Chapter 5 The Threat of Dementors

"Box by box!"

As the scarlet Hogwarts Express traveled north, the scenery passing by outside the window became increasingly desolate.

As the clouds thicken high in the sky, the sky gradually darkens. This is what the Scottish Highlands look like in August.

Outside the door of their carriage, people kept passing back and forth.

Ginny had left to find her classmates.

Hermione was playing with the wicker basket in which Crookshanks was dressed, as if she was ready to let it relax after seeing that the environment was stable.

"Don't let that thing out!" Ron shouted, but it was already too late.

Crookshanks jumped out of the basket nimbly, stretched, yawned, and then settled down on an empty seat, but his persimmon face was still facing Ron.

"Get away!" Ron waved his hand impatiently, trying to drive it away.

"Ron, don't do that!" Hermione said angrily.

Just as Ron was about to reply, the fat witch pushing a food cart had already arrived at the door of their cubicle.

It turns out that it's already past one o'clock and it's time to have lunch.

A few people simply bought some food to finish the meal. As for Professor Lupin who was still sleeping, Hermione was ready to wake him up, but the fat witch stopped them, so they had to give up.

Not long after lunch, it started to rain in the gloomy sky. Fine raindrops fell on the window, and the rolling mountains outside the window became blurry.

Several people were sitting in the carriage bored, and just when Ron was about to suggest playing a few rounds of magic cards, they heard a few more footsteps coming from the aisle.

Immediately, three of Harry's least favorite people appeared at the door, Draco Malfoy and his two best friends: Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.

Draco Malfoy and Harry became sworn enemies as soon as they met on the train to Hogwarts for the first time. After that, they disliked each other on campus and fell in love with each other.

But today, he didn't seem to come here to cause trouble for Harry.

"Clark, you are indeed here." Malfoy opened the compartment door with a bright smile on his face.

This expression of joy that only belongs to a child comes from the heart,

This was the first time Clark and others saw Malfoy's face, so much so that Harry and Ron were stunned.

"What's the matter?" Clark asked.

As if he didn't want his old enemy to see his innocent side, the smile on Malfoy's face immediately faded a lot.

"Clark, my father wants to get the dragon adopted from Romania back and put it in the dragon farm at Hogwarts. I would like to ask for your opinion."

Malfoy looked at Harry and Ron with a proud look on his face, his nose raised high and his nostrils facing them.

Clark did know that Malfoy had begged his father to adopt a fire dragon from a dragon farm in Romania, and their family would receive some flower fertilizer made from dragon dung every year.

However, he only responded lightly and offered no advice, which made Malfoy leave in frustration.

"Isn't there only one dragon in the dragon farm now? It should be a good thing for the Malfoy family to get another dragon, right?" Hermione asked curiously.

Clark shook his head and chuckled.

"It's not that simple. Lucius Malfoy must have received some news in advance, so he wanted to transport the dragon back from Romania with great fanfare.

But Professor Dumbledore is in charge of that matter, and I can't say anything about it. "

It was a sentence without beginning or end. Clark said nothing more.

Hermione was too smart to ask any more questions. Although Harry and Ron were curious about what "that thing" Clark was talking about, they couldn't say anything.

The carriage fell into silence for a moment due to Malfoy's arrival. Only Professor Lupine, who was leaning in the corner, continued to make slight snores.

As the train continued to speed north, the rain fell harder and harder, and the windows turned a watery gray and gradually darkened.

Finally, the lights in the aisle and on the luggage rack suddenly came on, the train clanked, the raindrops banged, and the wind howled outside the window, but Professor Lupine was still sleeping.

"We must be almost there." Ron said, leaning forward and looking through Professor Lupin at the now dark car window. Nothing could be seen outside the window.

"It's impossible to arrive yet. It's only around five o'clock in the afternoon, and there's still an hour left." Hermione said, looking at her watch.

"Then why did you stop?" Harry asked in surprise.

The train was getting slower and slower, the sound of the wheels was gradually inaudible, and the sound of wind and rain hit the windows harder than before.

Harry was closest to the door. He stood up and looked towards the aisle. He saw countless little heads poking out of the compartments curiously throughout the carriage.

The train "squeaked" and suddenly stopped. There was a ping-ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong sound not far away, as well as the sound of children shouting. It must be that the luggage fell from the shelf and hit their heads. .

Then, out of nowhere, all the surrounding lights went out, plunging them into complete darkness.

Screams and strange cries came one after another throughout the train.

"Lumos!"

As Hermione chanted the spell calmly, the level 0 trick [Dancing Lights] disguised as magic was successfully cast, and a ball of light rose above their heads, bringing a faint light.

"What's going on?" Ron asked nervously.

"I don't know." Hermione stood up, walked to the side of the car and boat, wiped out a clean area, and looked outside, "There is something moving outside, it seems that someone is preparing to get on the car..."

"Do you think the car broke down?" Harry made a guess.

"Maybe Sirius Black has come to rob the train," Ron said fearfully.

"Come on, Ron," Hermione rolled her eyes, "could you be less childish."

As she said that, she walked to the door and said, "I'll go to the front and ask the driver what's going on."

However, the sliding door opened first, and two figures emerged from the darkness, Ginny and Colin, with a camera in his hand.

"What's going on, Ginny?"

"I don't know." Ginny shook her head in panic, "The lights were all out and I was scared, so I came here to find Clark——"

"come in."

Just as Ginny sat down next to Harry, a hoarse voice suddenly said, "What happened?"

The voice came from the corner, it was Professor Luping, and he finally woke up.

The white light above his head shone on his face, making his already tired gray face even paler, but his eyes were very alert.

"We don't know, it seems like something forced the train to stop." Clark said proactively.

Lupine nodded, stood up slowly, and comforted them with his hoarse voice, "You guys stay here and don't move. I'll go out and take a look."

However, before he could reach the door, the sliding door slowly opened.

Under the reflection of the light ball above his head, a tall and big figure wearing a black cloak slowly floated in from the darkness outside the door.

With the appearance of "him", the light shining over everyone's heads became whiter and colder. I don't know if it was an illusion. Everyone felt as if they had suddenly entered a cold storage, and everything around them was rapidly changing. freeze.

It's a dementor!

Clark looked at the face that was completely hidden under the hood and the gray-white palms that protruded from under the cloak, as if they had been soaked in water for a long time and were covered with mucus and spots, and he immediately guessed what it was.

As for Professor Lupine, a quasi-Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, he also recognized this guy at a glance.

But before he could step forward to negotiate, the dementor seemed to realize Clark's gaze, and his hand suddenly retracted into the folds of the black cloak.

Immediately afterwards, the dementor took a long, slow breath, making a gurgling sound in its throat, as if it was inhaling not only the surrounding air, but also something else.

The next moment, all the children in the carriage let out a low cry, and then, a biting chill instantly passed through their bodies.

This chill penetrated the skin, penetrated into the bones, flowed into their chests, and chilled their hearts.

It was as if a basin of icy water was poured from the head in the cold north wind, and all the happy emotions were immediately drained away.

Clark almost subconsciously wanted to give this guy a [mental acupuncture], but before he could do it, Harry beside him suddenly turned pale and his body twitched like chaff.

"don't want!"

His expression was extremely frightened, as if he had seen something terrifying. Before anyone could react, he fainted and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Harry!"

Ron hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him up, but he couldn't do it with his own strength.

At this time, Lupine's face showed an angry expression for the first time. He frowned, walked to the Dementor with a serious face, and took out his wand.

"None of us have Sirius Black under our robes, get going!"

His move made the dementor retreat a little, but it didn't seem to be enough to make the other person leave.

"Call the gods to protect you!"

A silvery-white light emerged from the tip of Lupine's wand, turning into a vague shadow with limbs and appearing in front of them.

The dementor seemed to be afraid of this thing. He took another breath and prepared to retreat into the darkness.

However, the next second, "click", Colin standing in the corner tremblingly raised his camera, pressed the shutter, and left this scene on the film.

"Stop!" Lupine yelled, whether he was talking to Colin or the Dementors.

Anyway, the dazzling flash seemed to anger the dementor, and it suddenly rushed forward.

"Call the gods to protect you!"

Lupine shouted again, and actually used the advanced technique of double superposition of spells!

More silvery mist surged from the tip of his wand and merged into the blurry shadow before.

The abstract animal image instantly became clear. A giant silver wolf with thick hair collided with the dementor and held "him" under its claws.

But his behavior also angered these guys. Two more dementors came closer, and several black figures flashed outside the car window.

They are like small black holes, sucking away all the light, breath, and emotions around them.

The giant silver wolf slapped the Dementor at his feet and let out a long, silent roar.

The dementors stirred for a while, but they didn't intend to leave. The icy atmosphere around them became more and more solemn, as if even the air was about to freeze.

Just when Lupine was trying to get his patron saint to rush forward, a bright cold light flashed in the dark corridor.

It was like a waning moon falling into the human world. The moonlight was colder and deadlier than the chill brought by the dementors. It almost instantly cut off the three dementors standing at the door.

As a creature of black magic, Dementors originally wandered between yin and yang. They could switch between reality and reality at will, and were not afraid of ordinary physical attacks.

However, after being slashed by this sword light, the three dementors let out a silent scream. Then, they were like weathered rocks. After years of baptism, they slowly turned into fine pieces. Ash cloth piece.

The dementors who were originally surrounding the carriage seemed to be frightened by the screams of the three companions before they died, and they dispersed in an instant.

Even Professor Lupine was startled by this extraordinary blow. He raised the wand in his hand and pointed it forward warily.

When the lights in the carriage came back on, the floor continued to tremble - the Hogwarts Express started moving again. With the help of the bright lights, Clark and others discovered that the man who killed three Dementors with one sword was... It was Neville who originally seemed honest and honest.

"Are you okay?" Neville sheathed his sword, "I ran over just now and saw those weird guys standing here. It was an emergency, so I took action."

He walked into the carriage with a calm expression, neither sad nor happy. It seemed that he had not killed three evil and dangerous dementors just now, but had lightly brushed the dust on the table.

Lupine looked at the child who was only as tall as his chest with a shocked look on his face. He couldn't close his mouth for a long time. Finally, it was Clark's words that woke him up.

"We're fine, but Harry doesn't seem to be in good condition."

His condition was not only not very good, it was simply very bad. He looked as if he was seriously ill. His face was pale and he was lying straight on the ground. His forehead was wet and covered with cold sweat.

"Harry! Harry! Are you okay?" Ron knelt beside him and slapped his cheek hard.

"Wha-what?"

Harry finally struggled to open his eyes and found that the surroundings were bright again. If he hadn't been lying on the floor at this moment, it would have been as if everything had never happened.

"I'm okay." He stood up with the help of Ron and Colin and sat on the chair. "Where was the hooded monster just now? Also, who was screaming just now?"

"Those monsters..." Ron glanced at Neville, "They were 'solved', and no one screamed."

Harry looked around in the bright compartment. Ginny and Colin looked at him. Both of them looked pale. Neville was standing at the door with his arms crossed. Clark and Hermione were also normal. It seemed that in this compartment, he was the only one who fainted.

Harry felt even more uncomfortable, feeling that his stomach was twisted together, and he had to say: "But I clearly heard the scream-"

There was a click that startled them all, and Professor Lupine broke a large piece of chocolate into several pieces.

"Here," he handed a particularly large piece to Harry, "eat it, this will help you."

Harry took the chocolate, and Lupine gave some of the remaining chocolate to the others, then crumpled up the empty chocolate wrapper and stuffed it into his pocket.

"You guys should eat first," he said. "It will help. Sorry, give me a step. I need to go to the front to talk to the driver..."

After saying that, he walked past Neville and disappeared into the bright corridor.

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