Hogwarts Homecoming

"I received your message, Selina, what happened?"

Just when Selina was hesitant to act on Sirius's suggestion, a group of people rushed over from the elevator hall, led by Errel and his team members who were monitoring Amosta in the World Trade Center hotel. .

After squeezing into the office, he immediately asked. Then, his attention was attracted by Fox, who was squatting on the lamp stand and watching the chaos. After a moment of surprise, he noticed the man holding Selena's arm.

"Are you Sirius Black, the British Wizarding World?"

Ariel frowned and said,

"Why are you here?"

So, Selena quickly explained, and as she narrated, Eriel's expression gradually became funny, as if she was struck by lightning.

"So, the No-Maj that delivered your meal is the Morgons we captured before. He pretended to be a No-Maj and poisoned you, hoping to take away Mr. Brain's fang."

Ariel said with difficulty,

"He also most likely kidnapped Mr. Graves. This is ridiculous. How could he escape from the holding cell and control Mr. Graves?"

"It's not impossible."

Unexpectedly, it was Selena who took the initiative to explain. She said with a gloomy face,

"We reviewed the visit records of tonight's detention room. Earlier, Mr. Graves went to the detention room through the fireplace in his office. I suspect that he might want to interrogate the vampire alone to find out what we are currently doing. What you haven’t grasped yet is the purpose of vampires collecting those high-risk magical animals.

Mr. Graves may have been taken advantage of by the vampire. This dark creature does not necessarily need a wand to perform its evil magic. He subdued Mr. Graves and hid him in some way. Then pretend to be Mr. Graves and leave the Capitol in a big way to steal the fang in Blaine's hand——"

Amelia glanced at Selina with slight surprise - she didn't like this witch who broke into her home aggressively, but she must admit that as an Auror, Selina's thinking was very clear.

"Okay, even if you're telling the truth--"

Ariel's brows still didn't loosen, he looked at Amelia

"But how did you know that the vampire broke into the Congress after leaving the hotel? You were all stunned, weren't you? Besides, why didn't you tell me that I was right across from Mr. Blaine's room, wasn't I?"

Amelia's eyebrows jumped as she finally realized the sensitivity and professionalism of her colleagues. The flaw left in her hurried explanation was accurately caught.

"That's because Amosta wasn't completely unconscious—"

Sirius said calmly,

"Amosta resisted part of the medicine. He left tracking magic on his fang. He sensed that the vampire had broken into the Magic Capitol Building, so he arranged for us to pursue him. When we entered the building, the wizard guarding below "Tell us that the only one who entered the building before us was Graves, so we presume that he has fallen into the hands of the vampire."

"Then how do you know?"

"Because Amosta guessed that the vampire took the risk to break into the Magic Capitol again, probably because of the poisonous leopard that he failed to get."

Sirius said impatiently,

"If we continue to waste time here, then I'm afraid the only thing we can do is collect the body of Graves."

After a brief silence, Selina turned her head and looked at Alex, who had returned.

"Have you found out where the vampire who just used the fireplace in this office went?"

"I figured it out--"

The wizard named Alex said in a deep voice, "Issac from the Department of Magical Transportation helped me find out. The vampire leads to a room on Manhattan Island."

After hesitating for a moment, Alex continued,

"A villa belonging to No-Majs."

Normally, No-Maj houses are not allowed to connect to the Floo network. This is definitely not the work of the vampire, but the illegal operation of their immediate boss, Mr. Graves.

However, this kind of thing is not a big problem for the powerful Trak Graves. Thinking about it, Mr. Graves included an unknown No-Maj house in the floo network as his 'secret base'. Most experienced Aurors would prepare a safe house for themselves.

After committing a series of horrifying crimes, the vampire desperately needed a safe place to hide himself, so he interrogated the place from Mr. Graves' mouth - this was the speculation of the Aurors.

After a brief discussion, Selina accepted Sirius's suggestion. She, Errel, Sirius, and Amelia went to the No-Maj villa first. With the magic power of the four of them, if there was only one person in the house, As for vampires, they can handle it.

The remaining Aurors are on standby in the Security Department. If they encounter a large-scale attack, they will be ready to provide support at any time.

"Fox——"

Sirius raised his head and looked at the phoenix on the lampstand,

"Stay here and don't move. If you hear my call, then come here with these Aurors. Can you do it?"

Fox stretched his wings, raised his head and let out a sweet cry, then nodded towards Sirius.

After the brilliant green fire faded from sight, Sirius first appeared in Graves's safe house. The moment he landed, he rolled out of the fireplace, and his sharp eyes looked around. After confirming that he was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief and slowly stood up, and Amelia and the others also appeared from the fireplace.

"It seems that we are not in the wrong place--"

Sirius pointed his mouth at the ground and said in a low voice.

On the shiny floor, a series of large animal footprints spread from the front of the fireplace along the spiral staircase to the second floor. It seems that they are the controlled Nangdu leopard.

The first floor of the villa is clear at a glance, and listening carefully, there is no movement on the second floor.

Except for Amelia, everyone here is an experienced wizard. After Sirius and the two Aurors of the Magic Congress exchanged glances, they cast the Disillusionment Spell on themselves at the same time. Seeing them do so, Amelia hurriedly followed.

Sirius led the way, Amelia was sandwiched in the middle, Selina and Uriel followed behind to support - they stepped onto the spiral staircase in this formation and entered the second floor.

The footprints of the leopard on the ground showed them the way well, so that they didn't have to go to the trouble of investigating every room. The four followed the footprints to the study of the villa - the door of the study was open, Sirius quickly poked his head, and then lifted his disillusionment spell.

"There is also a fireplace here. I think they have left--"

This is a very ordinary study, neither simple nor overly luxurious. Selina and Uriel, who followed Sirius to release the disillusionment, walked quickly to the desk and the other to the fireplace.

Click!

Selina pointed to the drawer of the desk with her wand, and then the drawer opened, revealing neatly stacked letters inside. Selina pulled out the top letter, glanced at it, and was silent for a moment.

"This house does belong to Mr. Graves. I found the letter that Mr. Scamander wrote to him."

Selina showed Sirius the addressee and sender information on the envelope, then put the letter back into the drawer and locked it again with magic.

This is Mr. Graves's private letter, and they have no right to see it.

"I don't know if this is good news, but--"

After casting a few small spells on the fireplace and checking it, Eril retreated and turned to look at the people in the study. His voice was a little heavy.

"This fireplace is very special. It is a one-way round-trip fireplace. It can only go back and forth between fixed locations. This means that we don't have to bother to investigate where the vampire took Mr. Graves hostage. As long as we throw some Floo powder into the stove, we can appear in the right place."

"Isn't this good news?" Amelia blurted out.

But in the face of her question, both Eriel and Selina remained silent, their faces somewhat gloomy.

Sirius was also confused for a moment, but he immediately came to his senses and explained to Amelia, with a tone of gloating,

"I guess this fireplace should not be connected to the Floo network. It is completely private. Compared with privately connecting the fireplace of a Muggle residence to the Floo network, this is much more serious. If it were in the UK, just for this crime, you would have to stay in Azkaban for at least two years!"