HP Polar Night

"Dumbledore, he's fine. Madam Pomfrey gave him the restorative potion and alleviating potion brewed by Severus. The influence of the dementors on him will return to normal in about a week." A silver The cat jumped across the wall to the table in the principal's office, but it was Professor McGonagall's voice when he opened his mouth.

Dumbledore, who was sitting behind the office chair, nodded, and the silver mime disappeared into a puff of smoke.

Phoenix Fawkes on the shelf beside him screamed, and Dumbledore couldn't help but look at his old buddy. "Fox, you went very timely, you saved that child." But what responded to him was Fenghuang's arrogant back.

The portraits on the walls chattered about dementor-gardened schools and Azkaban escapees.Next to the open spellbook was a timer with a long gold chain, and Dumbledore reached out to put the timer back in the drawer.

"It seems that our old friend has arrived." He whispered something, and as soon as the words fell, a green flame ignited in the fireplace, and a chunky figure staggered out of it.

"Albus, I heard... I heard about an incredible thing... You must tell me..."

Had Agareth or Harry been here, they would have recognized the wizard as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.It's just that at this moment, Fudge's face doesn't have the calmness or bureaucratic look of the previous meeting. He looks like he has been frightened by something and is very nervous.

Dumbledore greeted him: "Long time no see, Mr. Minister, come and sit down, do you need a cup of hot cocoa? You seem to need it very much."

Fudge didn't want hot cocoa at all, he had only come here to find out if the rumor, the terrible news that would have cost him his job as Minister of Magic, was true.

"I heard that dementors..." he swallowed, and asked with difficulty, "the dementors...attacked a student on the train?" After finishing speaking, Fudge stared closely at Dumbledore's face , for fear that I would miss any expression on his face.

But Dumbledore nodded. "Yes, we all know that a dementor attacked a student."

Fudge's face turned paler than paper in an instant, he pursed his lips, unable to utter a single word.

In those few seconds, I am afraid that he had already imagined the scene of himself being flooded by shouting letters and being kicked out of the position of Minister of Magic by the people, so that after Dumbledore told him that the student who was attacked was still alive, It's just that when it took a while to recover, he was too sluggish to react.

When the fact that the student was still alive came into Fudge's mind, he was jolted up and woke up completely. "What did you say?! Is that student okay?!"

"It can't be said that it's all right." Dumbledore said.

But Fudge didn't care about this, he just needed to know that the student hadn't been sucked out of his soul by a dementor.God knows how he felt when he received the news that a dementor had attacked a student, as if the world collapsed in an instant.

He was the one who ordered the dementors to leave Azkaban and allow them to search Hogwarts, only to search for the fugitive Black and further weaken Dumbledore's prestige.But Fudge had always believed that the Dementors were still under the control of the Ministry of Magic, and if an innocent student had died from a Dementor's Kiss, for whatever reason, Fudge believed that his career would have come to an end.

That's why he rushed here as soon as he received the news, wanting to know the truth of the matter.

Fortunately, Merlin still cared for him, and that student did not die.Then this matter is much easier to handle.

"Albus, which poor student is it? I think the dementor must have not paid attention when searching, you know, for some vulnerable people, this is always unbearable pain." Fudge Qing Cleared his throat.

Dumbledore smiled. "Mr. Agareth Black, I am afraid he is not a weak person."

Fudge was surprised to hear the name. "Oh, oh, it turned out to be him..." Fudge obviously knew about this little Mr. Black.He couldn't help but relax even more.

"Since it's him, it's easy to explain...I mean, then we know why the dementors have more influence on him, after all, they are searching for his father, aren't they? Speaking of which, Mr. Black is going to A Zkaban has seen Sirius Black, so I'm afraid we'll have to meet little Mr Black and wonder if he knew anything about his father's escape."

Dumbledore still looked the same, and didn't seem surprised by Fudge's performance at all.

"So are you going to see him now? He's in the hospital wing. He should have just finished his potion."

But Fudge refused, and he waved his hands again and again: "No, no, not now. Whether the kid is suspected or not, he was still under the influence of a dementor after all. We'll come back another day, um, there must be an Auror present. You know Yes, if we get news of Sirius Black, we'll have to let the Aurors hunt it down!"

Even though Fudge had accused Agares of being an insider, Dumbledore was still the same, without any further explanation.

After getting the news he wanted, Fudge left Hogwarts. Except for Dumbledore and the portraits in the principal's office, no one knew that the Minister of Magic visited the school that night.

Agares stayed in the medical wing for one night and then went back. Many of his memories were still in confusion, but fortunately, he no longer had the original feeling of severe pain and severe cold.Madam Pomfrey told him that as long as he went back to drink the medicine every day, in about a week, the influence of the dementors on him would completely disappear, and his memory would return to normal.

After this incident, Hogwarts suddenly had many students who were curious about dementors.There are books about it in the library that have been borrowed in just one day, and even appointments are scheduled for half term.

After reviewing an introduction to dementors, the students were terrified by the terrifying monster they had seen once.The kind of thing that feeds on happiness and happy memories brings nothing but despair and coldness.And the kiss of the dementor can suck away the soul of a person, turning a living person into a walking dead.

If it weren't for the attack on Agares on the train, I'm afraid they wouldn't be afraid of this monster.After all, only a few children from wizarding families have heard of the existence of Azkaban and Dementors. For them, that may be something they will never see in their entire lives.

The classmates around them were attacked, which made all the students feel a sense of crisis, just like the secret room incident last semester.It's just that the one who was attacked last time was a Muggle-born wizard, but this time it was a pure-blooded one.Dementors are not deceived by disguises, and do not accept requests of any kind.Especially Dumbledore's warning at the opening dinner made everyone feel insecure.

It is worth mentioning that Remus Lupine, the newly appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this school year, is much more capable than his predecessors.Many students asked him about dementors in class, and he was able to give detailed and useful information.And he will also have the Patronus Charm, which is the only spell that can deal with dementors, which is quite advanced.

The students wanted to learn this spell, although Professor Lupine agreed, but after all, this spell is relatively difficult, so he only taught it in the classrooms above the fourth grade.

During this period of time, not only was the school restless, but there were also storms outside the school.

Out of fear of the dementors and their children, the parents who received the news wrote roaring letters one after another to the office of the Minister of Magic to scold Fudge, asking him to take the dementors stationed at Hogwarts away. recall.The Daily Prophet also described the dementor attack on the students with a very horrifying headline, so that the discussion boiled over.

But things got reversed the next day.First, the Ministry of Magic stated that no students died on the train, and that the dementors were just doing routine searches and did not attack the students.Then a staff member of the Auror Division disclosed that the student who was "attacked" was the son of the fugitive Sirius Black, who was studying at Hogwarts Slytherin College, and had applied for a visit to Azkaban and obtained permission.

The report used various "suspect" and "possible" words to describe Agares as a man who deliberately helped his father escape from prison.Out of trust in the Daily Prophet, many wizards really believed what was written above, and even wrote to Hogwarts asking Dumbledore to expel Agares.

When the matter heated up, the Daily Prophet also released a photo of Fudge visiting the "attacked" student at Hogwarts, and the student was unharmed.This made more people think that this incident was a farce directed and acted by Agareth Black, who falsely claimed that he was attacked by a dementor in order to win people's sympathy for him and get rid of his suspicion.

In just two weeks, Agares was molded into a scheming boy.His friends were furious about this, but he couldn't laugh or cry.

Agares didn't expect Fudge to use the public opinion war against him so quickly in order to get rid of the impact of this incident on his career.Although he was the victim, he had to express his admiration for this war without gunpowder.

Draco was so pissed off that he couldn't help but use one splinter after another on it every day after receiving the Daily Prophet.Especially the one with Fudge, nailed to the wall by him, facing Fudge's face every day, using it to be torn apart and then restored to its original state.After a few times, his magic spell has improved a lot.

Draco wrote quite a few letters to his dad, but Lucius just kept them calm.

Agares understood why Lucius did this. Now that the public's emotions are at their peak, no matter what he says at this time, others will only think that he is making excuses.And Fudge will never allow public opinion to fall in other directions. If he needs to maintain his prestige, he must make Agares a victim.

Of course, things won't go on like this forever.Now the masses are so angry, a large part of the reason is actually diverting and venting their anger towards Sirius Black.Who made Agares his son, so he should also bear the criticism and anger of others against Sirius Black.

When the masses have almost vented their anger and some of their own dark emotions, then it is suitable to guide public opinion.But any reasonable person would not really think that an underage child can do much bad things.When they recovered from their anger, they found that Agares was different from his escaped prisoner father, and they probably wronged him.Then Agares can get more sympathy points, as well as a trace of guilt.

This trace of guilt was enough to make him fight a good turnaround.

As for Fudge...

The author has something to say:

In Harry Potter, Rita Skeeter is one of the characters I hate the most. Those who control her mouth cannot escape the officials of the Ministry of Magic headed by Fudge.

She also made Harry and Agares into Romeo and Romeo in the future, am I going to say it casually?