Too Many

In the underground tunnel, Rabastan Lestrange opened the stone door that held the Muggles prisoner, and all kinds of cries, wails, and groans instantly poured into the ears of the Muggles who had just been brought in. The rusty reek of blood and the stench of rot made their legs tremble uncontrollably.

The scene before them was dark as Hell, and it made the newly arrived Muggles realize their fate.

After stuffing the Muggles into cages, Gilderoy Lockhart quietly made a gesture as he passed Nancy and the others. Unable to control his expression, he raised his brows smugly. Nancy's eyes flickered slightly, and she held her daughter as she watched everything in silence.

"I'm going to turn in the task. You go to Rodolphus for the handover," Rabastan ordered Lockhart, then dismissed his men on the spot. Though he had done well this time and brought some people back, a lowly, trivial matter like looking after Muggles was better left to this fraud.

"As you command, Lord Lestrange." Lockhart suppressed the excitement in his heart and watched respectfully as Rabastan and the others strode away. He immediately went to Rodolphus Lestrange to collect the Muggles' food; he could hardly wait to show off the gains of this trip to Nancy and her daughter.

After completing the task of distributing food to all the Muggles, Lockhart turned his head left and right to look at the few Death Eaters still lingering there. Only after confirming that no one was paying attention to him did he quickly come to the cage where Nancy and the others were. Before he had gone out to capture Muggles, he had already moved Nancy and her daughter's position to a relatively farther spot from the cave entrance, and had used other Muggle cages as cover—those