Chapter 227 The Terrifying Dementors

"Is this your pet? A raven?"

The appearance of the raven Pappy made Hermione's eyes light up. In the culture of many countries, ravens and crows are symbols of bad luck. Some places even call them death birds because they always appear at the scene of death.

But in Britain, especially in London, it is different. There, ravens are animals protected by law.

This is all thanks to the poor environment in London at the beginning of industrialization. The environmental pollution brought about by industrialization turned this city, which was the world's number one at the time, into a foggy city. And ravens, with their carrion-eating characteristics, have become the city's scavengers.

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

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

"Can I touch it?"

Hermione asked cautiously. Hermione has had a strong curiosity about this scavenger bird since childhood, but it's a pity that this bird's vigilance and intelligence are too high, so she has never had the opportunity to get close to them.

"Of course!"

Pappy got furious when she heard that, but she had to give in under the threat of Mike's eyes.

Hermione jumped up excitedly, even forgetting Crookshanks who was waiting for her master to pick her up, and she just touched Pappy's little head.

Hermione was enjoying it, but Penelope suddenly came over.

"Mike, I found it..."

Penelope was stuck in the middle of her words, staring at Mike and Hermione, which made Mike feel uneasy.

"Ahem~, Hermione, let's stop here today. We still have some things to do."

"Okay, I'll go find Harry!"

Hermione seemed a little angry, snorted coldly and ran to the front car where Harry was.

Mike stood up with a wry smile and went to the car where Lupin was with Penelope.

The two didn't speak along the way, but when they were about to reach their destination, Penelope suddenly stretched out her hand and pinched the soft flesh on Mike's waist.

Receiving the pain signal from his body, although it was not very painful, Mike still immediately bent over and cried out in pain, pretending to be seriously injured.

Penelope could see through Mike's routine, and she rolled her eyes at Mike and returned to the previous carriage. She still had work to do.

Seeing Penelope walking away, Mike's distorted expression immediately calmed down, and he exhaled lightly and walked into the carriage where Lupin was.

This small carriage was full of four people, three Hogwarts freshmen 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 head was constantly rising and falling with the bumps of the train, his face was as pale as paper, and he looked sick, as if he was carsick.

This was the person Mike was looking for, Remus Lupin.

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

"Hey, hello."

"Uh, hello."

Mike greeted the freshmen enthusiastically, but the freshmen seemed to be not used to Mike's enthusiasm and looked a little nervous.

"I'm sorry, friends. You got on the wrong carriage. This carriage is the professor's carriage." Mike pointed at Lupin who was sleeping and said, "The freshman carriage should be at the front of the train."

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

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

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

"Well... okay. Let's go and have a look."

Mike looked at the three little wizards with a smirk as they walked away, but suddenly a hoarse voice came from behind him.

"Your behavior is really bad."

"I didn't lie to them. There are really empty seats in the front carriage." Mike closed the door of the compartment and sat down. "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 a blond boy from the Weasley family." "

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

Mike's solemn look surprised Lupin a little. He instinctively stood up and stretched out his right hand. But then he shrank back and wiped it on his wizard robe before shaking hands with Mike.

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

After the ceremony, the two sat down one after another. Lupin's action of wiping his right hand just now touched Mike a lot. This is a manifestation of inferiority.

Mike glanced back and forth between Lupin's box and body, and finally concluded that the professor had a very hard life before.

This was not difficult to see, after all, Lupin was now prematurely aged, not only was he thin, his wide robe was empty, and there were many 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 Professor Lupin, Mike put a lot of food in his portable invisible stretching charm bag. When he took out all the food, Mike found that Lupin's eyes suddenly brightened up a lot. Lupin

's eating manner was very elegant. Although he was very hungry now, he still chewed slowly in front of Mike.

It can be seen that he is a well-educated person.

Mike made a judgment again.

There was no way, he was not Superman. He only remembered the general plot of the original book now. He didn't know much about supporting characters like Lupin. Knowing that he was a master of the Patronus Charm was already the limit.

So now Mike could only try to understand the man in front of him by constantly observing.

As the saying goes, you should be grateful to those who feed you. After eating the food brought by Mike, Lupin and Mike became more familiar with each other. The two chatted all the way and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

However, when they were 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!"

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

"Is it a Dementor?"

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

Lupin was not surprised at all that Mike knew about the Dementors. He already knew that Mike was Flitwick's favorite disciple during the chat just now, so it was not surprising to know these things.

Darkness fell quickly, and soon the window outside the car had completely turned into a pitch-black darkness, and at this time, the lights in the carriage that were originally used for lighting suddenly went out, and the entire Hogwarts Express fell into darkness.

"Lumos!"

Lupin and Michael simultaneously cast the Illumination Charm, and finally there was a ray of light in the dark carriage.

Hearing the cries coming out of other carriages in the distance, Lupin frowned and said, "There's trouble over there, I'll go check it out first, Michael, take care to protect yourself."

"I'll go with you, my girlfriend is still ahead." Michael saw that Lupin was a little worried and continued to explain, "Don't worry, I also know the Patronus Charm."

'Although I'm only a half-baked one. 'Michael added in his heart.

Seeing this, Lupin didn't force it anymore, and took Michael to the carriage in front.

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

This black figure was tall and big, and his head almost touched the ceiling. At this moment, this black figure seemed to be in a good mood, and his hands stretched out from his wide cloak were stretching happily.

Michael felt that using hands to describe them was simply an insult to hands. These claws flashed cold light 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. With the gurgling sound coming from its throat, Mike felt that all the good emotions were constantly dissipating, and instead, a biting chill swept over.

The chill quickly eroded Mike's body, starting from the skin and spreading into 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 screams of the little wizards around him, but at the same time there was a voice constantly surrounding his ears. Mike tried hard to hear it clearly, but the voice was still unclear.

"Expecto Patronus!"

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

The chill dissipated, and Mike's strong physical fitness made him recover quickly. At this moment, what appeared in front of him was a light wolf suspended in the air, completely composed of shining positive energy.

The wolf was huge and brave. It raised its head and howled silently in the air, then stepped into the air and rushed towards the Dementor.

The Dementor seemed to be very afraid of the wolf with white light. It used its slender claws to cover its face and fled from the train.

"Are you okay, Mike?"

Lupin did not command his Patronus to chase the Dementor, but asked about Mike's situation with concern.

At this moment, Mike felt very bad. The threat of the Dementor to him was higher than he thought. Just at that moment, he felt desperate.

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

For Lupin, Harry's safety was obviously more important than Mike. When he heard Mike say that he was fine, Lupin said nothing more and hurried to the front car.

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

The situation was worse than Lupin expected. More than a dozen Dementors boarded the train under the pretext of inspection and wantonly sucked the happy emotions of the young wizards.

This action caused a huge commotion. Even though Lupin was trying 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 reflected. In times of crisis, the powerful prefects stood up to maintain order and took the chocolates given by Mike and distributed them.

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

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

At this time, Lupin didn't care about keeping a low profile. He shouted "I'm a professor" and squeezed into the crowd. When he successfully reached the center of the crowd, the scene in front of him almost made him collapse.

Harry was pale and lying silently in Hermione's arms, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Lupin reached his hand to Harry's neck like lightning, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Harry was not dead but just fainted.

"Professor, is Harry okay?"

Hermione asked Lupin with sobs, and Lupin said with a relaxed look: "It's okay, he just fainted."

After that, Lupin took out a half-eaten piece of chocolate from his torn robe and gave it to Hermione, saying: "When he wakes up, let him eat this, chocolate can make people happy." After

throwing down this sentence, Lupin quickly ran to the front of the train. He was very busy now, and there were Dementors wreaking havoc in the front carriage.

On the other side, while Lupin was checking Harry, Mike quickly came to the carriage where Penelope was.

As he expected, there was also a Dementor in the carriage where Penelope was, absorbing the students' happiness. This group of Dementors must have planned it, otherwise they would not have divided their hunting areas so clearly in each carriage.

Mike's eyes kept searching in the carriage, and finally found Penelope in a corner. At this moment, she was curled up with three children, looking at the approaching Dementors in horror.

Perhaps it was the effect of the chocolate he had just eaten, or perhaps it was Penelope's terrified expression that gave Mike strength. Mike recalled the time he had spent with Penelope and raised his wand.

"Expecto Patronus!"

A bright mist of light emerged from the tip of Mike's wand and slowly drifted towards the Dementor.

This light attracted the attention of everyone in the carriage. Penelope turned her head and saw that it was Mike. Her eyes lit up in an instant, and then she roared:

"Run! Mike!"

Mike ignored Penelope's shouting, and tried his best to recall those things that could make people happy, while holding up his wand and approaching the Dementor.

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

Under Mike's coercion, it slowly covered its face and slowly retreated, but was unwilling to escape, and roared at Mike from time to time.

It was reluctant to give up these pure foods!

In Azkaban, they can only repeatedly absorb the joy of the prisoners every day, and the quality of the prisoners' joy is really worrying because they are repeatedly absorbed by them. Now that they see fresh food, how can they easily give up.

The man and the monster were in a stalemate. Mike felt the magic power in his body quickly disappearing and secretly said that it was not good.

If he continued like this, he would be dragged to death sooner or later.

At this moment, Mike felt a warm feeling coming from his back. Before he could turn his head, he saw a huge wolf of light rushing past him and towards the Dementor.

Lupin is coming!