Harry all but bristled at the rejection, no matter how phony politely Malfoy tried to phrase it. He had spent a month in and out of St. Mungo’s to no avail, and Malfoy’s research had been hard enough to come by, let alone figure out who the author was. Harry had been treading waters for too long, process being made so agonizingly slow that he found himself with little consideration to whatever discomfort Malfoy might be in.<br/>"No," Harry dismissed indifferently, frustration building in his chest. Not balling up his fists was a conscious decision. "Some wartime artefact bypassed every single identification spell during an Auror dismantling and I need you to explain to me what the hell they were exposed to."<br/>Locating, identifying, and dismantling the remaining curses of the war had always been a tedious and exceptionally secretive process. Despite having dedicated the better part of the last decade to removing every single one of Voldemort’s remaining signatures, Harry had no possibility of knowing how much were left to find. The Ministry had always preferred to keep quiet about their ignorance, not willing to inform the public of dark magic still littered about the country like landmines yet to detonate.<br/>Though the failed operation never made the papers, it had shaken the corps regardless. Every protocol had been executed, every safety precaution had been taken and still something had escaped being detected despite every effort made to securing the room before entering. With a white-hot flash too reminiscent of a Cruciatus curse, it had knocked every Auror within a five-yard radius to their knees, the pain disappearing before Harry had been able to comprehend it. It had warranted them all an inconclusive stay at St. Mungo’s.<br/>Over the course of the last month, they had made no further process, the magic in the house remaining active. It had Harry on edge, knowing that the curses were left disturbed and unstable.<br/>Whatever padded academic language Malfoy had used in his papers had been to no use in the field, nothing about his suggested approaches aiding the Cursebreakers in finding what on Earth they had encountered. When Harry had set about finding the author for better explained answers, he, granted, hadn’t expected he had to fight Malfoy for it.<br/>"You’ve stated there to be flaws in the known ways of identifying dark magic that don’t manage to sense out dark artifacts, but they shouldn’t bloody be able to disappear into thin air."