At about four or five o'clock in the afternoon, there was a sudden quarrel outside the carriage. Hearing several familiar voices, and thinking about the plot that would happen today, Sherrin immediately understood what was going on. He stood up and walked out of the carriage. Daphne and Meredith immediately followed. Luna also followed the three of them out of the carriage without any hesitation to check.
Just as Xie Lin expected, it was his brother Draco who loved to commit suicide. He had clearly promised his father to stay away from Harry during this semester, but he had already put the matter behind him before he even got to school. Xie Lin could only silently shake his head at his character.
Draco, followed by Goyle and Crabbe, stood on the aisle with arrogant expressions. Opposite them was the Harry trio standing at the door of the carriage. After a round of verbal exchanges, the two sides had drawn out their wands and faced off. The scene seemed like On the verge of breaking out.
In the original plot, Draco should have retreated when he saw Professor Remus Lupin, but because of Schelling's intervention, Draco did not leave, but stayed with him with a look of arrogance. There, it seems like you are waiting to watch a good show.
During the summer vacation, Draco spent a lot of time practicing jinxes assiduously. He could now cast accurately and instantly the "front teeth against a stick", "Grinning Hula La", snot curse, and bat spirit curse. With his strength greatly increased, he spent the entire summer vacation looking forward to the next opportunity to ravage Harry. As for Lucius's instructions, he had long forgotten them.
Xie Lin looked out the window of the train. The sky was already darkening. At this moment, the train suddenly shook and slowed down significantly until it stopped completely with a thud. There was a ping-ping-pong-pong sound in the distance, and the luggage must have fallen off the rack.
Then, for no apparent reason, all the lights in the carriage suddenly went out, plunging them into complete darkness.
"Damn it, what happened?" Draco screamed and collided with Goyle and Crabbe during the rapid retreat, causing all three of them to fall. Mixed in with the screams of Draco and the other three, there was a faint sound of the train's side door opening, as if someone was getting on the train.
Xie Lin put his hand on his forehead helplessly. Although Draco had indeed grown a lot since this summer vacation, he still could not change the fact that he was essentially a timid and naive little kid.
Xie Lin stood quietly, motionless, as if waiting for something to happen.
Daphne and Meredith also felt a little scared at first, but when they saw Xie Lin's towering figure standing in front of them, with an aura as deep as the sea, they suddenly felt a sense of security in their hearts. They didn't even utter a scream.
A hint of cunning flashed in Daphne's eyes, and she feigned fear and took the opportunity to hold Xie Lin's left arm - she was smart enough not to dare to grab Xie Lin's right arm, which was used to holding a wand. Seeing that she had lost the opportunity, Meredith could only He snorted to express his dissatisfaction. Luna, who was also behind Xie Lin, blinked her big eyes. There was no fear in her eyes, but a look of curiosity.
At this time, the Harry trio was also in chaos. Ron tried to get close to the window to look out, but stepped on Hermione, causing Hermione to scream in pain.
While the three of them were pushing and shoving, their friend Neville also came over and tried to ask what happened, but was stumbled over by Harry in the dark. At this time, Ginny also arrived. She tried to approach the carriage, but she collided head-on with Hermione, causing two more painful screams.
Xie Lin shouted loudly, "Be quiet and don't move!" The end of his wand suddenly erupted with a milky white light as bright as moonlight and as gentle as stars, illuminating the entire aisle in the train to every detail. It would be irritating to anyone present.
Daphne and Meredith had long been accustomed to Sherrin's abilities, but Hermione and Luna showed curious eyes.
Luna used a dreamlike voice to ask the questions in the two girls' minds: "Is this a fluorescent spell? Why is your fluorescent spell different from what I know?"
Xie Lin turned to look at Luna and smiled, "You can think of it as my personal improvement of the magic spell. Do you want to learn it? I can teach you."
Luna stared at Xie Lin's pupils carefully, and after a while she smiled sweetly and nodded. Hermione felt a little uncomfortable when she heard the exchange between Xie Lin and Luna. At this moment, she pursed her lips tightly and swallowed all the words she wanted to say to Xie Lin.
Sherrin asked the three girls to stand behind him and slowly approached the middle of the confrontation between Harry and Draco.
There was a strange noise outside the carriage, and something seemed to be approaching in the darkness. It was certain that it was not human footsteps. Draco, Goyle, and Crabbe hurriedly leaned into 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 face to face. It seemed to have no legs, but was floating and sliding in mid-air. Its face was completely hidden under the hood, and a hand protruded from the cloak. The hand shimmered, gray, thin, and scabbed, like something that had died and rotted in the water.
The monster under the cloak seemed to feel the attention of everyone, and the hand suddenly retracted into the black cloak. Then it took a breath, long, slow, and trembling, as if it was trying to suck in something other than air from the surroundings. Everyone immediately felt a chill passing through their bodies, and this chill penetrated the skin. , has been cold to their chests, cold to their hearts.
"I've finally waited for you," Xie Lin muttered in a low voice, "Dementor." It's complicated to say, but within a few seconds, everyone was surprised to find that Xie Lin actually went to the police again. Take a step forward.
Harry's face was pale, his body was shaking violently, and 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.
Ron hurriedly helped him to the seat beside him, and the others also leaned on it.
Harry's fainting seemed to be a fuse, causing the atmosphere of panic and fear to spread in an instant. Draco was so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't even speak; Ron, Hermione and others were not much better than him. Neville was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, shaking.
"Don't panic, everyone. As long as I'm here, no one will be hurt!" Xie Lin bravely stood in front of everyone, his tone full of firm confidence.
His courage and calmness seemed to inject a bit of courage into everyone present. 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 Sherrin, unconsciously Put your hope in the underclassmen in front of you.
"Invoke the Divine Guard!" Xie Lin calmly recited a clear spell, and his wand emitted a white light, firmly blocking the Dementors from outside. Schelling did not want to reveal his strength too quickly, so he did not summon the formed Patronus. He planned to rely on this half-finished Patronus Spell to delay the time until the werewolf professor Remus Lupine on the train came to the rescue. Can.
Unfortunately, things went against expectations. Before Professor Luping could arrive, the strange movement in the carriage attracted another Dementor, which roared over and the icy atmosphere became more and more solemn. The white mist formed a semicircular barrier. Schelling took half a step back, and the aperture range was continuously compressed.
Seeing that Professor Luping had not arrived, Xie Lin sighed secretly. A gleam flashed in his eyes. He tightened his grip on the wand. The bright light emitted from the end of the wand suddenly intensified, and the scope of the aperture became wider and wider. Gradually built into a complete physical patron saint, the head of the patron saint has just been formed and looks like a one-horned lizard...
The next second, he saw a silver wolf flying out of a certain carriage. The Dementor was knocked upside down 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's robe with patches in several places. He looked sickly and tired, with light brown hair mixed with white.
"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 her.
"A good patron saint!" Xie Lin heard Lupine whisper in approval. He took out a large piece of chocolate from his arms, broke it into small pieces and distributed it to everyone.
When the chocolate was handed to Xie Lin, Xie Lin smiled and shook his head in refusal. He casually cast a happy spell on the three girls behind him, and their eyes regained their luster.
Then Xie Lin led them back to his carriage under the envious eyes of everyone. Before closing the carriage door, Hermione and Ginny could be faintly heard talking in low voices, as if they were discussing Xie Lin's methods to resist the temptation. Weird curse.
Outside the carriage, Draco looked at the back of his younger brother as he left gracefully, with a very complicated expression on his face. Although he had been mentally prepared, he still felt disappointed after personally feeling the gap between himself and his younger brother. He suddenly lost his sense of ridicule. Harry was interested and left with a cold snort.
Others were busy trying to wake Harry up. Harry slowly opened his eyes and looked around confusedly, with cold sweat on his forehead.
"Harry, are you okay?" Ron asked nervously.
"I'm fine!" Harry looked towards the door and breathed a heavy sigh of relief when he saw that the Dementor was gone. "Where was that monster just now? Also, 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 rest!" Lupine looked a little worried. He handed Harry a particularly large piece of chocolate, "Here, eat it, it will be good for you."
"Professor, what was that just now?" Harry didn't eat the chocolate. He looked at Lupine, wondering why the other party knew his name.
"The Dementor from Azkaban!" Professor Lupine crumpled the empty chocolate wrapper into a ball and put it into his pocket. "In fact, before I came, that little Malfoy guy had already Well done. You need to eat these chocolates now. I want to say something to the driver, I'm sorry!" Professor Lupine walked out and disappeared into the corridor.
"Dementors, Azkaban!" Harry muttered, raised his head and asked awkwardly, "Besides me, is anyone among you fainted?"
"No!" Ron looked at Harry anxiously, and he repeated the reactions of the others.
Although everyone was scared, no one fainted, which made Harry's face even paler. He didn't understand. He felt weak and trembling just now, as if he had just recovered from a severe flu, but why What about others who don't have this reaction?
The train will arrive soon.
In front of the gate of Hogwarts, Sherrin and Luna said goodbye - Sherrin, Daphne, and Meredith were going to enter the Great Hall from the left side of the front hall. Luna followed the Ravenclaw team to the middle of the front hall.
Before parting, the two agreed to meet privately when they had the opportunity to talk about "The Quibbler", or Luna could take Schelling to see the famous eagle-shaped bronze door knocker in the Ravenclaw lounge - Ravenclaw. The entrance to the lounge is unique. As long as the logical riddle given by the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker can be correctly answered, the door of the lounge will be opened to anyone, regardless of which college the other person comes from.
