I'm the king of the roll at Hogwarts

Chapter 182 The Beginning of the Third School Year

It was getting darker and darker, and when Louis woke up, the carriage was pitch black, just like it was night.

The surroundings were getting colder and colder, and he could even see the chill from his own breath.

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

He knew that this change was probably caused by the Dementors checking the water meter.

"What's wrong?" Catherine woke up from her sleep and shivered because of the cold air.

Louis took the opportunity to put his arm around Catherine's shoulders and put the robe over both of their shoulders, which dispelled some of the cold.

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

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

Finally, the black cloak moved - but in the opposite direction, and at a very fast speed, as if it was running away.

"Is this... a Dementor?" Catherine asked with a frown, and then she sighed to herself, "I guess it's here to search for Sirius Black? Humph... The Ministry of Magic is really getting more and more corrupt. They actually allowed something like this to enter the Hogwarts Express."

"Maybe they have no choice." Louis shrugged: "After all, you can't expect them to really do anything useful - except helping Voldemort to make things difficult for Dumbledore."

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

"Louis, Catherine... Go and have a look, Harry, Harry..."

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

"Harry has fainted..." It seemed that Hermione was almost dying of anxiety.

When the two of them walked to Harry's compartment, Harry had already woken up, and Lupin, who had just woken up, was sitting next to him.

"Eat this." Lupin handed Harry a bar of chocolate. "You'll feel better."

Harry took the chocolate, broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth. The sweet taste and the unique aroma of chocolate stimulated the secretion of his dopamine. There was even a strange warm current flowing down his throat into his stomach, and then spreading to every part of his body.

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

"A Dementor from Azkaban, a guard of that prison." Lupin crumpled up the empty chocolate wrapper and put it in his pocket. He stood up and said to the others, "I'm going to ask the driver something now. You guys can chat slowly."

After Lupin turned 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 just happened." Harry said worriedly, wiping the sweat from his face.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other and told Harry in detail what had just happened.

"Oh, God." Harry slapped his face: "Why is everyone else fine, but I fainted..." He felt very embarrassed. Even after eating Professor Lupin's chocolate, he still felt a little weak in his hands and feet.

Seeing that Harry was still in a trance, Louis smiled and said, "Dementors are special. They can bring out the fear deep in your heart... Tell me, Harry, what did you see just now?"

"I..." Harry thought for a moment and said, "I saw a white light and heard a woman screaming - I am sure that woman is my mother..."

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

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

Harry didn't ask how Lupin knew his name. He replied in a low voice, "Okay, Professor." His cheeks flushed slightly as he spoke, and he looked very embarrassed.

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

They didn't say much on the rest of the journey, and those who were watching the fun returned to their own carriages to pack their luggage. Finally, the train stopped at Hogwarts Station. It was really busy when they got off the train, with the hooting of owls, the meowing of cats, and the "stick scraping, stick scraping" sound of Neville's pet toad 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, the big man Hagrid stood out particularly. He was waving to the little wizards.

"Okay, you guys?" Hagrid asked everyone over many heads, with a bit of Shandong feeling in this inverted sentence.

They all waved at Hagrid, but there was no chance to speak to him as the people around them were pushing them forward along the platform.

This time they were treated to another thestral carriage. Louis and Catherine got on one, along with a dragon maid. The faint musty smell made Catherine wrinkle her delicate nose involuntarily.

"Just bear with it, baby." Louis patted her smooth thighs.

"Yeah." Catherine answered with a nasal voice. After school started, she would be promoted to the fifth grade.

The carriage rolled forward, and in front of them was the cast iron gate with the Hogwarts logo, with many stone pillars standing on both sides. Louis noticed that there were two Dementors standing there like guards on both sides of the gate, and it seemed that another cold wave was coming towards them.

When Louis' carriage passed through the gate, the two Dementors retreated to both sides like mice seeing a cat, and did not come back until Louis' carriage was a long way away.

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

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

"Potter, Potter!" Draco shouted back at Harry.

Harry turned his head and saw Draco looking at him with a playful look on his face. "What's wrong?" Harry always felt that this kid was up to no good.

Sure enough, Draco said in a long tone and a strange smile: "I heard that you fainted? Pot, did you really faint?"

"Shut up, Malfoy!" Harry gritted his teeth.

Seeing that the two were still flirting, Catherine hooked her fingers and used a little magic to draw the attention of all the students in the auditorium to the two of them.

Accompanied by the uniform booing, Draco and Harry finally ended their meaningless quarrel and turned away with red faces.

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

Everyone in the choir was holding a big toad, which was in line with the Muggles' stereotype of wizards. Many new Muggle-born wizard classmates began to applaud.

It must be said that Dean Flitwick did a great job.

After the song, it was Professor Dumbledore's turn to appear. Although he was very old, he always gave people an energetic image. People often said that he was the greatest wizard, but people respected him not only because of this, because many people would trust him involuntarily when they saw Dumbledore.

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

"Welcome," said Professor Dumbledore. "Welcome to Hogwarts for the new school year. I have a few words to say to you all, one of which is very serious. I thought it would be best to make it clear before you are confused by this delicious meal."

Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued, "As you will no doubt be aware following their search of the Hogwarts Express, our school is currently hosting a number of Dementors from Azkaban, who are here on Ministry business."

He paused, and Louis realized that Dumbledore was not happy about the idea of ​​Dementors guarding the school.

"They are stationed at all entrances to the school grounds," Dumbledore continued. "I must make it clear that during their stay, no one is allowed to leave the school without permission. Dementors are not to be deceived by tricks or disguises - not even by the Invisibility Cloak," he added expressionlessly, almost mentioning Harry by name.

"Dementors are naturally incapable of understanding requests or excuses, so I warn you all not to give them any excuses to hurt you. I hope that professors, prefects, and the new head of the student union will ensure that conflicts between students and Dementors are avoided."

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

"The first is Professor R. J. Lupin, who has graciously agreed to fill the Defence Against the Dark Arts class vacant for all but the third and fifth years."

The whole audience cheered loudly. Everyone was fed up with Snape's torture - even Harry and his friends were no exception, because he was Harry's savior.

Lupin was also stunned by everyone's surprise. Looking at his enthusiastic classmates, he felt that his decision was indeed the right one - it would be a lie if he said he was not moved.

"Look at Professor Snape." Louis said to Catherine with his head down.

Catherine looked as she was told and saw Professor Snape's expression - what a face it was! If you didn't know, you would think he had eaten a fly. That kind of twisted, disgusted, nauseous expression was hard to imagine that someone like Professor Snape, who usually only had two expressions on his face: disgust and expressionlessness, could make this.

But Snape did it.

"Maybe he thinks Professor Lupin has taken away his course," Catherine whispered.

"Not necessarily. I think there must be a lot of stories between these two people." Louis chuckled. He knew about the grudges between Snape and the four marauders.

To be honest, Louis admired Snape very much. If he were Snape, he would have struck back with a sharp strike.

After the warm applause and cheers ended, Dumbledore continued, "Unfortunately, Professor Kettle Burn, who has been teaching us the Care of Magical Creatures class for several years, has decided to retire so that he can have more time to take care of his already incomplete body. Fortunately, I am happy to announce that the person who will take over his position is none other than our Rubeus Hagrid!"

Having said this, Dumbledore turned around and spread his palms towards where Hagrid was sitting.

The whole hall erupted in warm cheers - except for the Slytherins, especially Harry and his friends, after all, cute Hagrid was their good friend.

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

Professor McGonagall tilted her head to her upper right, smiled and clapped at Hagrid, but seeing that he didn't move, she nudged Hagrid lightly with her elbow, motioning for him to stand up.

Hagrid finally reacted and stood up quickly, but he stumbled over the long table in front of him. If Professor Flitwick hadn't reacted quickly, the table would have overturned.

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

"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 rich food and drinks. Louis shook his head and sighed, "Maybe I took the train for the whole afternoon just for this moment..."

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

Hogwarts never deducted a cent from students in terms of food, clothing and daily expenses, so the old students didn't think it was anything new, and just ate slowly and normally. But the new students were different, and there were even a few new students from orphanages. Faced with the dazzling array of delicious food in front of them, they actually felt like a cow gnawing on a pumpkin and not knowing where to start.

However, under the urging of the senior students beside them, they quickly joined the battle, and their domineering attitude was no less than that of Ron, who was a freshman.

Ron is different now. Ever since he established a relationship with Hermione, he no longer eats like a glutton. Instead, he has become gentle and leisurely. He even went to Louis for advice and studied the dining etiquette seriously.

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

Poor Ron, he was played around with.

(End of this chapter)