I'm the king of scrolls at Hogwarts

Chapter 182 The Beginning of the Third School Year

The sky was getting darker and darker, and when Louis woke up, the car was dark, like it was night.

The surroundings were getting colder and colder, and he could even see the cold air coming out of his own breath.

The cold icy rain outside the window patted randomly on the car window, making a faint crackling sound. Louis patted Catherine and motioned her to get up quickly.

He knew that this change should be caused by the dementors checking the water meter.

"What's wrong?" Catherine woke up from her sleep, shivering due to the cold air.

Louis put his arm around Catherine's shoulders and put the robe on their shoulders, which dispelled a little bit of the cold.

"I don't know, it got so cold all of a sudden." Louis said, looking towards the aisle.

While they were taking a nap, there were still many people walking back and forth in the corridor, but now no one could be seen. After a while, a humanoid creature wearing a black cloak appeared at their door, opened the door with a click, and stared directly at the two of them.

Finally, the black cloak moved - but in the opposite direction, very fast, as if running away.

"Is this... a dementor?" Catherine asked with a frown, and then sighed to herself: "They must be here to search for Sirius Black, right? Hmm... The Ministry of Magic is really getting more and more depraved. Allowing such a thing to enter the Hogwarts train."

"Maybe they can't help it." Louis shrugged: "After all, you can't expect them to really do anything useful-except to help Voldemort and create trouble for Dumbledore."

Soon, the coldness receded like a tide, and after a while, anxious Hermione knocked on the door of their compartment.

"Louis, Catherine...go and see, Harry, Harry..."

"What's wrong? Don't worry." Catherine tried to calm down Hermione.

"Harry, he fainted..." It looked like Hermione was almost dying of anxiety.

When the two of them walked to Harry's compartment, Harry was already awake, and Lupine happened to be sitting next to him, who had woken up.

"Eat this." Lupine handed Harry a plate of chocolates: "You will feel better."

Harry took the chocolate, broke off a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth. The sweet taste and the unique aroma of chocolate stimulated his dopamine secretion, and even a strange warm current flowed down his throat. In the stomach, it spreads to the limbs and bones.

For a moment, the fear and other negative emotions just now eased slightly. After swallowing the chocolate in his mouth, he asked aloud: "What was that just now, Professor?"

"A dementor, from Azkaban, is the guard of that prison." Lupine crumpled up the empty chocolate wrapper and put it into his pocket. He stood up and said to several people : "Now I'm going to find the driver to ask something, and you guys can chat slowly."

After Lupine turned around and left, Hermione looked at Harry anxiously and asked, "Harry, are you sure you're okay?"

"Of course I'm fine... I just don't quite understand what happened just now." Harry said worriedly, reaching out to wipe the sweat off his face.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other, and told Harry carefully what had just happened.

"Oh, my God." Harry slapped him in the face: "Why is it that everyone is fine, but I fainted..." He felt very embarrassed, even after eating Professor Lupin's chocolate, he still felt a little shaky. Weak.

Seeing that Harry was still in a daze, Louis smiled and explained: "Dementors are special. They can induce fear deep in your heart... Tell me, Harry, what did you just see?" ?”

"I..." Harry thought for a moment and said, "I saw a white light and heard a woman's scream - I am sure that woman was my mother..."

Harry's face was extremely pale, as if he had just been fished out of cold water.

At this time, Professor Lupine also came back from the front of the car. He looked at the lively crowd and said with a smile: "Get ready, students, we will be at Hogwarts in ten minutes... Are you okay? , Harry?"

Harry did not ask Lupine how he knew his name. He replied in a low voice: "Okay, Professor." His cheeks turned slightly red as he spoke, looking very embarrassed.

In fact, there is no need to ask why you know his name. After all, no one is blind with such a big scar on his head...

They didn't say much during the rest of the way, and everyone who was watching the excitement returned to their carriages to pack their luggage. Finally, the train finally stopped at Hogwarts Station. It was really a hectic scene when they got off the train, owls. There were cries, cats meowing, and Neville's pet toad making "stick scratch, stick scratch" noises under his hat, it was so lively.

"First-year students, come here!" A familiar loud voice sounded not far away. It was Hagrid. Among the short wizards, Hagrid was particularly conspicuous. He was waving to the young wizards.

"Okay, you guys?" Hagrid asked everyone over his head, feeling somewhat like a Shandongese person in this inverted sentence.

They all waved to Hagrid but had no chance to speak to him as the people around them were pushing them along the platform.

The treatment this time was still the Thestral carriage. Louis and Catherine got into one, along with the dragon maid. The faint musty smell made Catherine wrinkle her delicate nose involuntarily.

"Just bear with it, honey." Louis patted her smooth thigh.

"Yeah." Catherine replied in a nasal tone. She would be in fifth grade after school started.

The carriage rolled forward. In front of it was the cast-iron gate with the logo of Hogwarts, with many stone pillars standing on both sides. Louis noticed that there were two guard-like dementors standing guard on both sides of the gate. It seemed that another cold wave was hitting them. Come.

When Louis' carriage passed the gate, the two dementors were like mice seeing a cat, and they quickly retreated to both sides, and did not return until they were far away.

After handing his luggage to the house elf, Louis came to the Great Hall and sat in the seat belonging to Slytherin to wait for the opening ceremony.

Behind him is Gryffindor, the same old thing. Soon, other students came in one after another, filling up the seats in the entire auditorium - coincidentally, no matter how many freshmen there were, the seats were always just right.

"Butter, bust!" Draco shouted back at Harry.

Harry turned his head and saw Draco looking at him teasingly.

"What's wrong?" Harry always felt that this kid didn't hold anything back.

Sure enough, Draco said with a long drawl and a strange smile: "I heard that you passed out? Pote, did you really pass out?"

"Shut up, Malfoy!" Harry said through gritted teeth.

Seeing that the two were still flirting, Catherine hooked her fingers and used a little magic to attract the attention of the entire class in the auditorium to the two.

Accompanied by uniform cheers, Draco and Harry finally ended their useless quarrel and turned away with red faces.

Today's sorting ceremony was different from usual. After the sorting, there was actually a choir organized by Professor Flitwick, the headmaster of Ravenclaw, to sing for everyone. Louis listened carefully for a while and discovered that they were singing excerpts from Shakespeare's classic play "Macbeth."

Everyone in the choir was holding a big toad, which fit the Muggle stereotype of wizards very well. Many of the new Muggle-born wizards began to applaud.

Needless to say, Dean Flitwick is doing a pretty good job.

After singing, it was Professor Dumbledore's turn. Although he is very old, he always gives people an energetic image. People often say that he is the greatest wizard, but everyone respects him not only because of this, because when many people see Dumbledore, they will Can't help but trust him.

Especially Harry, when he saw Dumbledore smiling at all the classmates, he couldn't help but feel that even the dementors had nothing to fear.

"Welcome." Professor Dumbledore said, "Welcome to Hogwarts in the new school year. I have a few words to say to you. One of them is very serious. I think it would be better if you are treated like this. Let’s talk this out before we get confused by the delicious meal.”

Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued: "After they searched the Hogwarts Express, you must all know. At present, our school has to receive a number of dementors from Azkaban. They are here to Carrying out official duties for the Ministry of Magic."

He paused, and Louis understood that Dumbledore was not happy about the dementors guarding the school.

"They are stationed at all entrances to the school grounds," Dumbledore continued. "During their stay here, I must make it clear that no one is allowed to leave the school without permission. Dementors should not be subjected to Tricks or disguised deception - not even an invisibility cloak." He added this expressionlessly, just shy of mentioning Harry's name.

"Dementors are born not to understand what requests or excuses are, so I warn you all not to give them any excuse to harm you. I hope that professors, prefects, and the newly appointed student union president, you must ensure to avoid students Conflict with Dementors.”

Dumbledore paused again here, and continued after a long while: "What is more gratifying is that this year, I am very happy to have two new teachers joining our teaching team."

"The first is Professor R.J. Lupine, who graciously agreed to fill the vacancies in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course except for the third and fifth years."

The whole audience burst into enthusiastic cheers. Everyone had had enough of Snape's suffering - even Harry and the others were no exception. Who made him Harry's savior?

Lu Ping was also shocked by everyone's surprise. Looking at the enthusiastic classmates, he felt that his decision was really the right one - he would be lying if he said he was not impressed.

"Look at Professor Snape." Louis lowered his head and said to Catherine.

Catherine followed the words and saw Professor Snape's face - what kind of face was that. For those who didn't know, he thought he had eaten a fly. It was hard to imagine that Snape had such a twisted, disgusted and queasy expression. This is something that Professor Napp, who usually only has two faces: disgust and expressionless, can do this.

But Snape did it.

"I guess he thinks Professor Lupine took his course," Catherine said in a low voice.

"Not necessarily, I think there must be a lot of stories between these two people." Louis hiccuped happily. He knew the grudges between Snape and the four Marauders.

To be honest, Louis admired Snape very much. If he had been Snape, he would have greeted him with a sharp strike.

After the warm applause and cheers ended, Dumbledore continued: "Unfortunately, Professor Kettle Burn, who has been teaching our Care of Magical Creatures class for several years, has decided to retire in order to have more Time has taken care of his already broken body, and fortunately, I'm pleased to announce that his replacement is none other than our very own Rubeus Hagrid!"

At this point, Dumbledore turned around and spread his palms towards where Hagrid was sitting.

The whole auditorium burst into enthusiastic cheers - except for Slytherin, especially Harry and the others. After all, Hagrid is a cute and good friend of theirs.

Hagrid stared at his big hands with his face flushed, and the honest smile on his face was hidden in his thick beard.

Professor McGonagall tilted her head to her right, smiled and applauded Hagrid. Seeing that he didn't make any move, Professor McGonagall nudged Hagrid gently with her elbow to signal him to stand up.

Only then did Hagrid react and stood up quickly, but the long table in front of him staggered. If Professor Flitwick hadn't reacted quickly, the table would have tipped over.

Professor McGonagall put her hand on her forehead and began to wonder if it was wrong to ask Hagrid to stand up just now...

"Okay, I think the important things have been said." Professor Dumbledore said with a smile: "Then, let the banquet... begin."

The golden plates and goblets in the auditorium were suddenly filled with sumptuous food and drinks. Louis shook his head and sighed: "Maybe I took the train all afternoon just for this moment..."

"You're right." Catherine chuckled and forked a piece of baked Yorkshire pudding - actually it was just called pudding, but in fact it was more like an open pie, with barbecue flavor.

Hogwarts has never skimped on students' food and clothing expenses, so the old students didn't think there was anything new, they just ate normally and slowly. But the freshmen were different. There were even a few freshmen from the orphanage. Facing the dazzling array of delicacies in front of them, they actually felt like a cow gnawing pumpkins with nowhere to eat.

However, under the urging of the old students around them, they quickly joined the battle, and their attitude of swallowing up mountains and rivers was no less than that of Ron, who was in his first year of school.

Ron is different now than before. Ever since he established a relationship with Hermione, he has no longer behaved like he did before. Instead, he has become gentle and slow, and even went out of his way to learn from Louis. , carefully studied the dining etiquette.

I have to admit that love is the easiest thing to change a person.

Poor Ron was being manipulated.

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