Chapter 227 Christmas and the Prisoner of Azkaban

In contrast to the lively and warm Greengrass Manor, the Azkaban Wizard Prison on an isolated island in the North Sea looks desolate and miserable even at Christmas.

In other parts of the world, during festivals, even prisoners in prison will be happier than usual, because the jailers will provide them with more sumptuous dishes and the supervision will be a little looser. But in Azkaban, this situation does not exist, even here some Christmas special foods are provided to prisoners.

However, the jailers here do these things not out of humanitarian considerations.

The guards of the Azkaban Wizard Prison are not people, but a group of dark creatures called Dementors. No one knows how they were born, whether they will die, and how they reproduce. They suddenly broke into the vision of wizards.

The first time wizards learned about Dementors was in the 15th century. At that time, Azkaban was still a private territory. A man named Axtis occupied the island and built a fortress on it, and brought Muggles here to torture them to death.

After Axtis died, the island's concealment magic failed, and the wizards discovered this magic cave. At this time, the island was full of Dementors.

After several conflicts with the Dementors, the wizards had to admit that they could not do anything to them. Fortunately, they also found a special spell to deal with Dementors, which led to a delicate balance between wizards and Dementors: wizards did not disturb Dementors, did not destroy the fortresses they lived in, and Dementors would not actively attack wizards.

As for the Muggle fishing boats that accidentally entered this area and the Muggle towns settled by the sea, they became victims. The Dementors would run out and suck the happiness in their souls.

Azkaban became a wizard prison in 1718. After the Statute of Secrecy was enacted, wizards did not want Dementors to "prey" on Muggle territory again. At the same time, there was also a need to concentrate wizard criminals. The two sides hit it off. Under the promotion of the then Minister of Magic Damocles Rowle, Azkaban was transformed into a wizard prison.

No prisoner has ever escaped from here. The Dementors will squeeze out the last bit of happiness in the souls of the prisoners, and then let them wait for death in despair.

The Dementors will provide food for the prisoners here, and even distribute different kinds of food according to festivals, with only one purpose: to stimulate the happiness in the souls of the prisoners so that they can have a full meal. But no matter how much happiness in the soul is stimulated, there is a limit. Now the prisoners imprisoned in Azkaban are as difficult to squeeze out happiness as sugarcane residue - this can be seen from the untouched plates at the door of most cells.

A small boat cut through the waves and headed towards the island where Azkaban was located.

Four hooded people were standing on the boat. The seawater was washed onto the deck by the waves, but was silently bounced away when it approached them. Although the four people were in the ocean, they were still dry and warm.

"It is said that Salazar Slytherin fought a deadly battle with Jörmungandr in the North Sea a thousand years ago. The sky was covered by Jörmungandr's body, and the sea was torn apart by Slytherin's spell. The sound could be heard even on the Isle of Islay in the south." The thoughts of a hooded man drifted back a thousand years with the waves.

"Jamieny (Gemini), can you concentrate on driving the boat?" An impatient female voice came from another hood: "Hurry up and finish the task. I'm so unlucky to work on Christmas Eve!"

The woman's words resonated with the other two: No one wanted to come out to deal with tasks on Christmas Eve, but there was no way. Who made the four of them so unlucky that they drew the lottery?

Moreover, for the Secret Order, this is indeed a good opportunity. The grand dinner hosted by the Greengrass family attracted too many people's attention, and they could take this opportunity to do something.

For the Secret Society, Hogwarts has become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. They have lost too much power there, and too many treasures have been left there. They must find a way to get them back.

Every force that is hostile to Hogwarts should be used by them. Who is more suitable than Voldemort?

The top leaders of the Secret Society have reached a consensus that they must find a way to resurrect Voldemort.

After launching an intelligence network investigation, the monks of the Secret Society determined that Voldemort achieved "eternal life" through Horcruxes. It is not difficult to resurrect a wizard who made a Horcrux. The only difficulty is to find the location of his Horcrux. The people of the Secret Society have found a suitable entry point: to explore the clues of the whereabouts of his Horcruxes from the mouths of Voldemort's followers.

Now all the information points to two people: Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange. The former monk of the secret order does not want to contact for the time being, but the latter one is much easier to deal with because she is imprisoned in Azkaban.

The purpose of the four people's trip is to pry the whereabouts of Voldemort's Horcrux from Bella.

After a brief complaint, the four fell into silence again.

After a while, Gemini spoke again: "Since Dumbledore is so difficult, why don't we wait until he dies of old age before plotting against Hogwarts? He is more than a hundred years old."

Pisces, Aries, Taurus: ...

No one answered, and the boat suddenly became silent.

Gemini:?

Finally, it was Taurus who spoke up, slightly easing the awkward atmosphere on the boat: "When do you think he will die? This year, next year? Five years later? Ten years later? The organization cannot accept this uncertainty, and the remains must be recovered as soon as possible."

Most importantly, they could not be sure whether Dumbledore had used some means to prolong his life. For a wizard of his level, it was not particularly difficult to extend his life, especially since he had a friend named Nicolas Flamel.

Soon after, the boat arrived at Azkaban.

"The environment is really bad." After walking onto the island, Aries frowned: she hated the atmosphere here very much.

"Be quiet." Pisces, who had been silent all the time, reprimanded her, squinting her eyes and looking at the Azkaban Castle not far away.

At the same time, the Dementors, who sensed the smell of fresh souls, began to gather here. The air, which was already bone-chillingly cold, became even colder because of their arrival, and the water vapor in the air almost froze into ice chips.

Soon, a large number of Dementors in torn robes surrounded the four people, but what surprised them was that they could not draw any emotions from them at all. This was really strange.

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The second update is here~

I have to work overtime on Thursday, so I may not be able to update on time on Friday...