Vol 6 Chapter 5 The Dementor Threat

“Frames, frames!”

The scarlet Hogwarts Express was heading north, and the scenery passing by the window became more and more desolate.

With the thickening of the high clouds, the sky gradually darkened, and this is what the Scottish Highlands looked like in August.

Outside the doors of their carriages, people kept coming and going.

Ginny had left to find her classmates.

Hermione fiddled with the wicker basket in Crookshanks, seemingly ready to let it relax once the environment stabilized.

“Don’t let that thing out!” Ron shouted, but it was too late.

Crookshanks nimbly jumped out of the basket, stretched, yawned, and settled into an empty seat, with the persimmon face still facing Ron.

“Go away!” Ron waved impatiently to drive it away.

“Ron, don’t do that!” said Hermione angrily.

Ron was about to answer when the fat witch pushing the food cart had come to the door of their compartment.

It was already past one o’clock, and it was time for lunch.

A few people simply bought a little food to deal with the meal. As for Professor Lupin, who was still sleeping, Hermione was going to wake him up, but the fat witch stopped them, and they had to give up.

After lunch, it didn’t take long before the gloomy sky began to rain, fine raindrops fell on the window, and the rolling hills outside the window became blurred.

A few people were sitting in the carriage with boredom. Just as Ron was about to propose 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 when they first met on the train to Hogwarts, and then disliked each other on campus and even fell in love with each other.

But he came here today, and it doesn’t seem to be here to trouble Harry.

“Clark, you really are here.” Malfoy opened the compartment door with a big smile on his face.

It was the first time Clark and the others had seen this kind of joyful expression from the heart of a child on Malfoy’s face, so much so that Harry and Ron were stunned.

“Is something wrong?” Clark asked.

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

“Clark, my dad wants to get back the dragon he adopted in Romania and put it in the dragon farm at Hogwarts for your opinion.”

Malfoy looked at Harry and Ron smugly, with his nose upturned and his two nostrils facing them.

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

However, he just complied lightly and didn’t offer any advice, which made Malfoy can only leave in frustration.

“Isn’t there only one dragon in the dragon farm now? It should be a good thing that the Malfoy family can get another one?” Hermione asked curiously.

Clark shook his head and chuckled.

“It’s not that simple, Lucius Malfoy should have received some rumors in advance, so he wanted to bring the dragon back from Romania with great fanfare.

But that’s where Professor Dumbledore is in charge, and I can’t say anything. ”

There was no beginning or end, and Clark did not say any more after he finished speaking.

Hermione was too smart to ask again. Although Harry and Ron were curious about what “that thing” was in Clark’s mouth, they were not easy to speak.

The carriage fell silent for a while because of Malfoy’s arrival, only Professor Lupin, who was leaning in the corner, continued to snort softly.

The train continued to gallop north, the rain was getting heavier and the windows turned a watery grey and gradually darkened.

Finally, the lights in the aisles and on the luggage racks came on all at once, the train rattled, the rain snapped, and the wind was howling outside the window, but Professor Lupin was still sleeping.

“We must be almost there,” said Ron, leaning over and looking at the now darkened car window across Professor Lupin, and nothing could be seen outside the window.

“It’s not possible yet, it’s only after five o’clock in the afternoon, and there’s still an hour left.” Hermione said, looking at her watch.

“Then why did it stop?” Harry asked suspiciously.

The train was getting slower and slower, the sound of the wheels was becoming inaudible, and the wind and rain were hitting the windows harder than before.

Harry was the closest to the door. He got up and looked towards the aisle. He saw countless small heads curiously poking out of the compartment throughout the carriage.

The train squeaked and suddenly stopped. Not far away, there was the sound of ping-pong-pong and the children’s shouting. It must have been the luggage falling off the shelf and hitting them on the head. .

Then, for no apparent reason, all the lights around them went out, and they fell into complete darkness.

In the whole train, screams and strange screams came one after another.

“Fluorescent flashes!”

With Hermione chanting the spell calmly, the 0-ring trick [Dancing Light] 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 the boat, wiped out a clean area, and looked outside, “something is moving outside, it seems that someone is about to get in the car…”

“Did you say the car broke down?” Harry speculated.

“Maybe Sirius Black came to hijack the train,” said Ron terrified.

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

Saying that, she walked to the door, “I’ll go ahead and ask the driver what’s going on.”

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

“What’s the matter, Ginny?”

“I don’t know either.” Ginny shook her head in panic. “The lights were all turned off. I was afraid, so I came to Clark—”

“come in.”

Just as Ginny sat down beside Harry, a hoarse voice suddenly sounded, “What happened?”

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

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

“We don’t know, it seems that something forced the train to stop.” Clark said actively.

Lupin nodded, stood up slowly, and comforted them with that hoarse voice, “You stay here and don’t move, I’ll go out and see.”

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

Under the light of the ball of light overhead, a tall and large figure wearing a black cloak slowly floated in from the darkness outside the door.

With the appearance of “he”, the color of the light sprinkled from the top of everyone’s heads became whiter and colder, and it became colder 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 palm sticking out from under the cloak, like it had been soaked in water for a long time, covered with mucus and spots, and immediately guessed what it was.

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

Just before he could come forward to negotiate, the dementor seemed to realize Clark’s gaze, and the hand suddenly retracted into the folds of the black cloak.

Immediately afterwards, the Dementor took a slow long breath, making a gurgling sound in its throat, as if it was not only sucking in 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 swept across their bodies in an instant.

The chill penetrated the skin, got into the bones, flowed all the way into their chests, and reached their hearts.

As if in the cold north wind, pouring down a basin of icy water from scratch, all the happy emotions were immediately lost.

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

“do not want!”

His expression was extremely frightened, as if he saw something terrifying, and when no one could react, he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

“Harry!”

Ron hurriedly reached out his hand to help him up, but with his strength alone, he couldn’t do it.

At this time, Lupin’s face showed an angry expression for the first time. His brows were furrowed, and he walked over to the Dementor with a serious face, and took out his wand.

“None of us hid Sirius Black under a robe, go!”

His action made the Dementor back a little bit, but it didn’t seem to be enough to make him leave.

“Call God Guard!”

A silvery white light emerged from the tip of Lupin’s wand, transforming into a fuzzy shadow with limbs, appearing in front of them.

The Dementor seemed to be more afraid of this thing, took another breath, and prepared to retreat into the darkness.

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

“Stop!” Lupin yelled, not sure if it was to Colin or the Dementors.

Anyway, the dazzling flash seemed to anger the Dementor, and it swooped forward.

“Call God Guard!”

Lupin shouted again, and even used the advanced technique of double stacking spellcasting!

More silver-white mist poured out of the tip of his wand, merging into the previously blurred shadow.

The abstract animal image became clear in an instant, and a huge silver wolf with thick hair collided with the Dementor and pressed “him” under its claws.

It’s just that his behavior also angered these guys, and two more dementors approached here, and there were also a few dark shadows flashing outside the car window.

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

The silver giant slapped the dementor under his feet with a slap, and at the same time let out a long, silent howl.

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

Just as Lupin was trying to get his Patronus to rush up, a bright cold light flashed across the dark passage.

Like a waning moon falling into the human world, this moonlight was even colder than the chill brought by the dementors, and it was deadly still, and almost instantly cut off the three dementors standing at the door.

As a creature of black magic, Dementors originally wandered between Yin and Yang, and could switch between virtual and real at will, and were not afraid of ordinary physical attacks.

However, 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.

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

Even Professor Lupin, startled by this extraordinary blow, raised the wand in his hand and pointed forward vigilantly.

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

“Are you all right?” Neville put his sword into the sheath. “I ran over just now and saw those strange guys standing here. The situation was urgent, so I shot.”

He walked into the carriage with a calm expression, neither sad nor happy, as if he did not kill three evil and dangerous Dementors just now, but gently brushed the dust off the table.

Lupin looked at the child who was only as tall as his chest with a shocked expression, and couldn’t close his mouth for a long time, and finally Clark’s words woke him up.

“We’re fine, it’s just that Harry doesn’t seem to be doing well.”

His condition is more than not very good, it is very bad, the whole person looks like he has suffered a serious illness, his face is pale, he is lying on the ground upright, his forehead is also wet and covered with cold sweat.

“Harry! Harry! Are you all right?” Ron knelt beside him, slapping him on the cheek.

“W-what?”

Harry finally struggled to open his eyes, and found that the surrounding light was back again. If he hadn’t been lying on the floor at this moment, it would have never happened.

“I’m all right,” he stood up, supported by Ron and Colin, and sat on the chair. “Where did that hooded monster go? 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, UU reading www.uukanshu. com Ginny and Colin looked at him, both of their faces were pale. Neville was standing at the door with his arms crossed. Clark and Hermione were also normal. It seemed that in this compartment, only himself fainted.

Harry felt even more uncomfortable, feeling his stomach twisting together, and he had to say, “But I clearly heard screams—”

With a click that startled them all, Professor Lupin broke a chunk of chocolate into several pieces.

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

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

“You guys eat first,” he said, “it will help, sorry, let me go, I need to go to the front and talk to the driver…”

With that, he walked past Neville and disappeared into the bright aisle.

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