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Chapter #26: The ministry assault, part I.

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The Ministry of Magic was a busy place, even though their government had been taken over by a megalomaniac and that the current minister was nothing but the puppet of said megalomaniac, they still had to live their lives and so, it didn’t matter if they lost friends, family members, they still had to go to work.

Life moved on for the ministry employees who don’t support the regime but are too scared to do anything, that’s the case of Amelia Bones, she’s still working in the Auror offices even though she was relegated to nothing but an entrance guard.

The worst thing is that there’s nothing she can do as right now the death eaters have her niece as a hostage working on their twisted projects, she knew she had to live and fight to see the next day just for her, it hurts because they said just a few words to each other the last time they met.

After all, Susan was being constantly monitored even during her days off, they couldn’t risk her telling someone about what they do in their experimentation camps but Amelia could only sadly guess, she tried to ignore it and not think too much about it, after all, ignorance is bliss.

But sometimes no matter how much you try to ignore something, when obvious things are happening, there’s no point in trying to look the other way because it’s haunting and as far as she knew, what those prisoners were going through was a hellish experience.

Amelia everyday tries to suppress the urge to snap and kill everyone, one day she saw what muggles call a tv program, it was about two students who used muggle weapons on their school to kill students and teachers, sometimes she feels like she wants to do that in the ministry, kill everyone who helped the current regime to get to power.

But the thought of her niece stopped all those urges, she was so frustrated, someone like should be hunting people like Yaxley not working for them, and yet, that’s her current situation.

Amelia was so lost in her thoughts until something strange happened, just like she had seen when there’s a thunderstorm when muggles lose their electricity and everything becomes dark, the same time was happening in the ministry as all the magical artifacts that kept this place going were currently shut down.

Soon the whispers started, maybe this was a prank or maybe something was malfunctioning somewhere.

“Wish we could have someone looking at what happened to the artifacts, sadly, the people in the department of mysteries that were in charge of that had been fired, in fact, the whole department of mysteries has been shut down by the current administration of Lucius Malfoy,” Amelia said loud enough for one of the supporters of the dark lord to hear her.

“Bones…Are you implying that the dark lord’s regime is a failure?” Asked the enraged wizard.

“I didn’t say that…But you seem to have gotten that idea, I think that tells us everything we need to know about this government!” Amelia didn’t know where her courage came from.

She knew she was practically alone as almost everyone in the ministry supported the current regime as they put only those of pure blood and those worthy in power positions.

“What did you say you imbecile blood traitor…Avada—” The enraged wizard was about to chant the killing curse but then something strange happened.

Soon, his head was blown out of nowhere, the most strange thing was that no one heard someone casting a powerful hex or charm to destroy the man’s head, so, the panic started soon and all the people were running everywhere trying to get out of the ministry all of them ran to the floo network, but then they were horrified to find that it wasn’t working.

“Fuck…Someone has blocked the floo network!” Said one random witch with tears in her eyes.

“What? That doesn’t make any sense!” This time it was one of the most obvious followers of the dark as the wizard had no shame in showing the dark mark on his arm.

He tapped his arm with his wand and everyone gasped, they knew what that meant, calling the dark lord’s forces was a very serious thing so, whoever planned this prank to stop the floo network wasn’t going to have a happy ending.

However, soon the man with the mark was enraged because the tattoo on his arm wasn’t glowing no matter how much he pressed his wand nothing was happening.

“What the fuck is going on?!” He asked himself with desperation and then his head was blown up too.

Amelia’s eyes widened but then she understood what was going on, there was a presence, she could feel it and that presence was clearly hunting the followers of the dark lord, so, she decided to remain calm and then she got rid of her coat which revealed her muscular arms and aside from that there was nothing she no mark, she wanted to make sure she doesn’t get killed by accident by showing she didn't follow Voldemort.

“I think I know what’s going on,” Amelia said in a loud tone that made everyone pay attention to her. “It’s clear that whoever is killing people right now, they’re only targeting the marked followers of the dark lord…So, those who are innocent, get rid of your coats!” Amelia said with a serious tone.

Everyone hesitated a bit but when one wizard raised his wand to attack Amelia suddenly his head was blown just like the others, everyone understood that Amelia was right, so, they revealed their clean arms as soon as they could.

It’s true that amongst these people there were still wizards and witches who didn’t mind the dark lord, in fact, they were happy someone was finally putting mud-bloods and other blood-stained failures in their place, however, that doesn’t mean they were killing other people, they haven’t reached that point, so, for now, they felt safe.

Amongst all the crowd, there was only a group of twenty people, and most of them were wizards but there were also a couple of witches who had their arms covered, they didn’t want to show anything.

They tried to defend themselves but then they found themselves being killed by being completely blown out or their hearts being pierced by some kind of blue light.

“What the…” Amelia said once she realized what happened, they were killed so fast that she wasn’t able to tell when everything started and when ended.

“Well well, it seems like the ministry is completely rotten,” they finally heard someone speaking.

The voice was everywhere but for some reason they weren’t able to find the source, soon the paranoia started and all the workers were staring into each other’s eyes trying to find the culprit to beg for their lives, however, their eyes suddenly widened when they saw something they weren’t expecting to see.

Floating and coming out of an invisibility cloak, a young man with dark hair and emerald eyes appeared with a smirk on his face, if anyone could describe him it would be as if he were the perfect product of the union between James Potter and Lily Evans.

But that was a weird conclusion because even if the Potters were hiding, they were part of the battle where the dark lord lost his body almost twenty years ago, so, they were famous and they knew that they only had a son and a daughter, but the son didn’t look like the young man in front of them.