Hogwarts Asylum

As Olorin followed Hydra to the conference room, Bones and Sainte also came to an unusually empty room.

The ceiling of this room is more than ten yards high. On the wall facing the door of the room, there is a map of the entire British Isles, ranging up to Great Britain and Ireland, and down to the small platforms built by Muggles on the sea. All listed.

If you look closely, you can still see that this map even restores the geographical terrain to scale. The stream of light surrounding the convex part should represent the ocean.

But the strange thing is that many locations on the map are covered with black cloth, and there are holes the size of heads one after another under the walls.

Except for the wall with the map engraved on it, there are shelves on each of the other three sides of the room that reach straight to the ceiling and completely occupy the entire wall.

There are glass bottles one after another on the shelves. Each glass bottle seems to be empty, but the faint light that flashes from time to time tells everyone that there is something inside.

"This is where we work every day."

Peacegood pointed to the map on the wall with a proud look, "It is said that it was produced by Nico Flamel, who led hundreds of alchemists for several years. Of course, I I think the most time-consuming part is documenting the topography of the entire UK and Ireland..."

"What are these places covered with black cloth?" Bones pointed to the black cloth. She had not worked in the team to reverse accidental magical events, so although she had always known that there was a magic detector here, she did not know how long it was. What kind and how to use it.

"These..." Pisgood seemed a little guilty, "These are the gathering places for wizards..."

Bones frowned when she heard this. Although she knew that the reversal of accidental magical events team had some overlap with the functions of her legal enforcement reconnaissance team, so they had been quite idle, but she never expected that this department would be so inconsistent. Be responsible.

This group was established to promptly detect and deal with magical accidents that occur throughout the UK and Ireland due to inexperience of wizards.

But they cover up places where wizards live. Do they think magic accidents won't happen in these places?

If ordinary wizards discovered their behavior, they would probably think that they were not protected by the Ministry of Magic, right?

It's a pity that she is only the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and has no control over the subordinate departments of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters...

Looking at the positions covered by black cloth, Bones was a little dissatisfied with the working attitude of the incident team, but she did not intend to embarrass Peasgood. After all, he was just a staff member who followed orders.

If you want to change the atmosphere of this department, you can only find higher-level officials, so Bones secretly decided to have a "discussion" with Fudge tomorrow. Otherwise, sooner or later, this department will miss the opportunity to detect the disaster in advance due to negligence. .

Bones' thoughts drifted far away in the blink of an eye, and when he came back to his senses, he had only taken a few breaths.

Glancing at Peacegood and seeing his guilty look, Bones shook his head and said, "Let's talk about how to find our scout."

"Oh, yes." Peacegood nodded as if he suddenly understood. Then he pointed to the bottles on the surrounding shelves and said, "Each of these bottles contains a trace, and they are related to those in school. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the underage wizards and the ministry’s field staff, and through them, you can roughly locate the scout you are looking for.”

"Then what are you waiting for?" Bones said.

"Uh-" Peacegood scratched his head, a little embarrassed, "You haven't said the name of the scout you are looking for yet."

"..." Bones looked a little embarrassed for a moment.

Fortunately, Sainte, who was following Bones, had been observing the room, but he was also paying attention to the conversation. When Bones was embarrassed, Sainte spoke in time: "Tonks, her name is Niffa." Dora Tonks."

"Nymphadora Tonks?" Peacegood chewed for a while and couldn't help but sympathize with the scout. After all, "Nymphadora" is not a good name, and due to the existence of name magic, the wizarding world has no The law was renamed.

Knowing the scout's name, Peacegood began searching for the bottle that represented Tonks.

"I remember it seems to be this column..." Peacegood muttered in a low voice while searching. After all, he was a memory canceller. He was responsible for modifying the memory, not the person responsible for observing the place where the incident occurred, so he was familiar with this room. The speed is actually not much better.

Bones and Saint waited quietly, but they saw Peacegood searching on this shelf for a while, then on to another shelf, and soon returned to the original shelf, as if he was looking for a needle in a haystack.

Saint glanced at Bones and finally couldn't help but said: "Can't you use the flying spell?"

"No!" Peacegood refused flatly, fearing that Saint himself would use the Flying Charm to summon the bottle representing Tonks. "These bottles have special magic on them. If you use the Flying Charm on the bottles, it will be very dangerous." It’s easy to break them.”

In fact, this was all Pisgood's nonsense, because he actually didn't know if he could use magic on the glass bottles on the shelves. He lied because he was afraid that he would be punished if he accidentally broke a bottle. .

"Then you don't have any directory or anything like that?" Sainte asked again. He was suddenly a little glad that he was not transferred to work in this department. It was such a child's play.

"Directory?" Pisgood touched the stubble on his chin thoughtfully, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He ran down the shelf and rushed out of the room. Not long after, he was holding a parchment. The tome is back bound together.

This was recorded by a new guy in their department who was responsible for clearing the shelves in order to remember the names on the glass bottles.

"Let me see, Nymphadora Tonks..." Peacegood's fingers crossed over the parchment one by one. After a while, his fingers stopped at one position, "Found it, Nymphadora." Tonks, fifth from the left in row 114."

As he spoke, Peacegood threw down the parchment and looked at the shelves around him. He pointed his fingers in mid-air. After counting to line 114, he ran to the shelf and found the glass that represented Tonks. bottle.

"It's true, haha."

Peacegood was obviously very happy. Before Bones or Sainte could urge him, he took the glass bottle off the shelf, came to the wall with the map engraved on it, and put the glass bottle on a In the entrance of the cave.

With a "click" sound as if the mechanism was turning, the hole containing the glass bottle was covered by a lid whose material could not be seen, and then the center of England on the map represented the location where the West Midlands and Staffordshire meet. A light spot lit up, and then the light spot began to move toward northwest Wales at a slow speed.

"As you can see, Ms. Bones, the Tonks scout you are looking for is here." Peacegood pointed to the light spot on the map with a proud look on his face.

"Why did Tonks run over there?" Bones frowned and looked at Saint, "Aren't you working in Birmingham?"

Birmingham is located in the middle of the West Midlands. It is at least 15 miles away from where the light spot first appeared. Even if you deduct the 2-mile error mentioned by Peacegood before, it is still 13 miles away. This is completely beyond Tonk. Si's operating range, and she was still moving quickly.

On the map, at the time Bones spoke, the light spot representing Tonks had entered Staffordshire and was about to enter Telford-Ricking County.

Seeing the light spots moving rapidly, although Sainte was a little embarrassed, he still felt a lot more relaxed, because this meant that Tonks was still as lively as before, and it was not the accident that Sainte was most worried about.

However, the director found out about staying away from the work site without authorization...

Sainte hurriedly explained for Tonks: "She may have discovered the traces of the dark wizard who caused tonight's chaos in Birmingham, and is tracking it...

You know, her ability to hide and disguise is the strongest in the entire Ministry of Magic. Moody said that her ability in this area is much better than that of senior Aurors..."

However, Sainte's explanation didn't seem to have any effect. Bones just glanced at him, said, "I wrote the scout manual," and then turned and left the room.

Sainte sneered and stayed where he was. Of course he knew that the scout manual was written by the director. Not only scouts, but also Aurors, strikers, etc., and all law enforcement personnel who needed to go out to work, the manual in their hands was written by the director. It was compiled and issued only after taking office.

Although these manuals contain content to teach law enforcement officers how to operate, they are more about how law enforcement officers can identify dangers and how to save their lives in danger.

Thanks to this, during Director Bones' tenure, the casualty rate among law enforcement officers of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was the lowest in the past century.

Although the Auror quota is fixed and no one in the Auror team has given up his position, which has caused many strikers who could have become Aurors to be unhappy, the Enforcer's Manual is still regarded as a treasure by everyone.

Tonks' current behavior violates two of the general rules that all law enforcement officers must abide by, which the Director has repeatedly emphasized in all manuals - they must not leave the vicinity of the work site without permission, and when they find suspicious people, they must Notify your companions immediately.

This is awkward.

Sainte touched his nose. The director seemed unhappy now, and the reason why Tonks' violation was known to the director was because of his impatience.

Saint really didn't know how he would explain it when Tonks came back and was scolded by the director.

Forget it...just let nature take its course.

"Um..." Peacegood interrupted with some embarrassment while Saint was wandering away, "Man, do you want to continue watching?"

"My name is Saint Phoenix, just call me Saint."

After returning to his senses, Saint pointed to the light spot on the map and said, "Sorry to disturb you on duty, but we are currently dealing with an operation to violate the "Secrecy Act". My team members may have discovered the enemy's traces and are tracking them. , so I need to stay for a while, if you have something to do, you can leave me alone."

Saying that, seeing that Peacegood was hesitant to speak, Sainte added: "Don't worry, I will never touch anything here, I swear."

"Well, you stay alone. If there is any problem on the map, you have to tell me and don't do it yourself. Otherwise, if there is any problem, I may have to go to the Centaur Liaison Office." With Bones gone, Peacegood finally had time to joke.

"Don't worry, man, I understand." Saint gave Peacegood a knowing look.

Peacegood nodded with satisfaction, turned around, picked up the parchment he had just thrown on the ground, and walked towards the door of the room.

Just as Peacegood was about to walk out of the room, Saint suddenly called out, "Hey, man, what's going on?"

Peacegood turned his head and saw that the light spot representing Tonks on the map had stopped in the northern part of Shropshire. It was flickering. The light was getting darker and darker, and it looked like it was about to go out.

Peacegood thought for a moment and said, "Your team members are tracking the dark wizard, so this may mean that she has found the dark wizard's stronghold and is no longer using magic."

After hearing this, Sainte said with joy: "I have to support my team members, man, thank you for your help."

With that said, Saint was about to leave when he suddenly stopped again. Under Peacegood's puzzled gaze, Saint reached into his inner chest pocket and took out a treasure as if taking out some treasure. gold coin.

"Man, can you please help me stare at this light spot for a while, and if it starts to move again, you can contact me through this gold coin?" Saint carefully placed the gold coin on Peacegood's. On hand.

"What is this?" Pisgood curiously held the gold coin that shone in the light.

"This is..." Saint suddenly lowered his voice, as if he had done something wrong, "I found this on the black market. It allows two people to communicate with each other, but it cannot see each other like a two-way mirror. You can’t communicate either, and if you rub it, my gold coins here will get hot.”

"Oh," Peacegood, "so as long as we agree in advance, communication can be simple?"

"Yes."

"That's indeed a good thing." Peacegood nodded, then showed a sly expression, "Do you still have it?"

"This..." Saint hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Afterwards, it will be yours, including this one on me."

"We are all members of the Ministry of Magic, and we do similar jobs. I am determined to make you my friend." Peacegood patted his chest, "Don't worry, if you have any questions, I will definitely help you." Contact you as soon as possible."

Seeing Peacegood's appearance, Saint felt relieved, turned around and left the room.

The main reason why he handed the gold coins to Peacegood was because he was worried about an accident. After all, what if Tonks started moving again?