[HP] Alchemy and Love

"Just right." Dumbledore replied with a smile, motioning for Benji Fenwick to close the door, "This way we will have all the people who can come today."

He, Meg, and the new round-faced girl took the last seats on the sofa.A lot of people came, and the living room was already crowded. The girl looked around, and finally walked towards Lorenthia - only her side was more spacious.Lorencia hurriedly stepped aside, and the girl sat down next to her, looking at her curiously with a smile on her face.

"Then, let's begin." Dumbledore said, the atmosphere quickly became serious, and even Sirius and James immediately stopped the joke that had just been said in the middle. "First of all, the Order of the Phoenix has added a new member, Ms. Lorenzia Field. She has already helped the Order of the Phoenix a lot, and the photo folders, amulets and other items in the previous summons are all from her hands."

There was applause scattered in the room, and Lorencia avoided the gazes of the crowd, nodded a little at a loss, then quickly lowered her head, staring closely at the hands clasped on her knees.Fortunately, the applause stopped after a while, and Dumbledore continued: "Our primary topic today is the ambush that happened yesterday. First of all, our intelligence information comes from Mundungus—" Many people frowned and looked around the room Here, it seems that he wants to find him, "—and his information comes from Tyne, another informant of the Order of the Phoenix. Dorcas and Caradoc were previously responsible for tracking Tyne."

The two named, Dorcas Meadows and Caradoc Dearborn, looked at each other. "Tyne was dead when we found him, dumped in the woods," said Dorcas Meadows, a dark-haired girl with a strong voice. The hands of the Death Eaters, it is impossible to tell from the corpse whether he was under the Imperius Curse before his death, but in any case, the Death Eaters must think that he has lost his use value. We sent his body to the Auror Executive Department. Dearborn reasoned that he must have been conscious at least when he went into the woods, for it was wet out there, and the ground was full of mud puddles, and his shoes were not too dirty, and he should be careful walking, which is People under the Imperius Curse won't notice."

"And the Auror Executive Division really didn't see anything else." Sirius shrugged helplessly, "People who die from Death Eaters are so common that we don't have a good way to persuade them They're doing a more detailed examination of the body, but James and I, um, fiddled a little bit."

"There are traces of his memory being extracted." James interjected, "However, Tyne didn't join the Order of the Phoenix after all, and he doesn't know the real secret, only a few of us who have been in contact with him—is this not No big deal, after all I'm guessing half the people in this room have been registered with Voldemort."

Dumbledore nodded, and continued: "The information came so urgently that the Order of the Phoenix had to take urgent action in order to save the townspeople, without prior verification. Moody sent a message to the Auror Executive Director , but until the end of the battle, no reinforcements came.”

"It was only later discovered that the message was never delivered and was intercepted halfway." Moody muttered, "The urgent message was intercepted before it reached the deputy director of the Auror Executive Division. There's an insider, I'm not yet sure who it is. I bet there's more than one."

Dumbledore nodded solemnly: "It's very possible. You know, the purpose of the establishment of the Order of the Phoenix is ​​precisely because the power of the Ministry of Magic is no longer worthy of complete trust. We must be more vigilant." He looked around, " For this ambush, Voldemort's strategy is very simple - to attack and save, and then set up an ambush. Simple, but effective. If it wasn't for some accidents in the middle of the development, and Alastor's early evacuation when he saw the opportunity, our losses would be very serious. Much. It was my fault."

"It's not your fault, sir!" cried almost all in unison.Sirius' voice was the loudest: "Even if we know it's a trap, can we really watch them being attacked and do nothing?"

"Nobody could have made a better decision then, Albus," said Professor McGonagall.

Dumbledore raised a hand slightly, and everyone fell silent quickly. "I thank you for your trust." He said slowly, "But as the leader of the Order of the Phoenix, I have the responsibility to distinguish the true and false news in advance. This is my fault. But I can assure you that I will try my best to avoid similar things happened."

"You do your best, and that's good enough, Albus," said Moody.

"Then, we have a more important topic - the whereabouts of Green and Williams." Dumbledore said, "I think everyone here has heard about Robin's wonderful escape, but Green and Williams His whereabouts are still unknown."

"Neither of us found anything," Fabian said on behalf of the Prewett brothers.

"Me and Peter too." Edgar sighed and shook his head.

Next, Lupine shook his head beside her.He also participated in the search when he was not at work. Lorenthia was not surprised. She suddenly felt a little guilty and felt that she might also do her part-even though she didn't even know these two people at all.

Finally, it was the round-faced girl beside her who shook her head: "Frank and I only found their broken wand. There is no way to track it down."

"That may be good news," said James, with a somewhat exaggerated high-pitched voice, "no news, which means they are almost certainly still alive, only captured, and perhaps escaped - if Voldemort kills them , he would be happy to demonstrate to us."

"That's right, let's not give up hope easily." Dumbledore said, "I hope you will continue to search, but you must pay attention to your own safety, at least in groups of two, and be on guard at any time. The last thing we need now is food." The Dead Apostles use them as bait to cause damage to others."

Lorenthia was undoubtedly unable to participate in the search, and Dumbledore obviously excluded her when arranging the mission.She just concentrated on thinking about what Dumbledore said, looking for these two people... However, the alchemy items she provided in the past were useless in this regard.Only a combination of special items and special magic can achieve the tracking effect, such as the trace wire attached to each wand by the Ministry of Magic.It is impossible for ordinary, mass-produced magic items to achieve this kind of tracking. All the communication photo folders are exactly the same-even the differences are almost indistinguishable. How to track them?

But maybe, having this feature, in a situation like this, could be a life saver...is this possible?

She silently recalled all the tracking methods that she knew of the alchemy items that could be achieved, submerged in them unconsciously, until Remus next to her lightly touched her, awakening her from her thoughts.Everyone has reported their free time and arranged groups: James, Lily and Sirius, Frank and Alice - the round-faced girl beside her, Edgar Burns and Caradoc Dill Byrne, the Prewett Brothers, Dorcas Meadows, Marlene McKinnon and Benji Fenwick.Remus asked her in a low voice, "I'll be with Peter. Free time...?"

"Whatever you need." Lorenthia replied eagerly, "Any time is fine."

This is the only thing she can do right now.So, after Remus and Peter finally determined the time, their search plan was finalized like this.

The following topics include the follow-up of yesterday's ambush incident, the movements of the Auror Executive Directorate and the Ministry of Magic, the safety of everyone's residence and the corresponding protective spells, the newly added incident of Death Eaters attacking a Muggle wizard's family a few days ago, etc. wait.Lorenthia hardly said a word the whole time, just listening and observing silently.After nearly two hours of discussion, she finally matched everyone and their names firmly, and she also knew that the round-faced girl next to her was Alice Longbottom, and her husband Frank Longbottom had something to do today. turn up.It was already very late when the meeting ended, and everyone dispersed, Remus asked, "Shall I take you back?"

Lorencia actually thought that she didn't really need an escort. After all, she would apparate directly outside the protective spell at home, and one or two steps further was Tina's protection—and Tina's protection was not so easy to get breached.However, she would never refuse Remus' request, "Okay." She whispered, the two said goodbye to the others together, and Apparated.

It wasn't until she reappeared outside her home that Lorenthia let out a long sigh of relief.The discomfort of Apparating was one thing, but also, being away from other people made her feel less constrained.They walked a few steps forward, and when they stopped at the door, Remus suddenly asked, "Loren, I saw you seem to be thinking at the meeting...do you have a way to track everyone?"

"I'm thinking about this." Lorenthia nodded and admitted, "As far as the current communication method is concerned, it is impossible, I have to improve it-you know, the positioning of alchemy items is actually very tricky. Many. Using spells, using alchemy circles, using core special materials to achieve material mutual induction, using the user's magic power or even blood to perform magic branding... But most of them have their own shortcomings. Moreover, we are not talking about one or two people, but It was a dozen or twenty people—I had to think about it. Besides, magical items that can be tracked are usually very easy to be untracked. If any of us are captured, if this positioning device is found by Death Eaters, turn And anti-locating our people...it's too dangerous, which is why I didn't consider adding the tracking function in the first place."

"You know, I'm far behind you in alchemy." Remus whispered, seemingly hesitant, "But, I think, if you can consider... the best tracking technique is only available to you To. Or just you and Dumbledore, no one else can do it, or even know about it. Is it possible?"

"It...maybe, I don't know. I'll have to think about it." Lorenthia said, staring at him worriedly, but Remus's back was moonlight, and most of the expression on his face was shrouded in shadow, " But why hide from them what you can track? Has something happened within the Order?"

"Nothing happened to the Order of the Phoenix, don't worry." Remus immediately comforted her, "I can trust each of them with my life. But after what happened with Tyne, plus the ghost in the Ministry of Magic... I think Maybe it’s just a matter of time before everyone becomes suspicious of each other.” He shook his head, “I hope I’m thinking too much. I just hope that no one will doubt you by then.”