I'm the paper king at Hogwarts

Chapter 182 The beginning of the third school year

It was getting darker and darker, and when Louis woke up, it was pitch black in the car, as if it were night.

It was getting colder and colder around him, and he could even see the cold air he breathed out.

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

He knew that this mutation should be caused by the dementor checking the water meter.

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

Louis embraced Catherine's shoulders, and covered the shoulders of the two with the robe, which dispelled a little bit of the cold.

"I don't know, it suddenly became so cold." Louis said, looking into the aisle.

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

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

"This is... a dementor?" Catherine asked, frowning, and then sighed to herself: "It must have come to search for Sirius Black, right? Hmph... The Ministry of Magic is really getting more and more depraved. Indulge this kind of thing in the Hogwarts train."

"Maybe they can't do anything about it." Louis shrugged: "After all, you can't expect them to do anything useful—except to help Voldemort and Dumbledore."

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

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

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

"Harry, he passed out..." It seemed that Hermione was dying of anxiety.

By the time the two reached Harry's cubicle, Harry had already woken up, and next to him sat Lupine who had just woken up.

"Eat this." Lupine handed Harry a bar of chocolates. "You'll 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 the secretion of dopamine in him, and even a strange warm current flowed down his throat. In the stomach, and then distributed to the limbs.

For a while, the fear and other negative emotions just eased up a little.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 in his pocket. He stood up and said to several people : "Now I'm going to ask the driver something, let's chat slowly."

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

"Of course I'm fine... I just don't quite understand what happened just now." Harry said worriedly, wiping the sweat off his face with his hand.

Hermione and Ron exchanged glances, and explained to Harry carefully what happened just now.

"Oh, my God." Harry slapped him on the face, "Why are you all fine, but I passed out..." He felt very ashamed, even after eating Professor Lupine's chocolate, he still felt a little bit handy Soft.

Seeing that Harry was still looking out of the blue, Louis smiled and explained: "Dementors are special, they can induce the 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 screaming—I'm sure that woman is my mother..."

Harry's face was as pale as if he'd just been taken 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 arrive at Hogwarts in 10 minutes... How are you?" , Harry?"

Harry didn't ask how Lupine knew his name, and he replied in a low voice, "Okay, Professor." His cheeks flushed slightly as he spoke, looking 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...

For the rest of the journey, they didn't say much, and all the onlookers returned to their compartments to pack their luggage. Finally, the train finally stopped at Hogwarts Station. When they got off the train, there was a lot of fuss. There were cries, cats meowing, and Neville's pet toad "stick scratch, stick scratch" under his hat.

"First-year students come here!" A familiar loud voice sounded not far away. It was Hagrid. Hagrid, a big man, stood out among the small wizards, and he was waving to the little wizards.

"Okay, how many of you?" Hagrid asked everyone over many heads, a bit of a Shandongese feeling.

They all waved to Hagrid together, but didn't get a chance to speak to him, as people around them were pushing them along the platform.

This time, the treatment was still the Thestral carriage. Louis and Catherine sat in one, accompanied by the dragon maid. The mild musty smell on it made Catherine wrinkle her delicate nose involuntarily.

"Just bear it, baby." Louis patted her clean thigh.

"Yeah." Catherine replied in a nasal voice. She will be in the fifth grade after school starts.

The carriage rolled forward, and in front of it was the cast-iron gate, the symbol of Hogwarts, with many stone pillars standing on both sides. Louis noticed that there were two dementor pestles guarding the gate on both sides, and it seemed that there was another cold wave attacking them. Come.

When Louis' carriage passed the gate, the two dementors hurriedly retreated to both sides like mice seeing a cat, and did not return until they had gone a long way.

After handing over the luggage to the house-elf, Louis came to the Great Hall, sat in the Slytherin seat and waited for the opening ceremony.

Behind him was Gryffindor, as usual.Soon, other students came in one after another, filling up the seats in the auditorium—coincidentally, no matter how many freshmen there are, the seats are always just right.

"Pot, Pot!" Draco yelled back at Harry.

Harry turned his head to see Draco looking at him mockingly.

"What's the matter?" Harry always felt that the kid was holding back nothing.

Sure enough, Draco dragged his tone and said with a strange smile: "I heard you passed out? Pot, 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 students in the entire auditorium to the two.

Accompanied by the uniform booing, Draco and Harry finally ended their unhealthy quarrel, and turned away blushing.

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

Everyone in the choir is holding a big toad, which fits the Muggle stereotype of wizards very well. Many new Muggle-born students and wizards started to applaud.

Whether it should be said or not, Dean Flitwick is doing a good job.

After singing, it was Professor Dumbledore's turn to play.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 Trust him involuntarily.

Especially Harry, when he saw Dumbledore smiling at all the students, he couldn't help but feel that there was nothing to be afraid of even dementors.

"Welcome." Professor Dumbledore said, "Welcome everyone to Hogwarts in the new school year. I have a few words to tell you, one of which is very serious. Make this clear before Meican gets confused."

Dumbledore cleared his throat, and continued: "After they searched the Hogwarts Express, you must all know. At present, our school is going to receive a number of dementors from Azkaban. They are here to Carrying out the official duties of 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 very clear that no one is allowed to leave the school without permission. Dementors should not be Tricks or disguised deception - not even the Invisibility Cloak," he added deadpan, almost calling Harry's name.

"Dementors don't know what a request or an excuse is, so I warn you all, don't give them any excuse to hurt you, I hope that professors, prefects and the newly appointed student president, you will make sure to avoid students Conflict with Dementors."

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

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

The whole audience cheered enthusiastically, everyone had had enough of Snape's torment - even Harry and the others were no exception, who made him Harry's savior?

Lu Ping was also stunned by everyone's surprise. Looking at the enthusiastic students, he felt that his decision was really correct - he would be lying if he said he was not moved.

"Look at Professor Snape." Louis said to Catherine, bowing his head.

Catherine followed her words and saw Professor Snape's face—what kind of face was that, those who didn't know thought he had eaten a fly, that distorted, disgusted, and nauseated expression, it was hard to imagine that it was Snape's face. Professor Nepe, who usually only has two faces of disgust and expressionlessness, can do it.

But Snape did it.

"Probably felt that Professor Lupine robbed his class." Catherine said in a low voice.

"Not necessarily, I think there must be a lot of stories between these two people." Louis hiccupped happily, but he knew the grievances between Snape and the Predator four.

To be honest, Louis admired Snape very much. If he was Snape, he would have greeted him without a trace.

After the warm applause and cheers were over, Dumbledore continued: "Unfortunately, the teacher who has taught us the protection of magical animals for several years, Professor Keitel Byrne, decided to retire in order to have more time to tend to his already crippled body, and fortunately, I am pleased to announce that his replacement is none other than our Rubeus Hagrid!"

Having said that, Dumbledore turned away, palms outstretched in the direction where Hagrid was sitting.

The whole auditorium burst into enthusiastic cheers—except for Slytherin, especially Harry and the others, after all, Hagrid was cute but they were good friends.

Hagrid stared flushed at his big hands, with a simple smile hidden in his thick beard.

Professor McGonagall raised her head to her upper right, smiled and applauded Hagrid, seeing that he didn't move at all, Professor McGonagall nudged Hagrid lightly with her elbow, motioning him to stand up.

Only then did Hagrid come to his senses, he stood up quickly, but knocked the long table in front of him, and if it wasn't for Professor Flitwick's quick reaction, the table would have been overturned.

Professor McGonagall rested his hand on his forehead, wondering if it was a mistake to ask Hagrid to stand up just now...

"Well, 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 picked up a piece of baked Yorkshire pudding—in fact, it's just called pudding, and it's actually more like an open pie, with a barbecue flavor.

Hogwarts has never skimped on the students for food and clothing, so the old students don't think there is anything new, they just eat 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 they had nowhere to eat pumpkins.

However, under the urging of the old students beside them, they still quickly joined the battle, and their posture of swallowing mountains and rivers was no less than that of Ron who entered the school in the first year.

The current Ron is different from before. Since he established a relationship with Hermione, he no longer has the same nonsense as before. Instead, he has become gentle and slow, and even specially learned from Louis , Seriously studied the etiquette of dining.

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

Poor Ron, being toyed with in the palm of his hand.

(End of this chapter)