With a little shake of her head, Deece replied, "No. They both now just want to get on with their lives and catch up on what they've missed over the past near decade and a half."
"Will Frank be taking the Wizengamot seat off his mother?" asked Harry.
"Possibly," she replied. "However, it won't be for quite some time. I think the entire family is only focussing on getting the pair of them back to full health before they look to their options."
"Fair enough," said Harry. "I was just looking to getting to know Frank through our work on the Wizengamot. I'm getting bored not being able to talk to a friend."
Once they'd returned to their apartment, Harry noticed Dobby had already brought in more sofas for the enlarged group. And the coffee table had been lengthened to accommodate more people sitting around it.
With everyone holding a beverage of their choice, supplied by Dobby and a visiting Winky, Harry broached the subject about the third task.
While the three were changing out of their school uniforms in their bedroom to get ready for the third task later that evening, Harry quietly asked, "Who's going to switch the potions on Crouch?"
"I am," said Daphne. "I've been practicing accuracy and silent and minimal casting of the switching spell. I just thank Merlin that the cast is colourless and invisible."
"As soon as he takes a swig from the flask, I'll be using a sticking charm on both his hand and his behind," said Hermione. "That way, he'll not be able to use his wand, or rise from his chair once he sits down. That should be enough to stop him from being able to get a curse off, or something, once he begins to revert." "Then, as soon as Daphne puts 'your' version of the potion in its flask in her pocket, we'll be ready to go."
The three left their bedroom wearing jeans, collared v-neck t-shirts and light pullovers, joining their families back out in the living room.
"I meant to ask," said Harry, looking at the pair of them. "How'd you think you went in exams? Outstanding, or Outstanding Plus?"
Daphne just snorted and said, "Outstanding. I'm still having problems figuring out muggle currency. One minute it's called 'cash' and the next they call it 'currency' and then call it 'money'. Weird."
"I find it easier than magical currency," shrugged Hermione. "Ten Pence to the Shilling; ten Shillings to the Pound. It makes calculating cost a lot easier."
"So, five Galleons equals?" asked Daphne.
"Ummm... Twenty-five Pounds, ten Shillings; or, Twenty-six Pounds," replied Hermione. "But, that's at today's exchange rate."
"Bother," breathed Daphne. "I got that one wrong. I thought it was Twenty-six Pounds but I didn't think it'd be a whole number of Pounds."
"It's a whole number at the moment?" asked Sirius. Before he was answered, he mused, "That'll make it easy to figure out how much we're worth in muggle currency. Take how much you're worth in Galleons, divide by five and multiply by twenty-six. Simple."
One of the problems they'd had was how to switch the Polyjuice Potion from faux-Moody's flask with what they had brewed. They just hoped an opportunity would present itself on the day of the task, or they'd have to engineer such an opportunity. The latter was more risky as they didn't know how well they could create such an opportunity.
However, they needn't have worried. They were just walking in the door from outside to head in for lunch with their family when Moody came down the grand stairs and approached them.
Faux-Moody walked right up to Harry and dropped his hand on his shoulder. "Been practicing for tonight's task, Potter?" he asked.
"Of course, Professor," replied Harry.
"Any ideas about what you'll be facing?" asked the impostor.
"Just creatures Hagrid would consider 'misunderstood', and probably some enchantments such as confusion mists and the like," replied Harry.
The imposter gave a very Moody-like grunt and patted Harry's shoulder twice before he said, "I think you're on the right track, lad. I have every faith in you."
Before anyone could say anything, he quickly stalked off to walk into the Great Hall.
Harry quickly glanced at Daphne, grinned back and gave a slight nod.
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"Bit of an odd bloke, isn't he?" Matthias asked of no one in particular.
"Yeah, but something seems off about him," muttered Harry.
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The small party then followed Moody into the Hall and to the Ravenclaw table. They sat in the same area the three usually sat with Luna.
When Luna joined them a few minutes later, she plopped herself down next to Deece as if there wasn't anything unusual about the situation.
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The three bondmates were keeping a close watch on faux-Moody where he was sitting at the head table. When he took a swig of his flask Hermione nudged Harry under the table; and Harry saw Crouch drop the flask back into the breast inner pocket of his large coat.
He gave a nudge to Daphne and murmured, "Any moment now."
Hermione was also watching carefully and, as soon as she saw the effects of the Polyjuice Potion begin to wear off she quietly said to the adults, "Something seems to be wrong with Professor Moody."
That had all eyes turn to faux-Moody as he quickly fumbled for his flask again, pulling it out and flicking the cap off before taking another huge swig. As he was doing so, the features of his face began to shift under the skin and his hair darkened.
"That looks like the effects of Polyjuice wearing off," said Daphne, just loud enough for the adults to hear. With a gasp from Deece, Sirius and Matthias looked in shock before they stood and drew their wands. Having mentally urged them on to do so, and following their lead, Harry did the same.
While all three stepped over the benches and into the aisles, Crouch began to look around wildly as his body, within his clothes, quickly went through the changes to his natural form. Either side of him, Snape had backed away and drawn his own wand, just as Professor Flitwick did the same.
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