Chapter 61 Dementors

"One day during the summer vacation my scar started to hurt."

Hermione's reaction was exactly as Harry imagined. She gasped first, and then said worriedly:

"Your scar hurts Harry, which is not a good thing." She listed them all from Dumbledore to Madam Pomfrey.

And Ron stammered: "But, but Harry, this is impossible. According to Dumbledore, he is still hiding in Albania. He cannot run to Privet Drive in a very weak state."

Harry He said a little irritably: "I don't know. I probably dreamed about him."

"Dream about him" Ron and Hermione asked in unison.

"It was a very vague dream... It seemed like I was flying in the air, not using a broom, nor flying in the air. It seemed like I was inside something. The noise..." Harry rubbed his brows, feeling very distressed, "He seemed to be thinking about something. . Why she never asked. That's all I can think of."

Ron and Hermione looked as confused as he did. Ron comforted him: "It's just a dream."

Hermione looked a little worried: "Flying in the air, noise, Harry, it is most likely a plane. You must tell Dumbledore about this matter no matter what."

Ron Before Hermione could finish her words, she said in an extremely exaggerated way: "The flying thing in the sky invented by the airplane Muggles. You-Know-Who can fly."

"Dumbledore is already busy enough, and I don't want to bother him with this matter. "

Their footsteps gradually faded away.

Mu Yu stared at the dilapidated and moldy ceiling with wide eyes in the darkness. Their voices, no matter how low they sounded, reached her ears word by word. The jade pendant was still on the small table. Nagini didn't know where it had gone. Maybe it got under the bed.

"Old Nott is not much better than Crabgoyle. He was stupid more than ten years ago. You can't expect him to hold anything in his head more than ten years later."

The hoarse voice echoed in the room, as if the conversation between the three people had not been completed. It bothered him a little. He seemed to be mocking the incompetence of his former subordinates, but in this atmosphere it seemed more like an explanation.

Mu Yu suddenly wanted to get up and look for Nagini now. Her cheeks were getting hot uncontrollably. She had to find something to do, anything. The dim desk lamp diluted the abnormal blush on her face. She first extinguished the fire in the fireplace, and then dragged Nagini out from under the bed - she didn't know the meaning of this.

She had to use forced coolness to cover up her current stupidity. Unfortunately, pretending to be cool didn't seem to suit her very well: "I don't care what's in his mind at all, but if something goes wrong because of his rusty and rotten brain, Some things..." She was much more awake when she lay back on the bed. "Even if he is yours, I can't guarantee..."

She took a deep breath and pulled the quilt up again: "As long as you are willing, I'm always happy to ask, Tom."

There was no more noise in the room.

This semester she seems to have a special bond with Harry, Ron and Hermione. She boarded the Hogwarts Express very early and deliberately found the most inconspicuous compartment at the back of the train. There was already a man in tattered robes dozing off before he came. The small box on the luggage rack above the man also looked tattered, and the letters printed on it were somewhat peeled off.

Professor RJ Lupine.

Mu Yu had never seen a professor take the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts. Moreover, he should be... Mu Yu didn't say much. If her guess was correct, he wouldn't be up for a while. She took out a book and started to read. Maybe her level was higher than that of her peers, but she had to go to Kunlun Ruins, and she had to deal with three monks who were at least in the out-of-body stage, and the game with him... these things Not enough stuff.

The carriage gradually became lively, but fortunately no one wanted to step into the compartment at the rear of the carriage.

Until she heard Crookshanks' cry.

Harry and the three of them looked at this compartment hesitantly. The rest of the places on the train were already full, and only this one could fit the three of them. But Harry wanted to find a place to talk to Ron and Hermione.

Mu Yu put down the book, and she saw their entanglement: "There is no one here. I'm going to find Daphne. I'll be back in a minute."

Her cooperation was beyond the expectations of the three of them, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. Just when they passed by, Crookshanks screamed at Mu Yu again, causing Ron's rat Spot to shrink into Ron's arms in fear. Mu Yu didn't even look at Banban. It was hard for her to look directly at Ron after she learned that the rat he cherished was a human being.

She didn't go looking for Daphne, she just walked around the train casually. The train passed through endless fields, and the surrounding scenery gradually became deserted. She had a hunch that this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class might not be so boring.

Mu Yu turned back to the cubicle when he thought they were done talking. Professor Lu Ping was still sleeping. Dark clouds gradually gathered in the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain.

Crookshanks still looked at her with hostility, and Scabbers was still shivering in Ron's pocket, probably because of more than just a cat. She was immersed in the book until Harry asked dryly: "Yu, how was your summer vacation?"

Can't they start the topic in a novel way? Mu Yu has always been impatient to repeat the same things to different people. People listen to it, especially this matter is still half-truth and half-false. But looking at the scar on Harry's forehead that was mostly covered by his hair, Mu Yu's impatience disappeared instantly. She had also sympathized with Harry. The day he lost his parents was a day of carnival for the entire wizarding world, and it was also the day that sealed the fate of his life.

Now she could no longer feel the faint sympathy she had before. She could no longer understand why she lied to him when Harry asked her if she had seen his parents in front of the Mirror of Erised two years ago, saying that she Saw.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore, they all belong to the light. And the night her grandfather died, she could no longer see any light.

Mu Yu described Alesund, which she had described countless times, and the never-setting sunset in Norway. Talking about interesting things from your respective travels is always a good choice when striking up a conversation. As long as you've been to enough places, you never have to worry about the conversation getting stuck.

At about three or four o'clock, heavy raindrops finally fell, and soon they turned into a gray patch on the car windows. Professor Lu Ping seemed to be still sleeping, but Mu Yu knew that he had woken up long ago. The sky is getting darker and darker, and the rain outside the window is getting heavier and heavier. A faint light came on in the train aisle. The train slowed down until it finally stopped.

It was pitch black outside the car window.

Ron looked past Lupin and looked out the window: "Is it about to arrive? Great, I'm already starving to death."

Hermione looked at her watch: "No way, it's too early."

Mu Yu thought of Daphne before The said dementors would be stationed at Hogwarts, and the train stopped at this time, she immediately thought of this possibility. She tightly held the jade pendant on her waist and the sachet hanging on it. She took the most stringent measures. No matter how sharp the Dementors' senses were, they would not be able to detect it immediately. As long as the Patronus Charm was released in time...

Harry leaned out from the door of the compartment, and countless people were curiously exploring in other compartments. Get out of your head.

All the lights were turned off at this moment, and there was no one visible in the carriage.

"There's something moving outside." Ron said shakily, "Someone is getting on the bus."

The compartment door was opened, and Neville stumbled in in the darkness.

"Lumos Maximus." Mu Yu's wand emitted a dazzling light.

This kind of light can only illuminate a few confused and uneasy faces in the cubicle.

"Oh, Yu, thank you, I'm going to ask the driver." Hermione was about to walk to the aisle when a man walked in, and the two of them bumped into each other, screaming in pain.

"Hermione"

"Ginny"

The entire compartment was already very crowded, and Ginny could only barely share a seat with Hermione. They began to discuss in hushed tones what had happened.

"Quiet." A deep voice sounded in the cubicle. Lu Ping stood up from his seat. He used the light of Mu Yu's wand to get out of the compartment, but before he could get out, the sliding door slowly opened.

A tall figure wearing a cloak almost touched the ceiling, his face was completely hidden under the hood, and under the cloak there was a gray-white hand covered with mucus and spots. Mu Yu felt nauseated. She held the wand in one hand and the jade pendant tightly in the other.

The Dementor seemed to be extremely interested in both Mu Yu and Harry, and his eyes kept wandering over them. He took a long breath, and Mu Yu seemed to have returned to the deep and dark corridor.

She had forgotten all the patronus spells and magic.

"Freak!"

She kept running, and behind her were countless black figures whose faces could not be seen.

Olivia's peaceful face eroded little by little in front of her: "You are nothing."

The disgusting hand gradually grabbed the hand holding the jade pendant.

No, we can't go on like this. The dementors are about to discover the secret of that jade pendant.

The setting sun on Mingyuan Mountain passed before her eyes.

"Xiaoyu, you really disappoint me." The sunset was gradually disappearing, and the darkness corroded everything.

White light suddenly shot out from the wand, and was swallowed up by darkness together with the sunset in my memory.

Many things continued to pass through her mind, including the two figures walking hand in hand on the streets of London, the soul in Norway that was instantly immersed in boundless loneliness, and the words "Happy Birthday" on Mingyuan Mountain.

The dementors touched her. The moment that hand touched her, it was as if all the blood in her body was sucked out by a huge hole. Happy, happy...this is not something she should have.

In the last month of summer vacation, every time after practicing phantom movement, she would sit on the roof of Riddle's old house until the sunset, watching Nagini come back leisurely after foraging for food.

He would always be by his side, watching her blood spread into the moss on the roof, watching her painful and slow healing after separation. And only them.

Many times the setting sun no longer means the prelude to darkness and the ultimate beauty, but a sound of inducement, tempting her that everything should end here. Ambition, chessboard, and ideals should not be continued, and there is no point in continuing.

This was the devil's coaxing, the summons of the inner demon with evil intentions, but at that moment when she saw the golden light gushing out in the sky, she could not help but move closer in one direction, and then closer again. Just like that afternoon, my attention was not on the book at all, but instead I was desperately trying to explore a shadow of nothingness.

Something slid hard to the ground behind her, and she heard Hermione scream. But it doesn't matter anymore.

"Expecto Patronum."

The King Cobra swam toward the figure from the tip of the wand. All the happiness she could find in her life was gathered in this king cobra.

The figure in the cloak drifted away, and the lights in the car window gradually turned on.

Only then did Mu Yu feel the bone-chilling cold. She couldn't stop shaking as if she had been pushed into ice water.

A bony hand handed her a piece of chocolate. Mu Yu looked up and found Lu Ping looking at her with a smile: "Beautiful patron saint. Eat the chocolate, it will only be good for you."

Mu Yu took the chocolate and ate it bit by bit. Harry was passed out and Ron was slapping him hard in the face. Lu Ping kept looking at Mu Yu, looking extremely interested in her. Hermione covered her mouth in surprise when she heard Lupine said the Patronus Charm: "That was the Patronus Charm that could resist dementors. Many adult wizards cannot cast it."

Mu Yu avoided several people and shouted. Brush sight. The process of learning the Patron Saint is actually extremely painful. The happy memories that can be plundered are all beautiful things that can no longer be captured.

The Patronus Charm does not rely on pure happiness, but on the strong emotions that burst out at the memory of a beautiful moment. Such a strong emotion must be painful. What's even more ridiculous is that she herself can't explain what kind of emotion it is.

No one spoke except Hermione, who quietly explained to Harry what had just happened. The hooded figure full of decay and despair lingered in everyone's minds.

The train started moving again. The rain was still pouring outside the window, and Mu Yu suddenly realized that the dementors were nothing more than that, and her hand never left the jade pendant.