Hogwarts: A little lion in the skin of the Eagle School

One bad news after another came, and Fudge's face turned ashen.

On one side, hundreds of Dementors are attacking Muggle citizens en masse, while on the other side, vicious Death Eaters are running rampant on the streets of London.

What on earth happened?!

Fudge immediately ordered all the Aurors to be mobilized, including some combat-capable support personnel, to the front line, while he himself slumped back into his chair.

As the Ministry of Magic sprang into action, dozens, even hundreds, of wizards hurried to the fireplace in the main hall and left the Ministry through it.

Sirius and the others finally realized something was wrong.

"Harry! John! Something's wrong, let's get back to school!"

At this moment, Professor Lu Ping finally spoke up, addressing the two of them.

Although Fudge didn't want to let Harry go, he was no longer in the mood to care about Harry at that moment.

The two exchanged a glance and then got up to leave.

But John suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"Ring ring ring!!!"

In an instant, various alarms, some piercing and some urgent, suddenly rang out within a 5-kilometer radius of the Muggle world above them!

Although the people underground were unaware of it.

But John suddenly looked up, his pupils shrinking.

The warning spell he had placed in the house was activated!

"Someone broke into my house!"

John shouted immediately, and before Sirius and the others could react, he waved his wand.

boom!

The floor-to-ceiling window behind Fudge's office shattered instantly, and John leaped out, shards of glass flying like a shower of stars in the wind.

They plummeted rapidly towards the main hall of the Ministry of Magic beneath their feet!

"John!!"

Harry, Sirius, and the others immediately shouted anxiously.

However, John had already arrived in the main hall.

Before falling into the main hall, he waved his wand again, and a gentle cushioning force caught him. Then, ignoring the astonished gazes of the others in the main hall, he dashed toward the fireplace.

Snapped!

With a loud bang, John's figure vanished into the fireplace.

Harry and his friends upstairs saw this scene through the window and realized that something had happened to John's family, so they prepared to go after them.

But just as John disappeared from the fireplace...

Suddenly, all the fireplaces around the room lit up with a green light.

A dozen or so figures dressed in black robes emerged from the crowd.

Then all eyes were fixed on Harry upstairs.

Although they did not reveal their identities, Professor Moody immediately realized that they had fallen into a trap!

"Get out of Fudge's fireplace!"

Professor Moody made a quick and decisive statement.

There is also a fireplace in the minister's office that leads to the outside.

But at this moment, the fireplace's function has been turned off.

There are Death Eaters' accomplices in the Department of Magical Transportation!

Only those people there can control the fireplaces in the Ministry of Magic!

Professor Moody's one eye spun wildly as he considered a way to escape.

"Let's go! To the Department of Mysteries!"

Less than three seconds later, Professor Moody spoke again.

Then, taking Harry's hand, he led Sirius and Professor Lupin toward the elevator.

He planned to take the elevator directly to the 9th floor, the Department of Mysteries, to stall for time!

"Immediately notify Dumbledore to come to our aid!"

"The Ministry of Magic has no fighting force left. We must hide in the Department of Mysteries; it has all sorts of ancient defensive spells and isolation barriers—our only way out!"

Professor Lu Ping had already pulled out a fiery red feather, a phoenix tail feather. Even if it fell off, it could still be used like a phoenix, ignoring the Anti-Apparition Spell and teleporting directly.

As the fire feathers burned, the distress signal was successfully sent.

All that's left is to hide in the Department of Mysteries and buy some time.

Dumbledore should arrive in no time, perhaps even in less than three minutes.

The group rode the elevator, which plummeted straight down to the ninth floor.

Meanwhile, the men in black robes in the main hall all headed towards the elevator.

Bang bang bang!

One of the men in black robes had already swung his staff at the elevator shaft!

Apart from the elevator where Harry and his friends were, all the other elevator shafts were blown up.

It seems as if they were deliberately placed in the Department of Mysteries.

Then they turned and hurried down the stairs.

As the elevator doors slowly opened, Professor Moody immediately directed Harry and the others to hide behind the black door of the Department of Mysteries.

He then left behind a final line of defense, blocking their advance.

Harry finally saw the corridor, and wondered what lay behind that black door.

A circular hall, with ten other doors besides the one they came through.

Every door is uniformly black, without any doorplates or signs.

After looking around, Professor Moody led the group to open a door on the left front.

Inside was a room filled with various fish tanks.

But what's terrifying is that there were no fish in those tanks.

Instead, it contains one brain after another.

They floated in a pale green liquid, their grayish-white folds pulsating slowly like living things.

Harry was completely disoriented after seeing this, but Professor Moody kept pulling him forward, through the brain's atrium.

They arrived at a domed hall filled with star maps and planetary rooms filled with planet models.

The dome slowly rotated, and the trajectories of the stars moved as if they were alive.

But before Harry could take a closer look, Professor Moody dragged him through yet another door.

This time, the scene before him was all too familiar to Harry.

Because he had seen the Hall of Prophecy countless times in his nightmares.

......

On the other side, in the Muggle world.

Ring ring ring!!

The piercing alarms blared incessantly, covering almost the entire Muggle neighborhood.

The Muggles on the street had no idea what was happening when suddenly all sorts of piercing alarms went off nearby.

The red and blue lights of police cars, fire trucks, and ambulances flashed wildly on the street corner, but there was no fire or disaster nearby.

Only the western sky was covered with dark, heavy clouds.

Moreover, the dark clouds seemed to be constantly pressing closer to the city.

At the epicenter of the alarm, in John's house, several Death Eaters dressed in black robes were startled by the sudden sound of the alarm.

"Damn it!"

"We've been discovered!"

Some of them instinctively wanted to retreat upon hearing the alarm.

But another person shouted from behind.

"Useless! The alarm is for Muggles, not Aurors!"

"That brat Merrick deliberately left behind this warning spell to scare people!"

Another person cursed angrily.

Meanwhile, inside the house, the Merricks were hiding in the closet.

John had told them that if anyone broke in, they should hide immediately and he would come right away.

However, the door to the room was suddenly forced open.

Three men in black entered and immediately looked at the wardrobe in the room.

He sneered and raised his wand.

"Thunderbolt Explosion..."

boom!!

The next moment, a devastating magical power exploded out, engulfing the entire room.

When the smoke and dust cleared.

The wardrobe remained intact, while the three men in black were overturned on the ground.

And in front of the wardrobe, there was another figure.

It was John who arrived.