The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

"Helper? Is there really someone in the UK willing to do this kind of thing for you?" Erwin's expression became a little playful. "Perhaps only the remnants of the Dark Lord back then would have such an idea."

"Don't test me." Farian shrugged, "Our family was firmly on the side of justice back then, and we never had any real contact with that person. Besides, the only Death Eater alive and kicking now is that West Rhys Black."

"Are you looking for him?" Erwin narrowed his eyes.

"How is it possible, this guy is the focus right now. People from the Ministry of Magic can't wait to dig three feet to find him. Although no one is better than him in terms of familiarity with Azkaban, who can find him now? Him? Even if I can find him, I will report it directly to the Ministry of Magic, do you know how much his bounty is?"

"In your capacity, do you still value that Galleon?" Erwin asked.

"My father's money is my father's money and mine is mine," Farian said.

"Understood, the unique 'inspirational' method of the rich children declares that they will cut off the property of their elders to prove their ability." Erwin said, with a slight sarcasm in his tone.

"Cutting? Why do you want to do it?" However, Farian looked puzzled, "Other than me and Ollie, the old man has no other direct blood relatives. Who can he leave his property to when he dies?"

"Oh?"

"My father was never mean to me, he usually let me and Ollie talk, the real problem is that spending his money is tantamount to telling him what we are doing, and you can't tell everything to the elders Report them one by one?"

Erwin nodded slightly, which resonated with him a little.

"So, it's more comfortable to use my own money. I have the confidence to compete with that Sirius, but the premise is that I can meet... Uh, the topic is a bit far away, where did we just talk about?"

"Help." Erwin reminded.

"It's not feasible to find the remnants of the Dark Lord's party, and it's impossible to use Gallon to ask a Ministry of Magic official to help. After all, it's Azkaban. In fact, it's really hard to find someone in the UK who is willing to help in this matter." Our wizard."

He paused.

"So you mean - no British?" Erwin asked.

Looking at the problem from an international perspective, the thinking has suddenly broadened a lot.

"That's right. In fact, there are quite a few people interested in Azkaban. You can leave this to me. I should be able to contact a more powerful person..." Farian said.

"I'm afraid those who are interested in that place are not good people, right? Can your Losario family have access to this kind of channel?" Erwin asked calmly.

"How many senior wizards can be regarded as absolutely good people?" Farian shrugged, "Both parties get what they need, and as long as they abide by the spirit of the contract, they can cooperate."

Erwin was noncommittal.

"You can leave the specific preparations and planning to me, you just need to wait." Farian said confidently.

"But I didn't say I would agree." Erwin said lightly.

Infiltrating into Azkaban, and the goal is only to hunt a few dementors, which in itself is something that only lunatics will do.

"It's boring for you to do this." Farian said helplessly.

"I still have one main question," Erwin said.

"Please speak directly." Farian made a gesture of all ears.

"You are so enthusiastic that I have to doubt your purpose. What exactly do you want to do?"

Farian smiled, "Simply speaking, it's just to satisfy my own curiosity. I really don't like a boring life."

"Are you interested in the secrets of Azkaban?"

"I'm mainly interested in the color of the Ministry of Magic's underwear." Farian raised an eyebrow.

"In other words, you think a certain pair of underpants from the Ministry of Magic are in Azkaban."

"Isn't that obvious?" Farian spread his hands.

This seems to be a plausible reason. Does this guy in front of him have any ideas about the Ministry of Magic?

"Then I express my intention to join this plan for the time being." Erwin said, paying attention to his wording.

Infiltrating Azkaban sounds crazy, but it's not impossible.

Although the defense force of that wizard prison must be very strong, except for the prisoners on the island, most of them should be dementors, and the number of human jailors is relatively small.

After all, according to the public documents of the Ministry of Magic, let the dementors guard Azkaban and tacitly allow them to use prisoners as food. The essence of this approach is to reduce the financial and manpower pressure of maintaining a formal prison.

And only need to face a single type of enemy, the degree of trouble will naturally be much lower.

This may be why Sirius Black was able to escape.

Even if there are more human wizards stationed in Azkaban because of a fugitive, Erwin has actually fought against the "regular army" of the Ministry of Magic, except for the dark-skinned Kingsley Shacklebolt , the pressure given to him by other battle wizards is not too great.

Therefore, based on the available information, the danger of this plan should be within his tolerance.

Then you can give it a try.

If that guess is not confirmed, he will have trouble sleeping and eating.

Anyway, it's just expressing his intention to join now. As long as he finds that the plan provided by Farian is unreasonable or something goes wrong, he can directly withdraw without mercy.

"Happy cooperation." Farian reached out his hand and shook Erwin.

"Olly will definitely help us, but it will take time to find other helpers,"

"How long?" Erwin asked.

"I can't say for sure about this, it's not possible to write a job advertisement and publish it?" Farian said jokingly.

Erwin didn't laugh. For such a high-risk operation, you must collect enough intelligence and make enough preparations. You need to make a detailed plan and wait for the right time.

These all need enough time.

Therefore, it should be impossible to start before the start of Professor Suouene's subject, after all, there are less than four days left.

"We always need to determine a contact method so that we can notify each other conveniently." Farian looked at Erwin, then sighed, "You definitely don't want to establish a direct communication channel between us, do you?"

Erwin nodded.

In addition to messengers like owls, there are of course more convenient and direct means of communication between wizards, but they are not as popular as messengers because of the difficulty of casting spells or the high cost.

It is impossible to say that humans in ordinary society have generally used mobile communication tools, but wizards can only communicate with primitive letters.

But whether it is a messenger or other direct communication channels, once established, it means that one's own position will be completely exposed to the other party. Therefore, unless it is a relationship of absolute trust, this method is generally not adopted.

British owls can accurately send letters to most ordinary wizards, because for hundreds of years the British magic community has formed a stable society, ordinary wizards do not need to hide their location and most people do not have ability in this regard.

And for a talented wizard, it is not difficult for the owl to find himself.

Farian compromised the plan and proposed to give Erwin a sensor. When the sensor gets hot, it means that there is something to discuss with him.

But Erwin still refused, on the grounds that even if he took the sensor, he couldn't carry it with him at all times.

Farian was helpless, and in the end the two parties decided on the most primitive way of communication: a message.

Taking Lihen Bookstore as a transit point, the person who delivered the message was designated as the clerk, Miss Sally. In order not to frighten this innocent Miss Sally, code words had to be used.Erwin needs to send it to Lihen Bookstore every three days to make sure there is no new message.

This kind of communication efficiency can be said to be extremely low, but it is basically considered the safest.

"You bastard, it's like the whole world is going to hurt you." Farian couldn't help complaining.

Erwin didn't respond.

"Your family don't look native English?" he asked suddenly, casually.

"My father was born in the Sicilian peninsula in southern Italy." Farian didn't hide anything, he seemed to want to let Erwin let go of his guard with a candid attitude.

Erwin remained calm. It seemed that the Losario family's sphere of influence was not limited to the British territory.

He stood up and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, "Gideroy Lockhart, this guy should be mainly favored by your family, right?"

"That's right." Farian nodded.

"I'm a little curious. Since I want to launch a star writer, why choose Lockhart? He has a big problem with his spellcasting ability, but he feels very good about himself. In just one year at Hogwarts, he was close to breaking through several times. , I think your family has been arranging for someone to wipe his ass?"

"Indeed, it doesn't matter whoever takes Lockhart's position, but at least he can bring some benefits. It's hard work." Farian said lightly: "Of course the reason why Lockhart is packaged This is mainly because my father made a bet with a certain important person."

"Bet?" Erwin was taken aback, this was really unexpected.

"It's hard to say the name of that big man, but the content of the bet is about the stupidity of the world. My father said that the current magic world has changed, and a person who doesn't know magic at all can get along well and become a magician. Someone other wizards look up to."

So Gilderoy Lockhart, the most popular author, the most charming smile in history, and the legendary wizard in the eyes of the world, is just the product of a bet?

The world is getting more and more interesting. "So your father won." Erwin came back to his senses.

"No." Farian shrugged. "The content of the bet is whether Lockhart can become the Minister of Magic."

Erwin was silent for a while, "So, I essentially helped your father with this bet?"

Without him, Gilderoy Lockhart might have made a fool of himself at Hogwarts, and it was a question of whether he could survive the year safely.

"It can be said that Lockhart agreed to teach at Hogwarts privately, and my father was very annoyed by this." Farian said: "We paid a lot of money to make Professor Severer of Slytherin College Snape promised to give Lockhart limited care and help, and as for the other professors, they didn't even want to reply to us."

No wonder Snape would be willing to help Lockhart share the teaching of Defense Against the Dark Arts for the upper grades, so that he only had to fool the lower grades, it was obviously not out of mercy.