After learning from the photo published in the newspaper that Peter was still alive, Blake no longer had the heart to do crossword puzzles.
He had seen Peter transformed into a mouse so many times that he would never be mistaken.
That damn traitor was still alive and now hiding next to Harry. This was undoubtedly the worst thing that had happened to Black in the past ten years.
Blake knew that he was the only one who knew that Peter was still alive, and he had to take action.
However, he is still imprisoned in Azkaban, and it is not easy to escape from this notorious prison.
For hundreds of years, no wizard has ever successfully escaped from prison.
Before Black could carry out his escape, the Dementors in Azkaban had already stepped up their guard under Fudge's instructions.
The number of Dementors guarding outside the cell increased. Every day, they would open the cell door, lower their shapeless mouths under their hoods towards Black through the iron bars, and continuously suck the emotions in the air around the cell. The terrible sound was like the growl of a death rattle.
The Dementors were happy to carry out Fudge's orders, even though they didn't think anyone could escape from Azkaban prison.
Blake certainly can't do that either.
At this moment, Black's face was pale, and countless bad memories emerged in his head, as if he was back to the night when James and Lily died.
He curled up his body, clutching the newspaper tightly in his hand, and muttered something under his breath.
Blake was trying to overcome the voices in his head, trying to recall any information that would help him escape.
He failed, his eyes rolled up, his body seemed to have lost all strength, and he curled up in a corner of the cell, the bad memories of his childhood kept surfacing in his mind.
Not long after, the Dementors left the cell, and the voices in Black's mind gradually disappeared with the departure of the Dementors. It was as if his soul had returned to his body again. He fell to the ground with his eyes closed, his hands and feet trembling slightly.
When Blake woke up again, he felt cold and weak, as if he had just been sick. He struggled to move himself to the bed, breathing heavily like a dead dog, and there was no sign of him talking to Fudge before.
He lay in bed for a long time. When he opened his eyes again, his sight fell on the plate of food next to the iron cupboard, and he closed his eyes again.
Blake didn't know how long he had slept. When he woke up, he felt very weak. He ate some hard bread and drank some water, then continued to lie in bed, staring blankly at the closed cell door through the iron bars.
At the beginning, he was sent to Azkaban Prison by a ship. The prison was built on an isolated island in the sea. The surrounding area of the island had been submerged by the sea. The entire fortress was cast with magic, prohibiting any wizard from using Apparition or portkeys.
As for the Floo Network, that was even more impossible.
So, when you come here, you can only take a boat to enter from the dock, which is the only entrance to this prison.
If he wanted to escape from here, he had to stay away from Azkaban Prison and the island that prohibited Apparition before he could use Apparition to return to the mainland.
However, Black is now very weak, very weak, and without a wand, he cannot use the Patronus Charm to drive away the Dementors. What's worse, under the influence of the Dementors, his mind will become very unstable and he will gradually lose the ability to cast spells.
Black couldn't use other magic without a wand. Casting without a wand was too difficult. Only those wizards with extraordinary abilities could do it, and Hogwarts didn't teach these things.
He had to find another way.
If the jailbreak fails, the Ministry of Magic will let the Dementors suck away his soul, so there is only one chance.
He's at Hogwarts, he's at Hogwarts!
He was still lurking, still planning to harm Harry.
No, that's absolutely not possible!
As long as he gets the slightest hint, he might hand over the last member of the Potter family.
Just like how he betrayed James and Lily.
By then, who would dare to say that he had ever betrayed Voldemort
That damned fellow could easily return with honor and rejoin them.
He wanted revenge and wanted to kill the traitor who killed James and Lily with his own hands.
Avenge them!
revenge!
A fire was lit in Black's heart, a fire of revenge that even the Dementors could not suck away from his mind.
That is definitely not a good emotion.
Ever since he knew Peter was still alive, Blake had been thinking about how to kill Peter all the time.
But he couldn't do it now. The first thing he had to do now was to climb over the iron bars outside the cell, and then open and pass through the door of the cell without the Dementors noticing.
Next, he might need to go through several doors and then jump into the sea from the dock. As for jumping from the fortress, the probability of success is not high as the water below is not deep enough and he might fall to death directly.
Black mechanically ate the cold food on the Dementor's floor, observing the surrounding environment and carefully thinking about his escape plan.
However, he now encountered the first problem. He was unable to pass through the iron cabinet bars in front of him.
The Dementors had never opened the iron cabinet bars, and the food was passed in through the iron cabinet bars. He measured the gap between the iron cabinet bars with his palm, and it was a gap that no one could pass through anyway.
It was still pouring rain outside. Blake curled up in bed, and some strange sounds were still coming to his ears.
He covered his ears with his hands, but that didn't help.
The frequent appearance of Dementors in the cell has made Black's mental condition a little worse. If this continues, he may lose his mind like everyone else here.
He turned himself into a dog!
Every time he felt he couldn't bear it any longer, Black would turn himself into a dog to minimize the impact of the Dementors on him.
No one knew he was an Animagus.
Even the Dementors wouldn't know, after all, those evil things have no eyes.
Blake seemed to realize something and slowly moved to the iron cabinet railing.
If I turned into a dog, a dog so thin that only bones were left, I would probably be able to slip out through the gap between the iron cabinet bars.
If the plan went well enough, he would even be able to escape from Azkaban prison and Apparate back to the mainland, or simply swim back to the mainland.
Blake barely squeezed out from the gap between the iron bars, looked at the closed cell door in front of him, and murmured: "It would be nice if the Animagus form was a flying insect."
Black began to appear in front of the Dementors in the form of a dog. He knew that these evil creatures could not see the outside world and could only rely on emotions to determine a person's location and make some distinctions.
Animals have much fewer emotional changes than humans.
Black began to control his emotional changes, trying to make the Dementors think that he was losing his mind and becoming a madman.
One night, when the Dementors opened the door of the cell and came in to deliver food, Black, who had already turned into a dog and abandoned all emotions, just swaggered away from them. He successfully made himself invisible under the Dementors' noses.
Even though Dementors don't have eyelids.
Everything went smoothly along the way, and almost no Dementors noticed the dog, until a Dementor realized that Black was not in his cell, and Azkaban prison began to become chaotic.
By then, Blake had successfully jumped into the turbulent sea and swam as hard as he could towards the island.
The Dementors began to search around the island, but Black easily avoided the Dementors' search, left the area on the island where Apparition was prohibited, and disappeared directly into the vast ocean.
But Blake never realized why he was able to escape from prison so easily.
Was it really the Dementors' negligence
No!
All of this was a deliberate indulgence by the Dementors. After the Dementors realized that Black was planning to escape from Azkaban, they allowed the prisoner to escape from prison.
Azkaban prison is also a cage for Dementors.
As the number of prisoners decreased, the Dementors' food became scarce, and the wizards were unable to provide them with sufficient food, which made the Dementors very dissatisfied. However... the patronus of those wizards restrained them, so the Dementors still needed to abide by the agreement between the two parties.
If someone escapes from Azkaban prison, they can take the opportunity to leave here and search for Black's whereabouts elsewhere.
As long as they stay away from here, there will be enough food for them in the outside world and they will no longer have the problem of "hunger".