A Deeper Seal

"He said he didn't have clearance. Cohen never let him near that cabinet alone," Harry said with a shrug. "But once, when Cohen wasn't in his office and the secretary temporarily called him in to put away some documents, he saw the third drawer open—

"There was an old photograph in the drawer, with St. Augustine, March 1992 written on the back. He said he didn't know why Cohen had put that photograph alone in the third drawer, but the front showed a group of people standing in front of the ruins of a castle's outer wall. Cohen was in it, Graves was in it, and there were a few people he didn't recognize."

"One person's back had been circled in ink. He said he only got one glance before the female secretary came in and interrupted him. The secretary snatched the documents from his hands, pushed the drawer back into place, and sent him out of the office. After that, he never saw that drawer opened again."

"St. Augustine is the location of The Seal in Florida, the last of the seven seals Voldemort broke, from north to south," Vivi said. "Charleston is in South Carolina, and St. Augustine is farther south. If Cohen and Graves were already standing in front of the ruins of St. Augustine's castle wall in March 1992, that means before that Auror Gold in America—no, before the seven seals in America were broken, they had already visited every location."

She set down her teacup, her finger silently drawing a vertical line on the tabletop, then adding a horizontal one, as if sketching some invisible grid.

"What Holt told us back then was that the Bureau of Artifact Research and Application had located and broken seven seals over the past few years, and Nevada was