"How's the progress here?" Bellatrix asked domineeringly as she walked towards the five Death Eaters.
"Very successful. We can already enter the room where the prophecy orb is stored," a low voice said.
"That's great. Luke Wood just told me that there were a few spells that stopped us, but you've already solved them!" Bellatrix said admiringly. "Dolphin, you've done well this time …"
"How did you do it?" Luke Wood asked in astonishment.
"It's just a little trick, as long as …"
Harry was not in the mood to listen to what they were saying, nor did he care how they broke the spell of the Ministry of Magic.
He now knew that the main reason he had been dreaming of this place was because the Lord Voldemort wanted him to come here and get the prophecy orb.
"Someone prophesied the same thing for me and the Lord Voldemort? He wanted me to come and get the prophecy orb for him? Why didn't he come and get it himself? "he continued to ask, staring at Lucius Malfoy.
"He came to get it himself?" Hearing his words, Bellatrix laughed maniacally. She turned her head and screamed, "People have completely ignored the return of the Dark Lord. Why would he walk into the Ministry of Magic at this time? Now that they're wasting time looking for the vampires and Dumbledore, why would the Dark Lord expose himself to the Auror? "
"I understand now. So he ordered you to do this dirty work for him," Harry said. "Just like how he wanted Stogy to steal the prophecy orb."
"That's right, Potter, that's right!" Malfoy said slowly. "We originally planned to use a gentler method and let you come here and take the prophecy orb for us, but now we don't have the time …"
"You kidnapped me from the school. Aren't you afraid of being exposed?" Harry asked.
"If Dumbledore was still here, we naturally wouldn't dare to do this." Malfoy said proudly. "As for being exposed, do you think anyone in the Ministry of Magic would be willing to believe you? Just like how you keep talking about the return of The Dark Lord. "
As long as he didn't see Lord Voldemort with his own eyes, he probably wouldn't believe anything Harry said.
Even if a group of Death Eaters broke into the Ministry of Magic in the middle of the night and operated under his nose, he would pretend not to see them.
"Go in. As long as you cooperate, we might let you return to Hogwarts alive."
The Death Eaters laughed rudely again as they crossed the corridor and entered the plain black door.
As in the dream, they were standing in a large round room.
Everything here, including the ceiling and floor, was black.
Twelve identical black doors, unmarked and without knobs, were set at some distance from one another in the black walls, and candles with blue flames were ornamented on the walls, and their cold, flickering light was reflected on the polished marble floor, so that it looked like a pool of black water.
The Death Eater at the back closed the door. Without the narrow beam of light pouring in from the corridor behind them, the place became so dark that for a while, all Harry could see was the flickering blue candles on the wall and their eerie reflections on the floor.
With a loud rumble, the candles began to move to one side, and the round wall began to spin.
"Which door should we use?" Bellatrix asked impatiently.
"We can't be sure, we have to try them one by one to know," Luke Wood said.
"Damn it, these doors always spin. Was it like this when you worked here before?"
"It's a security measure. Each room corresponds to a different spell, and the spells are broken by different silent people. If someone breaks in without knowing the right way to break it, an alarm will be triggered immediately," Luke Wood said. "These spells are very old. I know most of them, but only a few have been replaced by them. Dolphin, are you sure you broke the spell there? "
"Of course, we just went in and confirmed it!" The wizard called Dolphin said, walking over to Harry's side. "The shelves in that room are filled with small gray glasses, there must be a thousand of them."
"Yes, that's the room," Luke Wood said, nodding. "It's behind the Hall of Time."
"By the way, according to the information we stole from the Ministry of Magic, where is the Orb of Prophecy?"
"Row 97. We just have to get Potter to retrieve it."
"Then what are we waiting for!" Bellatrix said impatiently. "Twelve tries at worst!"
"We don't need that many. There are three doors that are locked for a long time." Luke Wood said, "They correspond to ancient magic relics, powerful magic books, and famous legendary magic items in history. They need all the silent people to open them."
"If there really is a powerful magic item inside, why don't we rob it?"
"That's because no one knows who the thirteen silent people are. Even the minister of the Ministry of Magic doesn't know. If we want to investigate them one by one, we need to completely control the Ministry of Magic." Luke Wood said, "And most of the things inside have been damaged and lost all their magic. All that's left is a name. It's useless even if we get it."
Luke Wood chose a door, and Harry followed him in after being pushed by someone.
This room was much larger than the previous one, and it was also dimly lit.
It was square, and the center was concave, forming a huge stone pit, about twenty feet deep.
Stone steps surrounded the whole room, like stone benches. Each step gradually descended, and each step was very steep. It was like a lecture hall, or the courtroom where Harry had been interrogated by Weissengamor. They stood on the top step.
But there was no chair with iron chains in the center of the stone pit. Instead, there was a raised stone platform.
There was an arched door on it, which looked very old and dilapidated. Harry was surprised that it could still stand there.
There was no wall around the arched door, and a tattered black curtain or curtain hung on it. Although the air here was cold, without a trace of wind, it swayed gently as if it had just been touched.
"Not here!"
"What's the door below?" Harry couldn't help but ask, staring at the gently swaying curtain.
Although the arched door was very old, it had a unique beauty.
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