Fantastic Beasts: Betrayal

9 - The Ministry

"The box is in the Ancestral Records room." Newt explained to us. We had reached a pillar, near the entrance to the French Ministry of Magic. "So it's three floors down." He took out a small bottle of... something.

"Is that Polyjuice?" Tina asked, surprised. I gasped quietly. I'd heard of Polyjuice before! But...

"Isn't that illegal?" I asked. Newt sighed, before drinking it.

"Do you have another plan?" He asked, turning into... Uncle Theseus?

"Who-"

"Uncle Theseus!" I said, smiling. "Genius."

Newt smiled back at me, before looking at Tina. "Uh, yes. My brother, Theseus. He's an Auror and a hugger."

I laughed. Too true!

We made it down to the correct floor, and we thought that we were out of the danger zone, when we saw Uncle Theseus talking to Leta. He walked to the centre, before seeing us and his eyes widened. He knew. Great.

We hurriedly walked through the corridor, trying to avoid anyone's gaze.

"I don't suppose you can Disapparate on Ministry premises in France, can you?" Newt asked as we walked through the corridor to the records room.

"Nope." Tina said plainly.

"Pity." He said, as the potion wore off.

"Newt!" Tina pointed it out to him. He nodded.

"Yes, I know. I know it's..."

They were interrupted from their conversation by an alarm going off. We reached a pillar and stopped as we saw a wanted poster showing both Newt and me.

"Emergency situations! A man, Newton Scamander, and his daughter, Lia Scamander, have entered the Ministry of Magic without permission."

I froze in fear, just staring at the posters. We were wanted. I was wanted. More importantly, Newt was wanted. I snapped out of my trance as Newt grabbed my hand and we ran. I could hear someone running after us.

"Newt! Lia!"

"Uncle Theseus." I said, realising. He must be going to the records room too!

"Oh!" Newt said, his face lighting up slightly.

"That's your brother?" Tina asked, running faster.

"So I think I may have mentioned in my letters that we have quite a complicated relationship." Newt said, stuttering as we ran.

"Newt, stop!" Uncle Theseus exclaimed. We made it to a circular room.

"Does he want to kill you?" Tina asked.

"Frequently." Newt said, tilting his head. "But probably more me than Lia-"

"Enough!" Uncle Theseus shouted, using his wand to throw books from a passing cart at us. Newt stopped them from reaching us, and they floated in the air. We just stared at him. I backed away in fear. I had never seen this side of Uncle Theseus before.

"He needs to control his temper." Tina said, before using a non-verbal spell to throw Uncle Theseus backwards into a chair, tying him to a chair. Newt smiled, scoffing in amusement and amazement.

"I think that might have been the best moment of my life." He said, laughing quietly. I just kept staring at Uncle Theseus, who looked back at me. It took all the remaining effort I had left to not laugh at him.

"Sorry, Uncle Theseus!" I called to him as Newt used another spell to return the books to the carts. We ran off, and as we did, I looked back at Uncle Theseus with an apologetic smile.