Chapter 914 The Incident Broke Out

Fanlin's question was answered the next day.

When Hermione opened the Daily Prophet, she just stared at the front page for a moment before she screamed, causing everyone around her to turn their heads to look at her.

"What's wrong?" Fan Lin and Harry asked in unison.

In response, Hermione spread the newspaper on the table in front of her and pointed to the ten black and white photos that filled the front page, nine of which were of wizards and the tenth of which was a witch.

Some people were mocking silently, while others were tapping the edges of the photos, looking very arrogant. Each photo is tagged with a name and the crime the person committed before being sent to Azkaban.

"Antonin Dolokhov," Harry read, as the man with a long, pale, twisted face looked at them all mockingly. "The brutal murder of Gideon and Fabian Privett."

"Algernon Lockwood," the man with a pimpled face and greasy hair lolling against the edge of the photo, "revealed the secrets of the Ministry of Magic to the mysterious man."

But Harry couldn't help but cast his eyes on the witch. Her face jumped out at him when he saw the page.

In the photo, she had long black hair that looked disheveled, not as thick and shiny as he had seen in the past. She watched them from behind her eyelids, with a haughty contemptuous smile on her thin lips. Like Sirius, her face bore traces of its past good looks, but something - Azkaban, perhaps - had taken away most of her beauty.

"Bellatrix Wrestlon tortured and caused the insanity of Frank and Alice Longbottom." Hermione nudged Van Lin with her elbow and pointed to a line of large-character headlines above the photo. , several people just looked at Bellatrix and ignored it.

"A massive prison break from Azkaban"

"The Ministry of Magic is concerned that Black is recruiting old Death Eaters"

"Black?" Harry said loudly, "No—"

"Shh-" Hermione tried her best to stop him, "Don't be so loud, just watch!"

"Late last night, the Ministry of Magic announced that a large-scale prison break had occurred in Azkaban. Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge told reporters that ten prisoners who were being guarded by high security escaped early last night. He has informed the Muggle Prime Minister, telling him that these people are extremely dangerous, 'It is extremely unfortunate that we find ourselves in the same situation as when Sirius Black escaped from prison two and a half years ago,' Fudge said last night. , 'We believe that the two jailbreaks are related. A jailbreak of this magnitude means that there are people out there, and we must remember that Sirius Black, the first jailbreak ever, would be expected to help those people. We believe that these people, including Black's cousin, Bellatrix, may have gathered around the leader Black, but we will do our best to round up these criminals. I also hope that magicians will remain vigilant and not approach any criminals.'"

"You see, Harry," said Ron fearfully, "that's why he was so happy last night."

"I can't believe it," Harry said angrily, "that Fudge is accusing Sirius of leading the prison break?"

"What other point of view can he have?" Fan Lin said angrily, "He can't possibly say 'I'm sorry, everyone, Dumbledore warned me that this might happen, the guards of Azkaban have surrendered to Voldemort? That's simply not possible, and that's an impossible question for Fudge to admit."

"And now Voldemort's worst follower has escaped. 'I mean, didn't he spend six months telling everyone we'd been lying?'" Hermione added, opening the newspaper to read what was inside. content, and Harry began to look around.

He didn't understand why his classmates didn't feel scared, or at least discuss the horrific news on the front page, but only a few read the newspaper every day like Hermione did. They were all discussing homework and Quidditch and other random things, and just outside the wall, ten Death Eaters were being ordained by Voldemort.

He glanced at the staff table. The situation there was completely different: Dumbledore was talking deeply with Professor McGonagall, looking solemn. Professor Sprout leaned the newspaper against a bottle of ketchup, looking so intently that he did not notice the egg yolk dripping from the motionless spoon onto his lap.

Meanwhile, at the end of the table, Professor Umbridge was slurping down a bowl of cereal. For just a few moments, her baggy, toad-like eyes weren't scanning the halls, looking for misbehaving students. She swallowed with a straight face, and occasionally glanced maliciously at Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall who were concentrating on the other side of the table.

"Oh, my—" Hermione said strangely, still looking at the paper.

"What's the matter?" Harry asked quickly, feeling nervous.

"It's just—terrible," Hermione said, looking trembling. She folded the reverse page of Ten Death Eaters and placed it on the table.

"Tragic death of Ministry of Magic staff member. Last night, Ministry of Magic staff member Broderick Bird was found dead in his hospital bed in Room 49. He had been strangled to death by a potted plant. St. Mungo's Hospital promised to conduct a comprehensive investigation. Medical personnel were rushed to the scene, but they were still unable to save Bird. The deceased was admitted to the hospital due to a work-related injury several weeks ago. Trout, head of Bird's ward, was suspended with pay yesterday and declined to comment. But a spokesman for the hospital said in a statement: 'St Mungo's Hospital deeply regrets Bird's death. His health had been steadily recovering before the incident, but we had strict rules about decorations in the ward, but Healer Strout was busy with Christmas matters and neglected the plant next to Bird's bed. Dangerous. As Byrd's speech and behavior were restored, Strout encouraged him to take care of the plant himself, unaware that it was not an innocent flying flower, but a cut from the Devil's Trap. "St. Mungo's Hospital still can't explain why this plant appeared in the ward, and is now asking all wizards with knowledge to provide it." clue."

"Bird," Ron said, "Bird, I think you heard it."

"We've seen him," Hermione whispered. "At St. Mungo's, remember? He was right across from Alice, just lying there, staring at the ceiling. We saw that devil's trap when it came, and she - the healer - said it was Christmas ’s gift.”

Harry went back to read the report. A feeling of fear rose like bile in his throat.

"How come we didn't recognize the devil's trap? We've seen it, we could have prevented this from happening."

"Who would have thought that Devil's Trap would appear as a potted plant in the ward?" Ron said sharply, "It's not our fault, the person who sent it should be blamed! They are all fools, when buying things Why don’t you check it?”

"This is not a matter of inspection, this is premeditated. Bird must have seen something, but it was not cleared at the time. After gaining more followers, Voldemort has more useful people to erase these information that may provide information. Hidden danger." (To be continued)