Hogwarts Homecoming

Selina, Ariel, and Amelia, who was just a trainee Auror, were stared at by hundreds of vampires. This number was really shocking. According to statistics from the Department of Security, there were no vampires operating in New York at all. With such a huge number, it is obvious that someone with high authority is providing cover for these dark creatures.

The three wizards from the Magic Congress stared blankly at Trak Graves, who exuded a completely different cold aura than usual, thinking that they were hallucinating.

Amelia still wanted to deceive herself. The Graves in front of her was forged by the vampire named Morgons, but that Morgons was standing next to Graves.

Compared with them, Sirius was much calmer.

He just raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw Graves performing some kind of evil magic. Then, he just said "I see" and his expression returned to calm.

After all, Sirius had experienced far deadlier betrayals.

Selina's angry scream awakened the vampires who were immersed in their dreams in the hall. After a loud crash, they were pointed at countless wands, but Selina didn't seem to realize that they were in a fatal situation. In this situation, as if the world view is broken, Selena's eyes - anger, disappointment, pain, and even despair, these emotions are boiling in her eyes

Graves slowly turned his head and turned sideways to face his trusted subordinate in the past. There was no shame on his face for betraying his colleagues, no anger at being discovered, but only calmness. This calmness broke his past. His solemn image made him look strangely amiable!

"Oh, it's you--"

Graves smiled calmly. He did not look at Selina and Eriel. Instead, his eyes enveloped Sirius and Amelia.

"You are following Brian's orders, right? Haha, I have long expected that a wizard as talented as him would eventually get a glimpse of the hidden plans of a mediocre person like me, and he would never sit idly by."

"Is this why you've been targeting Amosta?"

Graves' emotion did not make Sirius feel uneasy. In the past two years of knowing Amosta, he had seen with his own eyes that Amosta had solved many conspiracies.

"I don't want Amosta Blaine to come to Wizarding America--"

Graves still smiled calmly,

"So, ever since Remus Lupine submitted the application materials for the import sales of learning machines to Congress, and I learned about Amosta Brain's contact with his workshop, I decided to bring this workshop to the Congress. I knew that the invention was great. Once the learning machine entered the American magic world, many magic families, including the Graves family, would rush to seek cooperation.

A werewolf cannot control the situation. Amosta Blaine will definitely come to New York as the leader, and by then, I am afraid I will have to appear in front of him and be exposed to his sight, and he will know about me immediately. dilemma, and what am I doing. It turns out that it is indeed the case.

I thought that would be able to delay time, but I really didn't expect that Brian would value profits so much. A wizard like him is willing to personally mediate with Congress to introduce the learning machine into the American wizarding world. His weight is too heavy. When he applied for entry, I had no room to refuse. "

"What are you talking about!"

Ariel said with a trembling voice - but what he couldn't understand, Sirius and Amelia could understand.

In slight silence, Sirius looked at the senior official of MACUSA indifferently,

"If my guess is correct, is Amosta's wand at your place?"

After hearing this, Amelia was shocked, but then the shock on her face calmed down and turned into a sad emotion. If Graves is the person behind the vampire, then there will be others Who killed Chago?

"I don't want to harm the life of an innocent wizard-"

There was a hint of regret in Graves' tone,

"But other than that, I can't think of any other way. After the joint review meeting, I did hold on to a bit of luck. I hoped that Blaine could leave New York as soon as possible, but I didn't expect-"

Graves paused and looked at the fangs that were instilling strength like a pool of blood.

"I didn't expect that Brian would have this in his hand. Morgons told me that if I could get this fang, our resurrection plan would be even more powerful, and we would no longer have to take risks to collect the blood of those magical animals. .I couldn’t resist this temptation, so I had to make this decision.”

Graves sighed slightly,

"You guessed it right, Mr. Black, I killed Chago Piorio and tried to blame it on Brian.

Of course, I know that the excuse I gave is very poor, but it doesn't matter. I just need an excuse - to check whether Blaine has got his wand back, to check his belongings, and to find out about the fang. Where did he put it, and then snatched it back. "

The rage boiling in her heart made Amelia tremble all over!

She finally figured out why, based on a ridiculous and untenable assumption, Graves sent Aurors to break into her home and threaten to arrest Amosta.

Graves knew that Amosta would not agree to be detained like this, but that was not his purpose. He just wanted to find out where the fangs were.

"But all this-"

Amelia, who had just graduated from the magic school, looked at Graves sadly, looking at the fangs that contained heart-stopping power.

"Are you doing all this to gain more power?"

"Power"

Graves looked at the fangs with the light of reminiscence in his eyes, and he smiled wistfully,

"Always so fascinating. You all must know that my grandfather, Percival Graves, was once the Minister of Security of the Magic Congress. He was a powerful wizard with a great reputation. But just now When his career and reputation were at their peak, he encountered Gellert Grindelwald. In front of the Dark Lord, all his power and reputation were of no use.

He was detained by Grindelwald, who assumed his identity and became the Minister of Security, causing harm to the city. Although Newt Scamander ultimately foiled Grindelwald's plot, he was unable to To wash away the humiliation of my grandfather, that venerable wizard, who eventually died of shame and illness. "

"so--"

Amelia looked at Graves in disbelief,

"You are willing to commit the felony of killing in order to gain more power!"

"I'm just a wizard with average talent, Amelia--"

Graves moved the corners of his mouth and said with regret,

"I am not a gifted wizard like Amosta Blaine or Albus Dumbledore, or even Gellert Grindelwald or the mysterious man in England. I have always known this. I have no idea about power. , we don’t have that big ambition.”

"Then why did you do all this?"

Sirius said calmly,

"If you're not doing it to gain more power, then what are you doing?"

"Didn't Blaine tell you?"

Graves looked at Amelia, who was also waiting for an answer, and smiled.

He withdrew the wand pointing in the air and pointed it at himself. Then, his robe was immediately torn. When they saw his naked torso, the four people who were following him all showed varying degrees of shock--

The skin of Graves's upper body shriveled like a dying old man. On his ugly body, his own fine blood vessels formed criss-crossing black lines. It seemed that the blood flowing in the blood vessels had been completely contaminated by the curse. .

Seeing the shock and intolerance on several people's faces, Graves smiled tiredly.

"So, you understand I'm dying."