In this Hogwarts without a savior

Chapter 427 425. Should I go with Professor Potter?

Jon and Lupine came to Paris together.

Unlike Britain's Azkaban, France's wizarding prison isn't all that scary.

After Voldemort became the French Minister of Magic, the British and French prisons were completely merged, and all serious criminals were sent to Azkaban.

Now that the Wuping Line has re-occupied France, a new wizard prison has been built near the outskirts of Paris, and those criminals who have committed serious crimes have been arranged in the center of the Wuping Line's core combat members. Among the people, of course Snape was the most important.

It can be said that Snape is equivalent to the highest-level Death Eater captured by Wu Pingxian except for the Lestrange couple killed by Jon himself.

Therefore, after being brought back to France, he was guarded by the highest level of guards.

Not only was all the magic items confiscated, but the clothes on his body were also changed into simple prison uniforms, and his hands and feet were shackled. The cell where he was held had no windows except for one door, and even Not to mention things like vents and sewers.

It would have seemed like a crime Snape had committed, and after all the useful information had been extracted from his mind, he could have been sent straight on his way.

But Dumbledore postponed Snape's sentence because he took care of Lily, who was still in Finland and handing over supplies from several Nordic Ministry of Magic, as if he wanted Lily to avenge herself.

But on the morning when Lily was about to come back, Snape disappeared in the cell!

At this time, many people had already arrived in this empty cell, not only Dumbledore arrived in person, Sirius, Moody, McGonagall, and Lupine also rushed over.

Jon also followed, and of course no one raised any objections. Given his contribution to the Order of the Phoenix today, no one would treat him as an ordinary student.

"The only thing we found in this cell was this crunched denture and the two pairs of handcuffs and shackles that were intact."

In Moody's gruff hands was a denture that had been broken in two, and the shackles were not much to look at, the only thing of note was that Snape didn't use any violence to break them, just like It is the same as taking out the hands and feet from the human being directly reduced.

"This denture is hollow. Our people found the residue of the potion from its inner wall. The initial judgment should be that he has always left a back hand in his mouth. When encountering the current situation , you can directly crush the dentures in your mouth, drink the potion in it, and escape from the prison cell by the effect of this potion that we haven't checked yet."

Looking at this cell, Sirius was more irritable than anyone else here.

"That's impossible! When he first fell into our hands, we checked him from top to bottom! Our Aurors are all professional, and there will never be such obvious omissions!"

"But Snape is also a more professional master of potions than anyone else." Lupine said in a deep voice, "His talent in potions is unquestionable, plus what he has enjoyed in England all these years Various resources must have mastered many unknown potion formulas. Some potions have more magical effects than magic. Is it possible that our people were confused by some kind of potion he drank? "

They made various guesses, only Dumbledore had been observing the cell calmly, and finally his eyes were fixed on the wall near the door.

He walked over, and such a move certainly attracted the attention of others.

Dumbledore touched the gap between the wall and the door, which was slightly damp compared to other places.

"He escaped from here."

Moody, who has decades of Auror experience, also noticed something wrong with this place, and his magic eye rolled around.

"Is it a potion that can temporarily deform the human body?"

"Yes, compound decoctions can change people's appearance, and there are many other potions in the wizarding world that can turn the human body into some dead objects, so as to replace the effects of certain transfiguration techniques." Dumbledore said softly.

Sirius had already walked out of the cell, he followed the damp extending from the crack of the door to the outside, and soon found a very shallow mark.

"He hasn't been away for long, and he doesn't have a wand in his hand yet. We still have a chance to find it!"

After discovering this, Sirius didn't stop, and chased out of the prison along the trail impatiently, followed by Lupine and Moody, only Dumbledore and Jon took their time followed at the end.

After Sirius and the others had disappeared from sight, Jon looked at Dumbledore suspiciously.

Dumbledore also noticed his eyes, turned his head and asked with a smile.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"A prisoner like Snape, especially with so many people involved in his life and death, professor, I don't think you would make such a low-level mistake and let him escape from here." Jon looked straight at Said Dumbledore.

Dumbledore blinked.

"This is just your guess, Jon. Once people get older, they will always be confused. I am no exception. No one will never make mistakes."

But Jon didn't take his gaze back, he was still staring into Dumbledore's eyes.

"But Principal Grindelwald has always said that I have a talent for prophecy. I don't know why, professor. I just feel that this matter has something to do with you."

Hearing his almost unreasonable determination, Dumbledore seemed to have no choice, and he suddenly asked Jon softly.

"Have you mastered your Animagus ability now?"

Jon felt that Dumbledore was asking seriously, not an act of breaking the topic.

"Probably all of them are ready to use."

"What about the apparition that belongs to Phoenix alone?"

"This is the focus of my practice, and I have basically made no mistakes up to now."

Dumbledore lowered his voice.

"When Lily comes back and finds that Snape has escaped from prison, she will definitely have to investigate by herself. You take the initiative, say to go with her, and then follow her all the time. Be careful to protect her during this time. If something happens Don't hesitate to turn into a phoenix and bring her back if there is any accident."

Jon twitched his eyes, Dumbledore obviously used him as Fawkes.

"It's okay, it's okay, but Professor, you can't keep from telling me the inside story, can you? Why did you let Snape go?"

"I told you, Jon, Snape is actually very pure, and this kind of purity has made him the Death Eater and executioner he is today, but it is also this kind of purity that makes him hateful at the same time. It's pathetic too. And he's more important than anyone imagined, even if I didn't know this until yesterday, I'm sure Voldemort will find out soon, so his departure is very useful to us."

His words were contradictory. If Snape was important, why would it be useful for him to leave?
But Jon seemed to have thought of some of the questions, with a thoughtful look on his face, and didn't continue to ask further questions.

And at this time, they had already walked out of this prison and came to an Auror camp outside the prison.

At this time, because of Snape's escape, the place was brightly lit, every Auror was searching every corner of the station, and soon they found more.

Someone lost their wand!
This is not a trivial matter, but it was not the Aurors in this resident who threw the wand, but the French wizard in charge of the logistics.

This chef was in charge of preparing food for the Aurors who were patrolling the night shift. He had just fallen asleep in the morning, but before he had rested for an hour, he was woken up by the noise of the search in the station, and then found that his wand was missing. up.

When Jon and Dumbledore came over, Sirius and the others had already arrived in this room, and there were obvious traces of damp on the ground.

"This garrison is equipped with anti-apparition magic, even if he got the wand, he can't just leave like this!" Moody said with a gloomy face. He is the main person in charge of guarding Snape, and now the prisoner has escaped responsibility. The biggest is of course him.

Sirius rushed out first, and the traces left by Snape were still there, but today's air is very dry, if they don't hurry up, it won't be long before these clues will be broken eventually.

A group of people followed the traces left on the ground all the way to the outside of the station, and when they completely left the area covered by the anti-apparition magic, Sirius and the others became increasingly ugly!

And at this time, Lily, who had rushed all the way back from Finland through the Floo fan, finally came to the Auror station in Wupingxian.

There was no emotion on her face, she just followed them out of the station blankly.

"What's the result?"

Seeing her like this, Sirius became a little nervous instead.

"He stole a wand, and now according to the traces left behind, he has left the forbidden apparition range. The professionals among us are conducting flashback spell reconnaissance around the surroundings, looking for any remaining apparition records."

Lily didn't say anything, she just looked up at Dumbledore.

"Why didn't you tell me about catching him in advance?"

Five days had passed since the end of the Triwizard Tournament, and Lily was busy with work in Finland, so she didn't have time to pay attention to the information from the UK.

Since Finland is in the northernmost part of Europe, Finland does not pay close attention to the situation in Britain and France. At the beginning of the Triwizard Tournament, the reporters of the Finnish Magic Newspaper ran back because they were afraid of death, so now they They are based on news from other newspapers and then re-reported in China.

Therefore, without anyone's notice, Lily only got the news that Snape had been captured alive from within the Wuping Line yesterday, but when she rushed back today, he had already escaped!

Dumbledore sighed.

"I wanted to give you some buffer time."

Jon squinted at the old man. If he didn't know the inside story, he really thought that Dumbledore didn't know how Snape escaped.

Lily didn't continue to ask Dumbledore anything.

Hatred occupied her heart, but it didn't go to her head. She wasn't the one who brought Snape back, so she had no reason to blame.

"It's fine to escape."

She said coldly, as if she was already facing that empty stare.

"I caught him with my own hands and killed him, so that I can be worthy of my husband and my son!"

Everyone around fell silent. Everyone knew what kind of deep hatred existed between Lily and Snape. If Snape hadn't overheard the most ridiculous prophecy in history and then reported it to his master, then James and Harry never die later on.

After such silence lasted for a long time, Dumbledore nodded slightly and said.

"Let's wait for the results later. If he really uses Apparition to leave, he won't leave the station too far, because there will be more traces left, so we don't think we will have to wait too long."

Just as Dumbledore expected, because this place belongs to the base camp of the Wuping Line Aurors, it didn't take much time to scout around the garrison, and soon a team of Aurors found it in the woods near the edge of the garrison. He found the traces left by the apparition, and then used the spell to deduce the landing point of the apparition.

"It's in Knockturn Alley."

After learning of Snape's whereabouts, Sirius said restlessly.

"He must have gone back! Returned to the Dark Lord's side and saddled him!"

Lupine said calmly.

"Not necessarily, don't forget that the Dark Lord gave up on him when he was in Hogwarts Castle. If he goes back at this time, let alone whether he can be reused, is there any place for him to stand beside the Dark Lord? The land is still two words."

"Then why Knockturn Alley? If he doesn't want to go back to the Dark Lord, he can go anywhere in Europe!"

Lily had drawn her wand, and her voice was cold.

"He is not a fool. Returning to Voldemort's side will not guarantee his future or his life, but he also knows that the destination of his escape cannot escape our search, and now the UK is the only country in Europe that is the least responsible for our investigation and action. The place."

Moody frowned at her.

"You want to go to England to follow up?"

Lily didn't answer his question, but looked up at Dumbledore.

"You know what keeps me alive in this world, Professor Dumbledore."

She used the address she used when she was a student, while quietly waiting for Dumbledore's answer.

Dumbledore frowned.

"It is impossible for us to send many people into the UK, so it would be very dangerous to go to Knockturn Alley and continue to chase, and it is precisely because of this that I will not allow you to take risks like this alone, Lily."

The air became extremely still.

And at this moment, Jon, who still maintained the appearance of a six-year-old child and was only just up to Lily's waist, tugged at her sleeves in a timely manner.

"Uh, what, anyway, the Triwizard Tournament is over, and I'm fine. How about I go with Professor Potter?"

(End of this chapter)