struggle

After the train pulled out of the platform, George and Fred greeted everyone, then walked out of the box, obviously looking for Lee Jordan.And Percy also straightened his robes, straightened the badge of the President of the Boys' Union pinned on his collar, raised his head and said with pride that he must go to check the compartment and do his duty.Ron curled his lips in disapproval, and Harry nodded amusedly, asking him to do whatever he wanted.So, finally, only Lupine, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were left in the box.

The golden trio surrounded Lupine, listening to him tell about the past of their four-person group of hijackers, and Hermione obviously mentioned to him after knowing that Sirius and Peter were both Animagus. This magician was more interested, chattering and asking in detail about how to transform and how to cast spells, which made Harry, who knew Lupine's true identity, look at him with some embarrassment, while Lupine smiled and replied "It's okay" eyes.

Ron lowered his head at first, as if he was a little embarrassed. Obviously, he didn't know what expression to use when he found out that his pet Scabbers turned out to be an Animagus, or the real traitor who betrayed Harry's family back then. to Harry.But after Harry still treated him as usual, without showing any sign of blaming him, he finally joined their conversation with a silly smile.

Ginny's mood was much more complicated. She leaned against the glass window alone, looked at the gloomy sky, and closed her eyes a little irritatedly.During this summer vacation, the intermittent eavesdropping information showed that Tom had gathered a large number of Death Eaters, but he still hadn't announced his return to the wizarding world.Such a plan hidden in the dark obviously caused Dumbledore a great headache. After all, an opponent who can use his brain to plan everything is more difficult to deal with than a purely tyrannical Dark Lord.

But such a cautious person, why did he come to the station to look for her today?And why did he implicitly suggest his proposition to her, is it just to test her reaction and position?Unexpectedly, thinking of that unexpected kiss, Ginny caressed her lips.Such a domineering behavior, what exactly is it declaring?She understood that he had never given up trying to subdue her, but the moment he was so close to the entanglement of breaths gave her a strange and inexplicable feeling, as if mixed with a complicated emotion.

"Ginny, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Ginny hadn't made a sound for a long time, Hermione sat up worried.

"It's okay, I'm fine, I'm just a little tired." Hearing Hermione's voice, Ginny woke up from her contemplation, forced a smile to Hermione, and tried to show a nonchalant look.

"It's really all right?" Hermione still stared at her suspiciously, "Ginny, don't you feel a little different about yourself?" As she spoke, she thought about it, as if trying to find the right words To describe it, "It seems to give people a more—— calmer feeling?"

Ginny couldn't help secretly expressing her admiration for Hermione's keen observation skills. Indeed, she also found that after absorbing the Soul Pieces, her temperament seemed to have changed somewhat, and she no longer had the innocent feeling that her appearance gave off.However, after hearing Hermione's words, Ron obviously misunderstood.He glanced at Harry with ambiguous eyes, as if he was a little entangled in the relationship between his sister and his best friend, and didn't know whether to stop or encourage.Even Hermione noticed the strange look in his eyes.After looking back and forth between Harry and Ginny a few times, she, like Ron, stared at Harry.

Under the gaze of Ron and Hermione, Harry blushed slightly in embarrassment, but he couldn't stop the corners of his mouth from turning up.Finally, after Lupine thought he was understanding and brought up the topic again, Harry finally got rid of his embarrassment, and Ginny was secretly relieved that he had escaped Hermione's questioning by accident.However, she thought that she had to find the Room of Requirement as soon as possible after school started, so as to avoid the eyes and ears of Hermione in the same dormitory, and practice the magic that she learned in the study of Black's house this summer.

At noon, it began to rain, covering the distant mountains outside the window indistinctly.In the afternoon, the raindrops became more dense, crackling and hitting the windows, which covered the windows with a layer of mist.In the somewhat dim light, the crowd listened to Lupine recounting their adventure stories back then, and they couldn't help but feel more atmospheric, including their night exploration of the Forbidden Forest and various adventure activities, which were more exciting than George and Fred's. , it's even worse than that.

It wasn't until it was completely dark outside that everyone felt something was wrong. Hermione looked at her watch and muttered that she shouldn't be here so soon.At the same time, the train slowed down more and more until it stopped, and the lights in the corridor outside the door flickered a few times before finally extinguishing powerlessly.Then, a chilling feeling hit the heart and lungs, and everyone felt a little depressed for a while, as if all the bad experiences in the past came to their minds at once.

Harry and Ginny looked at each other, and shouted in unison: "Dementors!" Before casting the spell, I described it to Harry and Ginny in detail, especially about the conditions when they appeared and the symptoms they caused.

Lupine nodded: "Yes, it should indeed be a dementor." After speaking, he also stood up, and said in a hoarse voice: "You all stand where you are and don't move." Then, he pointed towards the box neatly He cast the Locking Charm on the door, and at the same time held his wand flat on his chest, facing the door.

Waiting in complete darkness, everyone stared nervously at the door.However, when the cold feeling became more and more intense, the door was slowly pushed open. Obviously, the door locking spell could not stop them.Slowly he floated through the door, his face completely concealed by the long hood, and from under the cloak protruded a hand that shimmered, gray in colour, grey, thin and knotted. Scab, like something dead, soaked in water and rotted again.The dementor seemed to feel the gaze of the crowd, and suddenly retracted his hand into the black cloak, and took a long, slow breath, as if trying to suck in something other than air from his surroundings.And that freezing coldness almost froze their blood.

"Call God to protect you!" Lupine yelled, and cast a Patronus Charm on the dementor that floated in. A giant silver wolf rushed out, and immediately rushed the dementor out.However, behind him, there was actually another dementor, still slowly drifting into the box, stretching out its scarred hand.

Lupine gasped a little. Obviously, a Patronus Charm consumes a lot of mana, and he hasn't recovered yet.Harry raised his wand tremblingly: "Call for God's Guard!" It's just that the tip of his wand only spewed out a little thin white mist, which only slightly hindered the dementor's progress, and Harry's breathing was obvious. When it gets thicker, people seem to be on the verge of falling.Ginny felt the slightly trembling body of Ron beside her, and at the same time, the fragments of the previous life before her death suddenly appeared in her mind, the dark and long alley, the desperate running, until the last man's malicious smile and A gunshot followed, as if she was about to sink into darkness without any hope, and the dark power that belonged to Voldemort's soul piece in her body seemed to be slowly eroding her.

"No!" Ginny screamed, and suddenly raised her wand, "Guardian!" A silver bat rushed out of the tip of the wand, and instantly rushed the dementor out of the box.Then, Ginny felt her eyes go dark, and finally fainted out of strength.

When she felt someone patting her face, she opened her eyes with some difficulty, the lights in the box were turned on again, and the train started again, and Hermione's worried eyes were in front of her eyes.Seeing her wake up, Hermione carefully helped her up: "Ginny, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I just passed out from exhaustion." Ginny smiled weakly, and took the chocolate from Lupine beside her.After taking a bite, she felt that she had finally recovered a little strength, as if all the warmth had returned to her body again, and the feeling of despair and terror just now had also been diluted a lot.

"Ginny, your Patronus Charm is very good. Sirius taught you?" Lupine smiled approvingly at her.

"Yes, Sirius guided me and Harry during the summer vacation, and I probably finally forced out my potential just now." Ginny knew that potential was one reason, and another reason, maybe she absorbed part of it. The power of the soul piece increased her magic power, allowing her to successfully summon the patron saint of the flesh.

Lupine nodded, and then looked at Harry, "Harry, you obviously haven't mastered it yet. After school starts, I'll teach you after school." Then, he glanced at Hermione and Ron, "And You guys, come too."

Hermione nodded excitedly, but Ron was still in a daze, and kept mumbling: "A bat, Ginny's Patronus turned out to be a bat." Apparently he thought of his usual private conversation with Harry. Nepe's address was a bit unacceptable for a while.After hearing Ron's muttering, Hermione gave him an annoyed look, making Ron seem to be choked suddenly, and swallowed back what he hadn't said.

Ginny smiled and said nothing, but leaned back in the chair and closed her eyes slightly.Bat - the incarnation of vampire, the guardian given to him by Lorian.I have to say that she was very grateful and moved by the help and care he gave her, and, thinking of the spell that Ginny was best at in the original book-the bat spell, all these coincidences made her very interesting.

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Ginny, you think too much, you really think too much, Brother Cruise is not that complicated, it's just that you can't help it...

In addition, F Youth, the Vest King + Pit King, has finally been updated. I am very excited. That "All Overthrown" is so cute, and it is definitely a different Ginny. Welcome everyone, have fun jumping into the pit!

Chapter 35. Draco's injury...the troubled Hippogriff and the helpless Hagrid

When the train finally reached its destination, the rain did not abate.Lupine left them first, saying that he was going to do some preparations.Harry protected Ginny, followed by Ron and Hermione, and the four got into the carriage pulled by thestrals together.Ginny still felt a little exhausted, she closed her eyes and leaned back on the seat as soon as she got in the car, while the other three didn't make a sound for a while, listening to the crackling sound of raindrops hitting the roof in silence, feeling that the carriage Bumped forward.

After the carriage swayed to a stop, the four of them just got out of the car when they heard Draco's singing voice in their ears: "I heard that you were attacked by dementors, and some people fainted? He glanced at Ginny contemptuously, then turned his head to stare at Harry again, "Potter, you look so pale, are you terrified? It turns out that our brave savior of Gryffindor would also be afraid."

Harry gritted his teeth and spoke angrily: "Malfoy, Slytherins are even less qualified to be brave. I dare say that if you really face a dementor, you may not even be able to stand firmly, and the wand will not be able to stand up." It must be pulled out."

"That's better than those so-called brave Gryffindors who would pass out, isn't it?" Draco said slowly, his gray-blue eyes gleaming with sarcasm, and Clara beside him Boo and Goyle smiled foolishly.

"You——" Ron finally couldn't help pulling out his wand, but Draco only glanced at him: "Are you angry, Weasley?" Ron was so excited that he almost rushed forward.

At this moment, Professor McGonagall's voice sounded: "Gather at the door, what are you doing? Go into the hall. And you, Miss Granger—" she said, looking at Hermione, "first follow me come here."

Seeing Professor McGonagall appear, Draco gave Harry another provocative look, and then led Crabbe and Goyle up the stone steps into the castle.Under the gaze of Professor McGonagall, Ron walked forward reluctantly, and Harry turned around and pulled Ginny to follow.Ginny looked back at Professor McGonagall and Hermione, and saw them walking towards her office, knowing that Professor McGonagall was definitely going to talk to Hermione about her courses and the time-turner.

The ensuing banquet was nothing new. After the sorting, Dumbledore announced to the crowd that according to the instructions of the Ministry of Magic, the dementors would be stationed in the school to perform official duties. At this moment, he glanced at Harry.Then, he introduced the new black magic professor Lupine and the protection of magical creatures professor Hagrid, and this announcement only caused warm applause from the Gryffindor table, almost all Slytherin Disdainful look.

At the end of the dinner, Hermione came back with an excited and somewhat mysterious smile on her face.When the last course of food was removed from the table, Dumbledore declared the dinner over.Hermione took Ginny, along with the Gryffindor students, back to their dormitory.

The first day of school was not busy. Early the next morning, Ginny and Colin, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, walked towards the Potions classroom in the basement.After a summer vacation, Colin kept asking about Harry's situation. When he learned that Ginny had been living with Harry, he even pestered Ginny with glowing eyes, trying to get her to say more about Harry's life. summer experience.

It's just that Snape's mood is obviously not as good as Colin's.After rolling his black robes and cleaning out the exploding cauldron for the third time, he had already taken a total of 30 points out of Gryffindor.Even Colin felt the obvious low pressure, so he finally stopped asking Ginny, and lowered his head to concentrate on mixing his own potion, which made Ginny secretly heave a sigh of relief.

However, seeing Snape's obviously irritable and gloomy face, and unconsciously grasping her left arm from time to time, Ginny knew that he must be worrying about when Tom would find him, presumably Dumbledore had already put some A special task was given to him.However, she also wondered why Tom hadn't approached him until now. After all, the weight of a master of potions was very important in a possible war, and Tom should have no reason to give up recruiting him.

Unable to come up with a clue, she simply shook her head, focused on her hands, concentrated on stirring the stirring rod, and was the first to hand in the finished medicine.Snape glanced at her somewhat unexpectedly, but still frowned at her perfect potion, and only gave her an "A" grade.

In the herbal medicine class in the afternoon, they learned how to repot the mandrake, but even though the piercing screams could not be heard through the earplugs, Ginny spent a lot of time on the constantly twisting body. It took a lot of strength to stuff it into a new basin.It's just that Colin doesn't have the ability to make quick decisions. He fiddled with the struggling mandrake in his hands at a loss, until Ginny couldn't stand it and helped him hold it together, and then reluctantly stuffed it into a new pot .

When the first day of classes was finally over, Ginny was sitting in the warm common room, working on her homework.However, this kind of silence didn't last long. As the door of the common room was pushed open, Hermione's high-pitched voice came in: "Harry, as I said, divination is the most inaccurate of all magic sciences." One of my subjects, I don't think you need to worry about Professor Trelawney's so-called prophecy at all."

"I understand." Harry was trying to sound as light as possible, "She said black dogs were ominous, but in fact, the black dog I saw was my godfather, wasn't it? kill me?"

"But, you did see the black dog, whether he was your godfather or something," Ron muttered, "and, Peter escaped, who knows what he's going to do? Before he was arrested, I I suggest you be more careful, after all those evil Death Eaters can do anything."

"Ron—" Hermione gave him an exasperated look and stopped him, while Ron murmured that what he said was the truth.

"Are you back?" Seeing the troubled looks of the three of them, Ginny sighed, closed the book in her hand, and greeted them.

"Ginny, are you here too?" Ron ran over excitedly as if seeing her suddenly, "I have good news for you. Malfoy, who laughed at you that day, was killed by a hippogriff today. When the beast fell down, he could only lie on the ground and scream, and he was in a mess."

"Ron, you're just gloating, why don't you think about the trouble it will cause Hagrid?" Hermione said aloud angrily, while Ron's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he looked at her with embarrassment One glance: "Uh, sorry, I didn't think of that question."

Harry looked out the window: "Hagrid's window still has light, why don't we go and see him?"

Ron nodded, and Hermione gave Harry a hesitant look.Harry smiled. "It's okay, we can go across the grass. The dementors are stationed outside, and Peter won't be able to sneak in."

The three finally reached an agreement, and Ginny stopped them who turned to leave after pondering for a moment: "Wait a minute, I'll go with you." Harry is not yet proficient in the Patronus Charm, Ghost, the three of them will be very dangerous.So the threesome turned into a foursome, and headed to Hagrid's cabin together.

When they arrived, Hagrid was holding a huge wine glass, obviously delirious.After glancing at them, he took a sip of his drink sadly: "I'm afraid this is a new record, I don't think they have ever had a teacher who only worked for a day."

"Nobody fired you, Hagrid!" gasped Hermione.

"Not yet, but it's just a matter of time. Malfoy said he's going to let his father come, and his father is the trustee of Hogwarts." Hagrid shook his head, tears streaming down his face.

"How's he hurt anyway?" Ginny asked as they all sat down around the table.

"He keeps saying it hurts, that he's going to show his dad how bad he's been done by my incompetent teacher." Hagrid ruffled his hair in frustration, making it even more tangled. Together.

"He's pretending that Madam Pomfrey can cure anything," said Harry firmly, "Hagrid, if his father does come and fire you, we'll all testify for you that it was his own fault. Headmaster Dumbledore will trust us, he will definitely stand by us, and won't let Malfoy fire you."

"It's very kind of you, boys." Hagrid grabbed Harry and Ron, holding them almost to their deathbed.Then, he tried to hug Ginny and Hermione, but they avoided them. At the same time, Ginny raised his wand and said a "clear water" spell at him: "Hagrid, you drink too much!" gone."

Hagrid was doused with water all over his head.He shook his head, and then he seemed to wake up suddenly: "Merlin, why are you here? Go back quickly."

"Um, Hagrid, are you all right?" Harry asked cautiously.

"What can I do?" Hagrid grabbed Harry and Ron's arms and pulled them towards the door. "How dare you run around at night when it's so dangerous? Go back to the main castle for me." .” As he spoke, he opened the door, pushed them out, and turned his head to look at the two girls.

"Okay, okay, as long as you are fine. Call us if necessary, and we will testify for you." Hermione made a "stop" motion to him, and then pulled Ginny towards the door .

And Hagrid slammed the door after they went out, and at the same time his muffled voice came from inside the door: "Good boys, I'm not worth your risk." sound.

Harry tried to knock on the door again, but was stopped by Hermione, who shook his head at him: "Let him calm down first, let's think of a way, I believe Principal Dumbledore will not let Mal Foo kicked Hagrid out of Hogwarts." Afterwards, the four of them had no choice but to leave Hagrid's hut together and return to their dormitories.

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In fact, I found that every time Xiaoha was injured, Xiaolong would always come and sneer at him. He was actually concerned because he was awkward, right?