Alice

"Monitor suspects more closely than usual," I ordered Griffin Darklight, my head of the team that dealt with the Knights of Walpurgis, or as I had nicknamed them, Stupid Death Eaters. "Check for their children at Hogwarts. Also check into any former members, Ky Emrys's and children excluded for obvious reasons, and check into children of former members in case we can get a lead off of one of them."

Darklight nodded, and I turned, and promptly slammed my head against my desk. People were all over me for the attack on Halloween, and the raid. I checked the clock when I looked up, rubbing my head. Almost time for a meeting, I remembered, and I walked down the main aisle of the Auror cubicle space, a large, large room with the big office that was mine in the very back.

I walked into the lift, and took a deep breath, as my hair stood on end, and I felt unsettled and nervous. Hold on, girl, it's only for a few seconds. I closed my eyes, which made dealing with the small space all the easier.

"Welcome to the Department of Mysteries," a cool female voice from the lift said. I nodded, and walked to the main door, which was under heavy guard, where a woman with boyishly short jet-black hair, wearing a black t-shirt with a skull design on it and black skinny jeans, despite being thirty-four and a bit old to be "goth" as they said.

"Hello, Emrys-Ansel," I said, using commonplace work procedures.

Korr smirked. "It's been a while, Alice."

"I remember," I said curtly. "You said you've got information on the Deathly Hallows that could help us with what the Knights of Walpurgis want and what they might do with them?"

"Simple," Korr said with a shrug. "The Deathly Hallows can reverse death itself."

"But the Resurrection Stone doesn't fully work," I reminded her, remembering how Wesley faded after an hour.

"Not if you use it alone," she said with a smirk. "But use the Elder Wand to amplify the power, and the Cloak for the dead to rise under, and the dead can truly rise back to life."

I could've kissed my sister-in-law at that point. "Korr, you unearthed an agenda, something the entire Auror office couldn't figure out for eighteen years!" I cried.

She smirked. "Glad to do my civic duty." With that, she disappeared into the Department of Mysteries, Unspeakable once again.

I nodded with respect to the guards, and went back into the tiny lift, and back into the Auror Office. I strode over to the section of cubicles, larger than it was before, dedicated to tracking down the Knights of Walpurgis and bringing them to justice.

"Darklight, we've got motives and an agenda!" I announced. Several of the Aurors cheered.

"At long last?" Darklight asked, surprised.

I nodded. He hugged me, and we cheered, then separated. Everyone was so happy, just to have one piece to the puzzle. Something vital, too.

"So, what is it?" One of our new assignments to the case, Glen Sutherland, asked.

"They're searching for the Deathly Hallows," I explained, now serious. "The Elder Wand, the Deathstick, Wand of Destiny, allegedly unbeatable. The Resurrection Stone, with the ability to bring specters to the surface and potentially bring back the dead. The Invisibility Cloak, rumored to protect its owner from death itself," I explained.

"Like in the Tale of Three Brothers?" Jaden Korr asked, giving me an are-kidding-me look. "Look, Emrys, we shouldn't be chasing down-"

I raised an eyebrow. "Hear me out, Korr. The Hallows are real, and a desperate man's dream. Voldemort himself wielded the Elder Wand- it's in Dumbledore's grave, though, and it has the allegiance of my brother, and the Invisibility Cloak, which was what was stolen on Halloween," I continued. "The last one. . . Harry dropped it in the middle of the Forbidden Forest. That one, I don't know what will happen, since it was attached to a ring, and might be long gone. But it would be stupid to assume that the Knights can't get to it, since the dark side always has its ways."

"Still, what could they do with it?" Korr argued. "The Wand isn't unbeatable, as we all very well know, so why should we care?"

"The three Hallows, used together, can resurrect the dead," I explained. "They probably have an agenda to bring back every and any dark witch or wizard who will support them, like Bellatrix Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, Fenir Greyback. Then they'll work there way up, like maybe some of the Korrs," I said with a glance at Jaden. "Then they'll hit the big leagues- Herpo the Foul, Morgana Le Fay, the Morrigan, Circe, Medea, Raczidian, even Voldemort himself, and worst of all, Grindelwald."

Everyone in the room paled at the idea of having to deal with all of those dead witches and wizards. All of them. At the same time.

"Okay, point taken," Korr replied quickly.

"What do you want done?" Darklight asked.

"I want there to be a guard of Aurors at all time on Dumbledore's tomb. As for the Resurrection Stone, there's nothing we can do about it," I explained. "But we also want intel on those suspects. If we can get an idea of who's in the Knights, we have a chance of knocking out this scheme before it's even acted halfway through."

There were nods, and people were back to work. I sighed as I went back to my big office, and started working on the request to McGonagall to get guards to work at Hogwarts, a day staff and a night staff.

This oughta be fun.