The Meeting Concludes

Kingsley took the parchment, skimmed its contents, folded it, and tucked it into the inner pocket of his casual robes.

"The French representative will probably ask how the seal at Carcassonne is to be handled. Also, Beaumont isn't on the list."

"Carcassonne has to wait until I get back from Athens," Vivi said quietly. "The Beauxbatons school badge found in the Albanian forest belonged to Felix. Beaumont should know about that."

Kingsley nodded, turned, opened the door, and walked into the corridor.

Only Vivi and Ms. Rosier remained in the conference room. Vivi took the LeMay Map from her inner pocket again and spread it across the table.

"Ms. Rosier. Book me the earliest international Portkey to Athens today. Notify the Minister's Office of the Greek Ministry of Magic: Confederation President Verathea Grindelwald will arrive in Athens tonight for an emergency bilateral meeting on the security of ancient magical seals within Greece. Tell them I've already set out. If they ask why it's so urgent, tell them—"

Her finger tapped lightly on the red dot marking Athens.

"Tell them the depth of Santorini's last volcanic tremor passed straight through the seal's core layer."

Ms. Rosier closed her notebook, stood in silence, and strode out of the conference room.

The next day, Greece, Athens.

The headquarters of the Greek Ministry of Magic was located in a neoclassical marble building in Athens's old city. Muggles saw it as an auxiliary archive of the Greek Ministry of Culture; the Magical World saw a four-story white palace, with a relief of the Gorgon Medusa carved on the columns of the main entrance—not the monster beheaded by Perseus in Muggle mythology as commonly understood, but the image of a priestess from the era of ancient Greek magic, her snake hair symbolizing magic's connection to the