"Mobiliarbus."
With that soft chant carrying a hissing undertone, the trees in the forest began to move.
This was the spell Pomona used when setting up the maze. As she had said, she was a compassionate witch and would not use advanced magic against a group of underage children. This spell could move the trees and hedges into designated positions, bringing the entire maze "alive." Paths that had been clear before would soon be blocked by hedges, making them seem impassable. If the contestants truly could not find their way, they could fire red sparks for help, and staff on brooms would come to take them away.
But now, in order to catch him, the French Ministry of Magic staff had not only used the Anti-Apparition Jinx and the Revealing Charm, but had also forbidden brooms from approaching. In doing so, they had trapped themselves inside this maze of trees.
At first, he had found it odd that these people had mistaken him for Grindelwald. But as he approached the Innocence Fountain, a substance like black gauze drifted before his eyes. It looked very much like the magic Grindelwald had used when gathering his followers.
There was an archway in the Ministry of Magic's Death Chamber, draped with a curtain like black sand. Whispers could be heard from behind it.
Voices from another world would not be loud, but Severus had never imagined that the spell had been created in such a manner.
If the curtained archway in the Death Chamber also led to the world of the dead, then that world could not have been created by the Scourers.
It was difficult to understand, but the pain in his eyes soon made him stop staring at the black gauze. The pain was so intense that he had to remove