Chapter 227 The Terrifying Dementor

"Is this your pet? A raven?"

The appearance of Papi the raven made Hermione's eyes light up. In the cultures of many countries, ravens and crows are ominous symbols. In some places, they are even called death sentences because they always appear at the scene of death. bird.

But that's not the case in the UK, especially in London, where the raven is a legally protected animal.

This is all due to London's poor environment at the beginning of industrialization. The environmental pollution caused by industrialization turned the world's largest city into a foggy city. The raven has become a scavenger in the city due to its scavenging characteristics.

If it weren't for the large number of ravens that destroyed many animal carcasses and garbage, London's environment would be even worse.

This has led many London families to inculcate in their children the concept that ravens are beneficial animals.

"Can I touch it?"

Hermione asked cautiously. Hermione has had a strong curiosity about this kind of scavenger bird since she was a child. Unfortunately, the vigilance and intelligence of this kind of bird are too high, and she has never had close contact with them. Chance.

"certainly!"

Papi was furious when he heard this, but he could only relent under the threat from Mike's eyes.

Hermione jumped up in excitement, forgetting about Crookshanks who was waiting for her master to pick her up, and went straight to touch Papi's little head.

Hermione was feeling comfortable here when Penello suddenly came over.

"Mike, I found it..."

Penello suddenly stopped mid-sentence, looking straight at Mike and Hermione, which made Mike feel nervous.

"Ahem~, Hermione, let's just get here today. We still have some business to do."

"Okay, I'll go find Harry!"

Hermione seemed a little angry, snorted and ran to Harry in the front car.

Mike, on the other hand, stood up with a sneer and walked with Penello to the carriage where Lupin was.

Neither of them spoke a word along the way, but when they were about to reach their destination, Penelo suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched the soft flesh of Mike's waist hard.

After receiving the pain signal from his body, although it was not very painful, Mike immediately bent over and exhaled in pain, pretending to be seriously injured.

Penello couldn't see Mike's tricks at all, so she rolled her eyes at Mike and returned to the previous carriage. She still had work.

Seeing Penello walking away, the distorted expression on Mike's face immediately calmed down. He took a breath and walked into the car where Lupin was.

This small carriage was full of four people, three freshmen at Hogwarts and an adult man who was sleeping with his head down.

This man was wearing a tattered wizard's robe, and there were even several puddings on the robe. His lowered head was rising and falling with the bumps of the train. His face was as pale as paper, and he looked sick, as if he was motion sick.

This is clearly the person Mike is looking for, Remus Lupin.

It can be seen that the three freshmen are not bad-hearted. They saw that there was a person sleeping in this carriage, so they deliberately lowered their voices.

"Hey, how are you guys?"

"Um, hello."

Mike greeted the freshmen enthusiastically, but the freshmen seemed a little nervous as they seemed uncomfortable with Mike's enthusiasm.

"I'm sorry, friends. You are in the wrong car. This car is the professor's car." Mike pointed to Lupine who was sleeping and said, "The freshmen car should be at the front of the car."

"But we went there and it was full."

This group of kind-hearted little wizards were obviously deceived by Mike, and they told Mike their difficulties with some embarrassment.

"How is that possible? There must be room available. I swear to you in the name of my Gryffindor prefect, Percy Weasley!"

"That...that's alright. Let's go and have a look."

Mike watched the three little wizards walking away with a smirk on his face, but suddenly a hoarse voice came from behind.

"Your behavior is really bad."

"I didn't lie to them. There is really room in the car in front." Mike closed the compartment door and sat down and said, "Besides, I just want you to sleep better, Professor Lupin."

When Professor Lupin saw Mike reveal his identity, his sleepy eyes widened slightly, and then he yawned and said, "Who are you? I don't remember that there was a blond boy in the Weasley family."

"Okay, I know I can't fool you." Mike laughed, then stood up and stretched out his right hand to the man and said, "Formal introduction, Mike Townley, a third-year Ravenclaw student."

Lupine was a little surprised by Mike's serious look, and he instinctively stood up and stretched out his right hand. But then he shrank back and wiped it on his wizard robe before holding Mike's hand together.

"It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Townley."

After the ceremony, the two of them sat down one after another. Lupine's action of wiping his right hand just now touched Mike greatly. This was a sign of inferiority.

Mike's eyes glanced back and forth between Lupine's box and body, and he finally came to the conclusion that the professor had lived a very miserable life before.

This is not difficult to see, after all, Lu Ping is already aging prematurely. Not only is his body thin, his loose robes are empty, and there are also a lot of white hairs on his head.

As for the tattered robe, Mike even suspected that it had been worn for more than ten years.

In order to please the professor Lupine, Mike put a lot of food in his portable bag of traceless stretching spells. When he took out all the food, Mike found that Lupine's eyes suddenly brightened a lot.

Lupine ate very elegantly. Although he was very hungry now, he still chewed slowly in front of Mike.

It was obvious that he was a well-educated man.

Mike made another judgment call.

There is no way, he is not Superman. He only remembers a rough outline of the plot of the original work. He really doesn't know much about supporting characters like Lupine. Knowing that he is a master of the Patronus Curse is already the limit.

So now Mike can only try to understand the man in front of him through constant observation.

As the saying goes, it's easy to eat others' mouths. Lupine became more familiar with Mike after eating the food brought by Mike. The two chatted all the way, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

However, when he was about to arrive at Hogwarts, Mike suddenly felt that the light around him dimmed rapidly, and the train also slowly stopped.

Mike's heart tightened, and the blackthorn wood wand appeared silently in his hand.

"Damn it, how dare they!"

Lupine's reaction on the other side was even more intense than Mike's. He stood up quickly, took out his wand and started to look out the window.

"A dementor?"

"That's right! Mike, don't be afraid, you'll be fine with me!"

Lupine was not surprised at all that Mike knew about the Dementors. During the chat just now, he already knew that Mike was Flitwick's favorite disciple. It was not surprising to know these things.

Darkness fell quickly, and soon the outside of the car window had completely turned into darkness, and at this time, the car lights originally used for lighting in the car suddenly went out, and the entire Hogwarts Express suddenly fell into chaos. into the darkness.

"Lumos!"

Lupine and Mike released the lighting spell at the same time, and there was finally a glimmer of light in the dark carriage.

Listening to the cries that kept coming from other carriages in the distance, Lupine frowned and said, "There's something going on over there. I'll go take a look first. Mike, take care of yourself."

"I'll go with you, my girlfriend is still in front." Seeing that Lupine was a little worried, Mike continued to explain, "Don't worry, I can also do the Patronus Charm."

‘Although it’s only half-baked. ’ Mike added in his mind.

Seeing this, Lupine stopped pressing and took Mike directly to the car in front.

As soon as the two people stepped out of the carriage, they saw a black figure in a cloak floating over.

This black figure is tall and big, with his head almost reaching the ceiling. At this moment, this black figure seems to be in a good mood, and his hands stretched out in his broad cloak are stretching happily.

Mike felt that describing them with hands was an insult. The claws shone coldly in the dark and had many spots on them, which looked like corpse spots.

Then, the monster raised its head and took a long breath. Along with the gurgling sound in its throat, Mike felt that all the good emotions were constantly dissipating, replaced by a biting coldness sweeping over him.

The coldness quickly eroded Mike's body, spreading from his skin to Mike's body bit by bit. In the end, Mike felt that his brain was almost frozen.

Mike began to feel dizzy for no reason. He could hear the frightened screams of the little wizards constantly coming from around him, but at the same time there was a voice constantly surrounding his ears. Mike tried hard to hear it clearly, but that sound The voice was still unclear.

"Call the gods to protect you!"

A soft light pierced the darkness like the dawn, pulling Mike back from the edge of falling.

The chill dissipated, and Mike's strong physical fitness allowed him to quickly recover. What appeared in front of him at this moment was a light wolf suspended in mid-air, composed entirely of shining positive energy.

This light wolf was huge, brave and good at fighting. It raised its head in mid-air and howled silently before walking through the air and rushing towards the dementor.

The dementor seemed to be very afraid of the shining white wolf, covering his face with his slender claws and escaping from the train as fast as he could.

"Are you okay Mike!"

Lupine did not instruct his patron saint to chase the dementor, but asked about Mike's situation with concern.

At this moment, Mike felt very bad. The threat from dementors to him was higher than he imagined. At that moment, he felt a sense of despair.

Although his hands were still shaking, Mike still nodded firmly and said, "It's okay, let's go to the front."

For Lupine, Harry's safety was obviously much more important than Mike's. As soon as he heard Mike say that he was fine, Lupine said nothing more and hurriedly ran towards the car in front.

Seeing this, Mike gritted his teeth, threw a piece of chocolate into his mouth, chewed it hard, and followed.

The situation was worse than Lupine expected. A dozen dementors boarded the train on the pretext of inspection, and wantonly sucked the happiness of the little wizards.

This move caused a huge commotion. Even though Lupine had tried his best to drive away the dementors, the students on the train were still in chaos.

At this time, the benefits of the prefect and student union system were revealed. In times of crisis, the powerful prefects stepped forward to maintain order, and took the chocolates given by Mike and distributed them.

When Lupine and Mike arrived at the carriage where Harry was, Harry was already surrounded by a large circle of people.

"Get out of the way and let me see! I'm the professor!"

At this time, Lupine no longer cared about keeping a low profile. He shouted that I was a professor and squeezed into the crowd. When he successfully reached the center of the crowd, the scene that appeared in front of him almost made him collapse.

Harry looked pale and lay silently in Hermione's arms, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Lupine quickly put his hand on Harry's neck and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Harry was not dead but just fainted.

"Professor, is Harry okay?"

Hermione whimpered and asked Lupine, and Lupine said with a relaxed expression: "It's okay, he just fainted."

After that, Lupine took out a half-eaten piece of chocolate from his tattered robe and gave it to Hermione: "Let him eat this when he wakes up. Chocolate can make people happy."

After saying these words, Lupine quickly ran towards the front of the car. He was very busy now, and there were dementors raging in the car in front.

On the other hand, Mike quickly came to the carriage where Penello was while Lupine was checking on Harry.

As he expected, there was also a Dementor in the carriage where Penello was sitting, absorbing the happiness of the students. This group of Dementors was definitely premeditated, otherwise they would not have taken over their hunting area in one carriage. The divisions are so clear.

Mike's eyes kept searching in the car, and finally found Penello in a corner. At this moment, she was huddled together with three children, looking at the approaching dementors in horror.

Maybe the chocolate he just ate had an effect, or maybe Penello's frightened expression at this time gave Mike strength. The time he and Penello were together flashed in Mike's mind and he raised his wand.

"Call the gods to protect you!"

A bright mist of light emerged from the tip of Mike's staff, slowly drifting towards the dementor.

This light attracted the attention of everyone in the carriage. Penello turned his head and saw Mike. His eyes lit up instantly, and then he roared:

"Run! Mike!"

Mike ignored Penello's call and tried his best to think of things that could make people happy while raising his wand and approaching the dementors.

The light brought by the Patronus Spell obviously made the Dementor very uncomfortable, but it was just discomfort, far from being able to drive him away.

Under Mike's pressure, it slowly covered its face and retreated slowly, but refused to escape. It also roared at Mike from time to time.

It doesn't want to part with these pure foods!

In Azkaban, they could only repeatedly absorb the joy of those prisoners every day, and the quality of the joy of those prisoners was really worrying due to their repeated feeding. Now that they have seen fresh food, they are willing to give up easily.

One person and one monster were in a stalemate, and Mike felt the magic power flowing rapidly through his body and said something bad to himself.

If this continues, he will be dragged to death sooner or later.

At this moment, Mike only felt a warmth coming from his back. Before he could turn his head to look, he saw a huge light wolf leaping past him and rushing towards the dementor.

Lupine is here!