Chapter 84: Going Fishing in Azkaban (5,000 Chapters)

Luna always looked like she didn't care about anything, as if nothing in the world could ruin her state of mind.

So until today, this was the first time Gretel saw her real smile.

To be honest, Gretel was really a little frightened by this girl Luna, and her unreasonable inspiration really made his liver tremble.

Whenever she looked at him with meaningful eyes, Gretel always thought she understood something.

For this reason, Grete had to avoid her in daily life.

Luna seemed to be aware of his feelings, so she basically didn't answer him unless necessary.

It seemed that the change in her body was really big this time, so much so that the girl took the initiative to find Grete again.

"It smells a lot like my mother's."

After seeing Luna smile for the first time, Gretel saw her lose for the first time.

Thinking about it, this girl must miss her mother.

Luna's mother's name was Pandora. It is said that she died due to an accident in an experiment when Luna was nine years old.

Things like experimenting with death often occurred in ancient times. The wizards at that time were always bold in using magic spells, potions, and alchemical products.

If there are apprentices, let the apprentices experiment, and if there are no apprentices, let them do it themselves.

Therefore, the mortality rate at that time basically remained high all year round.

However, as the wizards' magic system gradually improved, this kind of thing rarely happened.

In modern times, it is unlikely that a wizard will be killed accidentally in decades.

Luna said that Grete's current smell was similar to that of her deceased mother.

This made Grete wonder if Luna's mother was born with this talent of being close to nature.

After two weeks of rest, Grete's spirit has returned to normal and he no longer is in a daze from time to time.

However, the experience he had while recuperating in the infirmary has always been deeply engraved in his mind.

That tiny, almost imperceptible existence like an elf was basically invisible to him after he recovered, but he could feel that as he digested, more and more mysterious particles lingered around him.

And as long as he is near other wizards, or alchemical items with powerful magic.

He could still vaguely detect the small feather-like existence that shuttled freely in the air.

If the smell Luna felt was indeed inseparable from this mysterious existence, then Pandora Lovegood most likely had an accident while studying this kind of thing.

The specific circumstances are unclear, but the widely circulated news is that Pandora caused the explosion by chanting the wrong spell.

Knowing that Gretel didn't like to be in contact with her very much, Luna walked away after saying these two sentences.

She still has to look for new accessories that were hidden by her classmates, which she just made during the holidays.

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Gretel was worried about this existence that might be related to the source of magic, and casually stepped into the dormitory.

Next to his bed is this year's class schedule.

But no need to look, Terry had already told him everything during his visits during these days.

Terry chose Divination and Muggle Studies. According to him, it is easy to get high marks in Divination, as long as you don't make ridiculous nonsense during the Divination exam.

Muggle studies came about because Gretel had a Muggle wizard friend, and Terry wanted to get involved with Muggles after graduation.

He also brought Gretel a message from the professor of divination, saying that as long as Gretel takes her class, she will be confident in training Gretel to become the greatest fortune teller in the world.

However, Grete is not sensitive to divination.

Even though he was considered by everyone to be a top student, Gretel did not take all the courses as electives as they thought. He did not have such obsession, nor did he have the time.

Even while lying on the hospital bed, he chose courses for himself overnight, Muggle Studies and Ancient Runes.

These two courses were what Gretel had long decided to learn.

One is to understand Muggles from the perspective of wizards, and the other is to understand the ancient wizards themselves.

Only if you can read the runes yourself can you understand the meaning expressed by the original author. Reading the translation always gives Gretel a feeling that the words do not express what he meant.

These two courses are what Grete thinks are most useful to him. In fact, he also wants to choose alchemy, but that course is not open to students below the sixth grade.

Gretel felt that Care of Magical Creatures was unnecessary. When he learned that he had not chosen this course, Hagrid called him to express his disappointment.

This was the first course he took as a professor after he was wronged, but in the end he expressed his understanding, after all, Grete was so busy.

Arithmetic divination is the same as divination. As long as it involves divination, Gretel doesn't like to touch it.

He was sure that he did not have any talent for divination. Rather than hoping for divination to figure out the future, it was better to grasp the present moment.

When Grete turned in his course selection records, more people were disappointed.

Harry was disappointed that none of his electives were with Gretel.

Hermione was disappointed that Gretel had evaded her challenge. On the day of her visit to Gretel, she had left word that she hoped to compete with Gretel in all courses.

Of course, one of these people was the happiest, Mr. Ron Weasley.

Originally, after Gretel saved Harry, a thick dark cloud hung over his heart. Unexpectedly, none of them met Gretel in the elective course.

This incident made Ron happy for many days, and even when Crookshanks bullied Scabbers again, he couldn't bear to be angry.

The pending Defense Against the Dark Arts professor still falls on Lupine.

Lupine's heart almost jumped out of his chest because he heard that Harry had almost had his soul sucked away by a dementor on the way to school.

To this end, he went directly to Dumbledore and expressed his wishes.

For Harry's safety, and for the sake of blocking Snape, who has not given up until now, Dumbledore made the decision to let Lupine be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for the new year.

After hearing this news, Gretel couldn't help but wonder if there was no such thing as energy potion in the wizarding world, Remus Lupin had this moon face.

If you work hard day and night, will you run out of fuel within a month?

Considering that he still needs to take the wolfsbane potion prepared by Snape, he doesn't know whether the two salaries of the night watchman and the professor can support him until the end of the year.

Gretel didn't think that Snape, who had been on the same level as the Marauders for many years, would provide Lupine with potions for free.

Even if it is Dumbledore's arrangement, it is absolutely impossible.

The grievances between Snape and the Marauding Four, like his love for Lily Potter, are eternal until death.

Gretel had thought about abducting Snape after graduation. Anyway, with him here, Voldemort would definitely not let Snape kill him.

He has the confidence and the ability.

However, first, considering that Snape was too far from the selection standards of their organization.

The second was considering that if Snape was asked to choose between him and Harry, he would undoubtedly lose.

In the end, the matter was settled.

Speaking of the entire school, apart from Luna, who was naturally full of inspiration, Snape was very familiar with Gretel's behavior.

Just as he trusted Dumbledore, Gretel trusted him.

At least, Snape would never reveal his information to Dumbledore without threatening Harry.

After all, he was basically the heir to Snape's mantle now, and the only thing missing between the two was a ritual, or in other words, just breaking the window paper.

And unlike Professor Voldemort's teachings, Snape never coveted his existence, nor did he want to drag him into any weird organization.

On the contrary, one day, Gretel may encounter danger, Voldemort may sit back and watch, and Snape will definitely reach out to take advantage of him.

This is why he occasionally reveals his true nature in front of Sri Lanka.

In front of Voldemort, no matter how much Voldemort admired him, Gretel was still suspicious.

——

After making up his mind not to get involved in any messy things, Grete found that time passed so quickly.

For most third graders, this semester seems to be lacking some excitement.

You know, in the first and second grade, they were all driven back to the lounge.

But this year, except for meeting a dementor on the train at the beginning of school, nothing strange has happened so far.

Oh, by the way, except for Gryffindor, they encountered something. On October 31st, the portrait of the Fat Lady of Gryffindor was cut to pieces.

Everyone thought that the adventure of the new school year was finally about to begin, but until the end, everyone just slept in the hall all night, and no other strange things happened.

Harry was very worried, he felt that the omen of death was about to come true, and Black came to kill him in order to avenge his master.

Harry didn't sleep well all night. He felt as if he was being hung and flying in the strong wind.

Hogwarts went off alert the next day, and so far this school year there had been only one victim, the Fat Lady.

Harry was uneasy all day long, and he even sneaked in one day when Grete was taking a Muggle studies class, under the pretense of joining the class.

"Gretel, I'm really worried. Do you think I will die? Professor Trelawney said that she saw from the imagery that my life would be in danger."

Gretel didn't turn his head at all, he just stared at the blackboard, moved his lips slightly, and squeezed out a few words.

"Professor Trelawney's prophecies are mostly ineffective unless they are related to that person."

Gretel's words seemed to poke Harry's smile. It seemed like this. Professor Trelawney kept making prophecies to others every day.

But the most accurate ones are often related to Voldemort. It seems that she is the special Noble Phantasm for Voldemort.

In other words, half of the credit for Voldemort's failure must go to Professor Trelawney.

If it weren't for her prophecy, Voldemort might not have taken action against either Harry or Neville at all.

Perhaps the outcome of death was avoided.

Grete's words made Harry relax for a while. At least during class, his frown that had been frowning since the beginning of school finally relaxed slightly.

However, when get out of class was over, he began to worry again. Gretel didn't want to be too troublesome, so he just tried to persuade him not to be too anxious.

In fact, Harry, who believed in Gretel so much, could save Harry from his anxiety as long as he revealed a little bit of information about Black.

However, Gretel couldn't do that. As long as there was no butterfly effect, no one would die this school year. It would just make Harry worry for a while longer.

But once he leaked the secret, there was no need to consider how to explain the source of his information.

As for Harry alone, he certainly couldn't keep the secret. At least, he would tell Ron and Hermione.

Ron knew, which meant that Scabbers knew that people like Peter Pettigrew would never put themselves in danger.

Gretel believed that he would definitely not mind bringing a big gift for his master when he ran away to find his master.

So, he would only comfort him verbally, and other than that, he would resolutely not participate in Harry's third-year life.

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Gretel had never been so eager for the Christmas holiday as this year.

Just like he had never lived such a regular life like this semester.

He went to class on time every day, and went into the Room of Requirement whenever he had time to teach the organization of new people and the unique spells he had researched.

The homework for the Muggle Studies course was very simple, and the homework for ancient runes was even simpler.

The former requires Gret's independent thinking, while the latter is to translate a document from runes into modern text according to the professor's requirements.

During this period, he consulted countless materials and corrected many historical facts that he had misunderstood because of reading translations in the past.

The more he knew about history, the more Gret felt that Mr. Florin, who opened a cold drink shop in Diagon Alley, had a mysterious identity.

Because even the detailed history recorded in runes was not as detailed as what Mr. Florin said when Harry was doing homework during the holidays.

However, after leaving the station, he did not go to Diagon Alley, after all, the monk can run away but the temple cannot.

The communication store is not far from the cold drink shop, and Senny will keep an eye on the mysterious Florin for him.

Gret left school this holiday just to go to Azkaban.

Yes, Azkaban, which is feared by everyone in the British wizarding world, and Arthur Weasley went there once, and was so scared that he didn't come back to his soul for a long time.

Of course, he was not going to Azkaban to register for school. He was targeting the Dementors, which wizards could do nothing about except expel.

This semester, he tried every possible means, but he did not observe the mysterious substance that might be related to the existence of magic.

In addition, after the patronus ate the Dementors at the beginning of the school year, he found that his spirit was much stronger and his spells were much smoother than before.

In the spirit of wasting resources, Grete went straight to Azkaban after leaving the station.

He was going to Azkaban for fishing and mining.

Azkaban is located in the cold waters of the North Sea. Because of the cover of magic, it has never been marked on the maps of Muggles.

Ordinary wizards only know that Azkaban is in the North Sea, and few people know its exact location.

However, for the old saints in Godot Town who almost overturned the whole of Europe, there is nothing that can be called a secret in this land where they were born, grew up and determined to reform.

The saints didn't know what Gret wanted to do in Azkaban, but since Gret needed it, they would naturally provide it generously.

After all, everyone in Godot knew that Gret's patronus was very fierce.

With such a fierce patronus protecting him, the group of soulless demons would never cause any trouble to him.

As for whether Gret would release those vicious criminals?

The saints didn't care at all. They only cared whether Gret could let them see that wizards could live equally in this world before they died.

Since he was going to Azkaban, he must not attract anyone's attention.

For this reason, Gret even rode on the hated magic broom.

The Ministry of Magic never monitored the fluctuations of such magical creations. They didn't have the energy to do so.

A firebolt with a speed of 150 miles per hour would only take about five hours even if it flew to Austria.

Azkaban, located in the North Sea, was far away from the British mainland, but it was definitely not as good as flying to Godot.

Gret flew for more than three hours and saw the eerie and dark outer wall of the castle.

The predecessor of Azkaban was not a prison, but a castle where wizards studied black magic.

Dementors were the product of his black magic.

In the years when wizards were developing wildly, countless Muggle sailors and merchants fell here.

The island where Azkaban was located was not very big. After a castle was built, there was not much space left.

However, this just happened to be convenient for wizards to build it into a prison, surrounded by the sea and far away from human habitation. They believed that no one could escape from here.

This group of Dementors that could not be eliminated became natural jailers. The wizards agreed with them that as long as they did not run around, the prisoners on the island would be at their disposal.

Usually, Dementors would not suck away the souls of wizards as soon as they met. They clearly distinguished between a full meal and a full ton.

Prisoners like Sirius Black were their favorite existence.

Even if they came to suck away the happiness from him every day, he could still remain sane and even produce new happiness soon after.

The happiness emanating from the souls of living people attracted them more than the souls.

Most people would gradually lose their sanity and sense of happy memories after a week in Azkaban, and life would be worse than death for them.

This kind of prisoner, after being judged by the Dementors as unable to regain his sanity and produce happiness, will have his soul robbed and become a pile of walking corpses with only the body still alive.

If Sirius had not been obsessed with revenge, he would not have been able to maintain his sanity.

He should be thankful that he had never fantasized about the happiness after a successful revenge, otherwise even this obsession that guaranteed his sanity would be sucked away by the Dementors.

Wizards, no, it should be said that humans, the happiness deep in the human soul is the most precious delicacy in the world for Dementors.

Gretel also used this method to attract the attention of the patrolling Dementors.

Dementors can communicate with wizards, which is common sense for wizards, but they are only willing to communicate with the Ministry of Magic or wizards who are too powerful for them to offend.

The Patronus Charm is the best bait for fishing, but he must control it, so that only beautiful emotions are emitted from his body, and never let the spell take effect.

Otherwise, he can't guarantee that the Dementors will not be driven away by him due to the characteristics of the Patronus Charm, or that his Patronus will jump out and kill the Dementors.

Thanks to the book friend DingWANG for his monthly ticket support.

Small theater

Grete: Harry, you don't want to cause you or Ron any danger because of the butterfly effect, so don't think about it, just have your nightmare honestly.

Harry: I'm telling you my heart, and you're playing tricks on me? ? ?

Ron (peeks): Break up, break up, break up...

Harry: Forget it, you are my best friend, I'll listen to you.

Ron (jumps out): Grete, I'm going to kill you

Harry: Ron, don't~