Chapter 53: The Final Battle of Soul-Stealing

At about four or five in the afternoon, there was a quarrel outside the carriage. Hearing several familiar voices and thinking about the plot that would appear today, Sherin immediately understood what was going on. He stood up and walked out of the carriage. Daphne and Meredith followed immediately. Luna followed the three of them without any hesitation and walked out of the carriage to check.

Just as Sherin expected, it was his suicidal brother Draco. He had clearly promised his father to stay away from Harry this semester, but he had already forgotten about it before he even got to school. Sherin could only shake his head silently at his character.

Draco, Goyle and Crabbe, who followed behind him, stood in the aisle with a proud look on their faces. Opposite them were Harry and his group standing at the door of the carriage. After a round of verbal battles, the two sides had already drawn their wands to confront each other, and the scene seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.

In the original story, Draco should have retreated when he saw Professor Remus Lupin, but because of Schelling's intervention, Draco did not leave. Instead, he stayed there with a proud look, as if waiting to see a good show.

During the summer vacation, Draco spent a lot of time practicing curses. He could cast precise and instant curses such as "front teeth like sticks", "grinning", snot curse, and bat curse. With his strength greatly increased, he was looking forward to the next opportunity to ravage Harry throughout the summer vacation. As for Lucius's instructions, he had long thrown them out of his mind.

Schelling looked out the window of the train. The sky had already darkened at this time. At this moment, the train suddenly shook and slowed down significantly until it stopped completely with a click. There was a ping-pong sound in the distance. It must be the luggage falling from the shelf.

Then, for no reason, all the lights in the carriage suddenly went out, and they fell into complete darkness.

"Damn it, what happened?" Draco screamed, and collided with Goyle and Crabbe in the process of rapid retreat, and all three of them fell down. Mixed in the screams of Draco and the other two, there was a faint sound of the side door opening of the train, as if someone was getting on the train.

Xie Lin helplessly put his hand on his forehead. Although Draco has grown a lot since this summer vacation, he still can't change the fact that he is essentially a timid and childish kid.

Xie Lin stood there quietly, motionless, as if quietly waiting for something to happen.

Daphne and Meredith also felt a little scared at first, but seeing Xie Lin standing in front of them with a towering figure like a mountain and a momentum like a deep sea, they suddenly felt a sense of security in their hearts. They didn't even scream.

Daphne's eyes flashed with a cunning, pretending to be afraid and took the opportunity to hold Shaylin's left arm - she was smart and didn't dare to grab Shaylin's right arm, which was used to holding the wand. Meredith saw that she had lost the opportunity and could only snort to express her dissatisfaction. Luna, who was also behind Shaylin, blinked her big eyes. There was no fear in her eyes, but a little curiosity.

At this time, Harry's three people were also in chaos. Ron tried to get close to the window to look, but stepped on Hermione, causing Hermione to scream in pain.

While Harry and the other two were pushing and moving, their friend Neville also came over and tried to ask what happened, but was tripped by Harry in the dark. At this time, Ginny also came. She tried to approach this carriage, but collided head-on with Hermione, and there were two more painful screams.

Xielin shouted loudly, "Everyone, be quiet!" The end of his wand suddenly burst out a milky white light as bright as moonlight and as gentle as stars, illuminating the entire aisle in the train without dazzling anyone present.

Daphne and Meredith were already accustomed to Xielin's ability, but Hermione and Luna showed curious eyes.

Luna asked the two girls' questions in a dreamy voice: "Is this a fluorescent spell? Why is your fluorescent spell different from what I know?"

Xielin turned his head to look at Luna and smiled, "You can regard it as my personal improvement on the spell. Do you want to learn it? I can teach you."

Luna stared at Xielin's pupils carefully, and after a while, she smiled sweetly and nodded. Hermione felt a little uncomfortable when she heard the conversation between Xielin and Luna. At this moment, she pursed her lips tightly and swallowed all the words she wanted to say to Xielin back into her stomach.

Schelling asked the three girls to stand behind him and slowly approached the middle position where Harry and Draco were confronting each other.

There was a strange sound outside the carriage, and something seemed to be approaching in the darkness. It was certain that it was not the sound of human footsteps. Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe hurriedly moved closer to the carriage.

In the corridor illuminated by the wand in Schelling's hand, a monster wearing a cloak and as tall as the ceiling came towards them. It seemed to have no feet, but was floating and sliding in the air. Its face was completely hidden under the hood, and a hand stretched out from the cloak. The hand was gleaming, gray, thin, and scabby, like something that had rotted in the water after death.

The monster under the cloak seemed to feel the gaze of the crowd, and the hand suddenly retracted into the black cloak. Then it took a long, slow, and trembling breath, as if it was trying to inhale something other than air from the surrounding environment. Everyone immediately felt a chill pass through their bodies, penetrating their skin, chilling their chests and their hearts.

"Finally I've waited for you," Sherin muttered in a low voice, "Dementor." It's complicated to say, but in just a few seconds, everyone was surprised to find that Sherin actually took another step forward.

Harry's face was pale, his body was shaking violently, and his expression was extremely terrified, as if he had seen something terrible. Before anyone could react, he fainted on the ground with a thud.

Ron hurriedly helped him to a chair beside him, and the others also fell on it diagonally.

Harry's fainting seemed to be a fuse, and the atmosphere of panic and fear spread in an instant. Draco was so scared that his face turned pale and he couldn't even speak; Ron, Hermione and others were not much better than him, and Neville was so scared that he sat on the ground and trembled.

"Don't panic, everyone, I'm here, no one will get hurt!" Sherin bravely stood in front of everyone, his tone full of incomparable firm confidence.

His calmness and composure seemed to have given everyone present a little courage. Although the effect was not great, at least everyone saw a glimmer of hope in him. Even Ron, who had always been at odds with Schelling, unconsciously placed his hope on the junior student in front of him.

"Expecto Patronus!" Schelling calmly recited a clear spell, and his wand emitted a white light, firmly blocking the Dementors outside. Schelling did not want to expose his strength too quickly, and did not summon the formed entity Patronus. He planned to use this half-finished Patronus spell to delay time until the werewolf professor Remus Lupin on the train came to the rescue.

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Before Professor Lupin came, the movement of this carriage attracted another Dementor, which flew over with a whistle, and the cold atmosphere became more and more solemn. The white mist formed a semicircular barrier. Schelling took a half step back, and the aperture range was constantly compressed.

Seeing that Professor Lupin had not arrived yet, Schelling sighed secretly, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and his hand holding the wand tightened. The bright light from the end of the wand suddenly intensified, and the range of the aperture became larger and larger, gradually forming a complete entity Patronus. The head of the Patronus had just taken shape, and it seemed to be a horned lizard...

The next second, he saw a silver wolf flying out of a carriage, and the Dementor was knocked back by it and disappeared without a trace in an instant. The lights in the carriage were restored, and a strange middle-aged man walked in. He was wearing an extremely shabby wizard robe with patches in several places. He looked sick and exhausted, and his light brown hair was mixed with white hair.

"He is Professor Lupin. He was in the same carriage with us just now. He has been sleeping on his stomach." Hermione whispered to the people around him.

"A good Patronus!" Schelling heard Lupin's praise. He took out a large piece of chocolate from his arms and broke it into small pieces to share with everyone.

When the chocolate was handed to Sherin, Sherin smiled and shook his head to refuse, and cast a happy spell on the three girls behind him, and their eyes regained their brilliance.

Then Sherin led them back to their compartment under the envious eyes of everyone. Before closing the compartment door, you can faintly hear Hermione and Ginny whispering, as if discussing the spell Sherin used to resist the Dementors.

Outside the compartment, Draco looked at his brother's back as he left in a chic manner, his face was very complicated. Although he had been mentally prepared, he still felt the gap between himself and his brother, which made him feel lost. He immediately lost interest in mocking Harry, snorted coldly, and left with the two idiots.

Others were busy waking Harry up, and Harry slowly opened his eyes, looking around in confusion, with cold sweat all over his forehead.

"Harry, are you okay?" Ron asked nervously.

"I'm fine!" Harry looked at the door and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the Dementor had disappeared. "Where did that monster go? And who was screaming just now?"

"Those monsters were driven away by Malfoy and Professor Lupin, but no one screamed." Ron recounted what happened after Harry fainted.

"I heard screams and a green light..." Harry shook his head stubbornly.

"Harry, you should take a break!" Lupin looked a little worried. He handed Harry a particularly large piece of chocolate. "Here, eat it. It's good for you."

"Professor, what was that just now?" Harry didn't eat the chocolate. He looked at Lupin and wondered why he knew his name.

"Dementors from Azkaban!" Professor Lupin crumpled up the empty chocolate wrapper and put it in his pocket. "In fact, before I came, the little guy from the Malfoy family had done a good job. You need to eat these chocolates now. I need to talk to the driver. Sorry!" Professor Lupin walked out and disappeared into the corridor.

"Dementors, Azkaban!" Harry muttered, raised his head and asked awkwardly, "Besides me, did anyone else faint?"

"No!" Ron looked at Harry anxiously, and repeated the reactions of others.

Although everyone was scared, no one fainted, which made Harry's face even paler. He didn't understand. He just felt weak and trembling, as if he had just recovered from a severe flu, but why didn't others have this reaction?

The train arrived at the station soon.

In front of the main gate of Hogwarts, Shaylin and Luna said goodbye - Shaylin, Daphne and Meredith were going to enter the Great Hall from the left side of the lobby. Luna followed the Ravenclaw team and walked to the middle of the lobby.

Before leaving, the two agreed to meet privately if they had the chance to talk about "The Quibbler", or Luna could take Shaylin to see the famous eagle-shaped bronze door knocker in the Ravenclaw lounge - the entrance to the Ravenclaw lounge is unique. As long as you can correctly answer the logical riddle given by the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker, the door of the lounge will open to anyone, no matter which college the other person is from.