Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 444 Arrival
above the sky,

A violent storm swept across the sky.

The cumulonimbus clouds were piled up in various weird shapes, layer upon layer piled up and collided, exploding sparks.

McGuffin looked out of the window in fear, as lightning bolts zigzag like golden snakes, passing by the Thestral carriage.

Shir!
Almost hit it!
Although falling from such a height, McGuffin thought he could fly without a wand.

But—it depends on the weather!

Ang hippie!
Just go out, fly in the clouds covered with lightning...

He's not a superman who wears his underwear backwards, and he doesn't need a golden core to cross the catastrophe...

Even if so many lightning strikes, it will be more ecstasy than coming to the Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire!
What's more, this dense golden light is as dense as a hornet's nest...

"Professor Dun-Dumbledore, can't we go to Azkaban through Apparition?" McGuffin tremblingly asked the old bee who was massaging his temple.

Snape immediately sneered when he heard the unmotivated words.

"Apparate Azkaban? Why don't you install a fireplace in every cell in this prison, and then connect the Floo powder channel... let the prisoners go home every weekend?" He sneered.

But then a flash of lightning passed directly beside the Thestral carriage, and they could even smell a burning smell... Then there was a deafening thunder-boom-shock, shaking the entire floor and windows of the carriage.

When Snape saw this scene, his face turned a little pale, and he fell silent.

He put his hands in his pockets.

Gan!
This guy can apparate away by himself!

What sarcastic words are you talking about!
McGuffin, who was staring at Snape closely, cursed inwardly, he was the only one who couldn't get out of the carriage in an instant.

"professor!"

McGuffin growled lowly, as if he was afraid of disturbing the lightning outside and was struck directly by a thunderbolt.

After repeated urging, Dumbledore seemed to finally hear the anxious call.

He took off his glasses and massaged his eye sockets, put them on again and said unhurriedly, "Don't worry, we're here!"

"What's here?"

There was still thunder outside, and the old bee's words did not relieve McGuffin's worry and anxiety at all.

That's what he said last time...

Even if this guy is Dumbledore, he can't take it anymore--

When McGuffin was about to say something.

"Here we are!" Snape suddenly said the same thing, he breathed a sigh of relief, and took his hand out of the pocket of his robe.

McGuffin immediately looked out the window, and saw that the huge carriage pulled by six thestrals was rapidly approaching a dilapidated, gloomy, majestic and huge castle below.

The castle is located on a small island of black rocks, almost no grass grows on it.

The shape of the island is like a wolf's fang, with a mountain peak standing in the middle.

Surrounded by sea.

On one side of the mountain is a black cliff that looks like it has been split by an axe.

The castle is on a cliff, and it sits on the top of the peak, which is extremely steep.

McGuffin looked down from the carriage... The old castle prison was gloomy and silent, without any light or sound.

There are only some octagonal copper lamps hanging on the outermost wall and the left and right sides of the heavy black slate door... The faint blue light flickers in the violent wind and rain...

Thousands of golden lightning strikes, illuminating the outline of the castle one after another, allowing McGuffin to have a glimpse of the most prestigious prison panorama.

That is, - Azkaban!

McGuffin watched all this with wide eyes.

The Thestral carriage quickly landed in front of the black castle, and the wheels with iron hoops rolled slowly on the road paved with black stone slabs.

After passing a bridge, or the driveway of the landing point, they were brought to the two stone gates.

There were already two people standing there, waiting for them.

Snape saw Moody and Lupine snort coldly, opened the car door and got out.

But he didn't expect that the castle and driveway, which looked magnificent from the sky, were actually dilapidated. He stepped into a puddle when he got off the carriage,
Mud and water splashed all over his body, Snape's calf was directly submerged in it, and he almost fell directly on the ground.

"Are you all right? Professor Snape!" Moody asked with concern, with an uncontrollable smile in his mouth.

The veins on Snape's head twitched twice, he took a deep breath, stood up slowly, pulled his legs out pretending to be calm, and stood up again.

After casting [Cleaning Curse] and [Waterproof Curse] on himself...he raised his head, stared coldly at Moody's crumpled old face, and strode straight away as if nothing happened.

But before he took two steps, - bang, another splash of water.

"That guy Fudge's allocation is only enough to renovate the inside of the prison, and he has no funds to repair the unused driveway outside... You have to be careful, there are potholes all over here, and it's hard to identify in this damn rainy weather." Fudge added slowly 'kindly'.

"you--"

After Snape burst out half a word, he pressed it down again.

At this time, Dumbledore and McGuffin also got off the Thestral carriage.

After seeing Snape's unlucky encounter, the old bee raised his eyebrows. He simply took out his wand and waved it. The muddy water on the entire passage (whether it was in a pothole or not)... seemed to be boiling, tumbling... and gradually began to thicken, and then turned into some kind of pitch-like black object, and finally solidified.

As for the McGuffin, he didn't land on the ground, his feet floated slightly three inches above the ground, and he 'flyed' to Moody just like that.

Seeing that the little wizard was able to do this.

Moody's face was serious, no matter why Dumbledore brought this little wizard here, with this move, most wizards... No, even he couldn't achieve such a pivotal level, and this little monster did it without using a wand...

After the three came to Moody and Lupine.

Dumbledore smiled happily, greeted Moody Lupine first, and then introduced the Auror to McGuffin.

"You should also understand, right? Albert,...this is Moody, the warden of this new prison in Azkaban."

Normally, McGuffin forced a little smile and nodded in greeting.

Moody also nodded without a smile. He pushed his long gray hair away from his face with his hand, and his magical blue eyes kept turning around in their sockets, looking up and down at McGuffin.

"Let's go quickly! What are you waiting for?" Snape urged them angrily.

After Lupine whispered greetings to Dumbledore, he waved his wand and cast a spell on the Thestral carriage not far away, "Water and fire will not invade!"

After that, he snapped his fingers, the air exploded, and an unusually old house elf with a hunched waist appeared in front of them.

"Peed, go and pull the Thestral carriage to the shed, and feed some fresh meat...Professor Dumbledore, do your Thestrals eat fish?"

After getting a clear answer, Lupine cast the [Waterproof Curse] on Peed, and finally turned around and led everyone into this eerie prison.

thump!thump! ——

They followed Lupine and Moody through the huge black slate door and into the empty vestibule.

The inside is unusually wide, and various iron chains are densely intertwined under the ceiling, and they pull blazing fireballs (half a meter in diameter) to provide light.

All kinds of terrifying reliefs are carved on the two walls, all of which are dark creatures... basilisks, werewolves, vampires, five-legged monsters (McGuffin even saw the terrifying three-headed and eight-armed giant who mutated out of control when he was in the second grade)... Monsters from all over the world seemed to be engraved on them.

In the middle of the front hall is a giant dementor sculpture.

The monster was holding a black sickle and suspended in the air, looking down at everyone who came to this room...

Under the light of those fireballs, the hood of the cloak glowed with a strange black luster.

Although the sculptures and reliefs are complete, there are also many incomplete and broken parts.

However, under the flickering light of the fire, these dilapidated places are constantly 'eroded' and 'covered' by shadows... making it even more gloomy and depressing.

Behind the dementor statue was a wide, black stone staircase that could almost pass a large bus, leading to the upper level.

McGuffin tilted his head and looked up through the gap between the stairs...the stairs, one after another, twisted back and forth in a zigzag shape, protruding into the dark depths...until it was too blurry to see.

Moody, on crutches... making a hollow sound, limped ahead and led the way up the black stone staircase.

MacGuffin could see a few inches of carved wooden prosthetic leg protruding from under the robe, a claw-shaped foot.

This guy ignored them, took out a curved wine bottle from his cloak, and took a big sip from time to time,

Just like that, he staggered forward and led them up the zigzag black stone steps.

After a long time, they finally came to the top floor of the castle.

Moody led a few people to turn left, and walked into a dark and narrow blue-black stone corridor without any windows.

Skull-shaped lanterns were engraved in the middle of the left and right walls of the stone corridor. Flames emerged from the hollow eye sockets and holes in the skull, burning...providing faint and flickering light for the corridor.

At the end, they stopped in front of a round mahogany door.

The wooden door is red and black and shiny, if you stare at it for a while... the red color on it will turn into some kind of viscous blood, which slowly bulges and flows on it.

The surface of this wooden door is covered with an X-shaped symbol with a white copper hoop, and it is full of various embossed distorted runes.

McGuffin doesn't recognize any of the characters, not Oracle, not ancient Egyptian, not ancient Latin, and not rune runes... The characters seem to be alive, and they are breaking away from it, as if they can follow your gaze and drill into your thoughts, eroding your brain.

McGuffin watched for a while, then quickly averted his gaze.

And when he saw Lupine and Moody and other people doing the same, he cursed inwardly.

— and no reminder, these guys.

Holding the bronze lantern, Lupine gradually approached the blood-colored wooden door, and as the light gradually turned into a kind of pale white... The wooden door finally rolled away and moved to make an opening.

They got into it.

Through the circular tunnel behind the door, several people came to a room the size of a basketball court.

The spatial structure of the room is formed by the undercut of the hemisphere.

The surrounding curved walls are made of some kind of metal, reflecting a cold luster.

The room was very dark, and everything seemed to be cast in a hazy shadow, out of focus.

The only light seemed to be the flickering light of a single candle above the room, and Lupine's lantern.

"Okay, you can leave now! Lupine and I take over here!"

Moody coughed twice in one direction of the room and said.

Only then did McGuffin realize that three Aurors in black robes walked out there.

Without saying a word, they strode out of this ghostly place impatiently.
The figure seemed to be running away.

It's no wonder... There is no light, no sound, everything around is blurred, and McGuffin feels depressed just standing here for such a short time.

Over time, it is estimated that it can drive people crazy.

When the Auror left, Moody took out the flagon again, took two gulps, and then took out his wand and waved it.

I don't know what curse to mutter.

Bang bang bang——, one after another flames were ignited out of thin air, and the room suddenly lit up.

The first thing that caught McGuffin's eyes was the bronze tree in the center of the room.

In the shape of a willow tree, candles are attached to those hanging bronze chains...they are constantly burning, providing light to the room.

The candle that was thought to be floating in the air...is standing on the very top of this bronze willow tree.

The light provided by the bronze lamp tree allowed McGuffin to see the whole picture clearly.

The whole room is indeed made of some kind of black metal, and the surrounding black walls are densely packed with hexagonal holes like honeycombs...

Where the Aurors had just stood, there were a dozen small palm-sized crystal balls placed in those hexagonal cavities...

That is--

Just as McGuffin leaned forward, trying to get a closer look at the crystal balls.

boom!
Suddenly there was another loud bang behind him.

The flame of the candle attached to the giant bronze tree was suddenly elongated... Gathered into a firebird, hovering over the top of the tree, staring at them.

At this time Lupine asked, "Professor Dumbledore, you should have an administrative order from the Ministry of Magic allowing you to interrogate Death Eaters! Give it to me!"

"This is Azkaban's new defense!" he explained.

Dumbledore pulled out a rolled-up parchment from inside his robes and handed it to Lupine.

Lupine picked up the lantern in his hand, the light on it had turned blood red, and began to flicker, and began to emit harsh, repeated sirens.

He put the roll of parchment in front of the lantern, and let the bright red light shine on it,

After scanning the parchment with the light, everything finally calmed down again. (The firebird disappears, the siren ceases, and the lantern turns blue again.)
(End of this chapter)