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0696 St Mungo's

It took Hermione several minutes after she opened her heavy eyelids for her foggy consciousness to fully realize that she was still alive.

Everything in front of her was shrouded in a wavering, misty light sprinkled with shadows that shifted...

0695 Misfortune

A handsome face down at Louise—a face with soft, silky gray hair that caught the faint moonlight and seemed to shimmer in its glow. But it was those remarkable pale purple eyes that captivated her.

Louise blinked hard several times rapidly...

0694 Her

The shimmering magical barrier that had been encircling the entire area was dismantled by the team of Aurors, but not before they had restored the dilapidated small house where the horrifying Inferi had been discovered, back to its original state....

0693 The Call

After the explosion within the milky-white light screen truly occurred, a blinding crimson sun suddenly appeared in front of the disbelieving eyes of the Ministry of Magic's elite Aurors!

The remarkable light screen created by Bryan Watson's...

0692 The Target

At the hazy twilight boundary, the fading sunlight divided the sky into two contrasting halves. One hemisphere was bathed in a melancholy, dull amber glow, while the opposing half remained in the pale icy blue of late winter's lingering grip.

0691 Actions

The Leaky Cauldron was an important passageway connecting the magical world and the Muggle world. Every day, there were endless wizards and witches passing through it.

As the sun climbed higher in the sky, more and more magical folks entered...

0690 The Investigation

"You still went ahead and mailed the package, didn't you?" Kingsley's deep voice filled with anger thundered across the silent tavern, his eyes were narrowing as he overlooked over the trembling Tom. "Even when you already noticed and intuitively ...

0689 Unlucky Tom

After seeing the appearance of the young man who walked in through the back door, the Aurors throughout the bar hall lowered their vigilance one by one, their tense shoulders relaxed slightly as they dropped their wands to their sides.

In th...

0688 The Message

London, at the break of dawn.

The Christmas holidays and its festivities had finally passed, and the world-renowned metropolis of London had reluctantly returned to its usual rhythm of everyday existence.

Perhaps because the c...

0687 The Curse

"The curse seed and the curse itself are completely separated from one another?"

Verrence's face froze in genuine surprise. He stood motionless digesting Viper's strange inquiry. After a moment's contemplation, he tilted his head at a curiou...

0686 Negotiations

"Since when did you start selling such worthless junk?"

In the underground world's infamous trading market, Golden Viper stood in front of a particularly notorious shop specializing in selling cursed items of questionable origin. His tone wa...

0685 Market

Sizzle—

The molten wax dripped down from the nearly extinguished candle that shook unsteadily on the edge of the coffee table. The scalding wax made a sharp hissing sound the instant it collided with the wooden surface. Am...

0684 The Culprit

London, South Heathmans Road

A dirty river flowed alongside the residential area, its murky waters were partially concealed by thin, ghostly mist that rose from its polluted surface. The pungent smell of stagnant water and industrial waste p...

0683 Curiosity

Curiosity shone in the eyes of everyone coming towards him as they rushed through the corridors of Hogwarts. Students lined the passageway, some standing on tiptoes to get a better view craning their necks, as if they all wanted to discover the tr...

0682 The Ministry's Attitude

"This is completely and utterly slanderous, Watson!" Umbridge shrieked with indignation, "Inspecting private packages mailed by innocent magical residents? Oh, is that your outrageous suggestion, Watson? It's beyond ridiculous! The Ministry has ab...

0681 The Confrontation

It was obvious that the Ministry of Magic had a network of patrols and well-placed informants strategically stationed throughout Hogsmeade. Otherwise, there could be no other explanation for how they had managed to receive the news about the incid...

0681 Questionings

The day had started off normal, the crisp autumn air of Hogsmeade carrying nothing gloomier than the scent of burning leaves and the distant aroma of butterscotch and cinnamon from Honeydukes.

Harry's unlucky morning encounter with Cedric an...

0679 Result

True anger, in its most terrible form, is utterly silent.

After Severus left hastily from the headmaster's office to prepare the life-sustaining potions, Bryan and Dumbledore remained standing on opposite sides of Hermione's conjured sickbed...

0678 The Curse

Hermione had already lost all control of her body. Moody had to roughly pinch her chin between his fingers and forcibly pry her jaw open. He removed the cork and poured the liquid emitting green lights carefully between her split lips.

Bryan...

0677 The Darkness

The darkness before Hermione's terrified eyes was countless times thicker than the deepest, most starless night sky imaginable. This endless abyss ignited the most instinctual fear in the depths of her usually rational heart, the instinctive human...

0676 The Gift

The enchanted rose within the pastry box was not an artificial creation but a real flower. The mysterious sender who had mailed this gift to Hermione had obviously performed several complex magical enchantments upon it. Each petal of the rose had ...

0675 Aftermath

For Harry, what should have been an enjoyable outing to Hogsmeade had been utterly and completely ruined by that unexpected and torturous encounter with Cedric and Cho Chang earlier.

The interaction had left a bitter taste in his mouth that ...

0674 Hogsmeade

To avoid the inevitable barrage of curious questions from their classmates about what the packages on their backs were for, Hermione, Harry, and Ron got up very early in tacit understanding.

When they finally arrived at the Great Hall, they ...

0673 Training

The back-and-forth exchange between the three came to an abrupt halt. Harry and Ron's mouths fell open simultaneously, their expressions turning ashen as if someone had soaked them with a bucket of icy water from the Black Lake.

"Oh, of cour...

0672 After Winter Break

Although the joyful Christmas holiday had passed like a fleeting dream, leaving only memories of festive lights and warm gatherings, it was obvious that the students of Hogwarts had not yet managed to shake off its lingering influence.

Throu...

0671 The First Drill

The first escape training drill turned out exactly as Bryan had expected. If one had to describe it in a single word, it would be: mess, a complete mess.

Faced with an enemy force three times their own, the only thing the tested groups could...

0670 New Training

Professor Watson's self-deprecating joke triggered a wave of relaxed smiles across the classroom. The laughter rippled through the rows of students like a gentle breeze, easing away the fear and uneasiness these mostly underage children had about ...

0669 Safety

"How to get yourselves out safely from particularly unfavorable environments—"

Bryan lifted himself off the edge of the desk and began pacing back and forth in front of the eager students.

"So, who can tell me what methods we can use...

0668 The Next Phase

Bryan entered his cold office room, set down his briefcase on the floor with a soft thud and let out a long, contented sigh as he surveyed the office.

While most of his colleagues and countless other wizards across Britain were indulging in ...

0667 New term

Bryan had originally planned for Remus and Sirius to take Harry and the others away from the orphanage and return to the wizarding world at the crack of dawn the next morning.

However, to Bryan's slight surprise, these few folks seemed to ha...