Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 317 The Train Starts Again
Boom—boom!

With the sound of thunder, the bean-heavy raindrops began to hit the ground, blasting out dots of mud puddles and splashes on the ground.

Around the Hogwarts train, the white mist spread even more.

The rain was blown obliquely by the wind, and when it blew into this area, it quickly turned into hailstones and smashed on the window glass of the train.

But this doesn't affect the monsters floating in the air. Azkaban, an isolated island in the North Sea, has more dangerous weather than this...

The dementor got a little impatient, and made a chirp from under the black hood, calling for the dementor who came to check on the car.

The sound was as sharp and piercing as a grinding wheel grinding a piece of iron, almost breaking the eardrums.

Lupine didn't know what to do at the moment.

Under his urging, they drove... Ron, Neville and the others helped Harry carefully walk past the shivering dementor lying on the ground, and went to the next compartment.

In this room, only Lupine and that weird and dangerous little wizard were left.

Just now, he also realized that the rest of the dementors had to be prevented from entering the train first.

Little wizards can't stand them entering...

Forehead!
--All right!
Lupine looked at the little wizard in front of him.

——Most young wizards can't bear the gathering of these dementors into the carriage, which will cause huge psychological damage to their growth.

But for this little wizard named McGuffin. (Lupine eavesdropped on Harry and Hermione's conversation)
Obviously not a problem,

For example, just now Lupine urged a little, can you let the dementors leave here first.

The little wizard stepped on the dementor's chest violently, holding the half of the wand inserted into the dementor's head with both hands, trying to pull it out vigorously.

The dementor let out a strange, feeble cry. (Through the black spell communicating with the dementor... let Lupine feel the mourning and fear in the dementor's voice)

Each time the MacGuffin tried to pull the wand hard, the dementor shuddered and let out a feeble scream.

Seeing that this 'monster' would die if it went on like this, Lupine hastily stopped the little wizard's 'tug of war'.

"Slow down... let's wait for Professor Dumbledore!"

Lupine said hastily that for the first time he doubted whether he was really qualified for this Defense Against the Dark Arts course.

Could it be that the magic level of Hogwarts professors is so high?To be able to educate such little wizards...

When Lupine's heart was hit by [-] points of damage.

……

The dementors outside began to agitate, they couldn't bear it anymore, 'the table of delicious food' was placed in front of them, they couldn't move their mouths because of the constant temptation.

Their barren brains and rationality could no longer restrain the... evil and twisted desires in their bodies under the black robes. (If that dried-up magic and soul aggregation product can still be said to be a body)
With a white mist of despair, these monsters approached the train step by step.

For a moment, a thin layer of frost began to freeze on the glass windows of the train, and the light bulbs that originally illuminated the sides of the train also flickered and flashed, making tiny explosion sounds one after another, and all went out from the rear of the train to the front of the train.

Percy, the male and female student representatives, the prefects, and the Hogwarts train conductor were full of fear and their bodies trembled, but they still resolutely blocked the doors of each carriage on the train, preventing the dementors from getting on the train and 'attacking' the little wizards.

Extremely close.

A familiar voice resounded through the sky.

"Call God Guard!"

A dazzling silver light began to swoop down from the sky.

It was a huge phoenix burning with silver flames.

Compared with the Fox Phoenix on Dumbledore's shoulder, it is almost several times larger, almost equivalent to the size of a small golf cart.

It roared, circled, and rushed towards the direction of the train involuntarily.

As it continued to approach, the silver light dispelled the bleak white mist, those monsters in black robes... the dementors were pushed back little by little by the silver phoenix, they collapsed, rose into the sky again and hid in the dark wind and rain...

They escaped!
Whoa!
In an instant, the rainwater seemed to be thrown into the ground tens of meters in front of the Hogwarts train by heaven and earth again.

clap clap clap!
The rain became heavier almost instantly, and the hailstones that had landed before had been washed away by the water flowing from the ground.

"Waterproof and moisture-proof!"

Dumbledore swung his wand and almost cast a spell on everyone's clothes at once.

Their originally soaked robes, hair, and faces all dried up immediately.

"Okay, let's quickly see what's going on!" Dumbledore led Snape and Professor McGonagall into the carriage with a worried face.

"Professor Dumbledore! These dementors have just violated the agreement with us for some reason... They have to go on the train to check. We have no choice but to allow one dementor to come in, Lupine..."

They strode along the corridor of the carriages, checking the status of the little wizards in each carriage. Percy followed behind the professors, but he was interrupted by a roar before he could finish speaking.

Snape was originally in a very happy mood.

Ever since he knew that LS Malfoy was all right, he had been eager to try to do the same with Harry.

Although Albus Dumbledore would never have allowed this to happen,

But this was undoubtedly a dream, and his life began to have a living head, allowing Snape's long-dried soul to rejuvenate.

I was in a good mood for a holiday, until I saw this guy...

— Remus Lupine!

— That werewolf, one of the foursome!
……

Professor Lupine watched as McGuffin tried every means to pull out the wand from the dementor, but it was stuck firmly in the 'head' of the dementor just like the sword in the stone in the Muggle legend...it didn't move at all.

And the black and bright illusory flames burning on him and the wand are also unreasonable.

Lupine recognized at a glance that it was a powerful, magical, dark flame of unknown origin.

(Only in this way can a monster like a dementor be suppressed, making it play tricks on a little wizard, and curl up its body, so that it is about to die)
But why didn't this flame cause harm to the little wizard McGuffin?
He tried to cast a spell to release the little wizard from this situation, but it was useless, as long as his own magic power was connected to the flame, it would swallow Lupine's own magic power, and it would become stronger and more powerful.

In the end Lupine had to exit that room, into the corridor, and leave the McGuffin alone with the dying Dementor...

After all, it seems that nothing has happened yet.

And judging from the huge magical power he felt just now, and the silver light flashing in front of the window, it should be Professor Dumbledore who came.

"Remus Lupine!"

An angry voice reached his ears.

Lupine looked up to see an old acquaintance, one of the reasons he came to Hogwarts, Severus Snape.

(Dumbledore promised him to ask Snape, the potion master, to configure potions for him so that he would not suffer from the pain of a werewolf losing his mind when he was full moon, which made him accept the position of professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts)

The party led by Dumbledore stood on the other side of the carriage corridor and saw his face pale, as if he was frightened by Professor Lupine.

After Snape roared, he also felt that he was a little out of control. His sallow face quickly darkened, and he didn't speak, but just looked coldly at Lupine's patched wizard robes and tired and frightened face.

Dumbledore seemed to have sensed something from Lupin's expression. He turned to Percy and other student representatives, the heads of the colleges, the train conductor and the fat witch, "Percy, you go to maintain order in each carriage and appease the frightened little wizards... Train conductor, you go to the locomotive and complain to the Ministry of Magic through the magical communication device there, so that Fudge can give us an answer - what does it mean that the dementors intercepted the Hogwarts Express train halfway? Are they still in the Ministry of Magic?" Under control!?"

"If there is another time, the agreement I reached with him will not be counted!"

The tone is very severe!

After finishing speaking, he asked the fat witch who was scared back half a step with a pleasant face, asking her to divide some chocolates for each carriage, so that the little wizards could overcome the influence of those dementors.

When there were only a few Hogwarts professors (or reserve professors) left, Dumbledore asked Lupine, "Remus! What happened, you seemed frightened by something... and where did the dementor who came to inspect the train go?"

"The dementor is still in the carriage, being..."

After Lupine opened his mouth and opened his head, he found that no matter what he said, it felt like he was talking crazy.

In the end, he simply turned around, came to the door of the carriage again, pointed inside and said, "You should look for yourself, it will be clearer..."

"What do you mean?"

Professor McGonagall came to the door of the carriage in two steps and looked inside.

She was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, and shouted, "McGuffin Albert, what are you doing!"

The speed of speech seems to have doubled twenty times, almost in a line, and they cannot be distinguished clearly.

Visible anxiety and fear.

But there was a kind of helplessness in his tone, as expected.

Professor McGonagall hurried into the carriage.

Looking at the little wizard with black flames all over his body, he wanted to speak, but he couldn't open his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Now all this, even she can't understand.

Not to mention the wand sticking tremblingly, and the dementor curled up on the ground...

What the hell is that black flame on McGuffin?

At this time, Dumbledore and Snape also saw this scene.

Gollum!

Snape felt a large 'rock' swallowed in his throat.

Then he came to his senses, this is indeed very McGuffin's style, making big news as soon as he enters the school.

It wasn't enough to almost blow up Hogwarts last time, but now... beat a dementor?
Snape blinked hard to make sure that it was true.

If this continues, the position of Hogwarts professor may not only be a high-risk position in Defense Against the Dark Arts, but other professors must also be careful.

Snape was thinking in his heart, he gloated and wanted to see what kind of expression the little wizard Dumbledore, who has always defended, would look after seeing this scene.

He looked up and saw...

Dumbledore actually had a mysterious smile on his face, as relieved as if he had confirmed something.

This?
He shook his head, and when he looked again, Dumbledore had already stepped into the room expressionlessly. He squatted down and stretched out his slender fingers as if wanting to touch the flames on McGuffin's body, but he thought of something or felt something and immediately retracted, taking out his wand from his robe.

Gently tapped, the one stuck in the 'head' of the dementor, standing upright, surrounded by black flames... the MacGuffin's wand.

The wand, which McGuffin could not pull out before, returned to its original shape and fell to the ground.

On the black cloak.

That's right, before falling to the ground, the dementor had already turned into a stream of black smoke, swept by flickering black flames, and disappeared together.

All that remained on the ground was a shriveled, collapsed black cloak.

McGuffin, who was lying on the Dementor's body and 'punched and kicked', also teleported and fell on the black robe.

"Professor! I..."

McGuffin's brain began to calm down after this fall.

He stared into Dumbledore's half-moon eyes, not knowing how to explain it this time.

Then at this time, you need to...

McGuffin rolled his eyes and passed out.

"Just in time! This is what I need..." thought McGuffin at last.

……

"Harry, are you all right, Professor Dumbledore?"

— Hermione!
"It's okay, he just needs to eat something, rest and recover!"

"What about the MacGuffin?"

"He's even better, just a little bit out of magic power!"

"Professor, we have to discuss what just happened...that's not normal..."

—It's Snape!
Harry was in a daze, and seemed to hear the voices of Hermione, Dumbledore and Snape.

"Granger, Longbottom, and the Weasleys, Luna Lovehart, you must keep a secret, and you must not tell anyone about the scene you just saw... Do you understand?"

Professor McGonagall's stern voice followed suit.

"Professor Lupine, you are here to look after the children!"

Then there was a knock on the door, and someone went out.

Then it looked like someone was punching him in the face.

"Harry! Harry! Wake up!"

Harry opened his eyes.

The lights in the compartment of the carriage made him unable to open his eyes, and his eyes hurt from the sway.

And the floor was shaking - the Hogwarts Express was finally moving.

In addition to the sound of the train running, there were raindrops beating on the window glass outside, and the wind was blowing, and the roar was constantly reaching Harry's ears from the trembling glass.

Now outside the car window, there is almost no light, it is pitch black, and only traces of rainwater can be seen on the glass, gurgling and flowing.

"Dementor, by the way, where is that monster??"

Harry got up anxiously, but his arms couldn't support him, and he almost fell to the ground when he went limp.

He was in a cold sweat and his whole body was weak.

Ron and Hermione hurried to their feet and came to support Harry.

When he took the glasses Neville handed him, he repeated the question he had just asked.

They were silent and did not answer.

After putting on the glasses, Harry realized that Ron, Hermione, and other people in the carriage had indescribably strange expressions on their faces, and their eyes turned to another little wizard on the opposite side of the seat.

Only then did Harry realize that McGuffin had also passed out.

(End of this chapter)