Northern Ireland, Lisburn, 608 Queen Street.
Lynn stood before a dilapidated two-story building and checked the address again to make sure he had not come to the wrong place.
This location was tucked away in the most secluded corner of the street.
The house had clearly been unoccupied for a long time. The iron fence around the yard was covered in rust, the front garden was overgrown with weeds, and one of the swing's chains had snapped, leaving half the metal seat buried in the tangled grass. It looked as desolate as a haunted house.
Lynn had not come here alone. Kira was with him.
Before learning Apparition, house-elves were undoubtedly the best all-purpose assistants. Although Kira had never been here before either, it could first take Lynn to a nearby city, after which they could take a train or bus here, saving a great deal of time.
Besides, he had another reason for bringing Kira along—having it cast magic in his place.
Lynn had not forgotten that, before leaving school, he had signed his name on a Ministry of Magic agreement titled "Prohibition on Underage Wizards Using Magic Outside Hogwarts."
According to Snape's explanation when they signed it, that agreement was a magical contract. Signing it meant accepting the contract, and the Trace used to detect magic would naturally form on young wizards.
If they violated the contract, they could look to Harry Potter being brought before the disciplinary hearing in the original story as an example.
Lynn had used magic while in Abros before, but the situation had been urgent then, and there had been more than one wizard around him. The Trace could not accurately determine who had cast the magic, so nothing had come of it.
But now that he was alone, he did not dare