Admiral of Hogwarts

The taxi departed from the hotel where they lived and crossed the Hudson River to Manhattan Island. Then it went straight to the core financial district at the southern end of Manhattan Island. After experiencing several small traffic jams, the taxi finally stopped at the famous Broadway Street. Come down. Opposite their parking spot are several skyscrapers built in the early 20th century.

"This is it." After everyone got off the bus, Mike pointed to the most popular Gothic building in the Gilded Age in the United States and said to Mr. Granger who was accompanying him, "Just wait here. , I will accompany your children to complete this procedure. If nothing unexpected happens, it will not take more than half an hour."

Soon, Mr. Granger found a place to sit down in a cafe not far away and agreed with Hugo and the others on a meeting place after they came out. Then he watched the MACUSA staff member take his children to the Woolworth Building across the road.

This building looks similar to other buildings on this street. Countless white-collar workers in professional attire enter and exit through a large turnstile. When Mike brought the Granger siblings here, he asked them to hold his hands, then turned a slight corner and walked in from a side door, while chanting a certain magic spell.

When he stepped through the door, Hugo was surprised to see that the entire foyer had transformed under the influence of magic from the Woolworth Building into the building of the Magical Congress of the United States of America. Under Mike's leadership, they walked up a wide staircase and entered the main hall - an extraordinary spacious space. Looking from the bottom up, it felt as if the building had been hollowed out. The sunlight filtered through the windows on the wall surface. The light shines in, illuminating the entire hall extremely brightly.

A magical machine that looks like a clock is located high up, with many gears and disks, and the colorful disk is engraved with text: Magic Exposure Threat Level. The green part indicates zero security threat, followed by low threat, medium threat, high threat, unexplainable severe situation and the highest level of emergency.

At this time, the hands of this magic clock point to low-level threats. Behind the clock is a formidable portrait of an extraordinary wizard, and a brass plate below is engraved with the words William Picquery, President of the Magical Congress.

A large number of paper airplanes merged into a torrent of paper airplanes in the sky above this hall. From time to time, paper airplanes merged into this torrent from the surrounding corridors and offices. At the same time, there were also a large number of paper airplanes coming from here. Detached from the torrent and flew to other places.

Underneath these paper planes are a large group of busy wizards and wizards. However, unlike Diagon Alley, the clothes worn by the wizards and wizards here look more like the styles of ordinary people outside. Only a small number of wizards wear traditional clothes. wizard robes. It looks obviously more modern than the British wizarding world.

"We have been using owls before, but as you know, most living birds have the habit of excreting everywhere. So we have to spend a lot of time cleaning up the owls' droppings. So after hearing that the British invented this After Little Magic, the Magical Society immediately replaced the original owl with this magic."

As he spoke, Mike led them through a queue of wizards waiting for house elves to maintain their wands, and then walked to an ancient iron cage elevator with extremely beautiful iron carvings and pressed the floor button. To: "Various changes have been happening inside the Magical Congress. Not only the owls outside, but also the elevators have also changed."

"This elevator style looks like it has some history." After hearing what Mike said, Hermione looked at the wrought iron railings around her with some confusion. "It should be from the same era as this building."

"Of course, the change I am talking about does not mean that the elevator itself has changed." After listening to Hermione's words, Mike also realized the loopholes in his previous words, so he added, "But it turns out that this place used to have a The goblin helped press the elevator, but this person was eliminated during the reform more than ten years ago."

"Seriously, I think this is the right approach." Mike shrugged. "Why should we pay someone to press the button when a small copper plate nailed under the button can do it?"

After hearing what he said, Hugo turned his head and looked at the row of brass buttons next to the elevator door. As expected, he found a small brass plate under each button, which clearly recorded what each button corresponded to. There are some departments on every floor.

The elevators continued to descend underground quickly. Although these magic-driven elevators were much faster than ordinary elevators, because the offices of MACUSA were located deep underground, it took them a while to reach them. Arrived at his destination smoothly.

"It feels a bit strange." Victory's voice sounded in Hugo's mind through the Admiral Network at this time. "Why are the various ministries of magic we know of all established underground, the British Ministry of Magic, the MACUSA, the French Ministry of Magic - what made them make the same choice?"

"I think this may be the most primitive idea of ​​mankind." Hugo raised his head and looked at the patio above which had turned into a small square bright spot, and then said to Shengli after thinking for a while. "You know that the earliest hiding places for human beings were caves, so when it comes to hiding, everyone subconsciously digs some caves as their own hiding place. Wizards are still human after all, so it is normal to have such an idea——"

As they were talking, the elevator stopped and the door opened. Then Mike led Hugo and the others through a hall that was closed like a cave. There are at least 100 typewriters placed in the hall, and each one is typing some documents. When the documents are typed, the documents will automatically stack into a mouse, and then crawl along the transparent pipe above the typewriter to the offices above.

"This way." Mike said, leading Hugo and the others into a small corridor next to them. This corridor is much brighter than the room just now. There are a row of benches placed against the wall on both sides of the corridor. At the end of the corridor is an office. At the door of the office is a machine made of gold and mahogany.

Hugo and the others followed Mike through the corridor and came to the machine, and then Mike pulled the handle on the side of the machine. After two consecutive pulls, two bronze medals jumped out from the opening under the machine. The Arabic numerals 06 and 07 are printed on them respectively.

"Okay, you can listen to the staff in the office calling your number in a while. Whoever is called can just go into the office with the sign and go through the formalities. After the registration is completed, the two of you will go back along the way just now to find you. Father, do you understand?" Mike said after handing two egg-sized bronze medals to the two Granger siblings. "Now I have some other things to deal with, and I can't finish it with you."

"Understood." Hugo and Hermione nodded at the same time, then bowed. "And thank you very much, Mr. Johnson."