Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 43 Prisoner of Azkaban

On the first day Lockhart was sent to the isolated island, the first minute he entered Azkaban, and the first second he was put in a solitary cell, the system that had been pretending to be dead for a long time suddenly heard a long-lost notification sound.

[It is detected that the host is in a state of imprisonment and is being attacked by illusion. 】

[Release mission: Defeat at least one illusion guardian and escape from the prison. 】

[Task Reward: Konoha Ryu Basic Illusion. 】

Lockhart had no unnecessary reaction, because a dementor had already floated over.He was as tall as the ceiling of the cell, wearing a cloak, stretched out his rotten and scabbed right hand, grabbed the door of the cell, and stretched his head towards Lockhart.

"Hiss—" Lockhart clearly heard an extremely long inhalation sound coming from the mouthparts under the dementor's hood, as if trying to suck the air out of the entire cell in one go.

At the same time, Lockhart felt as if the heat in the air had been absorbed by the dementor, and the cold feeling made Lockhart feel as if he was freezing to a standstill even for breathing.

Lockhart's ears suddenly surged, just like the Castle of Azkaban encountered a tsunami, Lockhart heard all kinds of terrible screams and helpless wailing.

The kerosene lamp hanging on the wall suddenly went out, and the cell was plunged into darkness.

In the darkness, Lockhart seemed to vaguely see the scene when he was lost and cried helplessly when he was a child, and turned his head to see how he was worried and afraid every day when he first came to this world and stayed up all night to study basic magic.

A sense of powerlessness filled Lockhart's brain, and he began to lay down on the ground and give up on himself.

Lockhart's breathing became increasingly difficult, his lungs roaring like an old bellows with each gasp.

Suddenly, Lockhart put his right hand in front of his face, and he pinched a cold body by the neck and pulled it over. Lockhart's hand was shining with silver, and he pressed the body of the dementor just now. In the ground.

The dementors in the ground were still struggling. Lockhart found that he had regained his vision, and the kerosene lamp on the wall was still on. It seemed that everything just now was an illusion.

"What a powerful monster." Lockhart sighed with emotion, and couldn't help feeling scared for a while.

Just now Lockhart deliberately didn't use the Patronus Charm to resist directly, he wanted to test what it's like to be sucked by the dementors, and now he knows.

First fear, then sadness, then helplessness, and finally numbness.

Dementors absorb not just happy emotions, but all positive thoughts, including but not limited to love, optimism, and aggressiveness.

If Lockhart hadn't prepared in advance and released a small Patronus Charm on his hand, pinching the dementor's neck with his hands wrapped in the smoke of the Patronus Charm, he might have passed out by now.

Sure enough, Dumbledore was not talking nonsense when he said that people locked in Azkaban for more than a week may suffer permanent mental damage.

So it seems that it is a miracle that Sirius hasn't lost his mind after being locked up in Azkaban for 12 years. I don't know how he did it.

The dementor on the ground was struggling more and more under the effect of the Patronus Charm, and there was a sharp cry from its mouthparts, as if asking for help. Lockhart also felt that the surrounding environment was getting worse and worse. It was getting colder, and it was clear that there were other dementors approaching.

Lockhart took off a button on his clothes, and used the Transfiguration technique to turn the button into a large leather suitcase, then stuffed the dementors on the ground into it one by one, and took out the leather suitcase. The box was thrown into the corner.

Lockhart separated a clone and lay on the ground, pretending to be weak and weak, while the main body turned into the appearance of the dementor just now, floating in mid-air and wandering casually, even the cold temperament was exactly the same , It is indeed an advanced transformation technique.

Within a few minutes, two dementors came outside Lockhart's cell. The dementors had poor eyesight, and relying on their emotional perception, they wandered around the shadow clone before leaving without finding it.

At this time, the main body turned into a dementor in midair, using Occlumency to hide his emotions, and began to explore Azkaban.

Lockhart first flew out of the castle, overlooking the entire island in mid-air.

The island has a rectangular shape as a whole, surrounded by the sea, and there is no land in every direction. It seems that it should be an isolated island far away from the mainland.

The fortress is in the center of the island, and it can be roughly divided into three areas according to the distribution density of the dementors.

The outermost area is brightly lit, and occasionally one or two dementors can be seen, which is the largest area;

In the middle part, where Lockhart was just now, the lights are scattered, and the dementors appear and disappear;
The core part is pitch black, and only occasionally through the moonlight can one see a lot of dementors inside, and nothing else can be seen.

Lockhart knew that this was a simple hierarchical management of prisoners by taking advantage of the dementors' dislike of light.

Dementors will be distributed according to the negative correlation of light intensity. In short, the stronger the light, the less dementors will get. The weaker the light, the more dementors will go.

Then the prisoners are locked up in areas with different strengths and weaknesses according to their crimes. They will naturally be guarded by different numbers of dementors, and they will be tortured differently, achieving the goal of automatically classifying and managing prisoners without wizards.

Lockhart flew to the innermost core area, where the locked wizard was his target.

There are about fifty cells in the innermost layer of Azkaban, all of which are single rooms, but they are not full.

Lockhart used Occlumency to hide his mood swings, and drifted slowly towards the cells.

This area is surprisingly quiet. In the outermost area, prisoners' wailing in pain can often be heard, and a few helpless groans can occasionally be heard in the middle area.And in this core area, quietness has become the only tone here.

Lockhart flew into one of the cells, a thin wizard was lying helpless on the floor, two dementors floated above him, their mouthparts constantly expanding and contracting, obviously sucking him positive emotions.

In the other cell, there was still a thin wizard. He was lying on his side on the floor, but he was not sleeping. His eyes were wide open, staring at the side wall, and he remained motionless for a long time.

In the third cell, a witch was imprisoned, and several dementors surrounded her. She stared at one of the dementors, whose mouth kept opening and closing, as if talking about something, but did not make any sound.

The fourth...the fifth...the sixth...

Lockhart saw one word in these prisoners - depression.

These prisoners seem to have been absorbed not only by a piece of music, but by all desires and actions. Lockhart observed for nearly an hour, and the biggest movement he saw was one of the wizards lying down and turning over. Turn over halfway and then give up, continue to lie flat.

Lockhart decided that if any wizards were wronged, he would release them. However, the dementors were too active at night, so Lockhart decided to come back during the day.

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