If it were anyone else, surrounded by so many Dementors, he would have fainted long ago. But Tom, wearing the crown, is not afraid of the desperate atmosphere created by the Dementors. He is completely immune.
The arrival of Bones alarmed the dementors, and they drifted toward Bones with malicious intent.
Bones saw the dementors about to move and woke up from a dream. At this time, she had no time to think about the relationship between the masked man and the dementors. She knew that she should prepare to take out the official documents from the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible and let these
The dark creature calmed down. She believed that the patron saint spell of her ancestors was enough to deter these crazy guys.
At this moment, the masked man moved. He stretched out a hand. All the moving dementors seemed to be frozen, and they did not dare to take another half step forward.
After all the dementors stopped, Tom took a few steps forward and walked up to Bones.
"Hello, Secretary Bones."
Only then did Bones see the face of the masked man clearly. In an instant, she recognized this guy - he was the "person" she met at the Pig's Head Bar that day.
She will never mistake this mask!
Before, she thought that the masked man was Dumbledore's crony, but now she was not sure - who had ever seen a wizard who could live in harmony with a dementor? The two could live in harmony, just like hungry wolves
It's like becoming a good friend with a fat sheep.
So she thought, this thing is probably not some strange magical animal, right? Or maybe an extraordinarily smart dementor was born over the long years, and it eventually evolved into the King of Dementors?
"I didn't expect you to have such an identity." She said with a complicated expression.
Tom:……
Tom didn't know how to answer Bones' words.
"Why are you here?" he asked.
Bones informed Tom of his purpose of coming.
"How about it? Are you willing to send some dementors to help me search Knockturn Alley? Those prisoners who are caught will eventually be escorted to Azkaban, which is a good thing for your tribe." Bones.
She looked at Tom with some anxiety. She didn't know whether the negotiation could proceed smoothly after the talker appeared among the dementors.
After all, there is a big difference between fooling a higher intelligent being who is as smart as a wizard and fooling a group of fools.
"Why should my tribe and I help you?" Tom was keenly aware that there seemed to be a loophole in Bones' words. In this loophole, he heard the sound of extortion.
"Because... the captured wizards will be sent to Azkaban, and you will have more fresh food." Bones' eyes flickered slightly.
"Aren't criminal wizards always sent to Azkaban? If I don't go out this time, won't you send people here?"
Dementors and Azkaban are the only prison institutions in the British wizarding world, and indeed in the entire wizarding world. Is there a more absolute monopoly than this in the world? It does not exist.
As far as Tom knows, the Ministry of Magic in other countries only has relatively simple short-term prisons, or custom-made prisons like Nurmengard. Large prisons that can hold many wizards for a long time are the only ones in Azkaban.
This is a pure seller's market. Even if Tom rejects Bones's request, can Bones fall out? If you fall out with me, where is your prisoner, Gringotts?
Or do you build an institution to temporarily detain wizards who commit minor crimes in the Ministry of Magic?
Bones:…
It has indeed become difficult! She is now wary of this mysterious guy: it is too suspicious. According to Bones's judgment, this creature has been mixed up with Dumbledore, and there must be a very close relationship between the two.
Cooperation - they joined forces to overthrow Fudge's rule. It was with their help that he took the position of minister.
When she didn't know the identity of the masked man before, she wasn't that worried. As for Dumbledore and his henchmen, it was normal. This kind of thing had happened countless times in history - the Malfoy family was the leader among them. Dumbledore ignored him
It's not too bad, it's better than being ignored by pure-blood nobles. But now Bones is getting anxious, because this seems to be no longer an internal fight among wizards, but a racial confrontation.
What did Dumbledore want to do? How could he collude with an alien like a dementor?
After a little analysis, Bones felt that because of Dumbledore's personality, he would not be able to do something like this, so there might be a hidden agenda behind it. The identity of the masked man is still open to question.
After figuring out this link, Bones was no longer so nervous. She felt that the top priority was to persuade this guy to send out dementors to help her clean up Knockturn Alley. Well, she would question Dumbledore afterwards.
"Without your help, even if we could catch people, we wouldn't be able to catch many."
Tom didn't know that in Minister Bones' mind, he had almost become a foreign careerist who challenged the wizard's status. He was just thinking about what kind of price he should offer as a condition for sending "troops".
"There seems to be no official communication channel between the Ministry of Magic and the Dementors," Tom said calmly, "I hope you can set up a Dementor Liaison Office or a Dementor Office, and I will be in charge of magic.
Communication between the Ministry and the Dementor Clans.”
When Bones heard this, her first reaction was to search in her mind to see if there was an agency in the Ministry of Magic that matched the description of the masked man. Then she was surprised to find that in the huge Ministry of Magic, there was not a dedicated department responsible for collecting souls.
Monsters contact us!
Generally speaking, the Department for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures should be responsible for non-human creatures, but there are seven offices under this department (Beast Office, Alien Office, Ghost Office, Goblin Liaison Office, Centaur Liaison Office, Pest Information Office, Error Information Office)
offices), none of which deal with the management of dark creatures.
If dementors were classified as ghosts, the Ghost Office would be able to control them, but they are really not ghosts!
Bones thought about it for a moment, and after some careful consideration, she found that she could only set up another agency to be responsible for contacting the dementors. And this agency must be very important, because it is responsible for connecting with Azkaban. Magic
Those joke-like offices in the Division of Biological Control are definitely not appropriate.
"Then I'll simply set up an Azkaban Liaison Office and put it under the jurisdiction of the Magical Law Enforcement Division."
Tom naturally had no objection.
The two discussed for a while, and finally reached a consensus: Tom would send Dementors to help Minister Bones capture the dark wizards in Knockturn Alley, and at the same time suppress their ability to escape. In return, Bones would serve in Operation "Tornado"
After the end of the war, the Ministry of Magic established the Azkaban Liaison Office, which was responsible for all Azkaban affairs. This department was controlled by Tom.