In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 123: The Dementor's Kiss

Dumbledore took Jon along with him on the Knight Bus.

There were not many people on the bus, and on the first floor there was only one male wizard with curly black hair lying on the seat with a tired face, it was unknown whether he was asleep or just resting with his eyes closed.

"Where do we need to get off first if we want to go to France, Mr Prang?"

Dumbledore asked as he skilfully took out two wet towels from a cabinet behind the driver named Ernest Prang and handed one to Jon to wipe his face.

After restarting the bus, Prang didn't answer his question directly but continued to mutter in a voice with little energy.

"Two wet towels, a Silver-Sickle, these are ultimately included in the fare. Also, not to give me extra trouble, if you need anything you better take it out of the cupboard now, the chocolate bar cost three sickles, the water bottle and toothbrush come with the set, and you need to pay a sickle for each set."

He mumbled a lot about the prices of goods available on the bus before he finally started to answer the questions Dumbledore had asked.

"Since the Ministry of Magic is very strict regarding exit regulations, I can only drive you to the Floo Network Authority Branch in Wales, where you will have to present your identification and fill out a form to be certified, and then you can use the cross-country Floo Network. Also, if you have plenty of money, remember to bring two extra galleons to give to the employees there, it's a hidden rule that will save you a lot of time, otherwise, your exit approval will be stuck for two or three weeks whether you have issues or not."

Although Prang's attitude is not enthusiastic, but the description is still quite comprehensive, and when he said the last sentence he deliberately lowered his voice a bit, but in fact, this is a well-known unspoken rule.

Even the Ministry of Magic before Voldemort's governance naturally has nothing to do with the word clean, not to mention now; some departments are all composed of new pureblood "upstarts" who need some urgent funds, so it is quite the norm to collect some 'donation'.

Dumbledore listened to his words with a serious face and took out two chocolates from the cabinet, and finally expressed his thanks.

"Thank you for the reminder, then please drop us off at the Welsh Floo Network Authority branch."

"Okay, gentlemen, you better find a place to lie down first, as your destination will be reached only around four o'clock this afternoon at the earliest. We have to get the gentleman who is still sleeping to his old home in Devon first, and Mrs Viera upstairs, she is going to Scotland to fight with her estranged husband, so I suggest you don't mess with that lady, she is in a very bad mood."

Dumbledore and Jon looked at each other, and together they thanked Prang once again and then went through the spiral staircase to the first floor of the bus.

Again, only one obese witch was resting on a seat, and her mouth was moving as if she was cursing at someone or practising a rehearsal for a quarrel that would soon follow.

And when she saw Dumbledore and Jon coming up, she glared at them with her toad-like eyes.

Dumbledore led Jon up, but they did not stay on the second floor and continued up to the third floor of the bus.

There is no one here, there are four or five empty single bed-like seats laid out separately, they found one bed respectively, and after sitting down, Jon picked up a newspaper of the day that was hanging on the wall.

In this Daily Prophet, he saw the opening article right away.

[Antonin Dolohov was executed in Azkaban yesterday evening]

Jon did not continue to read on, just seeing the headline of this news, he stared with wide eyes.

"Dolohov is dead?"

He asked in an incredulous whisper, looking at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore was peeling the outer wrapping of the chocolate bar he had gotten from the cupboard, and hearing Jon's question, he nodded as if he had gotten the news much earlier and said.

"Not quite dead, three days ago a reporter from the Daily Prophet reported that he was found guilty in Wizengamot court, and when Dolohov questioned what exactly he is guilty of in court, it was his lord who sentenced him personally for the crime - the crime of incompetence."

"So the Dark Lord intended to kill him, and did so?"

It wasn't that Jon lamented the death of Dolohov or anything, he didn't even have the slightest good impression of this perverted castle caretaker, and the more trouble he had, the happier Jon would be.

But according to his original expectation, even in Hogwarts Castle, if all the things he did were found and exposed, it is likely that Dolohov will be severely punished.

Jon has always felt that even with Voldemort's harshness, he is unlikely to kill his own men directly because of this matter, at most will directly revoke all his posts, and then throw him into prison for a few days.

But Jon's understanding of Voldemort was ultimately misjudged, and Dolohov clearly did not survive.

"He was not sentenced to death straight away." Dumbledore sat on the edge of the bed, eating chocolate while whispering, "The guards on that prison island were angry that so many people had escaped from them, so Dolohov's ultimate punishment was to be rewarded with a dementor's kiss."

"The kiss of those monsters will directly suck away the soul of the kissed, so although his body may seem to be alive, in fact, it is already an empty shell, it can be said to be another sense of death or more terrible than death."

Jon quietly listened to Dumbledore's explanation, while also reading the newspaper coverage of this issue.

Dolohov is completely finished, the ambitious future that he originally visualized for himself, is indeed very promising, filling the space in order for the dementors to be well-fed.

After flipping through the other panels of news, Jon had some idea of the changes that had occurred in the magical world that day after he escaped with a group of underclassmen in Hogwarts Castle and the prisoners broke out of Azkaban.

The biggest impact on British wizards was that those Dementors were allowed to leave that Azkaban island and let them capture the escaped prisoners by themselves.

As everyone knows, Dementors are not wizards, they don't communicate with people, and they feed mainly on the positive emotions of people.

They left the prison and borrowed the reason of catching escaped prisoners to roam around in the British magical world, which would surely have a great impact on the lives of normal wizards.

This is indeed the case, as of today, the third day since the Dementors were allowed to leave the island, the Daily Prophet has so far reported seven or eight cases related to these monsters.

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