Hogwarts Homecoming

Because of the accident last night, many staff members of the Magic Congress became cautious. Some wizards who were originally responsible for the night shift collectively asked for leave. In the hall, there were not many people except for some strikers on duty and patrol.

Amelia walked towards the elevator with the black dog. When approaching the elevator hall, she quickly hid behind a pillar. After confirming that no one noticed her unusual behavior, she asked Sirius to return to human form.

"You mean, the vampire is downstairs?"

Amelia lowered her voice and asked in surprise.

Sirius did not speak immediately. He spread his palms and let Amelia see that the fang was standing upright, with the tip of the tooth pointing to 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. The underground is the most suitable.

But the problem is that the guards there are strict, there are many strikers guarding there, and there are some powerful protective magics. Only by knowing the right way can you avoid those magics. I can't figure out how the vampire would fall into the trap. Moreover, how did he sneak in? He definitely couldn't get in by force!"

"He was in front of your boss, wasn't he?"

Sirius said calmly,

"I guess it's the polyjuice potion. Only this ordinary human transformation can't be hidden from the peephole and the honesty probe."

Polyjuice potion?

Amelia bit her lip. This was indeed a possibility. But behind this possibility was a fact, that is, the vampire had at least taken some of Graves's "stuff".

"How do we get downstairs?"

Seeing that Amelia was silent for a while, Sirius asked anxiously,

"We have to find out what this despicable dark creature wants to do, right? Can we make an elevator? If the Polyjuice Potion can deceive the security facilities downstairs, then there is no reason why Animagus can't."

"The elevator can't go downstairs--"

Amelia shook her head and said,

"As far as I know, the execution chamber and the detention room are deep underground under the building. When it was built, considering safety issues, there was no underground passage leading to the Woolworth Building. The Aurors wanted to go in, so they had to use special door keys."

"This sounds a bit like the style of Azkaban."

Sirius frowned and said,

"Presumably the door key is not placed in a place that is easy to steal?"

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

"That means--"

Sirius squinted his eyes and said,

"Is there a second way to get into the underground?"

"Yes--"

Amelia nodded slightly,

"In addition, I heard that the fireplace in Graves' office can also lead directly there."

That is to say, if they want to get to the underground, they must break into the office of the director of the security department of the Magical Congress of the United States. Sirius looked at Amelia hesitantly. He was not because he lacked courage, but he was worried whether Amelia could get over the psychological barrier. After all, breaking into the chief's office without permission is a felony. Once discovered, Amelia's stay in the Magical Congress of the United States will be over.

"Let's go--"

But to Sirius's surprise, Amelia did not hesitate. She said calmly,

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

One person and one dog boarded the elevator. After a while, accompanied by a crisp prompt sound, Amelia and Sirius arrived at the floor where the Security Department was located.

The corridors and office areas here are quieter than other floors, because under normal circumstances, the dark wizards who have committed crimes are eager to stay away from the Aurors, and there has never been a precedent of taking the initiative to come to the door, so all the staff here are assigned to various floors to assist in defense and go to Amosta Blaine.

The huge floor is dark, and only the minister's office at the innermost is still lit.

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

After hesitating for a while, Sirius did not return to his human form. He still had considerable combat power in this state. If a fight broke out later, he could also help. On the contrary, if someone recognized who he was, it would be a bigger problem.

There was no figure moving in the dimly lit office, and the door of the office was closed. Amelia walked over and checked the door handle, and found that the defensive magic on the door was not damaged, and what this meant made her very worried.

Most likely, 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.

While confirming this, a flash of lightning flashed through Amelia's mind, causing her body to tremble.

"I know why the vampire went underground!"

Amelia blurted out with a horrified look.

Woo!

Sirius hummed twice in a low voice and touched Amelia's leg with his claws.

"Oh, no time to explain!"

Amelia suddenly became anxious. She didn't worry about it. She pushed open the door of the office and rushed in quickly.

Her sharp eyes looked around. Sure enough, there was no one in the office, but a small fire was burning in the furnace cavity of the fireplace. Amelia rushed to the fireplace, grabbed a handful of Floo powder from the mantel and threw it in. Then, she grabbed Sirius's ears and shouted clearly, "Detention room!" After a dizzy moment, the two of them appeared deep underground in the Magic Congress building. In front of them was a silver-white space. Whether it was the floor, walls or ceiling, they were all cold silver-white metal, which looked indestructible. Bypassing the room where the fireplace was, there were spacious corridors all around. At the end of each corridor, there were several identical forks leading to unknown directions. If you rush in, you will definitely get lost. "Show me the way!" Amelia put her wand in her palm and chanted a spell. However, her wand spun in her palm like a gyroscope, and she couldn't give a clear direction. Sirius also threw the fang on the hard floor, but the result was the same as Amelia's wand. "There is a very powerful interference spell here."

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

Anxiously looking around, there was no patrolling guard in the empty underground prison, everyone seemed to have disappeared. This situation was obviously abnormal.

After thinking for a while, Amelia pointed her wand to the ground,

"Footprints appear!"

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

Amelia frowned, thinking whether to stay by the fireplace and hide, because the vampire pretending to be the Minister of Security would sooner or later return to the upper part through the fireplace, but suddenly--

Sirius's ears and nose wings moved, and he jumped into a passage like an arrow from a string.

Woo!

Sirius growled and called the stunned Amelia to follow him.

A man and a dog ran wildly in the mirror-like passage. Unexpectedly, they jumped into a passage with a water curtain hanging from the ceiling. The slippery ground made Sirius unable to stop in time. He rolled on the ground for several rounds after passing through the water curtain. Then, he was surprised to find that he had returned to human form uncontrollably.

"It's the Honesty Falls!"

Amelia, who was drenched, said a little embarrassedly,

"It can wash away all the disguise magic"

She looked at the fence door opened behind the waterfall, her face tense,

"I guess someone should be guarding here."

"I smell blood!"

Sirius brushed off the water on his body without caring, and stood up with the help of the fence door. He was about to say something--

Boom!

Accompanied by the fierce explosion of fire, it broke through the metal wall more than a hundred feet away from them. Under the astonished gaze of the two people, a large amount of water rushed out from the broken wall at the wall!