I Was Spotted By Grindelwald and Went To Hogwarts

Speaking of which, this was Sean's first time coming to 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 thorn sheath 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 Barty Jr. gave him...

Sean didn't hesitate and pushed open the dark door.

Crossing the threshold, he stood in a huge circular room. Everything here is black, walls and floors, like a calm lake in the darkest hour 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 top of 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 rotated 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 toward 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.

"Death Hall..." Sean muttered, this was not the place he was looking for.

He took one last look at the huge arch, and the windless tattered curtains suddenly trembled.

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 unexplainable 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 Cat Leopard Pudding 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 anything 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.

Something was definitely wrong, but there was 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.

It was a cold room about as high as a church, lined with towering shelves. It was filled with small, dusty glass balls. There are little yellowed labels on the shelves beneath each glass ball. Some balls emit mysterious flowing light, while others are fuzzy and dark, like extinguished light bulbs.

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 cushioned stool, a dusty crystal ball was shining softly. However, the crystal ball was covered by a glass cover.

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 lights like diamonds filled his entire field of vision. When Sean squinted his eyes to adapt to the light here, he saw all kinds of clock.

Alarm clocks, grandfather clocks, grandfather clocks, travel clocks... countless clocks were ticking, and the continuous sound filled Sean's ears.

What emits the 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.

In 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 invisible in the air, but if you squint your eyes carefully, you can find that there is a sudden area without light in the air.

Let's just settle 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 leather tie 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 a suit looked up, 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 dull after staying in the Department of Mysteries for a long time. It is difficult to deal with them. It’s very troublesome.”

"Yes." The man in black robes 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 in embarrassment.

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 robe 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 brief thought, 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 later, the 'Maw of Silence' could devour the Obscurus. Something appeared, which convinced Sean that the returnee and Obscurus were absolutely inseparable.

The Returners can be loosely classified as half-ghosts who possess magical powers in life, but similar in nature to the Obscurus, and Sean has just the means to deal with them - thanks to Voldemort for the spell, and thanks to Gormlaith. Gunter served as his 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 what Sean means and execute it well.

Sean quickly walked 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 is useful or not, take it away first.

After doing all this, Sean walked through the gap in the table and walked towards 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 reassembled.

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 suit and the man in black robe were dealing with the stones falling 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 rocks 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 sheath 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 hall, while others ran towards the elevator.

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, and the look in his eyes 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 Aurors 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 of the person 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's appearance.

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... It's just that 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 all took out their wands and pointed them at the man in the suit.

In other corners of the hall, a few people took out their wands with dull eyes.

"Rumble--" The main hall of the Ministry of Magic was suddenly enveloped by various explosions. The chandeliers on the ceiling exploded and fell down. The security counter, Magic Brothers Fountain, and Floo Network fireplace were all attacked by explosion spells.

The group of people who had just stepped out of the elevator were instantly enveloped by the incoming spell.