Ever since Hogwarts had been founded a thousand years ago, England had, in a sense, been the darling of the wizarding world.
Not only did it keep producing influential figures capable of shaking the world, but it also kept acquiring all sorts of wondrous objects.
Although many countries had a Department of Mysteries, England's truly held a treasury of marvels.
The Time Room held the largest stock of Time-Turners in the world.
In the Brain Room, even Legendary Wizards could not understand the workings of those tentacled brains floating in tanks.
The Hall of Prophecy contained a wondrous alchemical array that automatically collected prophecies born throughout the world.
The Death Chamber held the only known veil that led to the Realm of the Dead.
There were many more treasures like these.
Previously, the Double Serpent Society had paid little attention to them. After all, no one had managed to get anywhere researching those things.
But recently, while Shawn had been treating Astoria's blood curse, he had disturbed Death in the World of the Dead.
Shawn and Dumbledore had not been the only ones to detect that disturbance. The Double Serpent Society had sensed it too.
This had given the Double Serpent Society, which could also foresee certain future events, a glimmer of hope for change.
After all, a god could do anything!
And this time, turning Shawn to their side had been only one of the Double Serpent Society's ultimate objectives.
The other had been to conquer the Ministry of Magic and seize the Veil of Death from the Department of Mysteries!
The Double Serpent Society intended to contact Death and change their fate through power!
Now, both objectives had failed.
Not only had they driven Shawn to advance to Legendary ahead of time, but they had also alerted their