Chapter 323 Dementor's Kiss

Harry naturally knew that being an excellent student would bring more privileges.

After all, there were three people around him who had many privileges, and the professors trusted them very much. They also knew many secrets of Hogwarts.

But the problem was...

You can't be an excellent student just because you want to be one.

Those excellent students all had outstanding strengths, and Harry didn't think he was special.

Oh, I don't know if being able to understand snake language is a skill, but this skill is not only his, Lin Xia can also speak snake language.

Ron also said enviously: "Lin Xia, you said it too easily, I also want to be an excellent student, but I don't have that ability.

In terms of learning, I can't compare with Hermione, in terms of fighting power, I can't compare with Draco, and in terms of research, I can't compare with you.

To be honest, even if the school wants to select me as an excellent student, I don't know what they value about me."

Harry also wanted to say these words, Ron was his mouthpiece.

Compared with the three excellent and outstanding friends, their abilities seemed too mediocre.

Lin Xia couldn't help but smile and said lightly: "Maybe you think you are ordinary, but I don't think so.

Your understanding of magic runes is far beyond that of ordinary students. I think you can start with magic runes."

Harry couldn't help but say: "But I know very limited magic runes, and I can't use magic runes to arrange magic circles. At most, I know a little magic runes related to alchemy. Do you want me to invent some gadgets related to alchemy?"

Lin Xia asked back: "Why not?"

She added: "Moreover, you don't have to be an inventor to become an excellent student at Hogwarts. You can be an excellent assistant.

When your level of assisting us is getting higher and higher, and you know many professional terms, you can also become an excellent student, because other little wizards can't do it at all."

When Ron and Harry helped in her laboratory, Lin Xia deliberately trained their abilities as assistants.

It's not so easy to be an excellent assistant. You need to know a lot of knowledge, and you have to accompany and participate in discussions to understand the researchers' ideas.

Besides, some inventions produced by Lin Xia's laboratory also have suggestions from Ron and Harry.

It is a bit difficult to become an excellent student in the first and second grades, but now that I am in the third grade, the difficulty has been reduced a lot.

At least Lin Xia has observed the excellent students in Hogwarts who are above the third grade and found that their abilities are only slightly better than those of ordinary little wizards.

To say how amazing it is, it is really not amazing.

This also means that it is not impossible to obtain excellent students by strategy.

Lin Xia thought for a while and said, "You two are in Gryffindor. After school starts, go to Professor McGonagall and see if you can get any advice from her."

Ron and Harry looked at each other, and both saw a hint of caution in their eyes.

Go to Professor McGonagall...

In their eyes, Professor McGonagall has always been a very serious existence, always patrolling expressionlessly, then scolding them, and then severely deducting the school points.

They couldn't imagine what it would be like to ask for help from Professor McGonagall.

Lin Xia suddenly thought of something and said, "Maybe in the near future, there will be an opportunity for you to become excellent students.

This summer, I went to the Researchers' Association and obtained many basic ancient magic words. I developed an audible version of the Guardian Spell. This research includes some suggestions you have made."

She was not lying just to promote Harry and Ron.

In the early research process, Harry and Ron really analyzed some ancient magic words and eliminated some ancient magic words that were completely unsuitable.

At the same time, they analyzed and improved the materials and shapes of the [Voice Guardian].

At least now, Lin Xia directly copied Harry and Ron's ideas for the appearance of [Voice Guardian].

In a research team, there are chief designers and chief engineers like Lin Xia who decide the general direction.

There are team leaders like Draco and Hermione, but there are also researchers like Harry and Ron who do research and record data day after day.

Behind every successful invention, no one in the team is doing idle things.

At the same time, Lin Xia discovered.

After she said "join the Researchers Association in the summer", Professor Lupin, who was sitting opposite her in silence and obviously didn't want to talk, suddenly looked up at her.

He seemed a little surprised, narrowed his narrow eyes slightly, and observed her carefully, as if judging whether what she said was true or false.

Lin Xia looked at him without fear, and suddenly a light flashed in her mind.

Why did she always feel familiar after seeing Professor Lupin?

Professor Lupin's eyes made her feel a bit like a wolf.

After staring at each other in silence for a few seconds, Lupin took the lead in looking.

He pressed the wide brim of his hat with his hand, covering his face in a shadow, and returned to his previous indifferent look.

Hermione observed secretly, quietly waved magic, and wrote a string of words in the air with a marker.

[Lin Xia, is this professor feeling unwell? Should I give him a few bottles of healing potion? 】

Lin Xia took a look and wrote in the same way as marking the current situation:

[He is not feeling unwell, he just doesn't want to talk to us, he looks very tired]

Other friends lowered their voices when they saw Lin Xia's words, so as not to disturb the professor who was resting.

"Clang-clang-clang-"

The Hogwarts Express passed through swamps, valleys, streams... and kept speeding north.

Suddenly, bean-sized raindrops hit the transparent glass window, accompanied by the sound of heavy rain, waking up some wizards who had fallen into deep sleep.

The scenery outside the window became blurred in an instant, and every landscape was hung with a circle of rippling water curtains. The sky gradually became darker, and the sky and the earth seemed to be wrapped in a layer of gray curtains.

The wind began to howl, and the rain was heavy again, with no sign of stopping.

Harry stretched his neck hard, looked out the window, and frowned, "The weather is too bad, I can't see where the train is."

Ron looked down at the time, "If the train speed does not slow down, we should be there soon."

As soon as the voice fell, the train slowed down.

Outside the box, there were cheers from the little wizards.

"Great!" Ron stood up and walked carefully past Professor Lupin, trying to see the situation outside the window. "I'm starving and want to attend the banquet..."

Lin Xia also looked down at her watch at this time, "But according to the time, we haven't arrived yet, and we should still be some distance away from Hogwarts."

Hermione asked, "Why did the train stop now?"

Ron stretched his hand out to the window, and the scenery outside the window had become gray and white.

Suddenly, he was stunned, "Huh, white?"

The next second, a cold mist blew outside the window, forming pieces of ice.

Ron's hand was placed on the window and was also affected, as if he was touching a piece of ice, and he was instantly frozen.

He immediately took his hand back from the window and quickly waved his wand to warm his hand. At the same time, the coldness outside the window came into the window, and the pot of water closest to the window instantly froze into ice.

This change made everyone in the box a little surprised.

There were screams and gasps outside the box, causing great chaos.

"Ah!!"

They all heard several loud screams, which were accompanied by painful emotions, and then a hissing sound came, and the coldness was even worse.

"I'll go ask the driver what's going on." Hermione's voice said.

Harry felt Hermione passing in front of him, and the sliding door was about to be opened, but was suddenly stopped by Lin Xia, "No, don't go out, it looks dangerous outside."

Two more painful screams came from outside.

"Who is running outside?" Hermione couldn't help asking.

"Who is it?"

"Who is outside?"

However, no one responded to her.

Lin Xia grabbed Hermione who was still trying to go outside, stared straight at the door of the box, and said in a deep voice: "Something is coming, and the little wizards are very afraid of it. We must be prepared."

Ron's expression became terrified, and he said in a panic: "What preparation, what should I prepare?"

Harry also seemed a little flustered, and many thoughts floated through his mind.

Should he cast Armor Protection first, or cast an attack spell to bounce back the incoming damage?

Draco looked solemn and cast a super-sensory spell on himself.

There were many chaotic footsteps in the corridor outside, but at a certain moment, they all disappeared, and the corridor suddenly became dead silent.

The silent silence was a catalyst, telling them that something was approaching, and everyone's expressions became more and more solemn.

Suddenly, Lupin, who had not spoken a word, seemed to be awakened by this change. He opened his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't be nervous."

Harry turned his head and found that he had drawn his wand and whispered: "Expecto Patronus."

A trembling light illuminated the box, and the room suddenly became bright, and everyone couldn't help but look over.

Professor Lupin seemed to be holding a flame in his hand, which was very warm.

Then it turned into a brilliant white light, which was very soft, giving people the feeling of being surrounded by countless happiness and love.

The young wizard's nervousness could not help but relax, but Lupin's expression became very nervous, staring at the door cautiously.

"Stay still." He said in a hoarse voice, and walked forward little by little, approaching the door, and the flame in his hand also moved with him.

"Crack--"

Before Lupin reached the door, the sliding door of the box was automatically opened.

In the reflection of the flames, everyone saw a cloaked figure standing there, tall and big, almost touching the ceiling, and the face was completely hidden under the hood.

Lin Xia glanced down, her expression slightly condensed.

This creature was one of the most disgusting creatures she had ever seen.

Under the black cloak, a gray-white hand stretched out, shining eerily, and seemed to be covered with mucus and spots, like something that had rotted in the water after death...

Harry was very close to it.

The guy in the cloak seemed to be aware of Harry's gaze, and the hand suddenly retracted into the folds of the black cloak.

Then, the thing in the cloak, who was not sure whether it was a human or a ghost - who knew what it was - took a long breath slowly, and a gurgling sound came from its throat.

It seemed that it was not just the surrounding air that it breathed in.

A biting cold swept over them!

Harry suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe. The cold penetrated his skin, invaded his chest, and entered his heart...

Harry's eyes rolled up and he couldn't see anything.

He seemed to be drowned by the cold, immersed in a cold lake. He was suffocating and struggling to swim out of the water, but something was pulling him down. His breathing became louder and louder, and his heartbeat became more and more rapid...

He heard a scream coming from a very far place in his ears. It was a terrible, confused, terrified, and begging scream.

He wanted to help the man and move his arm, but he couldn't move it.

A thick white fog swirled around, and the next second, he opened his eyes again.

"Harry! Are you okay, Harry!"

Harry felt someone patting his face hard.

"What? I'm fine!"

He said immediately, and he didn't even realize that he was breathing hard.

Harry's face turned pale. He felt like he had a nightmare. This dream was so bad that he didn't want to recall it at all.

Ron asked nervously: "You were in a very strange state just now. It seemed that your soul had been lost. The strange thing had been driven away, but you never woke up."

"I'm fine." Harry said quickly, looking out of the box.

"Where did the thing in the cloak go? Where did it go after being driven away? I heard a lot of people screaming before."

Ron became even more nervous: "No one screamed!"

Harry said repeatedly and firmly: "But I clearly heard screams--"

Others looked at each other. Harry obviously had some problems with his body and heard things that ordinary people couldn't hear.

With a click, everyone looked over and saw Professor Lupin breaking a large piece of chocolate into several pieces.

"Here." He handed a particularly large piece to Harry, "Eat it, warm your body and get through that bad state."

Harry took it, but did not eat it. He asked anxiously: "What is that thing?"

"Dementors." Lupin distributed the chocolate to everyone, "Dementors in Azkaban."

Everyone looked at him in surprise.

"Eat it, it will help you. I need to talk to the driver first."

He stood up and disappeared into the corridor.

"Are you really okay, Harry?" Hermione looked at Harry worriedly.

Harry wiped the cold sweat from his face and rubbed his face hard: "I don't know what happened just now, what happened to me?"

Draco said: "You were very close to that guy, that guy - Dementor, as soon as it saw you, it floated towards you, as if it took a deep breath next to you."

Ron added: "Then, you - your expression became very strange, your body stiffened, you fell off your seat, and began to twitch."

Lin Xia also spoke: "Professor Lupin stepped over you, walked in front of the Dementor, waved the white light emitted by the wand at the Dementor, and the wand also shot out a silver light, and the Dementor turned and left.

Harry tried to recall, but he had no impression.

At this time, a hurried sound of footsteps came from outside, it was Neville.

He shivered and said: "Do you feel very cold, especially when that thing passed by, it was especially cold. "

Ron: "I can feel it, my body is about to be frozen, and when I look at it, it seems that I will not survive. "