Chapter 64
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Shui Shen Zhi Feng
Chapter 64
On the morning of Saturday, November 11, Schelling woke up early from his bed in the dormitory. He planned to watch today's Quidditch match in person. Although he was not interested in Quidditch, he knew that there would be a good show in today's Quidditch.
The thunder outside was still continuous, and the violent wind hit the outer wall of the castle, and of course the windows were not immune.When Xie Lin came to the corridor on the first floor, he immediately noticed the howling wind and rainstorm outside. They were obviously bigger than yesterday!
Schelling leisurely walked to the auditorium, ready to have his breakfast. After a while, Daphne, Astoria, and Meredith also appeared in the auditorium wearing thick raincoats. The three girls looked at Schelling in light clothes and showed puzzled expressions at the same time.
Soon their doubts were answered, and the four of them walked out of the castle together after breakfast. The weather outside the castle was blustery and rainy, but in order to watch the game, all the teachers and students of the school came out as usual. They ran across the lawn to the Quidditch pitch, sat on the wet stands, lowered their heads against the strong wind.
Contrary to their haste, Schelling and the three girls walked towards the court very leisurely. As soon as the heavy rain fell around them, they slid away from him as if blocked by an invisible barrier.
Astoria, who didn't know why, only thought it was very powerful, and looked at Schelling with admiring eyes, while Meredith knew it was great, and murmured dumbfounded: "The water and fire inviolability spell covers the whole body, and there are four people..." Even Meredith, who is not surprised by it, is still surprised by Schelling's rapid improvement in strength. He has worked so hard, why does he feel that the gap is getting bigger and bigger?
Five minutes into the game, all the players were drenched from the inside out.The weather was very cold, many people were frozen, and it was difficult to see other teammates, let alone the long flying Bludgers.Everyone flitted across the field, but could only see blurred red and yellow figures one by one, without knowing the progress of the game at all.
In the blustery conditions, cheers and applause were only faintly audible from the audience, hidden under cloaks and wind-blown umbrellas.Many players were almost knocked off their broomsticks by the Bludger. The heavy rain made everyone barely open their eyes, and they couldn't see the ball hitting from the opposite side.
Just after Gryffindor led by 50 points, Harry and Cedric suddenly spotted the Snitch at the same time, and they spun and rushed in the direction of the Snitch. Cedric was closer than Harry, but Harry was faster than Cedric by virtue of his light body and ability to sweep the Seven Stars.
At this moment, something strange happened on the scene.There was a timid silence in the terraces around the stadium—the wind, though still as strong as ever, seemed to have forgotten to howl, as if someone had turned the volume switch off to silence the wind.
Like the ink dripping in the water and spreading outward, a deep black is straddling the distant sky. More than 100 dementors are attracted by the cheerful atmosphere on the Quidditch pitch, and they quickly attack with a terrible cold current.
The dementors seemed to be invited to a feast. They were wearing tattered dark gray cloaks, floating in the air. A pair of rotten hands with pus seeping out were slowly shaking outside the hood. The air was filled with the smell of rotten flesh.Following the lines formed by the icicles in the air, Xie Lin saw something invisible flying out of the stands and being sucked away by the dementors above. It was the happy mood of the young wizards watching the game.
A flash of light flashed in Xie Lin's eyes, he stood up abruptly, drew out his wand, pointed it at the dementor in the center of the field, and shouted angrily, "Call God to protect you!"
Immediately, everyone on the field let out an exclamation, and they immediately saw a giant dragon exuding a silver mist!
That giant dragon's body was bigger than a human, and it was even bigger than the half-blood giant Hagrid. A pair of bat-like, broad and majestic wings spread out horizontally, flapping them in an aesthetically pleasing way.
The giant dragon soared rapidly, and the silver-white light mist surrounded and entangled its body, and it rushed towards the dementors floating on the ground with a magnificent momentum.
In mid-air, Harry quickly approached the Snitch.He was only a little bit closer, he was faster than Cedric, but suddenly time seemed to stand still completely around him.Harry felt as if he had entered a black hole from which he would never fly out. He was moving forward helplessly in it, the temperature around him was getting colder and colder, his breathing began to freeze, and the freezing rainwater drilled into his body, cutting his internal organs.
He heard the same sound he had heard the last time on the train, someone moaning, moaning inside his head, a woman's voice, she seemed to be begging someone to let Harry go.
Then Harry became dizzy and slid off the broomstick. Just when he thought he would fall like this, a silver-white dragon suddenly flew over from below, caught the fainted Harry, and put him on the grass.
The little wizards in the auditorium were falling into depression, powerlessness, fear and other negative emotions due to the effects of more than 100 dementors, but suddenly saw a silver-white dragon appearing suddenly, like a ray of dawn in the dark, bringing the only color and light to this black and white dim world.
The little wizards turned their heads in unison, and what they saw was an unforgettable scene - a boy with a still youthful appearance pointed at more than 100 ferocious dementors in the sky with his wand.
Compared with the overwhelming dementors in the sky, his solitary figure seemed so small—but it was such an insignificant figure that gave people a feeling of being as tall as a mountain and standing still. In the darkness, his eyes seemed to be shining brightly with determination, and his wand was still held high.
Everyone could feel his indomitable determination, which made the hopeless little wizard suddenly feel hopeful, and even the influence of the dementors was weakened a lot-this picture was engraved in everyone's mind, and it has not been forgotten until many years later.
"Look! It's Sherin! That's his Patronus!"
"My God! How did he do it? There are so many dementors here, isn't he afraid?"
"We, how can we leave him alone..."
"Sherin, hold on! We're here to help you!"
As if they had been given courage by Schelling's lead, one after another the young wizards stood up bravely, raised their wands, and said the Patronus spell.Like the stars in the dark night, silvery-white light spots lit up on the stands one after another. There were at least 40 light spots on the stands, and many of them began to condense a complete physical patron saint with their wands.
Draco's Patronus is a Komodo dragon; Pansy's Patronus is a fox; Daphne's Patronus is a cobra; Meredith's Patronus is a lynx; Astoria's Patronus is a peacock; Hermione's Patronus is an otter; Luna's Patronus is a hare; Murray's Patronus is a swan; Penello's Patronus is a harrier; Dizziness scattered.
The silver-white dragon suddenly rushed into the place where the dementors were gathered, knocking over ten dementors into the air with just one impact, then it flapped its wings vigorously, swung its long tail, and sent the dementors flying one after another with its four sharp claws.The giant dragon seemed to be the natural enemy of the dementors, coming and going freely, as if not worried about the threat posed by those terrifying dementors, and the dementors were beaten to pieces.
The Patronuses followed the dragon in a second wave of shock against the Dementors, pushing the Dementors' line back at least ten feet.Behind the patron saints is the white mist released by the other little wizards. Their happiness is not enough to form a physical patron saint, but after a large amount of white mist slowly gathers together, it forms a magic barrier, like a solid city wall, dispelling fear and cold in an instant.
In the next second, a pleasant chirping sound came from the highest part of the castle.A huge silver-white phoenix flapped its wings and flew out of the principal's office. It was Dumbledore's patron saint!
Xie Lin sneered from the bottom of his heart, our great headmaster always likes to be so late and choose to appear on the stage with the brilliance of saving the world at the last moment, this time he may have miscalculated!
When the silver-white phoenix finally arrived at the court, all the dementors had been driven to the edge of the court. The phoenix seemed unwilling to reconcile that he had no chance to show off, and ruthlessly caught up with the fleeing dementors, giving them a final wave of shock, and then circled twice in the sky embarrassingly before finally dissipating.
Harry opened his eyes suddenly. He was lying in the school hospital.
The Gryffindor Quidditch players, splashed from head to toe with mud, were surrounding his bed, as were Ron and Hermione.
"Digory caught the Snitch!" said Fred. "Just after you fell, he didn't understand what happened. When he looked back and saw you fell to the ground, he was going to call off the fight." The game, I want to rematch it."
"But they won fair and aboveboard, and even Wood admits this." George continued.
Harry lay on the hospital bed, listening to Fred and George's discussion, without saying a word.
They lost, all because of him, the first time he had lost a Quidditch match.About 10 minutes later, Ms. Pomfrey came over and told the team to put Harry to rest.The team left, and Madam Pomfrey closed the door behind them.Ron and Hermione looked at each other and stayed.
"I seem to see a lot of dementors?" Harry whispered.
"It's more than 100 dementors, Harry!" Hermione said in a trembling voice, "I was so scared that I didn't know what to do. My head was full of terrible things. Thanks to Schelling and his Patronus, everyone woke up..."
"Okay, Hermione!" Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ron's anger suddenly surged up somehow, and he shouted, "Schelling's Patronus is useless at all. It was Dumbledore who drove away those dementors. The dementors left because they saw Dumbledore coming from a distance, and they were afraid of his Patronus! Let me tell you, this is a Slytherin conspiracy. Gorey would faint too, and Gryffindor wouldn't have lost if that happened."
"What are you talking about, Ron!" Hermione said in amazement, "Harry wouldn't know how badly he would have been hurt if he fell from such a height if Schelling's Patronus hadn't caught him!"
Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ron became more and more irritable.There was an inexplicable anger in his heart that wanted to come out. He was on the Quidditch pitch, and he also tried to say the Patronus spell. He only let the wand glow a little, and it disappeared immediately.Seeing Hermione successfully released the Patronus, he somehow felt very hot and uncomfortable in his heart, as if burned by an emotion called jealousy.
He shouted, "Hermione, he's a Slytherin! And a Malfoy! His father is a Death Eater! Don't forget, most Death Eaters or Dark wizards are Slytherins. Ever since you went to that damn exchange meeting, you've been brainwashed by them to always say nice things about Malfoy!"
"Okay, can you two give me some silence!" Harry whispered.
Ron's voice dropped, and there was an embarrassing silence in the room.
Harry didn't understand what was going on with Ron and Hermione, they didn't care about their health, but they were discussing whether Schelling's Patronus Charm was working.Although he has no friendship with Xie Lin, he also knows that Xie Lin's patron saint saved him this time, preventing him from being seriously injured. He doesn't want to speak ill of Xie Lin behind his back.
"Forget about the dementors, has anyone got my Sweeping Seven Stars?"
"Well, when you fell, it was blown away. And then it hit, hit the Whomping Willow," said Hermione hesitantly. "Professor Flitwick got it back before you woke up." She reached for her schoolbag at her feet, and turned it upside down.A dozen pieces of wood and fragments of broom tails fell on the bed, the remains of Harry's broomstick.
The Harry trio fell silent.
Thanks to Unknown Youth for the 12 recommendation votes; 15 recommendation votes for opposing seeing; 8 recommendation votes for Broken Heart; thank you!
(End of this chapter)
On the morning of Saturday, November 11, Schelling woke up early from his bed in the dormitory. He planned to watch today's Quidditch match in person. Although he was not interested in Quidditch, he knew that there would be a good show in today's Quidditch.
The thunder outside was still continuous, and the violent wind hit the outer wall of the castle, and of course the windows were not immune.When Xie Lin came to the corridor on the first floor, he immediately noticed the howling wind and rainstorm outside. They were obviously bigger than yesterday!
Schelling leisurely walked to the auditorium, ready to have his breakfast. After a while, Daphne, Astoria, and Meredith also appeared in the auditorium wearing thick raincoats. The three girls looked at Schelling in light clothes and showed puzzled expressions at the same time.
Soon their doubts were answered, and the four of them walked out of the castle together after breakfast. The weather outside the castle was blustery and rainy, but in order to watch the game, all the teachers and students of the school came out as usual. They ran across the lawn to the Quidditch pitch, sat on the wet stands, lowered their heads against the strong wind.
Contrary to their haste, Schelling and the three girls walked towards the court very leisurely. As soon as the heavy rain fell around them, they slid away from him as if blocked by an invisible barrier.
Astoria, who didn't know why, only thought it was very powerful, and looked at Schelling with admiring eyes, while Meredith knew it was great, and murmured dumbfounded: "The water and fire inviolability spell covers the whole body, and there are four people..." Even Meredith, who is not surprised by it, is still surprised by Schelling's rapid improvement in strength. He has worked so hard, why does he feel that the gap is getting bigger and bigger?
Five minutes into the game, all the players were drenched from the inside out.The weather was very cold, many people were frozen, and it was difficult to see other teammates, let alone the long flying Bludgers.Everyone flitted across the field, but could only see blurred red and yellow figures one by one, without knowing the progress of the game at all.
In the blustery conditions, cheers and applause were only faintly audible from the audience, hidden under cloaks and wind-blown umbrellas.Many players were almost knocked off their broomsticks by the Bludger. The heavy rain made everyone barely open their eyes, and they couldn't see the ball hitting from the opposite side.
Just after Gryffindor led by 50 points, Harry and Cedric suddenly spotted the Snitch at the same time, and they spun and rushed in the direction of the Snitch. Cedric was closer than Harry, but Harry was faster than Cedric by virtue of his light body and ability to sweep the Seven Stars.
At this moment, something strange happened on the scene.There was a timid silence in the terraces around the stadium—the wind, though still as strong as ever, seemed to have forgotten to howl, as if someone had turned the volume switch off to silence the wind.
Like the ink dripping in the water and spreading outward, a deep black is straddling the distant sky. More than 100 dementors are attracted by the cheerful atmosphere on the Quidditch pitch, and they quickly attack with a terrible cold current.
The dementors seemed to be invited to a feast. They were wearing tattered dark gray cloaks, floating in the air. A pair of rotten hands with pus seeping out were slowly shaking outside the hood. The air was filled with the smell of rotten flesh.Following the lines formed by the icicles in the air, Xie Lin saw something invisible flying out of the stands and being sucked away by the dementors above. It was the happy mood of the young wizards watching the game.
A flash of light flashed in Xie Lin's eyes, he stood up abruptly, drew out his wand, pointed it at the dementor in the center of the field, and shouted angrily, "Call God to protect you!"
Immediately, everyone on the field let out an exclamation, and they immediately saw a giant dragon exuding a silver mist!
That giant dragon's body was bigger than a human, and it was even bigger than the half-blood giant Hagrid. A pair of bat-like, broad and majestic wings spread out horizontally, flapping them in an aesthetically pleasing way.
The giant dragon soared rapidly, and the silver-white light mist surrounded and entangled its body, and it rushed towards the dementors floating on the ground with a magnificent momentum.
In mid-air, Harry quickly approached the Snitch.He was only a little bit closer, he was faster than Cedric, but suddenly time seemed to stand still completely around him.Harry felt as if he had entered a black hole from which he would never fly out. He was moving forward helplessly in it, the temperature around him was getting colder and colder, his breathing began to freeze, and the freezing rainwater drilled into his body, cutting his internal organs.
He heard the same sound he had heard the last time on the train, someone moaning, moaning inside his head, a woman's voice, she seemed to be begging someone to let Harry go.
Then Harry became dizzy and slid off the broomstick. Just when he thought he would fall like this, a silver-white dragon suddenly flew over from below, caught the fainted Harry, and put him on the grass.
The little wizards in the auditorium were falling into depression, powerlessness, fear and other negative emotions due to the effects of more than 100 dementors, but suddenly saw a silver-white dragon appearing suddenly, like a ray of dawn in the dark, bringing the only color and light to this black and white dim world.
The little wizards turned their heads in unison, and what they saw was an unforgettable scene - a boy with a still youthful appearance pointed at more than 100 ferocious dementors in the sky with his wand.
Compared with the overwhelming dementors in the sky, his solitary figure seemed so small—but it was such an insignificant figure that gave people a feeling of being as tall as a mountain and standing still. In the darkness, his eyes seemed to be shining brightly with determination, and his wand was still held high.
Everyone could feel his indomitable determination, which made the hopeless little wizard suddenly feel hopeful, and even the influence of the dementors was weakened a lot-this picture was engraved in everyone's mind, and it has not been forgotten until many years later.
"Look! It's Sherin! That's his Patronus!"
"My God! How did he do it? There are so many dementors here, isn't he afraid?"
"We, how can we leave him alone..."
"Sherin, hold on! We're here to help you!"
As if they had been given courage by Schelling's lead, one after another the young wizards stood up bravely, raised their wands, and said the Patronus spell.Like the stars in the dark night, silvery-white light spots lit up on the stands one after another. There were at least 40 light spots on the stands, and many of them began to condense a complete physical patron saint with their wands.
Draco's Patronus is a Komodo dragon; Pansy's Patronus is a fox; Daphne's Patronus is a cobra; Meredith's Patronus is a lynx; Astoria's Patronus is a peacock; Hermione's Patronus is an otter; Luna's Patronus is a hare; Murray's Patronus is a swan; Penello's Patronus is a harrier; Dizziness scattered.
The silver-white dragon suddenly rushed into the place where the dementors were gathered, knocking over ten dementors into the air with just one impact, then it flapped its wings vigorously, swung its long tail, and sent the dementors flying one after another with its four sharp claws.The giant dragon seemed to be the natural enemy of the dementors, coming and going freely, as if not worried about the threat posed by those terrifying dementors, and the dementors were beaten to pieces.
The Patronuses followed the dragon in a second wave of shock against the Dementors, pushing the Dementors' line back at least ten feet.Behind the patron saints is the white mist released by the other little wizards. Their happiness is not enough to form a physical patron saint, but after a large amount of white mist slowly gathers together, it forms a magic barrier, like a solid city wall, dispelling fear and cold in an instant.
In the next second, a pleasant chirping sound came from the highest part of the castle.A huge silver-white phoenix flapped its wings and flew out of the principal's office. It was Dumbledore's patron saint!
Xie Lin sneered from the bottom of his heart, our great headmaster always likes to be so late and choose to appear on the stage with the brilliance of saving the world at the last moment, this time he may have miscalculated!
When the silver-white phoenix finally arrived at the court, all the dementors had been driven to the edge of the court. The phoenix seemed unwilling to reconcile that he had no chance to show off, and ruthlessly caught up with the fleeing dementors, giving them a final wave of shock, and then circled twice in the sky embarrassingly before finally dissipating.
Harry opened his eyes suddenly. He was lying in the school hospital.
The Gryffindor Quidditch players, splashed from head to toe with mud, were surrounding his bed, as were Ron and Hermione.
"Digory caught the Snitch!" said Fred. "Just after you fell, he didn't understand what happened. When he looked back and saw you fell to the ground, he was going to call off the fight." The game, I want to rematch it."
"But they won fair and aboveboard, and even Wood admits this." George continued.
Harry lay on the hospital bed, listening to Fred and George's discussion, without saying a word.
They lost, all because of him, the first time he had lost a Quidditch match.About 10 minutes later, Ms. Pomfrey came over and told the team to put Harry to rest.The team left, and Madam Pomfrey closed the door behind them.Ron and Hermione looked at each other and stayed.
"I seem to see a lot of dementors?" Harry whispered.
"It's more than 100 dementors, Harry!" Hermione said in a trembling voice, "I was so scared that I didn't know what to do. My head was full of terrible things. Thanks to Schelling and his Patronus, everyone woke up..."
"Okay, Hermione!" Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ron's anger suddenly surged up somehow, and he shouted, "Schelling's Patronus is useless at all. It was Dumbledore who drove away those dementors. The dementors left because they saw Dumbledore coming from a distance, and they were afraid of his Patronus! Let me tell you, this is a Slytherin conspiracy. Gorey would faint too, and Gryffindor wouldn't have lost if that happened."
"What are you talking about, Ron!" Hermione said in amazement, "Harry wouldn't know how badly he would have been hurt if he fell from such a height if Schelling's Patronus hadn't caught him!"
Seeing Hermione's appearance, Ron became more and more irritable.There was an inexplicable anger in his heart that wanted to come out. He was on the Quidditch pitch, and he also tried to say the Patronus spell. He only let the wand glow a little, and it disappeared immediately.Seeing Hermione successfully released the Patronus, he somehow felt very hot and uncomfortable in his heart, as if burned by an emotion called jealousy.
He shouted, "Hermione, he's a Slytherin! And a Malfoy! His father is a Death Eater! Don't forget, most Death Eaters or Dark wizards are Slytherins. Ever since you went to that damn exchange meeting, you've been brainwashed by them to always say nice things about Malfoy!"
"Okay, can you two give me some silence!" Harry whispered.
Ron's voice dropped, and there was an embarrassing silence in the room.
Harry didn't understand what was going on with Ron and Hermione, they didn't care about their health, but they were discussing whether Schelling's Patronus Charm was working.Although he has no friendship with Xie Lin, he also knows that Xie Lin's patron saint saved him this time, preventing him from being seriously injured. He doesn't want to speak ill of Xie Lin behind his back.
"Forget about the dementors, has anyone got my Sweeping Seven Stars?"
"Well, when you fell, it was blown away. And then it hit, hit the Whomping Willow," said Hermione hesitantly. "Professor Flitwick got it back before you woke up." She reached for her schoolbag at her feet, and turned it upside down.A dozen pieces of wood and fragments of broom tails fell on the bed, the remains of Harry's broomstick.
The Harry trio fell silent.
Thanks to Unknown Youth for the 12 recommendation votes; 15 recommendation votes for opposing seeing; 8 recommendation votes for Broken Heart; thank you!
(End of this chapter)
