Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 303 A Ci Kaban
The McGuffin stared into the void.

In his mind, or in the invisible line of sight of everyone, a translucent parchment roll slowly opened.

The lines of text lined up with flames on it were another reason why he couldn't sleep.

【…】

[Dead Enemy Series Quests → 49% completion progress (the Horcrux has not been destroyed yet)]

[Gain... black witchcraft, ancient spell experience points...]

[Imperial Curse/Expert → Master]

【Killing Curse/→Introduction】

【Comprehensive spells of evil spells/→ rough mastery】

[Curse-type comprehensive spell/→basic]

[Golden Libra Magic Rune/→Basic]

[Magic Burst Talent and Magic Return Talent are merged into → Perceived Magic Level]

【…】

These are all the spell memory fragments he got in his mind during the summer vacation after the end of the last semester... the skill improvement he got.

Because the old bee Dumbledore did not destroy the [Horcrux], which resulted in [Death Enemy series missions not being completed], but it seems that due to the particularity of this mission (this [Horcrux] has actually fallen into the state of Schrödinger’s notebook, and may be destroyed by Dumbledore at any time), so this mission has already been settled. Voldemort’s memory fragments and spellcasting experience about black magic were also instilled into McGuffin’s brain through this mission settlement.

In fact, he wanted more of Voldemort's normal magical experience, such as experience in transfiguration, spells, and brewing potions.

He can't use this kind of black magic openly.

However, after McGuffin discovered the [Nagia's venom and blood] needed for his [Blood Curse], the situation became very different.

Especially the magic experience related to the [Soul Imperius Curse] came at the right time.

As McGuffin thought, he must ensure the smooth progress of the plot. The first step is that Sirius must escape from Azkaban.

So... now that Scabbers, that is, Peter Pettigrew, was in the papers, it was all that remained to show Sirius the picture in the Daily Prophet.

Of course, in the remaining part, McGuffin must also ensure that everything is in order and nothing goes wrong.

So he used [Imperius Curse] to manipulate a person.

The sole employee of the Ministry of Magic stationed in Azkaban.

That is, at the end of last semester, the 'bully' guy who sent Hagrid back.

That's Kim Jim.

When McGuffin thought of Azkaban, he immediately thought of the guy with a lot of 'emoticons'.

This poor boy who was abandoned by his own family was arranged by Barty Crutch to be the only guard of Azkaban.

(With thousands of Dementors in that damn place, no normal wizard would stay in that position.

Normal people would rather be wandering wild wizards than stay there,
This position must ensure that the dementors have not violated the rules, and the pressure to ensure order there can be imagined.

The illegality of dementors-refers to the creation of new dementors by sucking the souls of others at will without authorization from the Ministry of Magic.

The Ministry of Magic had long ago strictly restricted the production of each new dementor, limiting the expansion of this monster group.

And this position is in their lair, fighting against them, one can imagine that it will be a magical living environment, and only the poor, cowardly guy who has nowhere to go will stay there)

McGuffin knew his approximate address through Hagrid, and then sent a letter in Hagrid's name (insulting him), tricked him into the Leaky Cauldron, and then did not talk about martial arts (come to deceive, come to sneak attack), and secretly used the [Soul Imperius Curse] to plant an idea in the mind of that emoji.

An idea that he had to put that 'rat-spotted picture' of the Daily Prophet in front of Sirius Black.

He also asked this 'emoticon package' to prepare a similar dinner for Blake, lest he faint from hunger on the way out of prison.

Other than that, McGuffin didn't do anything superfluous.

Because from the experience that Voldemort instilled in his brain, he knew that [Imperial Curse] to manipulate others, it is best to be as simple as possible.

The best way is to implant the most natural idea and let it complete the task unconsciously.

Otherwise, it is possible to see [Subject] croaking like a duck, tap dancing, and running naked on the street.

Those dark wizards who are not good at learning and fledgling often want to completely control a person's soul, and they often make such fools.

Although McGuffin has arranged all this according to his best efforts, he still has deep doubts about whether the plan will be carried out smoothly, and he cannot sleep at night.

Accidents often happen, and the experience of the last semester told McGuffin that this is a real world, and things will always develop with a kind of inertia in any plot.

If it exceeds the original inertia, the plot will deviate to the point that no one in TM can predict.

For example... what if Sirius escapes from prison and swims from the small island of Azkaban with calf cramps, and gets cut off halfway? (He should now be severely starved, malnourished, and unable to cast spells, which is very likely to happen)
As a result, all kinds of terrible associations kept popping up in McGuffin's mind. He was in this tossing and turning situation all night, and he couldn't close his eyes at all, especially now...

Now, if all goes well... Sirius has seen the photo in that newspaper.

——He should have started preparing to escape from prison.

The final result of all this can only be confirmed by McGuffin when the "Daily Prophet" arrives tomorrow. (He urgently subscribed to this week's Daily Prophet)
Such big news, the Ministry of Magic certainly couldn't hide it for too long.

Including the time difference between Egypt and the UK, as well as the distance... After conversion, it was about noon in the local area before McGuffin received the newspaper and saw the news.

……

McGuffin was right in guessing that Sirius was indeed preparing to escape from prison.

His plan seemed unreliable, but strangely it went very smoothly.

Probably because there is no interference from other wizards in the ghostly place of Azkaban.

No one knows the exact location of Azkaban.

Because it is a hidden track, it can also move the island.

People only know it as an island in the middle of the North Sea.

(The North Sea refers to the northern sea, the marginal sea in the northeast of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the east of Great Britain, southwest of the Navia Peninsula and north of the European continent. The average water depth here is only 96 meters, and because of a warm ocean current, the water temperature here is not as cold as imagined. This is another factor that Sirius can escape successfully.)
It is rich in Loba, a poisonous magical sea creature.But since the 19th century, when Dark wizards used it as a raw material to create a deadly poison during the two well-publicized wizarding wars, the use of this magical creature has been strictly restricted by the Ministry of Magic.

Of course, the aboriginal mermaid group there still use it as a weapon. According to research, the venom of this creature is far less harmful to mermaids than it is to human wizards.
Far away,... In short, the first appearance of this terrifying island was discovered by a Finnish wizard in the fifteenth century in the official historical records.

It didn't originally exist as a prison.

It was occupied by Alex Stice, an evil wizard who was proficient in black arts at that time, as a magical fortress on the Lone Ocean.

He was trying to avoid Muggles and other wizards from interfering with his research on black magic, so he didn't know whether he discovered it or created the island with some kind of spell.

According to some unreliable rumors, he was studying the relationship between the human soul and the nature of magic, so as to obtain eternal life.

Therefore, this dark wizard often makes the island visible, and then enslaves the mermaids to turn them into beautiful human female half-lengths, and confuses Muggle sailors into this hell abyss with charming singing.

And by torturing, killing Muggle sailors in an attempt to harvest their broken, twisted souls... for their own research.

No one knows how he disappeared. (At that time, some wizards speculated that he finally turned himself into a dementor)
It took a long time, anyway, for the Ministry of Magic to discover the island and the fort on it.

Investigators once entered the island, and they found that the thousands of hovering dementors were not the most terrifying thing among them, and their menacing degree was mediocre.

There are lost or unknown black magic, curses,... all kinds of twisted and deformed magic and monsters after black witchcraft experiments abound.

The authorities of the Ministry of Magic and the International Joint Investigation Team once thought that it would be best to destroy such an evil place as Azkaban.

However, due to the fear that the dementors would lose their habitat and enter the British mainland directly from the North Sea, and the mermaid creatures in the local sea were afraid that the evil black magic above would spread without the control of the island, so it has been delayed.

This fortress was abandoned like that for many years, and gradually almost all the dementors captured in Europe were transferred there (it is difficult for people to destroy this evil monster), and it became the base camp where the entire dementor lived and gathered.

In this situation, until the implementation of the "International Statute of Secrecy", there were wizards everywhere who broke the law because of harming Muggles. In addition, werewolves, vampires and other dark creatures were rampant everywhere, so the old wizarding prisons in Europe were overcrowded.

Moreover, those imprisoned wizards often issued huge explosions, flashes, and various stenches because they tried to escape from prison (it is said that the big dung egg was invented during a prison escape), so it was urgent to set up a prison specially used to detain wizards and dark creatures to reduce the threat of exposure to the magic world.

Under the strong promotion of the then Minister of Magic, Damocus Basil.

The island was used as a prison, and has since had a frightening name - Azkaban.

Basil, the Minister of Magic at the time, claimed that he could directly use the dementors there as guards, which would save the Ministry of Magic a lot of time and energy, and would greatly deter those dark wizards and dark creatures.

"Only fear can fight evil. There is nothing more terrifying than dementors. If the evil people are afraid of it... then I am right."

The Minister of Iron-Blooded Magic at that time even said this directly in front of everyone.

And indeed, as he said, the crime rate in the entire European wizarding world has dropped sharply since then, and people no longer regard casting [jinxes] on Muggles as an after-dinner pastime.

That "International Statute of Secrecy" has really become a tenable law.

But at the same time, the reputation of the entire European wizarding world began to deteriorate sharply in the eyes of dark creatures, dark wizards and even some magical animals.

Azkaban has become synonymous with the abyss of hell, and even to a certain extent, it has prompted the transfer of European wizard families to North America.

Anyway, by now, the island was just that—a haven for dementors, a magical prison for dark wizards.

Of course, those followers of Voldemort, Death Eaters, felons who used black magic to kill someone, and those petty thieves who smuggled precious magical animals, sold some illegal witchcraft items, and sold fake and inferior potions... can't be compared.

The places where they were held were different.

The Azkaban that people generally refer to actually refers to the original Dark Magic Castle, which is...the place where those serious criminals (such as Sirius Black) were imprisoned.

The environment here is harsh, and there is no sunlight all day long. There are thousands of dementors floating in the sky outside the prison.

They surrounded this small island, squeezing every trace of positive emotion from the air... Desperation, pain, and the permeating white mist covered every inch of the land here.

The treatment of light prisoners is much better in comparison. They are located one nautical mile apart from this small island, with several reefs out of the sea as the foundation, in a water prison built with magic.

Although it is much more crowded than the magic fortress, there are eight prisoners in each small room, and there is no chance to let the wind go.

When some big people live in, it is even more crowded. (This is where Hagrid was detained some time ago)

But no one wants to trade with the felons over there...those unusually spacious 'presidential suites'.

In this prison built of large sea rocks, a total of eight dementor prison guards were assigned, two guarding the front door and two guarding the back door.

The four patrolled the perimeter of the prison.

Every morning and night, there will be two dementors patrolling the corridor, that is, 'eating'.

After all eight dementors have 'fed' once, they will rotate with the dementor guard on the felon's side.

And Kim Jim here, as the only employee sent by the Ministry of Magic, his only job is to ensure that those 'guards' don't go out of line and maintain this order from being destroyed, whether it is prisoners or those so-called 'guards'.

And every once in a while (about a month's interval), with thousands of dementors watching, go to see how the felons are doing there.

It's not a good feeling, much worse than staying here, so under normal circumstances, Kim Jim will try to go there as little as possible.

By the way, he also has to prepare the food for the prisoners on both sides of the prison here, and then transport it to each cell through a specific magic device to ensure that it is correct.

Originally, the situation in Azkaban was bad. If the "Daily Prophet" and other newspapers knew that the prisoners couldn't even get enough food...if something happened, it would be the result of blame.

The previous prison administrators are still in solitary confinement in this prison!
After Kim Jim has done everything (delivery food, and then monitored the dementor patrol to prevent them from entering the prisoner's cell), he realized that he had accidentally sent a copy of the Daily Prophet to a prisoner through the magic of food delivery. (and double the usual amount of food)

Of course, he shook his head and ignored it.

Just a newspaper and food, nothing to worry about.

——Do you still make a special trip to find it?

Thinking of those dementors, those damn monsters, Kim Jim shuddered and hurried to the armchair in front of the fireplace.

Let the blazing fire dispel the chill.

He forced himself to try to forget about those damned monsters, the cold feeling of their occasional passing outside the prison, and the unpleasant and disgusting news in the previous newspaper.

This made him even more unhappy.

——A mudblood actually became a rich man, while he was still struggling in the quagmire of this job.

Naturally, Kim Jim ignored the subtle familiarity with the figure of that Mudblood in his mind.

……

And in the Azkaban heavy prison over there, under the siege of thousands of dementors, Sirius Black started his escape operation.

(End of this chapter)