When the Dementors appeared outside the carriage door, not only did Percy's expression freeze, but the expressions of the other prefects in the carriage also froze. This was the first time they faced the Dementors, this evil dark creature.
No matter what they thought before, they now felt a chill rising from their spine and quickly spreading throughout their bodies, making them unable to feel any happiness.
"Blake isn't here!"
A voice suddenly sounded in the quiet carriage.
Albert frowned when he saw the Dementor actually took a deep breath towards their carriage. He clearly felt that some of his happiness had been sucked away by the Dementor.
Isobel beside him seemed to be affected by the Dementors, making Albert's mood even worse.
Albert reached out and pushed Percy away, raising his wand towards the Dementor that was about to enter the carriage, and repeated: "Sirius Black is not here!"
Seeing that the Dementor was still reaching out to him, Albert immediately recalled his first date with Isobel, raised his wand and pointed it at the Dementor's face, and whispered the spell he had practiced countless times: "Expediate Patronus!"
A huge griffin spewed out from the head of Albert's wand, and its huge body hit the Dementor directly in the face, knocking the monster that exuded an ominous aura out of the carriage.
"Get out, didn't you hear me?"
Albert's tone was very cold, like a chilly winter wind, "There is no one you are looking for here, and you are not welcome here."
As he said this, he stepped out of the carriage and commanded the Patronus to drive the Dementors away.
As for the Dementors harming other students, that was not his business.
When Albert returned to the carriage, he found that all the prefects in the carriage were staring at him in amazement.
Watching Albert command the silver-white griffin to circle above everyone's heads, dispelling the remaining cold air of the Dementors, which then turned into mottled spots of light and scattered down.
"What kind of monster is that!" Sana hugged her shoulders and couldn't help shivering.
"Dementors, the guards of Azkaban." Albert explained casually, and without paying attention to the complicated gazes of the crowd, he walked straight towards Isobel.
Perhaps because it was her first time encountering Dementors, Isobel looked very pale.
Percy, who had just faced the Dementors without any preparation, also had a very ugly expression on his face. He was being supported by his girlfriend Penelope and sitting on a chair.
No one laughed at Percy, and most of the prefects were still pale.
"What was that just now..."
"Griffin?" someone muttered.
"It's Anderson's patron saint."
Several students who knew the Patronus Charm looked at Albert with awe and admiration.
Only a powerful patronus can drive away the Dementors.
"Guardian, what is that?"
The prefects began to whisper and exchange information about their patronuses. They were also very interested in the "cool magic" that Albert used.
However, when the prefects learned that the Patronus Charm was a very advanced spell, they all fell silent, because it was very difficult to cast a physical Patronus.
He is truly the most talented wizard in the history of Hogwarts.
This is the common idea in everyone's mind.
Albert didn't care what others thought. He returned to Isobel, put his arms around the pale-faced Isobel, and let her lean on his shoulder.
Then Albert took out another bottle of joy potion from his pocket, bit off the wax seal, poured some into the milk tea, gave it to Isobel, and unwrapped the chocolate in his pocket and handed it to her.
"Some bad memories." Isobel took a small bite of chocolate and whispered, "It's useless. I know the Patronus Charm."
Albert comforted him softly, "Don't worry, you just got caught off guard."
When the girls saw this scene, they all felt sick and secretly compared Albert with their boyfriends.
Indeed, nothing can compare.
So, they were sad!
"Are you okay?" Katrina also came over.
In fact, she felt that she might be redundant, but seeing that Isobel, who had always been strong, seemed to be sick, she couldn't help but feel a little worried.
This was the first time Katrina saw Isobel so weak.
"It's okay, I just don't have much strength."
"What do those... Dementors... want to do?"
"Manhunt for Blake?"
"No, the search for Black was just a side job. I don't think they expected to find Black on the train. After all, the Dementors have spent half the summer vacation trying to find Black. They entered the train to check, mostly because they were hungry and came to the train to find food." Albert glanced at the pale-faced Percy, handed the bottle of ecstasy to Penelope, poured her a cup of hot milk tea, and then took a few macarons to replenish Percy's strength.
"Others, come and have some hot drinks, that will make you feel better, and then go out to maintain order. The whole train is probably in chaos now.
Now no one cared about Albert coming to take command. They were even glad that someone was coming to take command so that everyone would not be too panicked.
"Then... what should we do with the Dementors?" someone asked in a low voice, obviously not wanting to face the Dementors again.
"It's obvious that Black is not on the train. The Dementors will soon be full and leave. They will not stay on the train. Otherwise, someone will probably write a letter to protest to the Ministry of Magic." Albert gave the prefects little by little hints, asking them to gather more students and parents to protest to the Ministry of Magic.
Before the prefects began to perform their respective duties, the door of the prefect's compartment was opened again. A man in his thirties, who looked a little weathered, walked in, immediately alerting the other prefects.
Being pointed at by a large group of people with magic wands, the middle-aged man's expression was a little stiff, and he raised his hand to show that he meant no harm.
"I'm your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. You can call me Professor Lupin." Professor Lupin introduced himself. "I need to find a driver now."
"Sorry, the Dementors are making everyone nervous." Percy looked at Professor Lupin suspiciously and said, "I'm going to find a driver too. Let's go together!"
With that, the two of them left together.
"Is that guy really our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?"
Everyone stared at Professor Lupin's departing back and expressed their doubts.
"Do you think he is Sirius Black in disguise?" A prefect whispered, "It is said that there is a potion that can change a person into another person's appearance. Maybe it can deceive the Dementors."
Can the polyjuice potion deceive the Dementors
Albert actually didn't know either. He thought the possibility was not high. After all, Dementors were a group of blind people and did not rely on vision to distinguish.
The frost on the window glass had disappeared silently, and the rain outside the window was even heavier. The train suddenly shook and slowly moved forward in the rain.
Percy came back soon and told everyone that the Dementors' search of the Hogwarts Express was just routine duty, but no one had any good feelings towards those evil guys. The students on the entire train were frightened and it was a terrible experience for them.
Isobel, now much improved after her rest, was talking to Katrina.
Albert temporarily returned to his original carriage and prepared to change into his robe. The train was about to arrive at Hogsmeade Station.
In the carriage, Fred and George were telling him what had just happened.
"You three used your Patronus to drive off the Dementors?"
"No, after the lights went out, we immediately summoned the Patronus. Although we failed to summon a physical Patronus, it was undoubtedly successful. The Dementor did not enter the carriage to check and left quickly."
"Your Patronus is even more fragile than a piece of paper in front of Dementors." Albert looked at the three men speechlessly and reminded them solemnly, "Only a patronus in the flesh can drive away Dementors."
"Okay, we'll stay away from Dementors until we master the Patronus Charm." George knew that Albert was right, their Patronus was too weak and could not deal with Dementors at all.
"Did you use it? Someone just said that a griffin drove away the Dementors."
"Yeah, it made a mess in the Dementor's face."
When Albert talked about what happened in the prefect's carriage not long ago, Fred and George were very excited, especially when they heard Albert say that Percy ran into a Dementor as soon as he opened the door and was scared so much that his face turned pale. They wished they were there at that time and could witness Percy's ugly appearance with their own eyes.
"However, there are so few students who know how to use the Patronus Charm." Lee Jordan felt more and more that there was a reason why he could not learn the Patronus Charm.
"Don't make excuses for yourself. The reason you can't learn is because you haven't worked hard enough." Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard what Lee Jordan said.
"By the way, that little idiot from the Malfoy family ran into our carriage and was scared to death by the Dementors." Fred and George changed the subject and talked about some interesting things that happened here.
"Your euphoria potion worked well. We felt much better after we drank it."
"Someone just said that Harry Potter was frightened by the Dementors and fainted."
"Don't you pay attention to your sister?" Albert reminded: "After what happened a while ago, I dare say that the Dementors must have a great influence on Ginny."
As he spoke, Albert prepared to return to the prefect's carriage. He was still a little worried about Isobel.
"You said Ginny was affected as well."
Hearing Albert's words, Fred and George stood up, reached out to hold Albert's hand and asked, "Do you have any more euphoria potions?"
"No more, we just used them up." Albert reminded: "If you still have candies made with ecstasy, give her some. Also, there are chocolates."
After Albert left, Fred and George also left. They were also a little worried about Ginny's situation.