Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"But the possibility of this is very small. With a high probability, I can still help you take care of Amy until she is old enough to go to school."

Sherlock said with a relaxed expression.

Eddie did not treat him as lightly as he said, and his brows were still furrowed.

"where are you going?"

Sherlock looked out the window at the gradually thinning crowd on the street and said softly.

"A place no one can find."

"Everyone can't find it? Then why go there?"

Sherlock waved his hand.

"I have already said that it is possible, and the possibility is very small. There is no need to ask so many questions."

Eddie did not continue to ask any more questions, but Amy, who was sitting next to him, suddenly tilted her head and looked into Sherlock's eyes.

"Will John leave Amy one day?"

Sherlock didn't deal with the child. He raised his head and thought about it carefully, and finally answered honestly.

"I don't know if this day will come, but even if we leave, it will definitely be temporary. Just like when we meet, we will always part ways, and when we part ways, we will always meet again."

Amy didn't know why, but her mood suddenly changed a little, and she frowned slenderly.

"Amy feels like this day will never happen!"

Sherlock said jokingly, saying the same words he had said during the game.

"It's a real feeling, rather than deliberately deceiving yourself, right?"

"This time it's definitely true!"

She seemed to be cheering herself up and said with great determination.

"Amy's feeling is always accurate. If you think it's true, it must be true."

Sherlock stretched out his hand, supported the corners of her mouth, and helped her smile.

But Amy's brows remained furrowed together and did not relax.

After dinner that day, Sherlock went back to the Leaky Cauldron.

Snape hasn't given away the magic notebook that Sherlock gave him yet, and he hasn't thought of any good solution yet.

"You'd better move quickly, we shouldn't be in the UK for too long."

Snape looked at him.

"Are you planning to leave the Ministry of Magic?"

Sherlock nodded.

"There is nothing worth investigating in the Department of Mysteries. I need to try another place. I will probably resign by the end of the month."

"Why do you have to follow me? I want to stay in London."

Sherlock looked at him seriously.

"I have been fulfilling the agreement between us. Even if the time has not yet come, I will help you think about ways to save Lily, so I also hope that you can also abide by the agreement. If I find a way to go back outside, the situation is urgent It’s very possible that I won’t be able to come back and take you there, you have to go with me.”

Snape pursed his lips. He was silent for a long time and finally said.

"Then give me two more days and I will send the things over."

"Hogwarts has started school now. Remember to be careful when delivering things." Sherlock reminded.

"I know."

...

There are three days left before the end of the month when Sherlock plans to resign.

He has not been idle these days. Although he has only worked in the Time Hall for two months, he still has some research results left behind. Sherlock compiled these things and prepared to hand them to Mrs. Selwyn when he left. .

Ever since that night, Amy seemed to have been in a bad mood. She had no interest in playing games anymore, as if she had returned to the way she was before she met Sherlock.

Every day I lie on the table and stare at the windmill in my hand in a daze.

The child's mood was like this, as unpredictable as the British weather, and Sherlock didn't pay much attention to it.

There have been a lot of things going on in the Ministry of Magic recently.

Two days have passed, and the five-legged monsters in Oxford have not been caught yet. There has even been an incident of hurting people.

Fortunately, the Auror arrived in time and the Muggle was not killed. The memory was erased afterwards, and the situation did not escalate further.

But even this still caused a headache for the Ministry of Magic, which specially sent extra manpower to catch all the five-legged monsters as soon as possible to prevent casualties.

And on the day Sherlock had everything ready and planned to submit his resignation application, the Death Eaters who had been silent for a long time finally came out to commit crimes again.

This time they attacked the Leo family, a Muggle wizard in Scotland, and hung them on the back of a broomstick and paraded them in the sky.

The Aurors must send out manpower to capture these Death Eaters.

Because of the five-legged monster incident, there are not many Auror teams left in the ministry.

But even so, Scrimgeour still left two teams stationed at the Ministry of Magic, while the others went to Scotland.

The two remaining teams were led by Barty Crouch Jr. and Eddie.

Under such special circumstances, Sherlock naturally did not ask for trouble and submitted any resignation application.

He and the Ministry of Magic were reunited, and even if he wanted to leave, he would have to wait until this incident was over.

At night, Barty Jr., who took the initiative to take over the guarding on the fifth floor of the Ministry of Magic, was not at his post at this time.

He returned to his office alone, closed the door, then took out a small box from the drawer, and sprinkled all the powder in the box into the fireplace that had been extinguished for a summer.

Dark green flames jumped up in the fireplace, and soon turned into a woman's face.

"The Floo network is already connected?"

"You can come over now, but the Aurors in Scotland are trying to be restrained. The master said that I can't be exposed tonight, and I must follow the Aurors."

The pale green firelight reflected little Barty's pale face, and the shadows left by his thin features made him look like a skeleton at this time.

The woman in the flames laughed ferociously.

"Don't worry, those stupid pig Aurors have no idea where we are now. I will let Rodolphus stay with two people. Three of them are enough!"

"If you think there's no problem, then bring someone over. I'm going to continue patrolling."

After little Barty finished speaking, he turned and left the office without paying attention to the still burning fireplace behind him.

The flames in the fireplace gradually extinguished, and the whole room fell into darkness.

Such silence only lasted for a few minutes, and then a dark green fire suddenly lit up in the fireplace again, and then a witch with fluffy curly hair, a leather coat, and crazy eyes walked out of the flames.

Behind her, one after another, black-robed wizards wearing iron masks emerged from the flames.

Soon, this small office was filled with dozens of Death Eaters!

Bella's deliberately suppressed voice sounded in the room.

"You should know what your goal is now and where the door to enter that room is. Now let's go there and bring the master what he wants!"

...

Sherlock was still awake at this time.

He was drinking tea with Eddie in his office.

"You didn't submit your resignation application today?"

"It's a bit inappropriate at this time." Sherlock shook his head. "Although I have no sense of belonging to the Ministry of Magic, I still got something from here after all, so I can't do this kind of thing that adds insult to injury."

"Aren't you responsible for patrolling the five floors above? Why did you come to me?" he asked.

Eddie has been a little absent-minded since he came to Sherlock.

"I just feel like something's wrong tonight."

he said softly.

"It's like someone deliberately attracted all the Aurors away. The five-legged monsters and the appearance of the Scottish Death Eaters are all too coincidental."

Sherlock narrowed his eyes.

"Do you suspect that this time, like last time, Death Eaters did this on purpose?"

"My feeling tells me that this is very likely the case." Eddie said uneasily, "They wanted to take something away from the Department of Mysteries. They didn't succeed last time. With the personalities of those people, they are unlikely to do so easily. of giving up.”

"Have you not told anyone else how you feel?"

"I told Scrimgeour." Eddie's face was solemn. "He feels the same as me, but even so, he has to send people out. There is always the problem of insufficient Auror manpower, not to mention the lack of Aurors. To maintain the security of the entire magical world, he can only leave two teams of people in the ministry."

"The reason why Barty Jr. and I were chosen to stay is because we are trusted enough. I was wronged once before, but I still didn't turn to the Death Eaters. And Barty Jr.'s father is Director Crouch, so he There are no people who may be Death Eaters. Scrimgeour arranged this to prevent anyone from introducing Death Eaters into the Ministry of Magic."

Sherlock also felt that something was wrong. Generally, if the parties concerned thought that the arrangement was foolproof, problems would be more likely to occur.

"So when you come to me, are you worried that Death Eaters will break into the Ministry of Magic again, or are you worried about coming to the Department of Mysteries?"

"Their goal is very clear. The attack in Wales and the undercover agents leading people to break into the Ministry of Magic when they were chasing me were all for this place."

Sherlock also frowned.

"What is in the room they want to enter? If they can do this, wouldn't it be more beneficial for them to directly attack the Ministry of Magic and kill all the senior officials who oppose the Dark Lord?"

Eddie shook his head.

"I don't know the specifics. It's just that when I was on a mission in Wales, I heard the former Director of the Department of Mysteries, Mrs. Stry, before she died, saying that there was something in that room that could change everything. This thing cannot be left behind. into the hands of the Dark Lord."

Sherlock touched his chin and fell into deep thought, but after recalling it for a long time, he did not remember whether he had ever heard that such a thing was stored in the Ministry of Magic before he came to this time.

"Amy is still in the Department of Mysteries!" Sherlock said suddenly, "We can't let her stay here tonight. I'll take her to the Leaky Cauldron first."

He stood up and just opened the door with Eddie, about to go to Amy's room.

Outside the Time Hall, a huge explosion suddenly sounded!