Chapter 96: Aurors, Hit Wizards, and Raid (2/2)

James alone walked forward with the leading Hit Wizard trailing closely, and the rest of the team followed. As he reached the end of the corridor, James raised his wand and stepped out of the corridor.

There he discovered the source of the voices. James saw a group of people standing around in small groups talking to each other in an enormous hall. A gathering of men and women who wore the same outfits, talking to each other over wine and confectionaries.

The same outfits had the Novellus Accionites symbol on them, which clearly provided that this was a gathering full of terrorists and the people who supported them.

He had counted that there were around thirty to thirty-five people in the hall. The mission group had twelve members, and with two people above in the log cabin, the current body count was ten people: one Captain Auror, two Senior Aurors, three Junior Aurors, and four Hit Wizards.

James noticed that all the people present looked young, but that didn't give him an idea about their age. Magical kind had slower aging than their non-magical counterparts. Because their lifespan was twice to thrice as long as the non-magical humans, magical humans' aging had become different.

First, magical humans usually reached physical maturity earlier than their non-magical counterparts. Most of them reached their physical maturity at eighteen or nineteen years old (18-19 yrs.). After that, aging slowed down drastically.

James, who was thirty-three years old (33 yrs. old) this year, didn't look one day over that of the early twenties. He had this same physical appearance for closer than a decade. And people who were gathered here also looked the same age as him. Despite that, James didn't know the actual ages of the people.

After getting a clear picture of the gathering, James gestured for everyone to walk into the hall and take positions. The Aurors and Hit Wizards entered the hall while in formation. They moved very slowly, so their disillusionment didn't show any distortions.

Gawain had his arm raised and, when everyone was in their position, he brought his arm down. And that was the signal for everyone to open fire.

Suddenly, the jolly vibe of the hall changed as spells rained down on the Novellus Accionites members. Every single member of the squad rained down Stunning spells on unarmed people.

Screams filled the hall as the people closest to the squad were hit with stunning spells and, because of the element of surprise and chaos, ten people immediately hit the ground unconscious.

One of the Accionites in the back of the hall didn't lose calm in the chaos. She threw a Revealing charm toward the group that revealed them to the rest of the party.

”Aurors!” yelled someone in the hall, and people who were still conscious got their wands out. The hall turned into a battlefield.

Immediately the squad switched their tactics as some of them switched to defense against the incoming spells. Stunning spells were reduced and turned into Disarming spells to get rid of their wands.

James Potter glanced at the chandeliers on the ceiling. And while being covered by a Shield charm, he raised his wand towards the ceiling and cast a transfiguration spell.

The spell targeted the glass around the candles and turned them into glass birds with sharp beaks, wings, and talons. The vicious birds descended on a group of Accionites and started to cut them. The transfigured glass birds were meant to be a distraction as, when Accionites tried to get rid of the birds, one of the squad members stunned or disarmed them.

Auror's training and areas of responsibility varied greatly depending on the type of threats for which they were prepared and the magical education they received beforehand. Transfiguration became easy to James Potter, so he was the type of duelist that heavily utilized transfiguration. Lots of his spell repertoire were material spells: the silver-shield spell or Arrowhead spells, and other similar spells.

That is why when one of the Accionites shot a killing curse, James immediately used a silver shield spell to block out the green light from reaching his team.

The state of the battle changed as half the remaining Accionites were getting used to the situation. But the mission squad couldn't let that happen.

One of the Hit Witches stepped forward and showed how they were different from Aurors. She swung her wand in a grand gesture and shot a huge Explosion charm towards one of the tables, annihilating it into pieces. She didn't stop and continued her aggressive attack and used powerful Banishing charms to violently slam Accionites into walls, and brutally knock them out.

Some of the Accionites who noticed their dwindling numbers decided to get out of there. Two Accionites used apparition to get out. But the thing about apparition was that most people didn't use apparition because of the danger of splinching and discomfort, and even those who did use it regularly used it when they were calm.

Out of the two who apparated, one of them ended up splinching himself because of panic; he left an entire leg behind.

Within three minutes, thirty-four Accionites were disarmed, stunned, and bound by ten Aurors and Hit Wizards. It showed how trained professionals pitted against people who didn't have the same training.

”Two escaped,” spat Sirius said as he walked towards the splinched leg. He kicked it hard and smirked, ”At least they will be feeling like hell.”

”We should've set up an anti-apparition ward around the place,” one of the Hit Wizards chimed in as he collected the wand off from the floor.

The ten squad members walked around the room, bounding people and collecting wands for safety reasons.

”This is good enough,” replied Gawain as he looked at the thirty-something unconscious/injured bodies. ”This will get us a task force up and running.”

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The next day, the news about the first successful raid against Novellus Accionites hit the Daily Prophet and other news outlets. The papers, who had been badmouthing the lack of action from Auror's part, were suddenly raining praises on them.

That same week, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement interrogated all the captured members and put them on trial by the end of the week. Unlike the end of the First Wizarding War, the Light faction was strong this time. So in Wizengamot, the trials didn't go in favor of the pureblood Novellus Accionties.

Out of the thirty-four people, ten of them were sent to low Dementor-exposure sections for a few years. Three people were sent to medium Dementor-exposure.

And the rest of those who weren't guilty of the murder of muggleborns and muggles had their wands taken for a year. To people who heavily depended on wands to perform magic, this was like taking their magic away from them.

The first raid and trials were the start of a fight against Novellus Accionites.

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James Potter - Senior Auror - Prefers using Transfiguration.

Sirius Black - Senior Auror - Prefers using Charms.

Gawain Robards - Captain Auror - Specializes in criminal investigations.

Hit Wizards - Lucrative career - Starting salary of 700 Galleons per month.

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