My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 404, Section 401: What the Master Wants

After Leon took over as head of the Auror Command, he demonstrated exceptional leadership skills.

Although he usually appears to be just a sleazy, unknown old man, back in the Saints' era, he was Grindelwald's top henchman.

When Lynn went to Abrose to ask Rozier for help in finding an Auror for the Ministry of Magic, she recommended Lyon without hesitation.

Leon's resume is actually very impressive. Before joining Grindelwald's organization of saints, he was the head of the Aurors in the German Ministry of Magic and was a leading figure among his generation of wizards in Germany.

His current position as head of the British Ministry of Magic can be seen as a return to his old profession, a second spring in his career.

After securing the Auror's immunity from liability for using dark magic from Fudge, he personally led his men to hunt down dark wizards who had escaped from Azkaban throughout England.

The number of criminals imprisoned in Azkaban is not small at all.

Even though the wizarding population is not large, the crime rate in the magical world is not low.

As the only wizarding prison in the entire British magical community, it houses more than 200 prisoners every year.

Leon demonstrated his swift and decisive methods from the very beginning of the pursuit.

He divided the Aurors into several small teams and, using bounties, warrants, and timely pursuit, dispersed his Aurors throughout Britain the day after the Azkaban breakout.

More than 20 criminals were arrested and brought to justice in just one day!

The Ministry of Magic was greatly encouraged by this.

Fudge made the Daily Prophet report on his recent major achievement extensively throughout the wizarding world, even claiming that all the escaped prisoners would be captured within a week.

Upon hearing Fudge's boastful words, Leon simply rolled his eyes and secretly cursed the Minister of Magic as a brainless fat pig.

He didn't think things were that simple.

The reason why the first day was so successful was that these prisoners had not been out of prison for long. Just crossing the North Sea from Azkaban back to Great Britain was not an easy task. That area of ​​the sea was protected by anti-apparition spells, and without the ability to teleport, it was easy to leave obvious clues during the escape.

Later on, once these dark wizards find a place to settle down and hide, it won't be so easy to capture them again.

However, Leon had his own methods.

He issued a strong order within the Auror Command, requiring all Aurors to work in two shifts, 24 hours a day, searching for the whereabouts of the dark wizard throughout Britain, forcing these criminals who had finally escaped to change locations every day.

At the same time, he wrote to Rozier in Arboros, asking her to contact several dark wizards with whom he had some past acquaintances, spreading the word that he could provide them with hiding places in Arboros and that the Aurors would definitely not be able to capture them.

Then Leon deliberately ignored the search of the Abros area, giving the dark wizards the illusion that the Aurors had forgotten about the small town.

Finally, after giving these people nearly five days, Leon led almost two-thirds of the Aurors in the command to surround Abros and capture nearly a hundred fugitives hiding there.

Such astonishing achievements even surprised Fudge.

He was just making empty boasts at first, and probably didn't have any hope that Leon would be able to capture all the fugitives.

However, with nearly half of the dark wizards now back in custody, he couldn't help but have even higher expectations for Leon's abilities.

A week after Leon took office as the interim head of the Auror Command, he indisputably removed the "interim" prefix.

No Auror within Command offered any suggestions, not even Rufus Scrimgeour, the former Command Chief who had been ousted, publicly stated that he was inferior to Phillips Leon.

But just as the British wizards were excited, believing that the newly appointed Auror Director would demonstrate extraordinary abilities to capture all the fugitive criminals, Leon suddenly returned to the Ministry of Magic.

Instead of personally leading the operation, he handed over the entire arrest operation to his subordinates and went back to his office to slack off.

Leon knew perfectly well what was going on.

It is simply an impossible task to capture all the fugitives.

He has not forgotten what caused this Azkaban breakout.

At least half of the criminals who escaped from prison were arrested more than a decade ago for supporting Voldemort and joining the Death Eaters cholera wizarding world.

These people were almost all from pure-blood families. They had a lot of assets in Gringotts and ancestral manors or old houses all over Britain. These places were enchanted and unknown to outsiders.

Once they escape, there's absolutely no chance of them being caught again.

None of the people Leon and his men had captured in the past few days were Death Eaters, and very few were serious criminals. Almost all of them were small fry in Azkaban who had been arrested for various other crimes after Voldemort's downfall.

So when the entire magical world had high hopes for him, he chose to go back to his office and slack off.

Anyway, the supervisor's position has already been officially promoted from temporary to permanent, and the young master's goal has been achieved. Now all we have to do is wait for the young master's instructions.

He, Leon, was not some Auror dedicated to the peace and tranquility of the British magical world; all his actions were simply following his master's orders.

As for what to do with those Death Eaters, the young master has his own arrangements.

Just as the tense atmosphere in the magical world was gradually easing after Leon ended his massive manhunt for the fugitives.

At the Malfoy family's estate, a special meeting is being held.

Whether they were Death Eaters who had escaped from Azkaban or Death Eaters who had been living a very comfortable life for more than ten years after switching sides, they all gathered at the Malfoy family's manor.

Although they all shared the same identity and were loyal to the same master, they were clearly divided into two factions.

Based on their identities, we can tentatively divide them into two groups: the fence-sitters and the staunch supporters.

Logically, the fence-sitters should have taken the initiative after rescuing the centrists from Azkaban, but the opposite is true.

The core Death Eaters sneered at the silent fence-sitters, their heated words almost bringing them to blows.

"Quiet!"

A sharp female voice silenced the voices of everyone present.

Even the most unruly Death Eaters chose to keep quiet at this moment.

Because the one who spoke was Bellatrix Lestrange, a madwoman who was practically second only to the Death Eaters.

(End of this chapter)