Speaking of which, this was Sean's first time on the floor of the Department of Mysteries. However, before Barty Jr. lost his message, he had already provided him with information about various departments of the Ministry of Magic more than once.
The Department of Mysteries is the top secret agency of the entire Ministry of Magic. There are mysterious things here, and even the current Minister cannot know them all.
This time, Sean, who transformed into a middle-aged bald man, looked back at the elevator, shook his robe, and Dave spread his wings and flew out, then turned into a thorny scabbard in mid-air and hung on the ceiling.
"Notify me immediately if anything happens, Dave." He ordered.
"clear."
Sean walked towards the simple corridor in front of him, and soon he saw a simple black door.
It’s exactly the same message as little Barty gave him...
Sean didn't hesitate and pushed open the dark door.
Crossing the threshold, he stood in a huge circular room. Everything here was black, whether it was the walls or the floor, just like the calm lake at the darkest hour in the depths of the forest.
There were some branch-like candles dotted between the walls, and the blue flames swayed pitifully and weakly, giving Sean a glimmer of vision.
On the black wall, twelve identical black doors stood there quietly. They looked completely indistinguishable, with no handles or markings.
Sean slowly walked to the middle of the circular room. Immediately, the black wall and the black door on it spun rapidly, and the blue candlelight turned into a blurry band of light.
This is one of the Department of Mysteries' defenses.
When the room stopped spinning, Sean walked towards the door closest to him. He didn't try to leave a mark on the door because he knew it wouldn't work.
The black door was pushed open effortlessly, and Sean saw the scene in the first room.
This is a huge square room, almost the size of half a football field, with a stone pit in the center and steep stairs going down one by one around it, like a frightening lecture theater.
Sean walked to the edge of the stairs and looked down. There was no podium in the center, but a raised stone platform with an ancient, dilapidated arch standing on the stone platform.
There is no wall support around the arch, and a tattered black curtain or curtain hangs on it. Although the air here is cold and there is no wind, it is swaying gently, as if it has just been touched.
"The Hall of Death..." Sean muttered, this was not the place he was looking for.
He took one last look at the huge arch, and the tattered curtains suddenly trembled in the windless motion.
A strange feeling came to Sean's heart, as if someone was waiting for him behind the arch.
Occlumency started to work automatically in an instant, helping him resist this vague yet alluring temptation.
There were too many unexplained weird things in the Department of Mysteries. Sean didn't want to stay too long, so he turned and walked towards the exit.
"Huh?" Just when Sean was about to reach the door, not only himself but also the things he carried, a strange magic power fluctuated slightly, and then quickly disappeared without a trace.
It's like something is attracted to the Death Hall.
Sean checked his body carefully and found nothing out of the ordinary. He poked his head into the ring, where Pudding the Cat and Leopard was counting the snowflakes in the landscape ball.
"Did you feel anything unusual just now?" Sean asked his friends.
Several magical animals said there was nothing wrong.
"Okay...let me know if there's something wrong, and let me know when you've finished counting the snowflakes."
After giving instructions, Sean closed the ring and walked out of the black door.
There must be something wrong, but there's no way to dwell on it now.
When he walked out of the black door, the circular room immediately spun rapidly.
When the rotation stopped, Sean closed his eyes and felt it. Sure enough, the shadow bug he just left in the Death Hall could no longer provide contact.
"Just keep it in mind, I hope my luck will be better..."
Sean pushed open the second door.
This is a cold room about the same height as a church, filled with tall shelves. It is filled with small, dusty glass balls. There are small yellowed labels on the shelves under each glass ball. Some small balls
It emits mysterious flowing light, while others are blurry and dark, like an extinguished light bulb.
Prophecy Hall... Sean recognized this room.
An idea suddenly occurred to him, would the prophecy about himself be stored here?
Professor Trelawney said that wizards have a strange sense of their own prophecies. However, Sean closed his eyes and felt it, but did not find anything attracting him.
"Maybe not..." Looking at the shelves full of shelves, Sean gave up the idea of searching for them one by one. He stopped worrying and walked out of the prophecy hall.
And deep in the hall, in a small dusty corner, on a low stool with cushions, a dusty crystal ball was shining softly. However, the crystal ball was covered by a glass cover
It's covered.
When Sean left, the crystal ball immediately stopped flashing.
Sean returned to the circular room and opened the third door.
The moment the door was pushed open, he knew he had found the right place.
Thousands of ticking sounds were noisy and chaotic, and beautiful, shining light like diamonds filled his entire field of vision. When Sean squinted his eyes to adapt to the light here, he saw all kinds of
Clocks.
Alarm clocks, grandfather clocks, grandfather clocks, travel clocks... countless clocks were ticking, and the continuous sound filled Sean's ears.
What emits that beating, diamond-like light is a tall bell-shaped crystal jar located at the end of the room.
However, Sean didn't have any extra time to look at this magical room. There was someone here.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Amidst the dazzling light and noisy ticking sound, no one noticed that there was an uninvited guest in the Time Hall.
Sean cast the Disillusionment Curse in an instant, but he unexpectedly discovered that under the light of the bell-shaped crystal cover, the Disillusionment Curse that he was so familiar with had no effect.
His figure is still hidden in the air, but if you squint your eyes carefully, you can find that there is a sudden area in the air without light.
Let's just make do with it for now... Sean hid behind a grandfather clock that was not easily noticed.
Only then did he have time to look at the two people standing in front of the bell-shaped crystal jar.
A man in a suit and ties was rummaging for something, his wand was waving, parchments were flying freely, and beside him was a mysterious man covered in black robes.
Through the gap, Sean narrowed his eyes slightly.
Is that man in black robe a floating...returner...
The man in suit and leather shoes raised his head, holding a thick stack of parchment in his hand.
"Sir, this should be the information you need, but it may not be complete - although the Silent People are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, these people always become silent and slow after staying in the Department of Mysteries for a long time.
It’s very troublesome.”
"Yes." The man in black robe responded in a low voice. Sean did not see his hand stretched out, but instead waved it with his sleeve, and the thick stack of parchment flew into his arms.
The man in the suit seemed to want to show some courtesy. He bent down and said flatteringly: "Sir, if you are not in a hurry, I can help you search again. There is still a lot of information about time travel accidents..."
The man in black robe interrupted him, his voice hoarse: "No need, the elder is waiting for my news, I just need to get the most critical information."
"Ah, that's it, okay, okay." The man in the suit rubbed his hands awkwardly.
Then, the man in black robe floated towards the exit, and the man in suit followed closely behind.
Shawn frowned as he was hiding. The other party didn't notice him, but now he was faced with a choice.
He could wait for the two people to leave and search for the information he needed. However, the other party just mentioned that the core information about the time travel accident had been taken away by the men in black robes. Sean would probably not be able to find him if he stayed.
Required information.
If you follow him, first of all, you won't know the true strength of the man in black robes. Secondly, people from the Ministry of Magic may escort him away, and you may face a bunch of elite wizards...
Sean is now very sure that the man in black robes must be one of the "Returners", and the elder mentioned by the other party may be the leader of the "Returners".
It seems that, except for Dumbledore, even the returnees do not know the truth of this world disturbance. They just realized that it was related to a time travel accident, so they sent people to the Ministry of Magic to collect information.
After a short period of thinking, Sean made a decisive decision and could not let the other party take away this information.
The magic power of the Returned has the nature of the Obscurus. This is what Sean discovered from Gormley Gaunt. He originally thought that the other party was some kind of special magical life, but then the 'Maw of Silence' could swallow the Obscurus.
Something appeared, which convinced Sean that the returnee and Obscurus were absolutely inseparable.
The Returned can be inaccurately classified as a kind of half-ghost who possesses magic power in life, but the nature of the magic is similar to that of the Obscurus, and Sean just has a way to deal with them - thanks to Voldemort for providing the spell, and thanks to Gormlaith.
Gunter served as his own guinea pig.
Sean didn't move, but sent a thought to Dave.
"Notify me immediately when someone comes out, then make some noise, don't expose yourself, and ask the two people who will come out later to go to the hall slowly."
"Copy that." Dave's intelligence is getting higher and higher now, and he can clearly understand Sean's meaning and execute it well.
Sean walked quickly to the front of the bell-shaped crystal jar. He scanned the folders that had been turned around, and sure enough, he didn't see any information about time travel accidents.
"Most of them should have been taken away..." Sean quickly flipped through all the folders, and whenever he saw one with the word "time" on it, he threw it into the ring first.
Regardless of whether it's useful or not, take it away first.
After doing all this, Sean walked through the gap in the table and walked to the other side. He wanted to confirm one thing.
He quickly found what he was looking for, which was a huge glass cabinet that was constantly being broken and reorganized.
There are various shapes of hourglasses placed in the cupboard. The hourglass and cupboard are constantly broken into pieces, and then reassembled into the complete appearance as if the picture is going backwards.
What Stephanie told Sean was indeed accurate, all time turners were destroyed.
It was most likely Grindelwald who did it... Sean thought silently.
He can now basically confirm that the person who returned to the past was not Dumbledore at all, but Grindelwald.
It's just that he doesn't know the other party's purpose of doing this, and what consequences it will have.
Are all time turners destroyed to prevent anyone from going back in time...
While Sean was thinking, Dave came up with an idea.
He stopped thinking and ran out quickly.
When Sean walked out of the Time Hall, the Disillusionment Curse suddenly returned to normal, and he quickly walked out of the circular room while remaining invisible.
In the simple corridor, the man in the suit and the man in black were dealing with the falling stones from the ceiling - Dave had directly collapsed the ceiling here.
"An enemy is coming?!" the man in the suit shouted in panic.
The man in black robes was much calmer than him. After shaking his sleeves to let the falling black stones hit him aside, he said in a deep voice: "Call for backup. Let's not go out yet. The elevator is too dangerous."
Sean secretly put the thorn scabbard into his arms and disappeared silently.
He used the trajectory flicker to return to the hall from the Department of Mysteries on the ninth floor.
At this time, there were already rapid footsteps, and beaters and Aurors were coming. Some of them were guarding the lobby, while others ran towards the elevator.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sean emerged from the shadows and snapped his fingers at a service desk in the distance. There, a clerk who was sending and receiving messages paused, his eyes filled with laughter.
His energy lost for a moment.
He stood up from his seat and ran to the center of the hall with a panic expression, just like other ordinary employees who asked about the Auror's situation out of concern, and several of these people were in the same situation as him.
Sean flashed again and came to the side of the corridor, where an Auror seemed to have not noticed the sudden appearance at all, still staring everywhere seriously.
Sean snapped his fingers, and the Auror immediately left quickly and hid himself in an empty office.
Sean's face squirmed and turned into that Auror look.
Although coming to the Ministry of Magic was a temporary decision, he still arranged some things in advance - such as a few small Imperius Curses.
At this time, the elevator returned to the lobby from the ninth floor, and a group of people came out surrounded by a man in a suit, and the man in a suit didn't know when he put on a big windbreaker.
Sure enough, the returnees can't appear in public yet... Sean narrowed his eyes.
That guy should be hiding inside the man in the suit. It's very troublesome for a physical person, but for a ghost, it's very simple... but the man in the suit probably doesn't feel comfortable.
The moment this group of people appeared, several staff members who were surrounding the Auror to inquire about the situation suddenly got angry, and they all took out their wands and pointed them at the man in the suit.
In other corners of the hall, several people took out their wands with dull eyes.
"Boom--" The main hall of the Ministry of Magic was suddenly enveloped by various explosions. The chandeliers on the ceiling exploded and fell. The security counter, the Magic Brothers Fountain, and the Floo Network fireplace were all attacked by the explosion spell.
The group of people who had just stepped out of the elevator were instantly enveloped by the incoming spell.