Magyk: Darkness and Light

Chapter 20

They were at the deep underground below Whitehall where the headquarter of British Ministry of Magic were located. Hector led them to the Department of Mysteries. They were standing in a large, circular room. Everything in here was black, the only light that brightened the room was the light that revealed the triangle shape of table and few chairs for them to sit on. "Take a sit, Miss Granger". That was a request, not to treat her like a quest although she was a student. As Hermione sat down on the chair, she felt herself being pulled closer to the table by the chair itself. "You must be wondering why we suddenly brought you here today, was it?" Hector leaned on his chair while staring straight into Hermione's eyes. She composed herself, not to reveal a little bit of panic that she felt right now. Hermione raised her chin high and answered like a swot who knows everything in a very confident way but looked thoughtful like an eleven-year-old girl. "Forgive me, Minister. Is this about my secret as a descendant of Morgan Le Fay, the famous witch that ever recorded in the wizarding history?" "Exactly. Now, we just need a little bit of information from you. I suppose we could just straight to the point. You're a clever witch, aren't you?" He faked his laugh, don't know what for if it's not funny, maybe he doesn't like the tense and silence awkward. Hermione looked at the Head of Auror in front of her, Theseues Scamander who looked serious, not even a smile appeared in his handsome face, he doesn't look at her way but his eyes staring at the Minister with disapproval while holding his suitcase that contained documents about their investigation about the legend of Morgan Le Fay. "Theseues, ask the girl", Hector said with demanding tone. The suitcase floating in the air, and it opened itself as Theseues pulled out his wand and cast the spell at the document that mentioned about Grindelwald recent crimes and the missing of Le Magistère de la Magie des Ténèbres by Morgan Le Fay. "Have you seen this book before?" Theseues asked gently. Hermione shook her heads, she was curious about the picture of the book, it was written by her ancestor and the cover look ancient than any books she read at Hogwarts. "I'm sure you've already read about the missing book after Grindelwald attacked the Ministry. "Hermione was silence, waiting for the next question. "Did he ever try to contact you before?" he asked again. This time, Hermione was frowned by the question, what was their purpose to ask such a question? She never met Grindelwald or even know something about him. She knew that Tom and Draco already met Grindelwald when he caught them stalking. Hermione shook her head and Theseues sighed heavily. "Did you have the Philosopher Stone with you? It was widely believed every descendant of Morgan Le Fay will become protector of the stone itself", Hector asked again, this time he seems to dig out all of personal questions from Hermione. She was uncomfortable by these people; she seems to be unsure whether to trust them or not because she herself still new about her discovery as a descendant of Morgan Le Fay. Hermione looked at them again and said, "No. I don't know where the stone is", Hermione lied smoothly at them. She felt it was the right thing to do because she didn't trust Hector or anyone else to know where she hide the stone. She did have another dream about herself walking in the familiar place where Draco, Tom and herself found out about the magical tree house that was owned by Morgan Le Fay centuries ago. She entered inside the tree and climbed upstairs where she ended up at the familiar scents of magical items inside the room. Her eyes found an antique safe at the corner and walked towards it. She found a knife sat on the wooden desk and grabbed it firmly. Without her knowledge, she just cut her palm with the knife where her blood came out from the wound. She pressed her bleeding palm onto the surface of the safe, the blood dripping down into the keyhole. Suddenly, a light came from the keyhole and door opened itself. Hermione dropped the knife on the floor and pulled out The Sorcerer Stone from her pocket and kept it inside the safe. Like a magic, once she put the stone inside it, the door shut itself automatically as if it knows the stone already hidden safely inside it. She woke up from the dream when her roommate noisily talking about how eager they were to start Defense Against the Dark Arts in the morning. She vividly remembered how she woke up with her fist holding a piece of paper with anonymous message written ' Trouvez le jumeau lui-même avant qu'il ne tombe entre de mauvaises mains' . She already told the boys about the message where they managed to translated it back. It mentioned that they must find the other one before something bad happened if someone else found it. Which it makes the theory where they immediately know that the twin stone was stole by Grindelwald. Hector was up to another question but interrupted by Professor Old Greybeard telling him that Hermione was still new about her bloodline as a descendant of Morgan Le Fay and suggested that the Aurors should look for other evidence from elsewhere. " She know nothing about her bloodline history, it can be difficult to for her to answered all the questions you wanted to ask from her", said Professor Old Greybeard. Hector's lips thinned and he looked disappointed when he heard what the professor told him. "He's right about this. We can't get any information from the girl herself if she knew nothing about her ancestor. It was impossible to find out what secrets were hidden by Morgan Le Fay, it's been centuries ago", Theseues replied, he agreed with what Professor Old Greybeard said to them. Hector immediately dismissed them because he was in a foul mood by the useless interrogation where it left him unsatisfied with no answers. Professor Old Greybeard and Hermione still inside the Department of the Ministry, Tom and Draco were at the other side of the other place in Diagon Alley, on the South Side, next to Whizz Hard Books. They cast Disillusionment Charm around them to follow Hermione, using the Floo Powder in the Transfiguration classroom because it has fireplace that become connection as Floo Network. When Hermione was taken by the minister, the boys come out with the plan where they should go to find the writer of Daily Prophet about Hermione. When they met the writer of the newspaper which name called Xenophilius Lovegood. At first, the man was hesitated to revealed the culprit but eventually he finally broke the promise when Tom commanded his mind to tell them everything. After Xenophilius stopped talking, Tom found himself furiously in rage inside his mind. He swore to himself that he's going to find a way to stop the rumours about Hermione before something bad happened, he just knew because he was suspicious the story about Grindelwald stole the important documentary about Morgan Le Fay with the Philosopher stone itself. If Grindelwald know that Hermione was the one who guarded the other stone, he might plan to snatched Hermione away from Hogwarts to get the stone. He looked to his side, only to find that Draco looked angry at Xenophilius but staring at the man with evil smirk. "It looks like we get everything we wanted here. Thank you for your cooperation, sir", Tom said with gentle voice, deadly looking calm while Draco said nothing. "Y-You're welcome, Mr Riddle... Mr Malfoy", Xenophilius said with hoarse voice, still affected by awful headache after being commanded by Tom, not that he realised what happened but confused that he unconsciously telling the secret although he didn't wanted to at first. "Unfortunately, we can't leave you remembered everything after we finished", Draco finally said something, his wand immediately pointed at the man and pulled out his memories with Obliviate spell before Xenophilius could said something. His face looked blank and emotionless with glassy eyes staring at nothing like he was there physically but not mentally. When his memory pulled out from him, he blinked and then frowned at the two boys in front of him. " Are you alright, sir?" Draco asked with concerned. "What happened to me?" the man asked Draco, massaging his temple. "You almost fainted, sir." Draco conjured a glass of water with Aguamenti spell. Xenophilius grabbed the glass and murmured 'Thanks' to Draco. "Who are you?" He asked, his mind was confused, like there was a big hole inside his mind that he couldn't figured out what it is. " Just came here to buy Daily Prophet, sir", Tom answered with low voice. They purchased the newspaper and then went back to Hogwarts using Floo Powder.