Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 354 The 1952 London Dementor Incident

"Since last year, those unlucky things haven't stopped for a moment, like a rushing mudslide...What kind of giant plant; the legend of Voldemort's comeback;...This year, Sirius escaped from prison, and the riot of the dementors...I was made big. Don't I know that the dementors sent here are not good for the little wizard?"

"Tell me, what should I do!?" Fudge jumped up and down.

"The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic need King Gallon to work overtime... The Ministry of Magic is almost bankrupt now, and even if they have money, they can't let these members who have almost no vacation work anymore! They are full of resentment now..."

"Fuck me with this again now! Sometimes I wonder if I made a mistake running for Minister for Magic. Thought I'd be able to reassure people about getting back to normal after Voldemort's disappearance..."

"But those idiots don't cooperate at all. They either believe that Voldemort is coming back, spread rumors and panic everywhere, or promote the conflict between Muggle wizards and pure-bloods... Is it easy for me?" Fudge became more and more angry, and all words slipped out of his mouth.

"And now the dementors are completely crazy!... Half of Britain is filled with those strange thick fogs, and even the Muggles have noticed something is wrong. But even after cleaning up this mess, how do those dementors deal with them? People no longer trust them as the guards of Azkaban. I went there to find cheap and cheap guards to station Azkaban. If I let wizards guard them, according to the Ministry of Magic, those guys who are not doing enough, but are only greedy for money... It hasn’t been a few years. The Dead Apostles will all be released..."

"Huh? What do you say if you do?"

Fudge babbled on and on a lot, with a tired look on his face, and he didn't have the usual self-righteous feeling at all.

It seemed that the incident with the dementor had indeed penetrated his defenses.

Professor McGonagall, who was originally full of anger at him, began to feel uneasy, because listening to Fudge's words, these things seemed to be more or less related to a little wizard in Hogwarts.

Although it seems that the Minister of Magic has not discovered the connection...

"Minister, you should call the Auror back first, and deal with the dementors first."

Professor McGonagall's tone flinched a lot.

"That's right, that's right!" The short Professor Flitwick responded immediately, sitting on a stool with his head almost covered by the entire table.

"How could I do that!?"

"This time it's a lucky pass... If Sirius broke into Hogwarts again, or if Harry Potter was injured with a vellus hair... People will definitely not trust the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. The large-scale immigration wave during Voldemort's time may happen again. I don't want those Yankees to laugh at the Ministry of Magic again."

"Connelly!"

Dumbledore interrupted Fudge's complaint calmly, and said, "I heard someone propose to send a fire dragon to guard the entrances near the school?"

"Hmm!" Fudge responded, and he deliberately said it in a relaxed tone, "The Ministry is studying various options. After all, there are not enough manpower, and it is impossible to control all the roads near Hogwarts Castle, especially the passage between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade... Not only fire dragons, goblin dispatchers, sphinxes, spider-men, and even trolls are all possible..."

"Of course these are suggested by Gringotts, and we will also seek the opinions of the parents of young wizards this time."

Speaking of this, everyone's faces were not very good-looking, especially Fudge, who recalled the fear of being dominated by those shouting letters.

"I'm afraid Hagrid is the happiest this time." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"Principal!" Professor McGonagall was very dissatisfied, she turned to Fudge and said.

"Minister, things like fire dragons can easily get out of control. Don't you know how Professor Kettleburn, who left this year, lost his arms and legs? He is also an excellent expert on magical animals..."

"Minerva, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. The Ministry of Magic will definitely come up with a plan after full discussion." Fudge said rather embarrassedly.

"By the way, Dumbledore, I'm here this time to discuss with you whether I can teach the spell created by that little wizard to the Aurors... You also know what will happen if you let the dementors continue to multiply and spread!"

"Are you talking about the dementor riots in 1813, 1873, 1948, and 1952?" Professor McGonagall said,
After the dementor riot, Professor McGuffin remembered something similar.

So she specifically asked Professor Binns about dementors.

It was discovered that the dementors had rioted many times during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries because of the lack of 'food'.

They escaped from Azkaban, marched along the British coastline, and gathered in London, the Muggle metropolis, to threaten the Ministry of Magic to provide food and try to maintain their guard position in Azkaban forever.

For food, they even formed allies with dark wizards, vampires, werewolf armies, ghouls, evil spirits, and some dark creatures such as demons and goblins in an attempt to attack the Ministry of Magic.

Of course, the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic thwarted this attempt and drove most of the vampires directly to the United States, Canada and other regions. The discriminated status of werewolves was established at that time, but there was no big punishment for dementors.

Therefore, after the end of the United Magic Conference, each country can only agree to continue to maintain the prison on Azkaban Island, use dementors as guards, and send criminals, dark wizards, and wizards who seriously violated the [Secrecy Act] to the prison, using their memories and emotions as food for dementors.

But even so, after the twentieth century, the dementors had many riots, especially before and after the war started by Grindelwald.

Especially the riots of 1952.

It is said that in that incident, more than 200 people directly turned into dementors, and another 800 people died slowly, weakly and desperately due to fear, cold, and the poisonous fumes from the Muggle chemical factories... these common factors.

Fudge obviously didn't expect that anyone would know these things, and the Ministry of Magic at the time tried to minimize the impact of these things.

"That's right. Although the Ministry of Magic's memory write-off team cooperated with the Muggle government to attribute all this to the poisonous smoke from the Muggle chemical factory, it is undeniable that at that time the dementors were indeed stirring up trouble and spreading fear... It was also at that time that the Ministry of Magic formally signed a strict magical contract with these monsters, barely stopping their riots."

"It's just that the Ministry of Magic couldn't deal with those dementors that killed people and bred them at that time. Azkaban couldn't accommodate so many dementors...Dumbledore, you should still remember how the Ministry of Magic dealt with it at that time?"

Dumbledore was silent and did not answer.

Fudge didn't wait for his response either, he responded, speaking with horror on his face.

"You should remember, after all, it was you and the Minister of Magic who decided to burn those redundant dementors who had absorbed human souls and refused to enter into a contract with the Ministry of Magic directly with [Fierffire Curse]."

"At that time... you and the Aurors from the International Joint Command took those dementors directly to the Poas Volcano in central Costa Rica, and used the flames of hell... [Fierffire Curse] to burn there for three days and three nights..."

"Because of [Fierce Fire Curse] backlash, the curse backfired, resulting in three Auror casualties."

"I will never forget that day when the black plume of smoke shot straight into the sky, and the ashes of despair fell from the sky... In the years since then, I... and half the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic have not been able to escape that nightmare."

"And that Boaz volcano even continued to erupt intermittently for the next two years, spewing the ashes and smoke left by those dementors into the nearby area, causing a series of black magic, cursed and twisted things, and we had to disperse the Muggles there..."

"Dumbledore, do you want these things to happen again?"

Fudge slammed on the table and roared.

"I hereby hope that you will be able to teach the Aurors that spell, that 'Black Nightmare' allegedly invented by the young wizard...!"

"Even if it's the Black Curse as you said... try to teach it to the Aurors to avoid their casualties in the battle with the dementors."

"Of course, this is only a way to deal with emergencies. When this matter is over...we will learn more about this spell. If it is really a new type of powerful black spell that can distort the mind of the caster as you described, I will ask the Ministry of Magic to redefine this spell and list it as an unforgivable spell!"

Fudge lowered his voice and slowly told the previous story.

After listening, the professors present were lost in thought.

They also more or less heard about it.

However, since the casualties caused by the dementors were all Muggles, and after Grindelwald was imprisoned, the Ministry of Magic fell into a kind of isolation and self-blocking doctrine. Except for the parties concerned, wizards did not pay much attention to what happened in the Muggle world at that time.

"Is it true, Professor?" Madam Pomfrey asked, "I also remember that there seemed to be such a thing?"

Snape also stood up, not casually, as the youngest of the professors present, he had never heard of this matter.

"I remember!"

"I was in London at the time!" Dumbledore didn't answer, but Professor Flitwick cleared his throat and said in a squeaky voice, "During December 1952th to 12th, 5, the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic used the [Patronus Charm] to disperse most of the dementors within these four days, and then summoned a strong and cold westerly wind to blow away the icy thick fog covering the entire East End of London, and that ended everything."

"During the next six months, almost half of Europe's amnestics were transferred to London to deal with those Muggles who had seen dementors... However, at that time, we, wizards, were afraid of the appearance of wizards who believed in the pure-blood concept like Grindelwald, so the wizards who knew about it didn't mention it anymore, and buried it together."

"So isn't this the first time such a violent dementor riot has occurred?" Snape asked.

"Naturally!" said Fudge.

"So... I have a question. Have you ever seen or heard of such a bizarre riot by dementors? Just to attack a little wizard?"

"I didn't say this alone. People in the stands at the time and at the gate of the castle last time could tell that the dementors wanted to attack the little wizard McGuffin Albert."

Snape's soft voice startled the others a little.

Fudge dry his throat and said hoarsely, "Severus, you don't think the dementors rioted specifically to kill this little wizard, do you?"

"It's not what I thought, it's that people who know that scene can guess it logically."

"There must be some reason behind this?"

Everyone in front of him (except Dumbledore) was a little intimidated by the possibility that Snape's words pointed out.

They don't...or can't believe...that a little third-year wizard has some big secret and is hunted down by dementors. .

Listening to Snape coldly pointing out these doubts, Fudge showed a recalcitrant and stubborn look.

"Professor Snape! I've heard about... what happened on the train! I've also met this little wizard Albert. He is indeed very smart and talented."

"That new type of broom has already shown this point...Ludo is also full of praise for his performance in the negotiations with [Universal Light Wheel Company]...Although it is unlikely, if this spell similar to ancient magic was invented by him, I can believe it."

"Naturally... I also believe that he impaled a dementor on the train with an immature charm!"

When Fudge said this, he was a little reluctant, obviously he was not so confident in what he just said.

"Minister!" Snape said coldly, "After all... this is an extremely serious incident, and the Ministry of Magic must investigate it in detail."

Listening to Snape's words of accusation,

Fudge opened and closed his mouth, seemingly without words to express his anger.

"I can tell you that this little wizard is not normal. He is not an ordinary third-year little wizard. If we don't investigate clearly now, this guy may become a more dangerous guy than the Dark Lord in the future... At least the Dark Lord caused so many troubles when he was not studying."

"Professor, I know that due to your special experience, you will have doubts about these things. It's normal...I can totally understand it."

Fudge was out of breath in astonishment, he didn't expect that Snape would actually associate Albert, a little wizard, with the Dark Lord who couldn't even mention his name.

——This is too nonsense!
(End of this chapter)