In the distance, three new house elves suddenly apparated into the atrium. They looked around, surveying the damage with wide eyes. One of them-- a female house elf dressed in the same Ministry tea towels that all house elves at the Ministry wore-- giggled.

She stepped forward and clapped his hands. In an instant, she cast a spell to start filling the atrium up with soap foam; happy that her elf magic would not be easy for wizards to stop! It bubbled up from the basin of the Magic is Might fountain, covering the slippery marble floors and the mud with soap foam as much as four feet deep. "House elves is expected to be keeping our masters tidy. Moily is making them sooooooo clean." She giggled, nodding at the wizards in the distance. The house elves looked at each other and laughed.