Hi there. Welcome to my Harry Potter and Sherlock story. Just a few notes about this story to help you understand, this story is set after season two of Sherlock and five years after the end of the 7th Harry Potter book. At this point there are no pairings but they may change further into the story. You're welcome to tell me what pairings you would like to see. This story is not beta-ed so if your find anything wrong let me know.

Mysteries and Magic

Prologue

Things were not going as expected at all. Things were meant to be simple. Sneak in, get the information, sneak out. Only that sneaking in part didn't go as planned. The security around the building was tighter then stated in the report. It seemed that someone had tipped them off. It had been relatively easy to get into the building but that was when the problems started. The security guards were making their rounds twice as often, checking every room for anyone and anything out of place. Hiding in a supply cupboard Harry Potter was waiting for the guards to pass so that he could continue on. He didn't have much time left and he needed to get the information. In the hands of muggles it could be very dangerous.

The guards passed on only after a quick glance in the cupboard. Harry was hiding under his invisible cloak. It was the only thing stopping him from showing up in the security cameras that were always watching. Glancing around the hall to make sure the coast was clear, Harry quickly moved to the left towards the main computer hub. The room was easy to get into with a quiet unlocking spell. There was only one guard in the room. He was sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen and didn't seem to notice that the door had opened and closed. The man was wearing the same blue and purple uniform of all the other staff in the building. Harry crept passed the tired looking man and made his was further into the room.

The room was full of computers, all holding different types of information, some on the current staff, some on the accounts, and some with very secret information. Some of that secret information was what Harry was here for. The report stated that the information that was to be collected was on computer number 27. Computer 27 was blessedly hidden behind a row of filing cabinets as well as currently turned on. Harry sat in the chair in front of the desk and popped in the USB drive that he had brought with him. It was important for him to download all the information before he wiped all the information from the computers system. Copying the correct documents was easy, wiping the computer a little bit harder. As he had to delete all evidence of the deleted files as well. When he had finished Harry stood and made sure that the USB was safely hidden in once of him pockets. It wouldn't do for him to lose the information now.

Sneaking out was going even worse than sneaking in. Harry was currently two floors down from the information storage room when the alarms were set off. He still has three more levels to go down until he reached the ground fall. Harry ducked into an office narrowly avoiding a pair of guards only to realise to late that someone was in the room and they had noticed him. Sitting behind the desk was a young woman. She was dressed professionally, clearly a secretary or personal assistant. The woman stared at him. Harry looked down and realised that his invisible cloak had moved and his left leg was uncovered. Fully removing the cloak Harry slowly made his was closer to the woman. He needed to stun her before she could call for help. Harry didn't want to have to hurt anyone but he needed to escape as soon as he could. Pointing his wand at the woman he smiled apologetically at her before chanting a stunning spell. The woman fell to the ground with a soft thump before she could as much as scream.

Glancing in the mirror sitting on the desk he was happy to see that his glamour was still holding. In case of emergency he had cast a glamour so that the break in wouldn't be traced back to him. To the outside would Harry currently was blonde with dull brown eyes and slightly tan skin. It was very different from that he truly looked like. Hearing footsteps outside the door, Harry pulled the cloak over him again and made sure it was fully covering him. The door opened and in came yet another pair of security guards. Harry slipped thought the door just before it closed and made his escape.

Harry was almost at the side staff entrance when he was captured. He had been just about to put his hand on the door to push it open when there was a shout for him to stop from behind him. Standing just at the end of the hall was the woman from before. It seemed that the guards were able to wake her. She was carrying a handbag and was holding a cell phone. She must have been told to go home or even to go to the police. Harry could easily run out the door but he had a feeling that he wouldn't get very far now that this woman had seen him twice. The woman approached him and Harry was prepared to stun her again if needed, but it wasn't. The woman pushed open the door and walked over the black car the parked just outside the door on the service road. She opened the door and got into the car. The door stayed open and the car didn't drive off. Instead the woman spoke again. This time she demanded that he get into the car.

Looking around the side street Harry saw two security cameras pointed in their direction. Someone was watching them. Harry slowly got into the car and closed the door. The can then drove off to an unknown location. The woman was looking at her phone again, texting someone. She was almost certainly updating whoever was watching on their current position. Harry was getting more and more nervous the further they drove. It was extremely hard to tell where they were going as it was night and the tinted windows made it almost impossible to see anything but general shapes.

The woman didn't even look up from her phone when the car stopped. She just stepped out and motioned for Harry to follow her. Once out of the car Harry took a glance around the surroundings. He was surprised to see that they had arrived at the muggle world entrance to the ministry of magic. The woman passed Harry a business card before getting back into the car and driving away. Turning over the business card in his hands, Harry wondered who this mystery woman was. All that was printed on the card was the name Maria with a cell phone number underneath it. The card gave nothing else away. Tucking the card into his pocket where the USB was, Harry stepped into the phone box and descended into the ministry.

Just before Harry stepped out of the phone box he removed his glamour, feeling a little silly for still wearing it. The atrium of the ministry of magic was relatively quiet for this time of night. There was a few auror's wondering around and some of the international department members hurrying off to meetings. Harry was waved though the security and made his was up to the minister's office. He needed to report in as it had already taken him much longer then it should have to return. Just outside the office Harry paused to place the business card the woman gave him and his invisible cloak on his desk. Harry knocked on the frosted glass window on the door leading to the minister's office and proceeded to walk in. If the minister didn't want him to come in the door would have been locked.

Sitting behind the large wooden desk was the minister. Kingsley Shacklebolt smiled at his secretary and motioned for Harry to sit. Harry handed over the USB and waited for the minister to speak first. Once Harry had reported in the minister sent him home with a few words about not worrying about the woman.

TBC!

HI again,

The reason why Harry was on the mission and not the auror's is because the minister felt that harry could be trusted to not make a fool of himself among all the muggle technology and that the information is so important that the minister didn't want anyone but his secretary to see it, but more about the information coming up in the next few chapters.

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