Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 227 The Terrifying Dementor

"Is this your pet? A raven?"

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

But it's not the same in the Rotten Country, especially London, where the raven is a legally protected animal.

This is all due to the poor environment in London at the beginning of industrialization. The environmental pollution brought by industrialization turned the world's number one city into a smog city.And the raven, with its scavenging nature, became the city's scavenger.

At that time, if a large number of ravens had not wiped out many animal carcasses and garbage, the environment in London would have been even worse.

This has led many London families to instill in them the concept that ravens are beneficial animals when educating their children.

"Can I touch it?"

Hermione asked cautiously. Hermione has been very curious about this kind of scavenger bird since she was a child. It's a pity that this kind of bird's vigilance and intelligence are too high. She has never had close contact with them. Chance.

"Of course!"

Pappy immediately exploded when he heard the words, but he could only give in under the threat of Mike's eyes.

Hermione jumped up excitedly, and even forgot about Crookshanks who was waiting for her master to pick her up on the ground, and went straight to touch Pappy's little head.

Here Hermione was feeling cool, but Penelope came over suddenly.

"Mike, I found..."

Penelope suddenly got stuck in the middle of speaking, staring at Mike and Hermione with straight eyes, making Mike's heart tremble.

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

"Alright then, I'll go find Harry!"

Hermione seemed a little angry, she snorted coldly and ran to Harry in the front compartment.

And Mike stood up with a smile and went to the carriage where Lupine was with Penello.

The two of them didn't speak along the way, but when they were about to reach their destination, Penello suddenly reached out and pinched the soft flesh on Mike's waist.

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

Penelope couldn't see Mike's tricks. After seeing Mike, she returned to the previous car. She still had work.

Seeing Penello walking away, the distorted expression on Mike's face immediately calmed down, and he breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the compartment where Lupine was.

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

The man was wearing a tattered wizard robe, and there were even several puddings on the robe.His drooping head was constantly rising and falling with the bumps of the train, his face was as pale as paper, and he looked sickly, as if he was motion sick.

This was obviously the person Mike was looking for, Remus Lupine.

It can be seen that the three freshmen are not bad-hearted. Seeing that there is a person sleeping in this compartment, they deliberately lower their voices.

"Hey, how are you?"

"Uh, hello."

Mike greeted these freshmen enthusiastically, but those freshmen seemed to be a little nervous because they didn't quite adapt to Mike's enthusiasm.

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

"But we've been there, and it's full."

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

"How is it possible, there must still be vacancies. I swear to you in the name of my Gryffindor prefect, Percy Weasley!"

"Then... that's fine. Let's go and see."

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

"Your behavior is really bad."

"I didn't lie to them. There are still vacant seats in the front car." Mike closed the door of the compartment and sat down. "Besides, I just want you to sleep better, Professor Lupine."

Seeing Mike revealing his identity, Professor Lupine opened his sleepy eyes slightly, and then yawned and said, "Who the hell are you? I don't remember a blond boy coming out of the Weasley family."

"Well, I knew I couldn't fool you." Mike laughed, then stood up and stretched out his right hand to the man and said, "Let me introduce you formally, Mike Townley, a third-year Ravenclaw student."

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

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

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

Mike's eyes flicked back and forth between Lupin's case and his body, before he finally came to the conclusion that the professor had had a pretty rough time before.

This is not difficult to see, after all, Lupine is already aging before he is old. Not only is his body thin, but his loose robes are empty, and there are many gray 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 Lupin, Mike put a lot of food in his portable non-trace stretching spell bag. When he took out all the food, Mike found that Lupine's eyes lit up a lot.

Lupine's eating was very elegant, although he was very hungry now, he still kept eating slowly in front of Mike.

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

Mike made a judgment again.

No way, he is not Superman. He only remembers a rough idea of ​​the plot of the original book. He really doesn’t know much about a supporting role like Lupine. Knowing that he is a master of the Patronus Charm 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, eat others with a short mouth.After eating the food that Mike brought, Lupine and Mike obviously got a lot closer. 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 surrounding light dimmed rapidly, and at the same time the train slowly stopped.

Mike's heart tightened, and the black prickly pear wand appeared in his hand silently.

"Damn it, how dare they!"

Lupine's reaction was even more intense than Mike's. He stood up with a swipe, took out his wand and began to look out the window.

"A dementor?"

"That's right! Mike, don't be afraid, I'm absolutely fine!"

Lupine was not at all surprised that Mike knew about the dementors. He had already known that Mike was Flitwick's favorite student during the chat just now, and it was not surprising to know these things.

The darkness fell very quickly, and after a while, the outside of the car window became completely pitch black, and at this time, the lights in the car that were originally used for lighting were also suddenly extinguished, and the entire Hogwarts Express was completely plunged into darkness. into the darkness.

"Fluorescent flashes!"

Lupine and Mike released the Illumination Charm at the same time, finally there was a glimmer of light in the dark car.

Hearing the constant cries from other cars in the distance, Lupine frowned and said, "There's trouble over there, I'll go and have a look first, Mike, take care of yourself."

"I'll go with you, my girlfriend is still ahead." Seeing that Lupine was worried, Mike went on to explain, "Don't worry, I can also use the Patronus Charm."

'Although only half-baked. ' Mike added in his mind.

Seeing this, Lupine no longer insisted, and took Mike directly to the front compartment.

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

The black figure was tall and big, with his head almost reaching the ceiling. At this moment, the black figure seemed to be in a good mood, and his hands stretched out of his wide cloak were cheerfully stretching.

Mike felt that it was insulting to describe them with his hands. These claws shone coldly in the dark, and there were many spots on them, which looked very much like corpse spots.

Then, the monster raised its head and took a long breath.Accompanied by the gurgling sound in its throat, Mike only felt that all the good emotions were constantly dissipating, replaced by a piercing chill.

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

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

"Call God Guard!"

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

The chill dissipated, and Mike's strong physical fitness made him recover quickly, and 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 in size, brave and good at fighting, raised its head in mid-air and howled silently, then walked through the air, rushing towards the dementor.

The dementor seemed to be very afraid of the glowing white wolf, so he covered his face with his slender claws and fled the train as if flying.

"Are you okay, Mike!"

Lupine didn't command his Patronus to chase after the dementor, but asked about Mike's situation with concern.

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

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

For Lupine, Harry's safety was obviously more important than Mike's. Once he heard Mike say that he was fine, Lupine didn't say anything more, and hurriedly ran towards the front compartment.

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

The situation was even worse than Lupine estimated. A dozen dementors boarded the train on the grounds of inspection, wantonly sucking the happiness of the little wizards.

This action caused a huge commotion, and 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 prefects and the student union system were revealed. The powerful prefects stood up to maintain order in times of crisis, and took the chocolates given by Mike and distributed them.

And when Lupine and Mike arrived at Harry's compartment, there was already a large circle of people around Harry.

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

At this time, Lupine couldn't care less about keeping a low profile. He yelled that I was a professor and squeezed into the crowd. However, when he successfully reached the center of the crowd, the scene that appeared in front of him almost broke him down.

Harry was pale, lying in Hermione's arms soundlessly, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Lupine put his hand on Harry's neck like lightning, and he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Harry was not dead but passed out.

"Professor, is Harry okay?"

Hermione whimpered and asked Lupine, but Lupine said with a relaxed face, "It's okay, he just passed out."

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

Throwing down such a sentence, Lupine quickly ran to the front of the car. He is very busy now, and there are still dementors raging in the front car.

On the other side, Mike quickly came to Penello's compartment while Lupine was checking Harry.

As he expected, there is also a dementor in the carriage where Penello is absorbing the happiness of the students. This group of dementors must have been premeditated, otherwise each carriage will not divide its hunting area one by one. It is so clearly divided.

Mike kept looking in the car, and finally found Penello in a corner. At this moment, she was curling up with three children, looking in horror at the approaching dementor.

Maybe it was the chocolate that he just ate that helped, or maybe it was Penello's terrified expression that gave Mike strength. Mike raised his wand with the time he and Penello were together flashing in his mind.

"Call God Guard!"

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

This light attracted the attention of everyone in the car. Penello turned his head and saw Mike, his eyes lit up for a moment, and then he roared:

"Run, Mike!"

Mike ignored Penelope's shouts, tried his best to recall those things that could make people happy, and at the same time raised his wand and approached the dementor.

The light from the Patronus Charm obviously made the dementor uncomfortable, but it was just uncomfortable, far from driving him away.

Under Mike's persecution, it slowly backed away while covering its face but refused to escape, and roared towards Mike from time to time.

It is not willing to part with these pure foods!
In Azkaban, they can only repeatedly absorb the joy of those prisoners every day, and the quality of the joy of those prisoners is really worrying because they are repeatedly sucked by them. Now that they see fresh food, they are willing to give up easily.

One person and one monster were in such a stalemate, Mike felt the magic power passing away in his body and secretly said badly.

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

But at this moment, Mike only felt a warmth coming from behind him, and before he turned his head to look, he saw a huge light wolf leaping over him and rushing towards the dementor.

Lupine is here!

(End of this chapter)