Chapter 125 123. Dementor's Kiss
Dumbledore took Jon onto the Knights bus.
There were not many people in the car. On the first floor, there was only one wizard with curly black hair lying on the bed with a tired face. He didn't know if he was asleep or just resting with his eyes closed.
"If we want to go to France, where do we need to go first, Mr. Poulan?"
Dumbledore skillfully took out two wet towels from a closet behind the driver named Ern Pullan, handed one to Jon and asked him to wipe his face.
Starting the bus again, Pulan didn't answer his question directly, but continued to mutter in that unmotivated voice.
"Two wet towels, one silver Sickle, these will be added to the fare in the end. Also, in order not to trouble me, if you need anything, you'd better take it from the cabinet now, One piece of chocolate is three Sicos, the kettle and toothbrush are matched, and a set needs to pay an extra Sico."
He muttered a lot about the prices on the bus before finally answering Dumbledore's question.
"Because the Ministry of Magic is very strict about exit control, I can only send you to the Floo Network Management Branch in Wales, where you have to provide your own identification, then fill out the form, and you can use it after approval. There is a transnational Floo network. Also, if you have enough money, remember to prepare two extra Galleons for the employees there. This is a hidden rule, which can save you a lot of time. Otherwise, no matter whether you have any problems, you The exit approval of the country has to be stuck for two to three weeks.”
Plan's attitude was not enthusiastic, but his introduction was fairly comprehensive. He even deliberately lowered his voice when he said the last sentence, but in fact, this is a well-known unspoken rule.
The Ministry of Magic under Voldemort's management naturally has nothing to do with cleanliness. In addition, some departments are all composed of new-style pure-blooded "upstarts", so it is normal to charge money to do things.
Dumbledore listened to him seriously, took out two more chocolates from the cabinet, and finally thanked him.
"Thank you for your reminder, then please send us to the Floo Network Management Branch in Wales."
"Okay, gentlemen, you'd better find a place to lie down first, your destination will be reached around four o'clock this afternoon at the earliest. We will take the gentleman who is still sleeping to his hometown in Devon , and Mrs. Vieira upstairs, she is going to Scotland to find a quarrel with her estranged husband, so I suggest you not to provoke that lady, she is in a very bad mood now."
Dumbledore and Jon glanced at each other, and the two thanked Pulan again, and then went to the second floor of the bus through the spiral staircase.
In this way, there is also only a fat witch leaning on a bed. She seems to be cursing someone, and it seems that she is doing a rehearsal exercise for the quarrel that will happen soon, her mouth is always moving.
And when she saw Dumbledore and Jon coming up, she glared at them with her toad-like eyes.
Dumbledore took Jon but did not stop on the second floor, and continued up to the third floor of the bus.
There was no one here, and there were four or five empty beds placed separately. They each found a bed to sit down on. After sitting down, Jon picked up a copy of today's newspaper that was originally hanging on the wall.
In this Daily Prophet, he saw the first report at a glance.
Jon didn't continue to read, but his eyes widened when he saw the headline of this news.
"Dolokhov is dead?"
He looked at Dumbledore in disbelief and asked in a low voice.
Dumbledore was peeling off the outer wrapping of the piece of chocolate he got from the cabinet. Hearing Jon's question, he nodded as if he had received the message earlier.
"It's not dead. Three days ago, a reporter from the Daily Prophet said that he was convicted in the Wizengamot court. Dolokhov asked him what was wrong with him in court. It was his master who judged himself. charged him with the crime of incapacity."
"So the Dark Lord was going to kill him, and did?"
Jon didn't feel sorry for Dolohov's death. He didn't have any good impression of this perverted castle administrator. The more accidents happened to him, the happier Jon should be.
But according to his original expectation, even if all the things he had done were discovered and exposed in Hogwarts Castle, there was a high probability that Dolohov would be severely punished.
Jon has always felt that even with Voldemort's harshness, he is unlikely to kill his own people directly because of this incident. At most, he will cancel all his duties and throw him into prison for a few days.
But Jon still misjudged his understanding of Voldemort in the end, and Dolohov obviously didn't survive.
"He was not directly sentenced to death." Dumbledore sat on the edge of the bed and said softly while eating chocolate, "The guards on that prison island were very angry because many people escaped from their hands, Doro Hough's final punishment was to be rewarded with a Dementor's Kiss."
"The kisses of those monsters will directly **** away the soul of the person being kissed, so that although his body looks alive, it is actually an empty shell. It can be said to be death in another sense, or Worse than death."
Jon quietly finished listening to Dumbledore's explanation, and at the same time read the report in the newspaper.
Dolokhov is completely finished. The great future he originally imagined is indeed very great, and he will contribute to the cause of eating the dementors.
Looking through the news on other boards, Jon said that the changes in the wizarding world after he escaped with a group of low-grade students in Hogwarts Castle and the prisoners in Azkaban escaped that day. Got some understanding.
The biggest influence on British wizards was that the dementors were allowed to leave the island of Azkaban and let them catch escaped prisoners by themselves.
This puts almost everyone in the magic world at risk. After all, everyone knows that dementors are not wizards. They basically don't communicate with people, and they mainly feed on the positive part of people's emotions.
They left the prison and used the excuse of catching escaped prisoners to wander around the wizarding world, which would definitely have a great impact on the lives of normal wizards.
The fact is indeed the case, today is the third day that the dementors are allowed to leave the island, and the Daily Prophet has reported seven or eight cases related to these monsters so far.
(end of this chapter)