Egypt didn't know what was going on, but she remained silent and listened to what was going. She wondered if this was all part of what Mr. Syd was talking to her and Shane about.

"Why don't we just head downstairs," Syd said, ushering the girls out of the room.

He smiled to Edward and walked toward the stairs. Edward needed his time alone to question the witnesses anyway. Somehow Syd knew this wasn't going to be an open and shut case. Hopefully Edward wasn't like a certain someone else...

Piper sat down after her boss sat down.

"I would love to start first" Piper replied as she looked at Brianna hoping that she wasn't fine with that decision.

"No problem for me. Shall we begin." Edward takes out his wand and performs the Muffiato Charm on both Brianna and the room. Having just a cubicle doesn't afford you much privacy. "Let me get my notes." Edward moves papers around his desk trying to find just the ones he's looking for. "Here we are."

"Mrs. Melvick's application says her experimental charm was called a Specific Concealment Charm. Have you had a chance to study this charm? If so, in your opinion do you think it would have ever performed properly?"


"In your statement you made some less than kind comments about Mrs. Melvick's personality. Please don't misunderstand me. She's one of the most difficult people I've ever had to deal with. I would like your opinion on her abilities as a witch. Mrs. Melvick has told me over and over again when I spoke with her what a powerful witch she is. Do you think she would be capable of creating a spell like the one she submitted for approval?"

"According to your statement Mrs. Melvick forceably brought Miss Dames to your office. You also said you had to use a Silencing Charm on her. What were they arguing about? Did it have anything to do with Miss Dames having her shopping interrupted?"

"You said you saw Mrs. Melvick perform the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames and may I add you gave a very good description of it being performed. Did Mrs. Melvick do this before Brianna started questioning her? I would like you to give my your opinion as to why Mrs. Melvick used the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames. Do you think Mrs. Melvick was afraid Miss Dames would not give her spell a favorable review? If Mrs. Melvick felt the need to control the results of her test on Miss Dames, would that lead you to believe that the spell did not work in the first place?"

"If Mrs. Melvick had to use the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames to make sure she said she could not see her, that leaves me with the impression Mrs. Melvick wasn't too confident her spell would work. If that was the case, how would you explain Brianna saying that Mrs. Melvick used the same spell to destroy your office?"

"I also see in your statement that you performed a cloning charm because you did not trust Miss Melvick. You were very fortunate not to have drank the beverage. It was laced with aconite. A particularly deadly potion when administered in large doses. The beverage only had a small dose of the poison. Not enough to kill, but enough to make anyone who drank it sick. Since you did not injest the poison, your head was clear, can you tell me what happened after Mrs. Melvick served the beverage?"

Brianna's statement says as soon as Mrs. Melvick performed the charm everything being destroyed. Now I am confused. Did Mrs. Melvick perform the charm before or after she served the beverage? When I read your statement, it sounded like the total mayhem started after Mrs. Melvick served her beverage.

"Yes I had a chance to study the structure of the charm to check if it would have worked if anyone worked properly on it. Well Mr. Edward I guess you don't know the theory behind concealement charms. A concealement charm is a very interesting charm because it is one of the spells that work on the enviroment around the object and not the object itself and by modifiying certain properties to that enviroment that the charm works. Mrs.Melvick's charm uses the same theory but that the charm would only work on a specific person and not just conceal an object or a person from everyone eyes. I tried to get it to work but no matter what I did the charm just could achieve stability.. Prove that Mrs. Melvicks charm only destroyed stuff" Piper replied.

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"In your statement you made some less than kind comments about Mrs. Melvick's personality. Please don't misunderstand me. She's one of the most difficult people I've ever had to deal with. I would like your opinion on her abilities as a witch. Mrs. Melvick has told me over and over again when I spoke with her what a powerful witch she is. Do you think she would be capable of creating a spell like the one she submitted for approval?"

"I have witnessed Mrs. Melvick's magical power and arrived to the conclusion that she is a pretty tough which, she was able to fight all the employees of our division with some of the ministry security. And yes I would say she would be able to create a charm to get it submitted to approval. Actually everyone does if they work on their charm"

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"According to your statement Mrs. Melvick forceably brought Miss Dames to your office. You also said you had to use a Silencing Charm on her. What were they arguing about? Did it have anything to do with Miss Dames having her shopping interrupted?"

"Well they were arguing about pretty much Miss Dames coming to the ministry after she was dragged from one her shopping days or something. Mrs. Melvicks came in and she was dragging Miss Dames behind her. The poor woman was so frightened that she just kept on screaming so I had to use a silencing charm to get her to stop.

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"You said you saw Mrs. Melvick perform the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames and may I add you gave a very good description of it being performed. Did Mrs. Melvick do this before Brianna started questioning her? I would like you to give my your opinion as to why Mrs. Melvick used the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames. Do you think Mrs. Melvick was afraid Miss Dames would not give her spell a favorable review? If Mrs. Melvick felt the need to control the results of her test on Miss Dames, would that lead you to believe that the spell did not work in the first place?"

"I never said I saw her use it... I just said I thought that she had all the signs of a caster who is using an imperius curse with the concentration and everything. And yes I mean Mrs. Melvicks charm would never had worked and would never have even showed a sign of success but she needed a witness and the strange thing is that she only chose the only person that seemed the weakest... She said about her other witness that he was on vacation and nowhere to be found... Maybe that person never existed"

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"If Mrs. Melvick had to use the Imperius Curse on Miss Dames to make sure she said she could not see her, that leaves me with the impression Mrs. Melvick wasn't too confident her spell would work. If that was the case, how would you explain Brianna saying that Mrs. Melvick used the same spell to destroy your office?"

"Well you see half of the charms that are created poorly end up with the same effect. Destroying things up... I guess it's a rule" Piper revealed. "And I guess that Mrs. Melvick's charm was one of those charms that just end up with blowing things up... Actually I thing she made several things blow up... Maybe it would have been better if she decided to apply her charm for a destruction one instead of a concealment one"

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"I also see in your statement that you performed a cloning charm because you did not trust Miss Melvick. You were very fortunate not to have drank the beverage. It was laced with aconite. A particularly deadly potion when administered in large doses. The beverage only had a small dose of the poison. Not enough to kill, but enough to make anyone who drank it sick. Since you did not injest the poison, your head was clear, can you tell me what happened after Mrs. Melvick served the beverage?"

"Yes I did... When everyone was looking at Mrs. Melvicks as she performed the charm and asked Miss.Dame if she could see her... I performed a cloning charm and concealed myself quickly I don't thing anyone even noticed what I did"

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley

"Brianna's statement says as soon as Mrs. Melvick performed the charm everything being destroyed. Now I am confused. Did Mrs. Melvick perform the charm before or after she served the beverage? When I read your statement, it sounded like the total mayhem started after Mrs. Melvick served her beverage".

"After she served the beverage and everyone started to vomit and couldn't handle it... I stayed in the charms office of course after I destroyed my clone and I saw how Mrs. Melvicks started to cast spells after charms after hexes and use potion... I guess one of them were a love potion... Well she completely destroyed the office and we had to work for days to restablish it"

Eric checks to make sure the Quick Quill is working correctly. "Let's see:"


"Aproximately how many spells, charms, curses, and hexes did you see Mrs. Melvick perform?"

"Did she perform any nonverbal spells?"

"Would you allow Forrester Hufflepuff to perform the Prior Incantato Charm on your wand?"

"Oh well I can't count them exactly one by one but I'd say they were a lot I mean have the time I was thinking of a way to stop her so between my shield charms and her incatantation I'd say there was a bunch... Any nonverbal spells I can't remember any she might when I was out of the office.
Oh Mr. Forrester already made a Prior Incantatam Cham on my wand I guess it must be there between your stuff and notes but you didn't find it."

"I see. I must have miss understood you earlier. I thought you said you were in the office during the entire atttack." An owl flies into the office carrying a note for Edward. He takes it from the bird and reads it quickly.

"I see Piper. Well I can get that information from Forrester if I need it." Edward sees that the quick quill has finished with the dictation. "If you would sign this statement, that should take care of everything. I want to thank you for coming. You have been most helpful."

Shane smiled at Syd. They were actually going to do this. She was going to do her very first case in the British Ministry of Magic. She couldn't wait. She was pumped!

"Alright then," Shane said to Syd and walked out of the room. She waited for Egypt and Syd to come out of the room as well before heading down the stairs with them. I wonder what he was talking about with Lestrange ...

Piper signed the statement and waited for Edward to mention something else.
"Edward can I ask you something?" Piper suddenly said before she would decide to leave.

"Certainly, fire away."

"I just want to know something? What is wrong with mr. Forrester you seem to know him very well? Why does he seem mean sometimes and the other he is as tender as a baby? And is he really a Hufflepuff?" Piper asked.

Edward smiles. Piper is interested in Forrester. "Yes he is a Hufflepuff a descendant of Helga Hufflepuff I believe." Edward gives Piper the once over. Shame all the cute ones go for Forrester. "His personality...what did you do to upset him? Forrester is usually very polite with the nonauror personel. He saves hid grumpy bear routine for us."

"Ow impressive... No I understand now because when he is with me, he is so sweet and caring but when he is talking to you guys... I mean he is a different person" Piper replied.
"Oh do you know if he is seeing anyone?"

"Hey, slow down a minute. I'm not even sure we're on the same page. Forrester is a great guy, and he's generally congenial with everyone. He just gets authoritative when he's giving orders and such. Does this have anything to do with you going on the undercover assignment?" Edward doesn't like to pull rank on Forrester, but he sees now he needs to have a long talk with the bossman.

"Well actually no... I am on the undercover mission because I need to be on the undercover mission... I can't just teach you that spell it's unapproved and only I have the permission to cast it" Piper replied. "You haven't replied to my last question is he seeing anyone?"

"And Forrester agreed to let you go without a fight?" Edward wasn't going to let her have what she wanted without giving him nothing in return. "I've only been back for a few weeks, so I can't be 100% sure. I don't think he's serious with anyone at the moment. Don't you think you should be asking him that question?"

"You can say that I am a bit afraid and shy.... I mean I can't just go and ask him... And what do you mean by fight?" Piper asked.

How do I get myself in these situations? What do I look like advice to the love lorn? I have brief encounters. I don't have romances. It's hard to get serious when you're on an island with recuits and staff. I taught Forrester the two commandments for being an auror. Never let civilians go on an undercover mission, and never fall in love with someone you work with or against. Then Edward remembers Maddie. She broke all the rules. I never followed the rules, so why should Forrester and Piper.

"Fight? I umm, I'm just concerned for your safety. You've never been on an under cover mission. Things can get hairy out there. I know it's a good idea for you to be in the field. Something could go wrong with the spells you're using, and they are experimental. You should talk things over with Forrester first. Get an idea of what you're getting yourself into." Edward, you are a genuis. "I understand you being shy. Forrester is a very private person. He rarely lets people see the real him. You should talk to him before the mission. Why don't you ask him to have a cup of coffee with you away from his office. He gets too many interuptions there. Forrester is already impressed with your abilities. He needs to see you as someone other than the experimental charms genius. I know it's a ridiculous idea, but you're dealling with an idot when it comes to love."

"He thinks I'm a charm genius and he is impressed with my abilities. What abilities?" Piper asked as she looked at Edward. It was right that she was good at charms and creating them but half of them were usually just garbge.
"Yeah maybe you are right maybe I should go and ask him about all of this" Piper replied. "Do you need anything at all from me?"

A paper airplane note flew in through the door and landed lightly on one of the empty desks in the room. It flipped a bit and unfolded itself, revealing the familiar cursive-print hybrid handwriting:

Egypt had been sitting at her desk going over some old case files when she saw the note fly into the office. She watched it unfold itself. She stood up from desk and walked over to read it. A world court? They want us to form a world court? That was a new one. They magical community around the world couldn't agree on a standard cauldron bottom thickness but we can come together for a world court. Well this was going to interesting, Egypt thought to herself. This would be a challenge. She wondered what Mr. Wordsmith wanted them to do exactly. She made her way over to his office to ask him.

Shane sighed quietly at her desk. Her desk was finally a mess and the work day seemed to be going by really slow. Normally the work day went by pretty fast, but today was a different day. That was a sign that work was to be done.

Shane started to clean her desk so she could actually see it. What if Syd had came in to this? That certainly wouldn't be good at all. That was when she heard a paper airplane whiz by her head. It nearly hit her too!

She glanced up and noticed that it was at an empty desk. Egypt was already on the case, reading the note. What was this about? They got tons of notices each day, but it looked like this was from Syd. She could tell by the cursive-print hybrid handwriting that belonged to the Head of the Department.

She walked over to the desk with the notice. By the time she was half-way there, Egypt had dashed right past her. She had a bit of a confused look on her face, but Shane still had no idea what was going on. She then printed the rest of the way over to the notice and read:

Shane read over the notice about three times before it started to make sense in her head. They were going to host a world convention and judges from around the world would be here. This was a total shocker! She never expected it. But what exactly did they have to do? That must've been why Egypt was in a hury to run over there. She was going to see Syd.

Shane sighed. This was going to be something big for sure. She'd make sure the ask Egypt what this was all about when she came back from Syd's office. It was probably best to let one judge ask him what they were to do. Anyway, there are another bit of an assignment for someone to tell Edward Lestrange to finish the Melvicks case. She could do that.

Taking a quick look around the room, she could see that Lestrange was still talking with Piper Underwood. She put down the notice on the desk and walked over to where the two were. Hopefully she wouldn't be interrupting anything.

"Excuse me," Shane began softly. "Mr. Lestrange, we just got a notice from Mr. Wordsmith saying that there's going to be a world convention soon and he wanted to let you know that the Melvicks case needs to be wrapped up before the convention comes."

"No, you've given me all the information I need." Edward smiles at her. "Don't sell yourself short. You helped me plan my defense for this case. You're a genius in my book too."

"Oh thank you I better get going then" Piper replied as she got up. "I will tell you what will happen to me okey" She added as she made it towards the exist. She was now confident that she could start a relation with Forrester.