05. Contraband
Azkaban replaced a new group of guards, thus freeing up the Aurors' manpower and bringing back the Aurors who had to be assigned to the past due to the Dementor riot, but according to the Aurors who were transferred, the group of Azkaban guards who took up their posts on the first day gave the Aurors a very uncomfortable feeling for the handover.
This feeling was stronger than the vague aura of the Dementors, who, despite their appearance as Grim Reaper, were in fact living creatures of dark magic, and when talking to the newly appointed Azkaban guards, there was a real sense of communication with the dead.
It made the Aurors shudder.
Moreover, the newly appointed Azkaban guards also inherited the Dementor attire style, they were all dressed in black robes, their faces were covered with black cloth, and even their eyes did not leak out, and the Aurors were very suspicious of whether this group of people was human after all, maybe it was a special group of Homiz created by Sherlock......
The identity of these new guards was also circulated in the outside world, but the subjective consciousness of the masses still believed that this group of people was probably just a Homitz creature created by Sherlock, but they did not give a correct response to Sherlock of the parties.
It can only be left to the wizards of the wizarding world to speculate......
After solving the shortage of people in Azkaban, Sherlock made a special trip to the Ministry of Magic, although it was during the panic period of Voldemort's return, but as the administrative center of English wizards, there were really many wizards who came here to handle their needs and business.
"Master Sherlock...... Why are you here and what are your commands? "A wizard working in the Ministry of Magic saw Sherlock, but in fact, a large number of people around him saw Sherlock's arrival and flooded the area, even the Ministry of Magic employee managed to squeeze in.
And before he squeezed in, some of the ordinary wizards around him couldn't help but start talking to Sherlock.
"Master Sherlock...... I've heard that you've been in contact with Voldemort and are secretly allied with him, is that true? ”
"With all due respect, Master Sherlock, Voldemort is a ruthless and unconscionable fellow, and your alliance with that dangerous and evil dark wizard will harm Mephisto's ......"
This group of people is talking in front of Sherlock, and Sherlock also understands this quite well, after all, the news of Voldemort's return outside has been confirmed, which has long made this group of people panic, and the rumors of Sherlock's secret alliance with Voldemort are also even more frightening.
Even if the Daily Prophet published a clarification, it would be difficult to dispel their concerns, and now that Sherlock had finally come forward as a person concerned, it would naturally make those weak ordinary wizards can't help but come over and ask.
And Sherlock's usual image is also very gentle, so they dare to surround it, if Voldemort appears here, I'm afraid that the people in the Ministry of Magic will run away.
"You should believe the Daily Prophet's report." Sherlock said blandly.
"If that's what you say, it's just a rumor, it's false?"
"Yes, my alliance with Voldemort is complete nonsense,, now you can rest assured." Sherlock said with a smile.
At this time, the Ministry of Magic employee also squeezed in, and asked Sherlock out loud.
"I'm here today for something special, to take me to the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic." Sherlock directly instructed that the Mephisto family was now the biggest authority in the Ministry of Magic.
Rufus Scrimgeour was the former head of the Auror Office, but now that Lecker had taken his place, the upright wizard had been transferred to the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries.
Rufus Scrimgeour still had some resentment about this arrangement, but after Fumond became the Deputy Minister of Magic and Fudge began to relinquish power, the Ministry of Magic began to suppress Voldemort's forces.
It makes Rufus feel good, after all, the Ministry of Magic in power of the Mephisto family is much stronger than Fudge, and the boss behind the Mephisto family is Sherlock Mephisto, the Prince of Spells, an existence that can compete with Voldemort with strength.
Now that the Ministry of Magic is under the control of Mephisto, it means that Sherlock, the archwizard, is also behind the Ministry of Magic, which makes the Ministry of Magic quite confident when competing with the Death Eaters.
"Master Sherlock?" Rufus, who was originally in the office of the director of the Department of Mystery Affairs, was surprised to see Sherlock who came here and felt inexplicable, and Sherlock said to Rufus in a long story short, "I have something to store in the Department of Mystery Affairs......"
"What?" Rufus wondered if his ears had misheard, and then asked, "The Department of Mysteries will only handle and preserve some dangerous dark magic items, as well as some mysterious ownerless magic items and contraband, if it is some valuable items of Master Sherlock, I hope it can be kept in the vault of Gringotts Bank." ”
"Aha...... You're right, this thing of mine is a very dangerous dark magic item, so I took the initiative to turn it in. Sherlock said flatly.
"Uh...... No! Rufus refused very strongly, because he had a feeling that if he really took what Sherlock was going to put here, it would probably cause huge problems for the Department of Mysteries, which was not what Rufus wanted to see, especially now that the wizarding world had begun to become chaotic.
And Rufus still misses the time when he was an Auror, and he has not paid much attention to the work of the Department of Mysteries, so more is better than less.
Sherlock looked at Rufus in a daze, and it was his turn to wonder if he had misheard.
"I mean, I have a very dangerous dark magic object here, isn't it the job of your Department of Mysteries to search for this kind of thing and secretly seal it? This should be your job, and I took the initiative to turn it in. Sherlock continued.
"Huh...... After all, you are Master Sherlock, you can still come and open a back door for you when it is critical, rest assured that I am the supreme leader of the Department of Mysteries, Master Sherlock, you don't need to hand over any dark magic items to the Department of Mysteries in the future, and we will not search Mephisto Mansion, so you can do whatever you want. ”
Sherlock "......"
He shook his head and said forcefully, "Don't ink with me, this thing will be saved for you, you can continue to save it, I have other things that need your help." Sherlock snapped his fingers, and a huge magic book appeared between the two of them.
"What is this?" Rufus asked.
"Your Book of Sherlock......"
"Well, I will never accept that the Book of Sherlock is kept in the Department of Mysteries, Master Sherlock, you have a really bad heart, put this kind of thing that Voldemort covets in the Department of Mysteries, do you plan to let this department be smoothed out in the Ministry of Magic?" Rufus reluctantly said that if Sherlock insisted on hiding the Sherlock Book here, then Rufus was going to submit his resignation report to Fudge.
"Okay, no more ink...... You give me this thing to put away honestly, I used the prohibition of magic on the Sherlock Book, but all wizards with bad intentions and selfish intentions, who pursue power and are forced to complete the task will not be able to get this Sherlock Book, only wizards with a righteous heart, in order to protect this book from falling into the hands of evil forces. Sherlock threw the thick magic book into Rufus's hand.
The other party gasped, this number one treasure in the magic world fell into his hands so easily? Although it is only safekeeping.
"Can I open it and take a look?" Rufus asked cautiously.
"It depends on what kind of mentality you have, if you don't violate the magic ban I set up on it, then you can open it." Sherlock said.
But unfortunately, no matter how hard Rufus tried, he couldn't open the book by any means, and even the weight of the book began to increase, causing Rufus to be pressed to the floor and out of breath.
"Okay, okay, I won't watch it, I won't watch it!" Rufus began to beg for mercy, and the book returned to normal.
"No one can stand up to evil thoughts and ideas in front of this Sherlock book, and you have ......a lot of bad intentions, Master Sherlock," Rufus complained.
"Ahem, hide the Sherlock Book in your Department of Mysteries, and on top of that, you take a dozen Aurors on a trip to Hogwarts." Sherlock continued.
"Going to Hogwarts, but it's summer vacation?"
"I know it's summer vacation, because I'm also on vacation, and the purpose of your visit to Hogwarts this time is to search for the prohibited items set by the Ministry of Magic, and to pay attention to the Sherlock Club, where there are some notes I put there, which I used to study spells, to make the operation more powerful, and it is best to let people outside know that the Department of Mysteries has indeed found something from Hogwarts......"
Sherlock continued, "Let them know that the Department of Mysteries has taken some of my previous notes with them......"
Rufus was almost dizzy, "Master Sherlock, can you tell me what exactly you plan to do?" ”
"It's very simple, Voldemort covets my Sherlock book, but he must think that the Sherlock book is kept here by me and it is difficult to get it, but Hogwarts has some of my previous notes, Voldemort will definitely want to find some clues from there, and after the Department of Mysteries searches Hogwarts and takes away the notes, Voldemort will inevitably arrange for someone to come to the Department to steal it...... He wouldn't have come himself, but what do you think Voldemort would do when the Death Eaters who came to steal the notes stumbled upon the Sherlock's Book hidden here? ”
"So what are you going to do, Master Sherlock?"
"Give Voldemort a game...... To put it simply, it's a trap, a trap. ”
"Prepare a trap for Voldemort at the Department of Mysteries? Master Sherlock, it turns out that you have this kind of plan, and your heart is really bad! Rufus said it again.
"Alright, you can quickly hide the Sherlock Book in the Division."
"No problem, then be despicable and take orders to send ...... to death"
Sherlock looked at him speechlessly, and for the first time he knew that Rufus turned out to be a wizard of this character.
However, the Book of Sherlock was properly placed in the Department of Mysteries, and Rufus suddenly visited Hogwarts with a dozen Aurors during the summer vacation.
"Well, don't blame me, according to Deputy Minister Mephisto's warrant, we're going to search Hogwarts for some contraband." Rufus stood in front of several teachers at Hogwarts with a dozen wizards.
The deputy minister he was talking about was Fourmond Mephisto, and this time Rufus didn't greet Fudge at all.
Dumbledore was also confused about what Mephisto was planning to do, but he asked Rufus to search.
"So here we go." Rufus waved his hand and the Aurors went into action, and Snape protested strongly, resolutely opposing the Ministry of Magic's approach, but the Aurors still found a large number of bottles and cans from Snape's office.
There are some very deadly poisons in there......
"OMG! Professor Severus, what are you going to do here? Are you planning to usurp the throne? Rufus looked helplessly at these poisons, which Snape regarded as treasures, and it was really unsettling that a professor in a school could hide so many deadly things.
"Take them all!" Rufus wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and Snape emphasized that Rufus must not mess with these things, and that he would go to the Ministry of Magic to write a special application to get them back sooner or later.
"Then there's another place to go......" This time Rufus personally led the people to the Sherlock Club, and then waved his hand directly to let his men remove all of Sherlock's early notes.
"How do I think you're planning to go straight here?" Dumbledore asked, confused.
"How is that possible, I'm just here to check the contraband, and now it's time for us to go, after all, the Department of Mysteries has a lot of work to deal with." Rufus said goodbye to Dumbledore and the others.
The next morning, word came out of the wizarding world that the Department of Mysteries had taken all of Sherlock's early notes from Hogwarts.
All of them are kept as contraband, because they contain some undisclosed dark arts, and they are powerful.
"It's weird, what the hell is the Ministry of Magic going to do?" Hermione Granger, who also saw the newspaper, was quite incomprehensible.
"Who knows, but if it hadn't been for my brother's greeting in advance, the Ministry of Magic would never have brought these notes back to the Ministry of Magic." Axinsha, who was lying on the bed, couldn't help but say.
Anyway, it was summer vacation, and Asin Sha had been staying at Hermione's house for several days.