They reached the ground floor, where the blood of the slain Aurors from the upper floors dripped. The front door was open. With his heightened hearing, Scorpius was sure the house was now empty, but the same could not be said for the outside. The shattered glass and shards from the broken window still littered the tiles of the pavement, but the bodies had already been removed. In a semicircle around Grimmauld Place, there were about a hundred Aurors, with the audacious and combative figure of Harry Potter in the center.