Harry’s heart flipped when Malfoy agreed, and it almost managed to bring a smile onto his face. Malfoy agreeing that Harry was capable of doing wrong felt strangely gratifying.<br/>"The house in Towthorpe," Harry started, trying to keep the timeline straight. He wished Malfoy would have listened to him Monday when Harry’s suspicions had been more concise around a single issue. He finished the sentence with a breath, Malfoy introducing another nuance to an already difficult story.<br/>"Yeah. Certainly. It was identified as a snake den when signatures matched the one’s of wizards having known associations with Voldemort during the war. Houses like that are always warded, but they’re typically glamours or derivations to keep them off the map."<br/>Harry wished he could have spoken to Malfoy in his office, grounding the story in something else than a haphazard conversation. He shifted, made restless by having to narrate it all from memory. He used the Auror lingo<span style="font-style: italic">snake den</span>without consideration - Voldemort, too.<br/>"I hadn’t considered that they might be anything else," Harry admitted. "We had Cursebreakers there with us, everything was dispelled before approaching according to protocol. Scans of the house showed no hotspots that could indicate it was trapped and still something spiked upon entry."<br/>If he could avoid it, Harry would like to avoid admitting to the fact that it had knocked him on his arse. He considered for a moment, and then reluctantly folded, making a face. "It was painful, but it didn’t linger. Everybody struck was rushed to St. Mungos regardless, and the Cursebreakers spent the remaining afternoon trying to figure out onto where that curse was attached to, but they didn’t find anything."<br/>The more Harry got to say out loud, the tighter his chest became.<br/>"When I came Monday it was ‘cause I thought it had been an artefact with a signature that avoided any protocol search-spells, and I needed help trying to figure out if any Aurors would have adverse effects."<br/>Harry didn’t continue. He didn’t feel like he needed to clarify what had changed since Monday, but he turned to Malfoy for an answer regardless, half expecting that he would be able see his own conclusion mirrored in Malfoy’s expression.