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agenda, capitalising on the anger felt by much of the wizarding community atbeing forced to go underground. Sadistic by nature, Rowle scrapped the plansfor the new prison at once and insisted on using Azkaban. He claimed that theDementors living there were an advantage: they could be harnessed as guards,saving the Ministry time, trouble and expense.In spite of opposition from many wizards, among them experts on bothDementors and buildings with Azkaban’s kind of Dark history, Rowle carriedout his plan and soon a steady trickle of prisoners had been placed there.None ever emerged. If they were not mad and dangerous before being placedin Azkaban, they swiftly became so.Rowle was succeeded by Perseus Parkinson, who was likewise pro-Azkaban. By the time that Eldritch Diggory took over as Minister for Magic,the prison had been operating for fifteen years. There had been no breakoutsand no breaches of security. The new prison seemed to be working well. Itwas only when Diggory went to visit that he realised exactly what conditionsinside were like. Prisoners were mostly insane and a graveyard had beenestablished to accommodate those that died of despair.Back in London, Diggory established a committee to explore alternativesto Azkaban, or at least to remove the Dementors as guards. Experts explainedto him that the only reason the Dementors were (mostly) confined to theisland was that they were being provided with a constant supply of souls onwhich to feed. If deprived of prisoners, they were likely to abandon the prisonand head for the mainland.This advice notwithstanding, Diggory had been so horrified by what hehad seen inside Azkaban that he pressed the committee to find alternatives.Before they could reach any decision, however, Diggory caught dragon poxand died. From that time until the advent of Kingsley Shacklebolt, noMinister ever seriously considered closing Azkaban. They turned a blind eyeto the inhumane conditions inside the fortress, permitted it to be magicallyenlarged and expanded and rarely visited, due to the awful effects of enteringa building populated by thousands of Dementors. Most justified their attitudeby pointing to the prison’s perfect record at keeping prisoners locked up.Nearly three centuries passed before that record was broken. A youngman was successfully smuggled out of the prison when his visiting motherexchanged places with him, something that the blind and loveless Dementorscould not detect and would have never expected. This escape was followed byanother, still more ingenious and impressive, when Sirius Black managed toevade the Dementors single-handed.The weakness of the prison was demonstrated amply over the next fewyears, when two mass breakouts occurred, both involving Death Eaters. Bythis time the Dementors had given their allegiance to Lord Voldemort, whocould guarantee them scope and freedom hitherto untasted. Albus
Dumbledore was one who had long disapproved of the use of Dementors asguards, not only because of the inhumane treatment of the prisoners in theirpower, but because he foresaw the possible shift in loyalties of such Darkcreatures.Under Kingsley Shacklebolt, Azkaban was purged of Dementors. Whileit remains in use as a prison, the guards are now Aurors, who are regularlyrotated from the mainland. There has been no breakout since this new systemwas introduced.
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