Chapter 178 Aboard Azkaban

Nick's arrival provided a lot of fun on the Hogwarts ship.

As a ghost who died in medieval times and has stayed in Hogwarts castle ever since he is undoubtedly knowledgeable.

He was also the resident ghost of Gryffindor, and Nick's personality is very open, so he soon mingled with the students.

Gabrielle was the most excited to have one of her "kind" on board and now spends her days hanging around Nick and listening to his stories about ghosts.

"You are definitely not qualified to join the headless hunt." Nick said firmly, "First of all, not to mention that you did not lose your head at all, just your current ghost identity is very problematic, drinking Draught of Living Ghost to become a ghost is not recognized by most ghost groups."

Gabrielle's face visibly showed some disappointment as she listened to Nick speak about the interesting aspects of the Headless Hunt, expressing the idea of this group is very desirable.

"So how am I supposed to separate my head from my body when I turn into a ghost?"

"This is actually very simple!" Nick snapped his fingers, "as long as you die by severing your head, but be careful when severing your head to ensure that the executioner is skilled enough to cut off your head with a single chop, otherwise, it will be like me, still attached to a bit of skull, and the Headless Hunt simply will not take you in."

Gabrielle listened with a serious face and nodded repeatedly, like she was already really thinking about waiting until she became a living person, then start looking for a highly skilled executioner to give her a hand to join the Headless Hunt in the future.

Jon, who was looking at the chart, looked up at them both with a helpless face.

"Don't teach children badly, Nick, she has a long life ahead of her, how can she die so early, let alone have her head severed."

Nick shrugged as he drifted over to Jon's side.

"I've officially taken charge of teaching the fourth and fifth-year students, but as I told you before, I know all the wand-waving gestures and spell pronunciation for these magic spells, but I'm just a ghost after all, and there's no way to give them more help when they make mistakes in practice."

"This is enough." Jon said softly, "now is a special period, not wasting time and still enriching our knowledge even in this circumstance is already quite good, as for how much we can learn in the end, that only depends on ourselves."

In this regard, Nick still said with great praise.

"The students are very serious, you know, I was a ghost of Gryffindor House before, at that time, although the dark lord has taken root in the magical world, he has not yet occupied Hogwarts Castle like now. Back then not so many of the leather monkeys focused their energy on their studies, they hated the fact that they were not able to live on the Quidditch pitch every day, stepping into a classroom seemed like torture to them."

"Times have changed, and if they are still being lazy in such a situation, they are just using the time their professors have fought for with their lives to enjoy it."

Jon pointed to a specific point on the chart without saying too much on this subject.

"Is this the target of our voyage?"

That spot was located within the waters of the North Sea, but it was farther away from the British Isles, and it didn't look like there were any marked islands of any kind there.

"This is just the first sailing target."

When it comes to business, Nick was obviously much more serious.

"This land is not recorded in the muggle charts, so you can't see it, there is an extremely powerful protection enchantment placed on the island hundreds of years ago, basically no muggle other than a wizard can get close at all, and you must have heard the name of this island before."

Jon faintly froze, then he re-focused on the point on the chart, and all the information he had learned about the island in the magical world went through his mind.

"The North Sea. This is, Azkaban!"

"Yes, our first target point is the island of Azkaban, which is the first place the dark lord reached at that time during the month he disappeared back then. From what I understand, he stayed on this prison island for three days."

Jon frowned, apparently Azkaban Island was not a place that made much of an impression on the vast majority of bits.

"Then when he landed on the island, had all the dementors on the island already defected to him?"

Nick shook his head.

"I don't know about that. The ship that Drake and the others were piloting, some of its route passed by this prison island, so after learning about the traces of the dark lord once, I have quietly visited that island a few times."

"At that time, this island also imprisoned a number of Order of the Phoenix wizards, I deliberately avoided the dementors, although their ability to absorb positive emotions does not work on the ghost, if they find my presence, there is also a possibility that they will convey this matter to the other Aurors stationed on the island."

"I just didn't find out much more after I got on the island because there are a lot of places that are hidden and require magic to access, and I obviously don't have that ability."

Jon noticed the crux in Nick's words.

"There's still a resident Auror in Azkaban?"

Nick explained to Jon.

"That's for sure, there is no subordinate relationship between the Ministry of Magic and the Dementors, the two sides are just cooperating, and since they are cooperating there needs to be communication. And not all prisoners after being sentenced to Azkaban, are sentenced to life imprisonment, to be sucked by these dementors until they go crazy or commit suicide. Some have a prison term, and the handover of these people in and out of prison is done in collaboration with the wizards and dementors together."

When he said this, he paused for a moment, as if he thought of something and continued.

"But after the collective mass escape of the Order of the Phoenix, a number of dementors have been allowed to enter the British Isles, the number of these monsters remaining in Azkaban now should not be large, not to mention the Auror, few wizards would be willing to stay in this kind of place."

Jon pondered looking at the chart.

"That is to say, now is the best time for us to go to the island? Then what is our goal in visiting Azkaban Island?"

Nick said in a deep voice.

"Of course is to find out, that year when the dark devil came to the island, what exactly he did during those three days of stay. According to the situation at that time inferred, that is, after he went up to Azkaban on that occasion, these Dementors completely subjugated to him and became his followers under his command."

Jon took a deep breath and nodded silently.

"At our current speed, how much time will it take to reach Azkaban?"

"Two days at the latest."

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