Chapter 188 Prisoner of Azkaban

Blake is still on the run!

The Ministry of Magic confirmed today that Sirius Black, believed to be the most notorious prisoner of Azkaban Castle, has still not been captured and returned.

"We are working hard to recapture Black," Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge said this morning. "We ask the wizarding community to remain calm." Some members of the International Confederation of Wizards have criticized Fudge for not keeping Black at large. Notify the Muggle Prime Minister.

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The newspaper with the eye-catching English title was slightly blown by the breeze, revealing a strand of flowing silver hair and a handsome and evil face.

"Hey, someone escaped from Azkaban?" Dracula took a sip of the bright red wine and read the newspaper in front of him with great interest.

At this time, Dracula was staying in the Black family's house, which he had visited once before. He was leaning on the soft sofa, gently shaking a goblet filled with red wine with one hand, and holding a glass with the other hand. A copy of the Daily Prophet.

Nearly a year has passed since Dracula resurrected Regulus Black, who had been turned into an inferi by Voldemort.

After nearly a year of tidying up and tidying up, Regulus Black and the house elf Kreacher, who had gradually adapted to the physique of the Inferi, gradually managed this house that had been abandoned for more than ten years to look like a model. decent.

As a mother in Regulus, Kreacher was an old house elf who had lived in this house since Walburga Black was a child. Even though his thinking had become rigid, as a person in the so-called "twenties" House elves were born in the Black family, one of the "Eight Pure Blood Saint Clan", and their personal business abilities are still very good.

The return of Regulus gave this old house elf a new lease of life, and Kreacher, who had always been resentful and full of resentment, actually became energetic and energetic.

Dracula was now leaning comfortably on the soft sofa, taking a sip of red wine from the goblet from time to time. Kreacher stood respectfully beside him, and whenever the wine in his glass ran low, he would refill it in time.

Today, their location is a Black family magic training room.

Regulus was holding a custom-made wand suitable for use by dark creatures and practicing casting spells on a target. He hoped that Lord Vampire Count, who was very professional in dark creatures, could give him advice on how to better utilize the magic power in the corpse. .

However, Dracula's attention was completely attracted by the newspaper in his hand, and he did not watch Regulus's spell casting action at all.

[A novel app that has been running stably for many years, comparable to the old book-chasing tool, used by all old bookworms.]

"Sirius Black...is this prison escapee your brother?"

Dracula tapped the big photo on the front page of the newspaper with his thumb, and asked Regulus, who was still practicing magic not far away.

The large photo on the front page showed a man with a sunken face and long tangled hair. He blinked slowly at the person who was reading the newspaper. He seemed to be in a worrying state of mind.

"Sirius?" Regulus was startled for a moment, then slowly withdrew his wand, his expression becoming a little cold, "I thought he was dead."

"If the information in the newspaper is correct, then he probably didn't have time to die." Dracula glanced at the photo with interest, then turned to look at Regulus, "You didn't order this newspaper. Really, you don’t know?”

Regulus was worried that his physique would be exposed, so he had hardly left the front door of the Black family house in the past year. He could only rely on newspapers bought by Kreacher to learn about the magical world.

"You came here before I had time to read today's newspaper." Regulus said, "And the Daily Prophet is getting worse and worse. It will only publish some meaningless content all day long. I Sometimes I’m not interested in watching it either…”

"I still remember that there was a newspaper a few days ago that listed the story of a Ministry of Magic staff member who won the lottery in a very front page. It was extremely boring."

Regulus pursed his lips indifferently and looked away.

"Oh?" Dracula became interested again and looked at Kreacher, "Kreacher, help me get all the newspapers you subscribed to a few days ago. I want to see how the Daily Prophet describes winning the lottery. Just a simple thing.”

Kreacher bowed and disappeared with a bang.

When he came back again, he already held a thick stack of "Daily Prophet" in his hands.

"I'm looking for it... um, is this it?" Dracula casually flipped through a few newspapers and found what Regulus described about the lottery.

When he saw this page, his expression suddenly became a little playful——

Title: Ministry of Magic staff wins big prize

Contents: Arthur Weiss, Director of the Department for the Suppression of Misuse of Muggle Artefacts at the Ministry of Magic, received the Galleons, the Daily Prophet's annual award. An elated Mr Weasley told the Daily Prophet: "We will spend the money on a summer trip to Egypt, where our eldest son Bill does spell-breaking work for Gringotts Bank." The Wesleys will stay in Egypt for a month, returning before Hogwarts starts. The Weiss family currently has five children attending school there.

The content is followed by a corresponding photo, which is a group photo of nine members of the Weiss family standing in front of the pyramid.

Everyone who came to Wes' house looked very excited, waving hard to the camera and smiling happily.

In the picture, Mrs. Weasley is small and fat, while the bald Mr. Weasley is very tall. Their six sons and one daughter all have fiery red hair. Ron stands in the middle of the photo, tall and thin, with his pet mouse Scabbers on his shoulders and his arm around his sister Ginny.

"Weslai's family really has no time to spare. Even though they are already so poor, they still want to go out for a walk no matter what holiday they have." Dracula chuckled, "The little wizards in their family are so unwelcome. Don’t worry, maybe they inherited it from their parents..."

He smiled playfully and put the newspaper recording Mr. Weasley's lottery winning information back into Kreacher's hand, then picked up the newspaper again with the big news of Sirius Black's escape from prison on the front page, and looked up at Ray Gulus.

"Mr. Dracula, I will go to the library to look for some spellcasting information. Kreacher will take good care of you." Before Dracula could say anything else, Regulus greeted him stiffly, Then he walked straight to the door of the magic training room.

"What are you so anxious about?" Dracula raised his hand, and the door of the training room suddenly closed. "What are you running from, Regulus?"

"...I didn't escape." Seeing the door in front of him closing, Regulus stopped for a moment and forced himself to maintain an indifferent expression.

"No escape?" Dracula slowly raised the corners of his mouth, "If there is really no escape, then why did you just change the topic to the news about winning the lottery?"

"Sirius Black is the brother you haven't seen for many years. Even if the relationship is not good, you won't have even the slightest extra interest when you hear about him after so many years, right?"

"I guess... you've actually read this newspaper, right?" he asked with a half-smile.

Regulus stood there and took a deep breath.

"Sure enough, I still can't hide it from you, Mr. Dracula." He turned around and smiled helplessly at Dracula, "I have indeed read this newspaper... I didn't expect that after more than ten years, After his resurrection, the first time he met Sirius was in a newspaper."

"How's the relationship between you two brothers?" Dracula gently shook his wine glass and asked with interest, "I think you care about your brother quite a bit, otherwise you wouldn't avoid talking about him so much. .”

"No, you did guess wrong this time." Regulus shook his head, "The relationship between the two of us is extremely bad... Let's put it this way, the relationship between the two of us is not bad anymore, maybe It would be more appropriate to describe us as being as powerful as water and fire."

"We, the Black family, have always been students of Slytherin, until the alien Sirius appeared. He couldn't stand the style of the pure-blood family since he was a child, and he often fought against the half-bloods for those poor marrow wizards. Later, he As expected, I was sorted into Gryffindor."

Regulus' tone slowed down, and Yunyun told the story of the two of them.

"The mother was so angry that she was about to kick Sirius out of the house on the spot. However, she later decided to give Sirius a chance and planned to use Professor Slughorn's connections to transfer him back to Slytherin."

"But Sirius seems to be very satisfied with the Gryffindor house. He is not willing to transfer at all. And after returning home every holiday, he will hang the honors he earned in Gryffindor on the walls of his room. We even used permanent sticking spells to stick Gryffindor banners, photos of Muggle girls in bikinis, photos of motorcycles, photos of ourselves with friends, etc. on the wall to anger our parents..."

"My mother and father were completely disappointed in him, so they pinned their hopes on their second son, who was me."

"I've always known what they expected of me, and I couldn't bear to live up to their wishes, so I've always followed their orders since I was a child, which is exactly the opposite of Sirius."

"Later on, I became the only pride of my parents, and Sirius became the one they completely ignored, as if they had never had such a son."

Regulus sat on another sofa, took a sip of the water handed over by Kreacher, and continued to tell.

"After graduation, he joined the Order of the Phoenix, and I joined the Death Eaters. Between these two opposing camps, it is conceivable that our relationship became more tense."

"But my parents both recognized the Dark Lord's ideals and regarded Sirius' behavior as a pure-blood traitor. So they completely eliminated him from the family list. You may also have some impression that some of the family tree tapestry has been Scorched holes…”

"One of them is where Sirius used to be."

Dracula gently put down the cup and newspaper in his hand, and looked at Regulus thoughtfully.

"Order of the Phoenix?" he asked, "Are you talking about the Order of the Phoenix that Dumbledore founded to fight against the Death Eaters?"

"Of course, there is no other Order of the Phoenix besides this." Regulus said.

"That is to say, Sirius Black is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a subordinate of Dumbledore." Dracula rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that this matter had become a little strange, "But the newspaper said, Sirius was a Death Eater who tried his best to support Voldemort."

"Let me see, the reason why he was taken to Azkaban back then... Well, he killed thirteen people with just one spell. And he did it in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Something. It probably caused a lot of trouble at the time, so Sirius's danger level was judged very high by the Ministry of Magic."

"So he later betrayed Dumbledore and turned to the Death Eaters?" Dracula asked, "If that's the case, the biggest gap between you two will naturally disappear. .”

"No," Regulus hesitated and shook his head slightly, "No matter how much I dislike Sirius as a person and hate his arrogance, recklessness, rashness, pushiness and other habits, but I I still want to say..."

"It's possible for anyone to join the Death Eaters' camp, but it's impossible for Sirius!" Regulus said, "And based on his empathy with those marrow wizards, I don't think he He's going to blow up a dozen Muggles with a single spell!"

"I have always known that Sirius has a very good relationship with several of his friends. After he was kicked out of the house, he often went to James Potter's house for dinner. Old Potter almost regarded him as his godson."

"Oh, the Potter family was killed by the Dark Lord. How could Sirius switch to the Death Eater camp and do those evil things after the Dark Lord lost power?"

"There is indeed something wrong." Dracula raised an eyebrow, "In addition, you just said...Potter? Why is it related to the surname Potter again? It is the same family as Harry Potter. Of?"

"James Potter is indeed Harry Potter's father." Regulus nodded and said.

Dracula frowned slightly and quietly combined all the clues in his mind, trying to deduce the most complete story line.

What he knew was that Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow twelve years ago to kill the Potter family, but he suffered a loss due to the blood magic that Harry's mother, Lily Potter, invested in strong emotions. He was rebounded by his own life-killing curse and became a humble remnant soul.

After this incident, Sirius Black suddenly broke out and killed twelve Muggles and a wizard. Finally, he was imprisoned in Azkaban by the Ministry of Magic and imprisoned for life.

Under the analysis of Sirius's biological brother, many illogical aspects naturally surfaced.

‘It looks like I’m going to find another opportunity to go to the principal’s office to torture Dumbledore. ’ Dracula had a look of interest in his eyes.

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