Chapter 438 The Strange Movements of the Dementors (Second Update Guaranteed)
The cabinet floated all the way up until the top met the ceiling. The part of the cabinet buried underground looked very much like the wand cabinet at Ollivander's Wand Shop. The entire cabinet was densely packed with rows of small boxes. At a glance, Tonks saw that there were hundreds of them.
Mr. Borkin:!
At this moment, he felt like someone was strangling his neck and it was difficult to breathe: This was what he and his partner Caractacus Bock had accumulated over the years, and now it was all over!
Mr. Borgin is a cautious man. Although his shop has many anti-theft spells, he still habitually hides the authenticity of various items under the cabinet at the cashier. The booths outside were either replicas made using copying spells or fakes made by craftsmen. There were also some items of low value or very dangerous items just placed there. The former doesn't feel bad if stolen, while the latter will most likely leave the thief in the store.
But this little trick was meaningless in front of Moody. His magic eye can even see through the invisibility cloak. It doesn't matter how many floors and protective spells he sees through. So within two minutes of his arrival, he found Borgin's hidden dark room.
Moody looked at Borgin. He didn't want to open the cabinet himself. Bo Jin sighed again, walked to the cabinets, and knocked for a while until all the cabinets popped open.
Moody snorted, walked to the cabinet, picked out the illegal items one by one, and put them into sealed bags from the Ministry of Magic. Every time he took away something, Bo Jin's face grew paler.
The things inside are not only the property of Mr. Borkin, but also the things temporarily stored here by his partner Bork and other pure-blood wizards. Even though the Ministry of Magic was conducting the inspection, would those people really reason with him?
Once the people from the Ministry of Magic leave, I am afraid that they will catch him and squeeze out the last copper Knut from his body. Even though he and Bock have been working together for decades, when it is time to fall out, Bock will not Soft-handed. Mr. Borgin knew his partner was anything but good.
"Let's go!" Moody walked around the room twice, and after making sure that there were no prohibited items missing, he led the team directly out of Borgin-Bock. Before leaving, his magic eyes stared at a corner for a short while. He knew there was a mechanism there, but unfortunately it was most likely Bok's treasure trove, and Bojin couldn't open it.
Although Mr. Borkin had nearly a hundred prohibited items in his shop, the Ministry of Magic couldn't really arrest him - because he had a legal business license. According to official records, Borgin and Burkes is an antique shop that incidentally provides "secret valuations of rare and ancient magical artifacts inherited from outstanding wizarding families." Moody and Tonks could only confiscate illegal items from the store, but could not arrest the store owner.
The only ones who will be caught today are a group of minions and wizards who are actually forced to buy dark magic items. These people will spend this winter in Azkaban.
After Moody left, Mr. Borgin's body swayed twice, and he almost collapsed to the ground, but he managed to steady himself by holding on to the counter next to him.
At this time, several dementors suddenly floated into Borgin-Bock. At this time, Knockturn Alley was in chaos. The Aurors and other Ministry of Magic staff were busy searching. The shopkeepers and customers were taken with them. No one noticed that several dementors had entered and were captured by the Aurors. They were frantically "searching" for Borgin-Bock.
Feeling the cold approaching, Bo Jin suddenly raised his head with a horrified look on his face: "You, how can you...haven't I already -"
He was so frightened that he thought these dementors had come in to take him to Azkaban.
"Don't be nervous," a voice came from behind the Dementor, "Mr. Borgin, I think we can make a deal."
Bo Jin:?
"Who are you... or something?" His face was pale, and a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He knew that no matter whether the person speaking was a human or a monster, he was not someone he could provoke.
"Of course it's a human." The dementors made way for a young man wearing a strange mask and crown to walk in front of Mr. Borgin.
"I'm curious, do you need to pay compensation for the things that were confiscated just now? Or do you have other ways to get these things back?" He looked at the empty shelves and the product descriptions on them with interest. He quickly estimated the value of these black magic items in his mind.
Mr. Borgin opened his mouth, then closed it again, several times, and finally let out a long sigh. His body became more stooped, and his back became even more hunched, "Of course I have to pay for it... and even if those big shots can get the confiscated items back, they will ask me to compensate... If you want to be more specific, you need public relations fees." , they just claim the original price of the things without being particular...decades of accumulation have just been wasted!"
The young man who entered Borgin-Bock was naturally Tom. How could he, the leader of the dementors, not follow a large-scale operation involving hundreds of dementors? Just now, he had been watching the show from a distance, protected by a few younger brothers. Seeing that Borgin-Bock was confiscated and a large number of collections were confiscated, Tom suddenly had an idea. So he led the dementors into Borgin-Bock.
What Mr. Borkin just said confirmed Tom's suspicion. At this time, he looked at the few products left on the shelves, thoughtfully.
"If I were you, I would run away." He walked to a huge cabinet and stopped. His intuition told him that this was the disappearing cabinet in Borgin-Bock's magic shop. Through this cabinet, you can teleport directly into Hogwarts.
Things like disappearing cabinets exist in pairs. The method of use is also very simple: enter one of the cabinets and close the door. Open the door again and you will come out of another cabinet. There's a Vanishing Cabinet here in Borgin and there's another in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts. It's just that now the cabinet in the Room of Requirement is damaged, making it impossible to pass living creatures into the campus.
Although living objects cannot be passed around now, as long as they are repaired, the pair of disappearing cabinets can still become an unknown secret passage into Hogwarts. In the original world line, the backbone of Death Eaters entered Hogwarts in this way and blocked Dumbledore in the Astronomy Tower.
There is no doubt that these disappearing cabinets are a security risk for Hogwarts. As a student of Hogwarts, Tom naturally does not want to allow holes in Hogwarts' defense network. The method to eliminate this hidden danger is also very easy: split the cabinet and throw it into the fireplace to use as firewood. It is absolutely foolproof. But what are the consequences of this?
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Note: Borgin and Burkes are not brothers, they are partners. The name of the store is Borgin and Burkes, which is a combination of their last names.