Amelia walked out to the Apparition point with Hammer, as she got to the welcome desk the welcome witch called out her name and handed her a note
Possible illegal witch and wizard at the Grangers.
Bring veratasium.
Phelps.
The apparition co-ordinates were scribbled at the bottom of the note. Wondering if it would be worth taking a pain-relieving potion now, she turned back to the ward to let them know that she was going to a muggle address, and to send an owl. She'd check back in on the way back to the office. She then gave Hammer the note and told her to get the veratasium and meet her there.
She walked up a well-appointed footpath to the front door and rang the doorbell. A moment later the door opened and a man wearing a dressing gown looked her up and down and then invited her in.
"Good morning, Hammer will be here shortly with the veratasium, would you be able fill me in on why it's needed?"
Phelps first introduces Dan and Emma, then continues with. "If we're starting at the beginning, you'll need to read a letter first"
Wordlessly Dan hands over the letter Harry received on his birthday. Amelia starts to read and the further she gets the more her eyebrows try to merge with her hairline.
"OK, suppose this is true, what does it have to do with why I'm here?"
Dan quips, "Well I suppose that's my cue then. While non-magicals are unaffected by The Dream and are unable to interact with it on their own. Magicals can carry them into the dream. We were taken so far that our bodies started to evaporate and there literal rivers of magic in the sky. First Petunia accidently while she was trying to bring Harry out of a nightmare. We hitched a ride with my overachieving daughter 2 nights before school began. And despite what happened, I am very much glad that she did it here rather than as school where anyone that tried to help would have just been putting more people in danger. Something about being somewhere so magical seems to have infused us with magic for want of a better word. Our bodies then adapt to having that much magic and start to use it the same way you do."
A knock at the door heralded the arrival of Auror Hammer and the veratasium. A quick introduction and they were back in the study, which was looking crowded now that there were more people than chairs.
"OK, Hammond, can you set up the dictaquill, while I go over what will happen?
"I am going to dose one of you with three drops of Veratasium, we will then ask some control questions, and one test question. Once that's done I'm going to ask you how you to describe how you got your magic. We're recording this, as it illegal to grow up as a witch or wizard and not attend an educational establishment, the punishment of which is having your magic bound and your wand if you have one snapped.
"Unfortunately, if you don't do it voluntarily now I will be obliged to arrest you, and then ask both of you separately in a holding cell."
Dan then decided that he was going to do it despite Emma's protest that she's just as capable as he is. The questioning goes as expected, though the description of the creature that attacked them before Hermione managed to get control sent eyebrows skywards.
"I don't think I'm the only one here that is going to need to take some time to absorb this. You said that Hermione had been practicing meditating. Why exactly was she doing that?"
"We're not sure of the mechanics of it, but it's to be able to force her magic into a sleep like state rather than an active state. Meaning that if she woke up during The Dream, she could rescue herself."
"I don't like this, the only way to confirm the existence of this dream is to risk our lives, and if we screw up we've lost someone if it's true, and nothing happens if it's not. But your testimony gives enough reason to think that we should be treating it as real.
However, I can confirm that we have no grounds to arrest you for failing to go through magical education, as our laws aren't designed for people to just become magical."
Emma interjects her thoughts, "There is one other way to verify that it's true enough, even if the nature of it isn't known."
"Go on."
"Verify a that a group of non-magicals are non-magical. Then if there are any magicals that are willing to take the risk, and they succeed with the non-magical, the fact that the non-magical is now magical will mean that there is verifiably something happening during that period of time."
"Great, I guess I need to get the unspeakables involved."
"Who are the unspeakables?"
"They're the research arm of the government."
"Why are they called the unspeakables?"
"Because no one really knows what they do, just that they exist."
"Then no, we've seen what secret labs do in the non-magical world, and there's no way we'd be willing to let anyone be subject to a magical version when you've got the ability to erase memories at will."
A tapping at the window heralded the arrival of an owl.
Dan and Emma look around confused.
"It's probably for me." Amelia confesses
Dan gets up and opens the window, the owl hops in and flies over to Amelia, who takes the note off it's leg and reads it before paling.
"All hands on deck everyone, we've got a breach of the Statute in Little Whinging and containment methods aren't working."
Dan and Emma look at each other "Nixie!"
At that Phelps puts his head in his hands and groans.
"Phelps, is there something I needed to know when I got here?"
"Yes Ma'am, Petunia has a familiar that is invisible and eats magic. It finds charms especially tasty."
Amelia collapses on the chair and lets out a sob before pulling herself together again.
"Why didn't you… It doesn't matter. Dan, Emma can either of you help capture Nixie so that we can resolve this quickly?"
Before Dan can volunteer Emma says, "Just let me put on a tracksuit and grab a coat and I'll be with you."
"OK, I'll take you, everyone else, get out there and try and tempt it away from the muggles."
Once Aurors that know what's going on arrive, the situation is very quickly contained, though more people need to be obliviated than they were planning on, and some police officers have to be persuaded that it's a hoax. Something that should have been a simple operation turned into a full-blown emergency because someone left out relevant information because it sounded ridiculous. Emma was able to locate Nixie and take charge of her, and Amelia escorted her back her home.