New And Improved Harry Potter

Amelia's POV

While she was still staring at the map, Amelia was going over plans on who to get to investigate the tunnels. She decided to try once more to get Moody to take her call. She put the map in her a drawer in her desk and went to the Floo. "Alastor, can you hear me? It's Amelia. Look, I know your mad at me for leaving you in Poppy's care, but I really need your help," she called to the flames, waiting for the paranoid man to respond. She hoped that by bring up Poppy he'd know it was her. Just when she was about to give up, Mad-eye's face appeared in the fire.

"What?" was the curt question.

"First off, how are you?" she asked kindly.

"Fine. What do you want?"

"I have something I think you'll like. Can you come over?" she asked, with a gleam in her eye.

Alastor thought long and hard about it. He was berating himself for hiding away. He needed to get back out there and do something. Albus had asked him to rejoin the Order, but when he found out that they were only going to look for Potter, he declined. He wanted to be doing something against Voldemort, not babysitting a kid who didn't need it. "Fine, I'll be over in a moment," he said gruffly. He wanted to make sure he had his backup wand, and the backup to the backup. You can never be too careful.

"I'll be waiting," she said, moving back to her desk. Potter said that only the head of the DMLE could use the map, but did that mean that someone couldn't see it if she wanted them too? Well, she'd test it out on Mad-eye.

Suddenly the Floo flared and Alastor stepped out. Thumping his way to her desk, he threw himself into a chair. "What do you want, Amelia?" he asked for the third time.

"I was just given something that could do wonders in protecting the Ministry. However, it must remain a secret between you and me," she said slyly, hoping to tweak his interest.

"This room is secure?"

"Judge for yourself," she offered, knowing that that would be the only way to appease the man.

Moody waved his wand around and did his own deep scanning. Finding nothing, he nodded his head for her to continue.

"I was just in a meeting with a young man, and he offered to help beef up security. This," she held up the parchment she took out of her desk, "is a map of the entire building. Including the tunnels no one knew about. I do wonder how your eye missed it," she said as the thought just occurred to her.

"What tunnels?" he demanded, a bit angry that the building he had worked in for many years had passages that he never knew about. Granted by the time he learned to control his eye, the war was over, and he never had reason to look for such a thing. He was more interested in what was in people's pocket, or under glamors, than what was in the walls.

"Fudge came out of one the other day, right before he kidnapped Harry Potter…"

"What!? The Potter boy was kidnapped!? How the hell could this have happened? And by Fudge of all people?" he asked, leaning forward in a demanding way.

So, she told him about what had happened the day before, and how the Minster had done it, with the help of his Undersecretary, so she suspected. Then she got back to the point. "We're looking into it. Meanwhile, this needs to be explored. I thought maybe you could take a look. No one is going to think twice about you wandering around the building with a piece of parchment. If it works for you," she said enticingly.

"Let's give it a try," he said, holding out his hand. She handed him the map and waited to see if it worked. "Amelia, this is a report on cauldron bottoms," he sniffed.

"Try looking at it with your eye," she proposed.

Looking at the parchment with his enchanted eye, he saw that there was more to it, but he couldn't quite make it out. He took out his wand and tried to dispel the charm keeping him from seeing, but nothing. "No good," he said, handing it back. "Maybe you have to give it permission or something."

She tapped the map with her wand and said, "I, Amelia Bones, as head of the DMLE, give Alastor 'Mad-eye' Moody permission to use this map for the good of the Ministry." Then she handed it back.

"That worked. I'll just get started on this in the Minster's office. There might be one there and that would be how he got Potter out of the building." He stood and made his way to the door.

"Let me know if you find anything," she said as she watched him go.

"Right," was all the answer she got.

With him on the job, she went back to the problem with the horcruxes. Her team was already searching, but she just had an idea. Grabbing the ball out of her safe, she told Debra that she was going to be out of the office for an undetermined amount of time and Flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. Making her way to Diagon Alley she proceeded to Gringotts. Waiting for the first available teller, she fidgeted. She didn't like the fact that she was carrying a horcrux among the goblins. She had no idea how they would react.

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