Harry eyed the portraits: he hadn’t considered them. Well. He may have wanted to go undetected before, but what did it matter now? He would prefer it, however, if they couldn’t hear what they had to say. Stepping ahead of Snape into the room, he cast the strongest privacy ward he knew, and pushed it out to the edges of the room until it hovered as a shimmering curtain a few inches in front of them. Their outrage was immediate and extremely loud.