Homecoming from Hogwarts

Because of last night's incident, many MACCA employees became cautious. Some wizards who were originally responsible for the night shift took leave collectively. Except for some strikers on duty and patrol, there were not many people visible in the hall.

Amelia led the black dog towards the elevator. As she approached the elevator hall, she quickly ducked behind a pillar. After confirming that no one noticed her strange behavior, she let Sirius return to his human form.

"You mean, that vampire is downstairs?"

Amelia lowered her voice and asked in surprise.

Sirius did not speak immediately. His husband opened his palm, letting Amelia see the fang standing upright, with the tip pointed at the ground.

"What's downstairs?"

"It's the death chamber--"

Amelia looked confused and worried;
"And the detention room, you know, before convicting the criminals, the Aurors of the Security Department need a quiet place to interrogate the criminals they caught, and the underground is the most suitable.
But the problem is that the place is heavily guarded. There are many strikers guarding the place, and there are also some powerful guardian magics. Only by knowing the right way can we avoid those magics. I can't figure out how that vampire fell into the trap. Moreover, How did he sneak in? He definitely couldn't get in by forcing his way in! "

"He's in the face of your immediate boss, isn't he?"

Sirius said calmly,

"I guess it's Polyjuice Potion. It's the only way to hide it from the Looking Glass and the Honesty Probe using this ordinary body transformation technique."

Polyjuice Potion?

Amelia bit her lip. This was indeed a possibility. But behind this possibility, it represented the fact that this vampire had at least obtained some of Graves' 'objects'.

"How on earth are we going to get downstairs?"

Seeing that Amelia was silent for a little longer, Sirius asked anxiously,

"We have to find out what this despicable dark creature wants to do, right? If Polyjuice Potion can fool the security facilities downstairs, there's no reason why the Animagus can't."

"The elevator can't go downstairs——"

Amelia shook her head and said,
"As far as I know, the death chamber and the detention room are both deep underground under the building. When it was built, considering safety issues, there was no underground passage to the Woolworth Building. If the Aurors wanted to go in, You can only enter with a special door key.”

"That sounds a bit like Azkaban."

Sirius frowned and said,
"Presumably the door key isn't somewhere easily stolen?"

"The location where the door key is kept is top secret, and it often changes locations. Of course, the hidden locations are all inside the building, and it is not allowed to be taken out of the building. We can't find it so quickly."

"That means-"

Sirius narrowed his eyes and said,
"Is there a second way to enter the underground?"

"That's right--"

Amelia nodded slightly,

"Besides, I heard that the fireplace in Graves' office also leads directly there."

In other words, if they want to reach the underground, they must break into the office of the Director of Security of MACUSA. Sirius looked at Amelia hesitantly, not because he lacked courage, but because he was worried about whether Amelia could After passing the hurdle in her heart, breaking into the chief's office without permission is a felony. Once discovered, Amelia will be in trouble at MACUSA.

"let's go--"

But what surprised Sirius was that Amelia didn't hesitate much. She said calmly,

"Since we don't know where the door key to enter the underground is hidden, the vampire must not know either, so he can only go through the fireplace in Graves' office. I think, since he has the guts to pretend to be Graves and enter the magic Congress must have confirmed that Graves was not in the building...More likely, Graves has fallen into his hands..."

One person and one dog boarded the elevator. After a while, with a clear beep, Amelia and Sirius arrived at the floor where the security department was located.

The corridors and office areas here are actually quieter than other floors, because under normal circumstances, dark wizards who have committed crimes would like to stay away from Aurors, and there has never been any precedent of coming to the door on their own initiative. Therefore, the manpower here They were all assigned to various floors to assist in defense and to go to Amosta Blaine's side.

The huge floor was dark, with only the minister's office at the very back still lit.

Pursing her lips, Amelia calmed down her disordered breathing and took gentle steps.

After hesitating for a moment, Sirius did not return to his human body. He also had considerable combat effectiveness in this state. If there was a battle later, he could also help. On the contrary, if someone recognized who he was, then is a bigger trouble. There was no figure moving in the dimly lit office, and the door to the office was closed. Amelia walked over and checked the door handle, and found that the defensive magic on the door had not been destroyed, and what did this mean? It made her worried.

There is a high probability that Graves has been kidnapped by this group of vampires. She doesn't know how these vampires have the courage and ability to do this, but judging from the current situation, the truth is most likely to be like this.

At the same time as she confirmed this, a bolt of lightning flashed through Amelia's mind, causing her body to tremble.
"I know why that vampire went underground!"

Amelia blurted out, looking horrified.

Woohoo!

Sirius whined twice and touched Amelia's leg with his paw.

"Oh, no time to explain!"

Amelia suddenly became anxious. Without any worries, she pushed open the office door and rushed in quickly.

Looking around with sharp eyes, he found that the office was indeed empty, but a small fire was burning in the cavity of the fireplace. Amelia rushed to the fireplace in a hurry, grabbed a handful of floo powder from the mantelpiece and threw it in. Then, she grabbed Sirius's stunned ears and shouted loudly,

"Detention room!"

After a while, the two people appeared deep underground in the Magic Congress building.

What was displayed in front of them was a silver-white space. The ground, walls, and ceiling were all made of cold silver-white metal, which seemed indestructible.

Bypassing the room where the fireplace is located, there are spacious corridors extending in all directions. The end of each corridor will be divided into several identical forks leading to unknown directions. If you break in rashly, you will definitely lose your way.

"Show me the way!"

Amelia placed the wand in the palm of her hand and uttered the spell. However, her wand spun in her palm like a top, unable to give a clear direction. Sirius also dropped the fang on the hard floor, but the result was the same as Amelia's wand.

"There is a very powerful distraction spell here."

Amelia said solemnly that she was not surprised by such a result.

Looking around anxiously, there was not a single patrolling guard in the empty underground prison. Everyone seemed to have disappeared. This situation was obviously abnormal.

After thinking about it, Amelia pointed her wand to the ground.

"The footprints appear!"

After a gust of breeze, the underground space returned to calm again.

Amelia frowned, thinking about whether to stay by the fireplace and hide, because sooner or later the vampire pretending to be the Minister of Security would return to the top through the fireplace, but suddenly--
Sirius's stiff ears and nose moved, and he jumped into a passage like an arrow from a string.

Woo!
Sirius growled, beckoning the dazed Amelia to follow him.

One person and one dog ran wildly in the mirror-like passage. Unprepared, they jumped into a passage with a water curtain hanging from the ceiling. The slippery ground prevented Sirius from stopping in time. He passed through the water curtain. He rolled around on the ground a few times, and then, to his surprise, he discovered that he had returned to his human form uncontrollably.

"It's Honesty Falls!"

Amelia, who was wet, said a little embarrassedly,

"Can wash away all disguise magic"

She looked at the open gate behind the waterfall, her expression tense.
"I guess this place is guarded."

"I smell blood!"

Sirius wiped the water off his body carelessly, stood up holding the fence door, and was about to say something--
Boom!

A fierce explosion accompanied by fire broke through the metal wall more than a hundred feet away from them. As the two people watched in shock, a massive amount of water rushed out from the broken wall at the entrance of the wall!

(End of this chapter)