Tequila Sunset at the Hog's Head (A Scene)

Warning: contains heavy spoilers for late HPMOR. Do not read if you have not completed HPMOR.The Hogwarts wards had said that the Defense Professor had killed her.This didn't make any sense. He'd seen the troll do it with his own eyes. Now, typically the wards were entirely trustworthy, so you didn't have to go further. But for some reason, a crazy wizard in the middle east had made a lens that allowed you to see the more subtle shapes of wards, the way that they were bent by the people passing through them. You could, if you examined it carefully, deduce when and where a particular entity passed through the wards. This was basically never needed and the work to create it was severe, so it was mostly forgotten, but after reading 7 separate histories of the relevant magic, one of them mentioned it, and had instructions for it. Many of the elements were merely very expensive, such as quartz grown inside the belly of a lava frog, but the lens needed to be made from a piece of curse-struck glass, that is, a piece of glass that had a number of high-level curses pass through it—a withering hex, the blackfire curse, the nerve-unstringing curse, a blood-boiling hex, and critically, the cruciatus curse.Most of these spells Harry did not know, and in any case, he reasoned, anywhere a single one of them was cast would soon be wrecked by something far more destructive, so no such glass survived in the wild. But Ministry Aurors carried collapsible transparent shield-screens into raids—panes that could be charmed near-invisible and made to ricochet powerful spells away. Such spells passed straight through the Auror and killed him, of course, yet the shield itself endured and could be re-used. One of those, Harry had realized, would do perfectly.So, in this time of heightened tension, Harry had elected not to ask the Ministry himself, but instead have his classmate Susan Bones request one through her aunt Amelia Bones. Susan was told it would arrive at the Hog's Head at 12 noon on