Chapter 194 - 194 Dementors invade Hogwarts.

Chapter 194: Chapter 194 Dementors invade Hogwarts.

The sky was tantalizingly white and tantalizingly purple in the distance, with a few clouds drifting in and out, gradually rising into a few thin shades of twilight.

The imposing castle stood against the tantalizing purple sky, with a row of smaller towers stretching out from the middle of the spires of the main tower's upper floors at its highest point; the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts.

The windows of the Headmaster's office were open, and a fresh breeze blew into the room, causing the candles on several candlesticks to sway slightly.

At some point, a figure suddenly surfaced by the window, a head of silver hair fluttering with the breeze precisely like the flames on the candles.

"It's like you knew I was coming and actually left the window open?" Dracula looked over to Dumbledore, who was sitting behind his desk looking through his papers, and laughed softly.

It sounded odd, after all, everyone else who wanted to receive guests also left a door open for them, but for Dracula, receiving him was leaving a window open was enough.

Of course, Dumbledore was quite used to this rather odd conversation.

"That's not true, it's just that it's a nice day to open a window and get some air." He put the paper in his hand down and looked up to Dracula and snickered, "Speaking of which, I did leave the window open for you all day two weeks ago, and I didn't see you come over as a guest, Professor Dracula, until I caught a cold from the cool night air."

Dumbledore shook his head, "So then I didn't bother to leave a window open for you. That is, today just happened to see the sky color is good only on a whim to open the window for a while, I did not expect you to come at the right time."

It occurred to Dracula that his visit to Azkaban had been two weeks ago.

After he left Azkaban, he had wandered along the path from the Azkaban islands to the mainland of England, wanting to see if he could find some traces of Sirius Black by chance, and maybe if he was lucky, he could capture him back to the Black family and give him to Regulus, and then he could watch a big emotional scene between brothers in the meantime.

Unfortunately, Sirius didn't seem to use much magic at all along the way, as if he simply swam back to the mainland of England by using his physical body to swim, and he didn't find any traces of magic.

Dracula was so depressed that he went back to Azkaban and abused the Dementors for a while, and didn't return to Hogwarts until the day the opening dinner was to begin.

"Professor Dracula, tell me honestly, did you make a trip to Azkaban two weeks ago?" Dumbledore asked as he crossed his arms and stared hard into Dracula's eyes.

"Huh, you know all this?" Dracula raised an eyebrow absently, "News comes pretty fast."

While saying that, he casually pulled open one of Dumbledore's drawers and pulled out a handful of blood-flavored lollipops and blood pudding from it.

His movements were extremely skillful, and there was absolutely no embarrassment about taking other people's things, just like returning to his own home.

"It's been two weeks since this happened, Professor Dracula ... " Dumbledore's eyes twitched a little at the corner of his eye as he watched his treasured sweets being hocked by Dracula, "Also, you don't seem to be hiding yourself at all. "

"Two weeks ago, there was a mass protest on the seventh floor of Azkaban Prison, accusing the Ministry of Magic of lax supervision and allowing strangers into the cages to torture prisoners. The Death Eaters there all seem to have been tossed around by the Dementors."

"Not only that, but they also gave an accurate description of the person who came - long silver hair, handsome features, burgundy eyes ... If I can't deduce that it's you based on that information, then I'm done as a principal. "

Dumbledore rubbed his brow and gave Dracula a somewhat helpless look.

"I thought they were all hardcore people who would rather die than give in, but I didn't realize that they couldn't even carry a few Dementors, thanks to which I was thinking about finding something else for them to do." Dracula bristled, obviously very dissatisfied with the performance of those Death Eaters.

"That wasn't 'a few' Dementors, Professor Dracula." The corner of Dumbledore's mouth twitched, "While other floors have up to three or four dementors entering at once to feed, the seventh floor has twenty-seven going in at once! Who can top that?"

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In fact, he didn't expect that his casual command to have the dementors take extra care of the seventh floor would be so conscientiously complied with and exceeded!

"What does the Ministry of Magic think?" Dracula asked casually, "Can they guess that I did this?"

Actually, Dracula didn't care much about what the Ministry of Magic thought right now. Because he hadn't appeared much inside the Ministry of Magic's field of vision, very few officials knew a black magic defense arts professor like him.

"Actually, you're not the only one who doesn't believe it, many of us don't believe that Sirius would betray James." Dumbledore sighed softly, somewhat forlornly.

"At that time, the precious friendship of the four of them, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter, could be called a unique scenery of Gryffindor. The few of them were inseparable, attending classes together, eating together, having fun together, teasing Severus together, breaking school rules together, and being locked up together ..."

'Is there a strange thing mixed in here?' Dracula's mouth twitched.

Dumbledore continued, "None of us wanted to believe that these four would ever be separated, let alone go so far as to believe that one of them would betray their best friend."

"But the truth was not for us to disbelieve, for under the spell of abject loyalty, the only way to disable the spell was for the secreter to voluntarily reveal the location of the safe house!"

Dracula nodded softly, his curiosity about that Sirius Black even stronger in his mind.

And this time, the curiosity was not only for the novelty of him being the first wizard to escape Azkaban, but also for the desire to know the truth of that incident back then.

"Speaking of which, there's always a name inside those four little friends that feels familiar." Dracula supported his chin with two fingers and murmured thoughtfully, "Lemus Lupin, why does it feel like I've seen that name somewhere?"

"Lames?" Dumbledore gave Dracula a curious look, "I think it's a rename? Lemus is usually too low key because of his status."

"I was going to set him up with a post at Hogwarts this year to keep an eye on Harry a little more in the time since Sirius' prison break, but couldn't get in touch with him."

Dracula frowned and was about to rummage through his memories when he suddenly felt the sky darken menacingly.

He turned around and frowned at the high sky in the distance.

The tantalizing purple sky had already disappeared, and it was raining outside at some point.

The sky outside the window took on the gray color of a dense, sticky lake, and it gradually deepened, and the distant sky at the end of the black lake had nearly thickened into a piece of pure black like ink dye.

"It's not supposed to be dark yet, is it?" Dracula asked, "And even if it was completely dark, how could such thick clouds suddenly form that there isn't even a single star left?"

Dumbledore also looked into the distance and opened his mouth to speak.

"Professor Dracula, actually over there is ... well, there are some employees sent by the Ministry of Magic to check if any of the trains the students are in have been infiltrated by Sirius." He explained.

"Employees?" Dracula raised a slight hint of interest, "What kind of employees are so powerful that they can cause changes in the sky?"

Saying that, he looked towards the distant sky, light flowing from his burgundy-eyed child.

In the next moment, Dracula's rakish expression clouded over.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, is this what you call an employee?" He asked coldly, the word 'Headmaster' pronounced heavily.

"The Ministry of Magic's directive an issued, I have little reason to refute it even as Headmaster." Dumbledore spread his hands helplessly, "Don't worry Professor Dracula, Fudge promised me those Dementors wouldn't bother the students."

"But this is my territory!" Dracula said heavily, "I'm not one of those great and good people like you who would subject themselves to the Ministry of Magic to allow that disgusting species to invade the vicinity of Hogwarts!"

With that, and without waiting for Dumbledore's reaction, Dracula stepped fiercely on the window frame of the Headmaster's office and leapt lightly into the air spreading his wings and flying straight to the end of the Black Lake where the darkness was at its thickest.

There a train was trudging along, going slower and slower.

With a sudden jolt, the Hogwarts Express came to a halt, all the lights suddenly went out and everything on the train was plunged into complete darkness.

Countless monsters in tattered cloaks circled around and flew towards the train, carrying with them an extremely frightening aura!