From the garden came ringing high-pitched voiced of a great number of house elves. They sounded like shouts of joy, but when Rose went to check outside, she discovered an unexpected scene. Some elves were holding two stretchers above their heads, made of wooden sticks tied with shoe laces. The others, about twenty in all, surrounded them forming a very dense circle. On two floral-themed sheets, perhaps the cut-out of a curtain, lay the motionless and minute bodies of two young heroes killed by Nott.