"Don't talk nonsense, just listen to me!" Scrimgeour shouted to stop the discussion. "Gildero, did you snatch the Horcrux?"

"Of course it did. Lohart nodded, "We destroyed some of the defenses above that day, but more than half of it was effective. ”

Scrimgeour pondered for a moment, then said helplessly, "The truth is that mystery people can feel their Horcruxes being harmed - that is, we must have a way to destroy Horcruxes instantly, and I have never heard of any magic with such an astonishing concentrated burst of destructive power. But nothing is absolute, Gildero, you know a lot about black magic, think of a way to find or create a spell that has the power to destroy Horcruxes instantly-"

"Don't be naïve, Rufus. Lockhart sneered before he finished listening, "Horcruxes aren't technically living beings, if they don't be opened by Parseltongue like that Locket...... To destroy it, it is necessary to completely destroy its defenses and internal structure. It is said that black magic does more damage than white magic, and with the same magic power, black magic can indeed cause more and more complete damage than white magic - but it also has to obey the law, even if Merlin comes, he can't use any spell to cause damage equivalent to the amount of magic he consumes, which can theoretically cause more than 100% of the damage - Alas, the explanation is not clear, in short, if you want to destroy the Horcrux, you must meet two conditions: one is to have enough total mana to completely destroy it, and the other is to have a faster destruction speed than its own repair speed, both of which are indispensable, this has nothing to do with spells, theoretically any damaging spell is fine!"

"Okay, okay, I don't know much about the theoretical stuff, but I trust you. Scrimgeour nodded, "Then there's another way, destroy the Floo Net, and then you can slowly destroy the Horcruxes, and it's impossible for the Mystic to teleport to the Horcruxes without relying on the Floo Net." ”

"Yes. Now we can't destroy that Horcrux with the strength of a few of us - even if there are other Aurors gathered, we will go out and destroy the Floo Net......"

Scrimgeour waved his hand, "You're not getting to the point, Miss Granger, the difficulty is that Floo Net is indestructible...... It's invisible, and when we talk about cutting off the Floo network, we're actually asking someone from the Department of Transportation to manually cut off the connection between the energy supply system under the Ministry of Magic and the Floo network. Simply destroy the energy supply route of the Transportation Division, and with the help of magic, it can be repaired in no time......"

"What the hell is going to do then!" said Lockhart, irritatingly.

"If you want to cut off the Floo network for a long time, you have to go deep underground. Destroying the Ministry of Magic's energy supply system must be something that is difficult to repair in a short period of time. ”

Except for Scrimgeour and Lockhart, none of you know anything about the Ministry of Magic's energy supply system, and all Lockhart knows is that it is underground in the Ministry, and nothing is known about what it looks like, how it works, or where it goes down.

"How?"

"Remember the Department of Mysteries? The most mysterious of all the departments, he is mainly responsible for all kinds of heavy, secret magical matters, and his duties are highly secretive. It is made up of many parts......"

"Yes, we've seen a lot of them—" Harry interjected. "There's a brain in a room...... And it's all clocks, yes, and the prophecy room. ”

"Hmm. Scrimgeour nodded, "There's also the Planetary Room and the Hall of Death." There are a lot of things in it that can't be explained even with magic. The wizards are studying these things...... But in fact, compared with the most important responsibilities of the Department of Mysteries, these studies only serve as a cover. ”

"What an important duty. Harry's eyes widened as he spoke.

"The most important duty of the Department of Mysteries is to guard the door that is locked forever. Scrimgeour unravels the mystery. "To be precise, it's not that it's locked forever, but that most people never get a chance to see it open in their lifetime. ”

"What's in there?" Hermione looked at Scrimgeour wistfully, "I read in the book that there is a power in there, more amazing and more terrifying than death, more than human intelligence, more terrifying than the power of nature. Some people speculate that it's 'love', but what is it?"

"That's a cover-up, I only learned about it when I became the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and I didn't know it through official channels, I heard about it from a former friend. Scrimgeour sold: "The Department of Mysteries, every once in a while, selects a few of the best Aurors and makes them 'Secrets', or 'Silencers', 'Men of Silence', 'Men of Unknown Purpose'...... Call them whatever you want. These unexplained figures, claiming that they were on a top-secret mission, were actually trying to ensure that outsiders could not break through the locked door, and that if someone broke in, they would immediately teleport directly to the intruder through the dedicated Floo network in Guò, which was said to be the Ministry of Magic's energy supply system. ”

"Energy supply system!" said Black, "sounds amazing." ”

"Not only does it sound amazing, but their duties are just as amazing - most of them are Aurors, but once they become whistleblowers, they are no longer responsible to the wizarding world, only to the door...... It doesn't matter who is in power, it doesn't matter to them, they just make sure that no one breaks into that door and destroys the energy supply system...... They won't be replaced until they're too old to walk - you know what that means. ”

"Means they won't help us. "The secretists must be persuaded or coerced by force, but where are they? Even the Aurors know to hide their addresses, and these Aurors-born secrets will probably pay more attention to this." ”

"Of course, but I've been an Auror for more than 30 years, and there will always be a few colleagues who have been chosen to be whistleblowers. Scrimgeour frowned and said, "One of them has a good relationship with me, I know where he lives, and now I'm afraid I'm sorry for his trust......"

"We're not going to kill him and ask him to do him a favor. Lockhart said disdainfully, "He's just dereliction of duty, but he can save our lives!"

"It's not that simple, the secret is bound to be bound by something like an unbreakable oath...... Divulging secrets, or dereliction of duty, can threaten their lives. ”

"For the sake of more people's lives and interests, we must defeat the mysterious man and take back the Ministry of Magic, no matter how big the price is, it is worth it, what's wrong with sacrificing him!" Lockhart said without hesitation, but before he could finish speaking, he realized that something was wrong...... If you have to sacrifice an innocent wizard for the benefit of others, how is this different from the Death Eaters?

Scrimgeour and Lockhart looked at each other for a few moments before Scrimgeour spoke. "Do you realize that if that secret is you, would you be willing to give your life to protect those Muggles and Muggle wizards?"

"Of course ......not," Lockhart reluctantly admitted, "that's why there's that in the Auror Handbook......"

"That's right, 'no moral judgment is made when a task is carried out'. Scrimgeour no longer looked at Lockhart, he still didn't want to fool his friends if he could, but now that "more lives and interests" included his own lives and those of his family, he had to follow the Aurors' rules.

――(To be continued......)