All across England, the magical detectors used to detect underage or any other type of magic were registering off the charts. The people who were on duty in the magical detection office that night watched as there was a large amount of magic detected northward in a town called Little Hangleton that hadn't seen any activity in fifty years.
They were made aware that two Hogwarts students were located there and that there would be possible underage magic as they had been kidnapped. They watched as the magical detectors calmed down for a while until there was a huge surge that burnt out every detector in the area. What sent them into a panic was when the magical detectors started burning out along a path that led straight to London and the Ministry.
When Amelia made her call for the Aurors, other departments had stepped up their activities and the secretive Department of Mysteries had recalled their whole staff. This was in part due to Amelia's summons but it mainly had to do with what was happening in the bowels of the Ministry of Magic.
The Head Unspeakable was alerted to irregularities in his department and was in the process of checking them out. He made his way to the Death Chamber that held the Veil of Death because he had been alerted that it was acting strange all day.
While this may not have concerned the normal wizard, Croaker knew something was up and it was too coincidental with the happenings in Northern England to be ignored. The Veil had been studied for a long time and they still had no answer as to why it did what it did or even how it operated. Croaker himself had spent much of his time as a researcher trying to figure out its secrets.
The Unspeakables had access to all of the information that was the Ministry of Magic and when the magical detectors started burning out, he had a hunch that whatever was happening would be centered on the Veil. He thought back over his years and it was times like these that he missed his old friend Charlus Potter the most.
Charlus had a unique understanding of the Veil and never seemed to be intimidated by it. Croaker found it too coincidental that his friends' grandson was somehow involved so he entered the chamber and sat to wait for the events to unfold.
It wasn't much longer before the reports were coming in that the magical detectors were burning out in London and heading straight for the Ministry. He sat and watched as the Veil started acting, for lack of a better term, more excited and was moving and swirling in patterns that had never been seen before.
Croaker felt the magic in the room change and then watched as a young man appeared as if out of thin air but he knew it was just Charlus' old cloak being pulled off. The young man stood there staring at the Veil and what appeared to him as listening to the voices that were undecipherable on the best of days. As he looked more closely at the young man, he could see many cuts through the tears in his clothes.
As he continued to watch, he saw the young man's hand had blackened as if being hit by a withering curse. Croaker's eyes moved towards the young man's face and could already see that the withering curse must have been cast by a powerful wizard as the effects had moved up his arm and black tendrils were already showing branches moving up his neck.
Harry Potter took a step towards the Veil and Croaker rose from his seat. As he moved forward, Harry started glowing with a golden aura which grew brighter the closer he came to the arch. The arch reacted to his presence and the mist like substance changed into what looked like water.
Harry stepped up on the platform and was standing three feet away from the surface when Croaker reacted and ran towards the young man. He saw Harry say something to the elf in his arms before stepping through the archway. He heard an audible slurp as Harry disappeared and the surface started fading back to the calm mists that had always been present.
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