Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 218 Adding Bricks and Tiles
Northwestern France, at the northernmost tip of the Cotentin Peninsula, close to the coast near the English Channel.
A dark castle that cannot be discovered by Muggles was built here.
The history of this fortress is not long. Compared with many ancient castles in Europe that have a history of thousands of years, it was only built this year and cannot even be called a baby.
But in today's French wizarding world, no castle is more famous than it.
But in fact, the fortress has never been named since it was built. It is just a newly established organization like the castle. What every French wizard can't forget is the name of this new organization -
Correctional institution.
After Voldemort completed the collection of wands from all French Muggle-born wizards, the reformatory was officially put into use.
All Muggles over the age of 16 who have been deprived of the right to own a wand are brought here to be disciplined and reformed in accordance with the doctrine of pure-blood superiority.
They would be imposed upon that man, giving all wizards a new ideology.
"Humanoid house-elf" - this is the unified name used by the Muggle-born wizards who came out of here.
In fact, for the magic world or wizards, there is no shortage of slaves such as Muggle-born wizards. Although house-elves are generally only kept in pure-blood families, it does not mean that other wizard families cannot afford to raise them. Slaves who simply take care of daily life and cleaning are simply dispensable to them.
Muggle-born wizards have lost their rights as human beings. The greatest benefit to pure-bloods and half-bloods is the jobs and social resources vacated by them.
These resources will be divided up among all wizards who obey Voldemort's rule. At the same time, the greatest use of the Muggle wizards who have become slaves will be to be sent to various industries to perform oppressive labor.
As long as they are not starving to death, there is no other labor cost at all, and they can be exploited to death.
As a result, the cost of various magical tools began to decline. The most obvious example was the various magic companies that produced daily necessities such as broomsticks, floo powder, quills, parchment, etc.
The reduction in costs and the unchanged prices have caused their profits to soar, and the direct beneficiaries of these companies and profits are the purebloods and new-style purebloods.
As for the half-blood wizards, they were not squeezed out by the manpower that flooded the market at such low or even cost-free prices.
Because "Mudbloods" are forbidden to own wands, this means that they can only carry out some basic production processes. The key steps still require half-bloods who can cast spells with wands.
This made the work easier, as they absorbed the original resources of the Muggle wizards, and their salaries remained the same. If they met pure-bloods with a conscience, they would even get a raise. Apart from becoming second-class citizens in terms of status and social rights, the substantial benefits made the half-bloods feel that the theory of blood superiority still had its "reason".
So the French wizards, who were a little frightened at the beginning when they accepted Voldemort's rule, got such a result with extremely low psychological expectations, and everyone still felt that life was actually not bad.
It’s just that on such a nice day, they couldn’t decide who would be sacrificed, and they couldn’t see it anyway, so they just pretended it had nothing to do with them.
The root of all the changes in France came from this fortress called "Correctional House".
Since the reformatory officially began operating, the French Minister has rarely appeared in the Ministry of Magic. Although no one has accurate information, most people believe that the gentleman who has changed their lives is in this fortress.
This is indeed the case. Voldemort has been personally assigning tasks in the reformatory.
In order to enable the first batch of "troublemakers" to quickly change their minds, he even called Gilderoy Lockhart, the director of the Memory Cancellation Office of the British Ministry of Magic and one of his capable subordinates, to France.
Lockhart did not join the Death Eaters, which also meant that he did not enter Voldemort's real core subordinate area, but this did not prevent his outstanding Oblivion spell skills from "shining" for the entire wizarding world.
At first he was just a prisoner who illegally used the Oblivion Charm on wizards to tamper with their memories in order to seek benefits for himself.
The Aurors caught him and were about to throw him directly into Azkaban without even going through the Wizengamot trial process. At this time, Voldemort, who had nothing to do, happened to see his criminal record and became interested in this wizard who knew almost no other spells but could often succeed with the Oblivion Spell.
So Lockhart met the "greatest gentleman" in the wizarding world.
When he was brought before Voldemort, he was scared to the point of peeing his pants. Really scared, not just an adjective.
He swore that he had only wanted to finish this last shot, and then he would change his appearance and leave the dangerous and costly Britain to continue his free life in another country.
Then he was caught.
The Aurors under Voldemort's
What Voldemort hated most was personal incompetence and mediocrity, and he even added a "crime of incompetence" to magical law.
Once the crime is confirmed, the minimum penalty is to go to Azkaban for half a year (those with weak wills will go crazy after three months).
Therefore, highly qualified Aurors like Scabior are not the only ones in the Auror Command. Only those seconded like McNeill are a minority.
This is how Lockhart was targeted by the Aurors and subsequently arrested.
But then he was lucky.
According to his crime, he should have been sentenced to at least three years in Azkaban, but Voldemort was impressed by his talent in the Oblivion Spell, so he granted him amnesty and arranged for him to work in the Memory Annihilation Office to redeem himself.
Lockhart, who was frightened to the point of incontinence, has been working diligently since entering the memory cancellation office, and has transformed from a previously cool criminal suspect to a corporate slave today.
His excellent forgetfulness spell dealt with many stubborn elements and dealt a heavy blow to the Order of the Phoenix led by Dumbledore.
After all, there is nothing more painful than seeing close comrades who once fought for freedom together, but after being captured, they fanatically claim that they are pure-blooded dogs.
There were also some "Mudblood" troublemakers in Hogwarts Castle, and they were all handed over to Lockhart to deal with. Among all the "Mudbloods" who had passed through his hands, very few remained disobedient.
It was precisely such achievements that made him be promoted like a rocket. Within less than three years after joining the Ministry of Magic, he went from an ordinary clerk to an office director.
He has not been forgotten by Voldemort yet and was brought to France to contribute to the cause of pure blood.
