors who were unavailable due to being sick, injured or otherwise out of the country on vacations and the like. Aurors who should have been on a 'down' day had already been recalled and would be working that day.
Overnight, most of the skeleton crew had been on stake-outs at various properties around the country, including at ex-Malfoy manor. Those skeleton crews had also managed to capture over a dozen Death Eaters, due to the Death Eaters concerned doing something stupid.
One idea that worked was to floo the home of a target and ask them to come in to the DMLE 'due to someone there desperately asking for them' - they got three that way. Another was to visit the two pubs in Knockturn in disguise they got four that way. And another was to simply walk up to the door of the property and knock on the door - they got another four that way. The last few they picked up simply by visiting the pubs at places like Godric's Hollow and Hogsmeade.
Due to the sheer number of arrests already effected, together with the number they knew they had yet to do, the unused expanded section of the cells and interview rooms of the DMLE were opened and quickly readied. This expanded their capacity by triple. However, even then they knew they would have to double-up on each cell by adding a second bunk in each.
Of course, this also meant the number of guards for the cell blocks would also have to be expanded, as would the interviewers, as would the medical staff. However, those were all considered minor problems that could be dealt with as they arose.
For now, they had arrests to effect.
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