While Alex was in his bath, the group of Aurors returns to the Ministry. While it was still early, some Aurors were still present due to the night switch. Luck would have for Auror Tonks that due the Tournament, both her boss and her teacher were there. The first as head of the DMLE, she needs to do an immense amount of paperwork and the last have exited his retirement for the event."Auror Tonks, can a know why you weren"t at your post the entire night?" Ask Amelia when Tonks enters her office.
"Mr.Crouch came yesterday, not long after the start of my switch, he was in need of two Aurors to escort him to Azkaban."
This made the two of them raise an eyebrow at this.
"Why Barty would need to do at Azkaban, la.s.s? He knows that he needs to pa.s.s by the DMLE head first to extract a prisoner."
"No, he didn"t. At first, he doesn"t say anything but only just as we pop away did he say the destination. Do you know the sate of the prison?"
"What do you mean? Something happens to the prison?"
"Something?! The b.l.o.o.d.y Dementors have vanished?!"
""What?!""
"Perfectly, the warden says that this situation has happened more than two years ago and that the Ministry has completely abandoned them!"
"Tell us everything!" Order her boss.
"Well as I say, the Dementors are gone, the prison has submitted a drastic change, ice has started to recover the tower, the surrounding half-mile around the island is frozen solid, the higher floors are nothing more than an ice cavern."
"What about the inmates? Do some have an escape?"
"No, Moody, their all dead, the entire high-security cells inmates and some of the one in middle ones too. For the latter, the warden says that they move them too late, some have already turned in ice cubes, so all the above didn"t have a chance to escape. What worse was the high floor has been invaded with those monsters." Say her shuddering.
"What monster?"
"Some flesh-eating rabbit, better if I show you." Suddenly say Tonks as she put the tip of her wand on her temples, before pulling out a silvery filament while Amelia was taking out the pensive left at disposition to the DMLE Head. The memory was put in and the three vanish inside.
The two veteran Aurors look as Bartimus enters the office, taking with him two Aurors without another word, make their way to the apparition point before apparating in front of the boathouse. The crossing of the sea was skipped in a sort of a blur, but the two could tell that nothing significant has happened so say nothing.
When the memory skips stop, they found themself with an unfamiliar view of a familiar place. As she says, the top third of the tower was encased in thick ice, while the surrounding water is frozen solid. They hear the conversation with the two men and when a particular name was spoken.
"Merlin!"
Moody says nothing but his frown deepen at this, as the boy state was unknown he still keeps his own through.
When it came to the state of the inmate there, the DMlE boss whitens while moody face hardens. Loosing more than fifty inmates signifies that fifty life has been lost. Some may have been criminal but some were only serving light sentences and would be free soon.
When they hear the response from the ministry, they know that something was wrong. Someone for the DMLE office has taken liberties with the lives of prisoners without resorting to the higher up and shut all contact to prevent leak. The silence was suffocating, the state of those prisoners, gut-wrenching.
Under the severity of their living condition, they know that most of them would never see the light of the end of their sentences.
Following that was a hard climb to the higher level of the prison and it soon came to the description of the says rabbits. Their faces turn solemn when they hear the level of threat of those creatures, being able to make vanish corpse in less than a minute would leave their force no time to arrive to support them if they fall, those creatures would be long gone or hidden for another ambush before that.
They could see the tension grow on the face of all as they still don"t appear after climbing that high. But it was nothing to compare with their encounter with Alex. The moment Moody sees his eyes, he knows that the situation was even worst, the boy has only grown stronger.
Hearing that he lost nothing of is an incredible mind, and seeing take apart any single little information was frightening for the three of them. The could only look in horror when those eyes rise and rise until he came to view, extracting a single word from Moody.
"Monster."
Nothing was more fitting, he had his share of fights against all types of opponents in the past to not recognize the threat of the boy. Two meters of pure muscle made for mindblowing speed and a mind completely able to compute and keep up with it. If before the boy was fast, now he would be able to tear down and go through transformed Werewolf like a hot knife into b.u.t.ter.
It was rapidly confirmed when they saw that he came to the same flesh-eating monster. When they hear Barty spoke and lie about the immunity, they have a bad feeling.
"Barty, don"t... f.u.c.k!"
The moment Barty was called on his gamble the two know that they lost their last legal way to keep an eye on him. Seeing his broken with pure strength alone those magic repressing cuff, they know that he could have evaded long ago but didn"t to not leave them any ammunition against him.
When they see him disappear in those iced corridors, they were thinking that it would be the end, but it wasn"t and more shocking revelations were made during the return on British land. The two Aurors were livid at those. When they exited the Pensive, Amelia takes out a bottle of Firewisky and three gla.s.s., pouring them before taking one and turning to Moody.
"Any chance all of what he says was a lie?"
"No, the boy likes mischief and chaos but isn"t a liar, if he wants to be taken seriously he needs to tell the truth. I will send a call for a raid on the prison in Austria, even if he isn"t their anymore, traces of his stay those past fifty years would remain. As for the rest, I agree with the lad, the level of Aurors those years are s.h.i.t! If we were during the war, he would have steamrolled us! Worst, I can"t help but agree with him concerning our community!"
"Boss, what about your niece? If he says is true, the betrothal won"t hold."
When she said nothing, the two others couldn"t help but shake their head.
"What now?"
"Moody?"
"The boy has nothing to do until the 24, I doubt he would hide..."
"Boss, their news for Hogwarts! They say a convict have escape Azkaban and his raising h.e.l.l in the great hall!"
Moody couldn"t help but growl at this, made his way to the Floo, and vanish in a bark.
"Hogwarts!" Arriving in the infirmary, where the call came from, he storms to the great hall to found already some corpse on the ground. Seeing this he sigh and look at the young man who was happily munching on a light salad of fresh-cut fruits.
"Why are they always corpse when we meet, lad?" Say the mutilated man defeated.
"Because Britain wizards are morons?"
"Hay, that they are, boy, that they are."
"Want some? they came from my territory, their quite good." Says Alex, forwarding another bowl that appears on his side.
Shrugging, the man takes his wand, casting some spells above it, and once clear, sit down and start munching on them under the flabbergasted look of the entire hall.
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Not all those present in the hall recognize him when they see him, in fact, only those fourth years and above does, the foreign of the two schools and the first, second and third years would only know his name, as not a single photos have ever leaked to the media, no matter of much they tried to obtain one.
The first to react was James Jr, the phantom pains of all those years back came crashing back with vengeance, along the instinctive fear Alex has ingrained in his subconscious. Unable to shoulder such a huge mental strain, the boy let out a squeal of pure horror, peed himself while his head came crashing in his plate, making food fly everywhere.
Other than Luna, two other witches react. What makes them frozen on their seat was Luna. While they didn"t bully the girl, they haven"t helped her too, leaving her to fend for herself, seeing that those two where close made them somewhat worry as of the way their friendship with Alex could go.
Another frozen group was the princ.i.p.al aimed crowd of his words, the staff of Hogwarts. With Dumbles" return, McGonagall was able to somewhat keep her post but need a constant probation officer. That task was immediately taken by James Sr, making relatively safe and giving her an a.s.sistant for her cla.s.s.
As Hogwarts have need yet again a professor of DADA, a certain Gilderoy Lockart"s made his way to Hogwarts. Without the Horcrux to power the curse, the man was able to keep his post for three consecutive years, making the entire Wizarding community thinks that he was the one at the origin of the cured curse.
Thank his prodigious effort, the number of students successfully pa.s.sing their OWLS and NEWTS in those years has dropped to an all-time low but nothing was said and done.
So when Alex appears, it was those two who rush, wand in hands. The first clearly angry that he was out of his cell, the second because taking down a criminal would do a great next book, the past three years have been lackl.u.s.ter and his editor was starting to be impatient.
"You!" With this word alone, Lord Potter starts to cast, throwing at the start what he sees to be a piercing hex when he evades it with Luna.
Seeing that he didn"t have any shame to aim at a student, Alex vanishes of their view for a second before he reappears, holding a severed arm holding a wand.
"I can"t say I surprise to see you aim lethal spells at me, but aiming one while one of your students are there? that a new low, even for you." Taking the wand out of the hand, he let the limp arm fall on the ground. Before blood could even splatter out, the arm vanishes as the two little rabbits tear it apart and swallow it.
"Don"t worry Lord Potter, I am a skilled man, such a tiny wound is nothing for me! Braciam Emendo!" With all his might and magic, he aims at the bleeding stump of the man.
Under the expecting eyes of Floparts, the yelling and kneeling Lord holding his cut off shoulders, shut up before crumbling on the ground, suffocating. The shocked man either wasn"t thinking he would able to cast something that powerful or that it would produce such a result.
Not leaving anyone the time to react, he bolts again, and four distinct snapping sound rings in the now completely silent hall. Letting him fall after taking the wand, Alex turns to the rest.
"So before anyone thinks of attacking me, I must say to you all that, first, all this could have been avoided if the geezer there have told you all that I fall under immunity, anyone of you attacking me will face a full counter-attack and I will not be kind.
Second, the girl here is under the protection of clan Evans, should a single one of you even look at her in the wrong way, I will gouge your eyes out. I know that some little b.i.t.c.hes in the Ravenclaw House have stolen from her, you have an hour to return anything to her before I cut a limb for each missing thing. Go!"
The last shout wakes up the group of girls of says House who darts out of the hall to return anything they have. Gazing at the entire frozen hall, he sees Dumbles approach.