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Chapter 3-5 The Dementor
- It is their last breakfast at the Leaky Cauldron. Mr. Weasley is reading the Daily Prophet
while Mrs. Weasley is telling Ginny
and Hermione about a Love Potion she'd made as a young girl.
The ministery cars arrive and they depart for King's Cross to get on the Hogwarts Express at Platform nine and three-quarters.
- Before leaving, Mr. Weasley wants to tell Harry something, but Harry
interrupts, telling him that he already knows about Black. Mr. Weasley
wants Harry to promise he won't go looking for Black. Then Harry joined
Ron and Hermione on the train.
- In their compartment, there's only one person, Professor R. J. Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark
Arts teacher. Harry tells Ron and Hermione about Black being after
him.
- Harry's Sneakoscope starts whistling,
appearantly without reason. Ron suggests to have it fixed at Hogsmeade
in Dervish and Banges. Hermione asks
ron about Hogsmeade. Ron tells her he wants to go there to go to Honeydukes,
a sweetshop. They've got everything there, he tells her; Pepper Imps which make you smoke at the
mouth, Chocoballs and sugar quills. Hermione just knows facts from books;
in Sites of Historical
Sorcery it says the inn was the headquarters for the 1612 Goblin
rebellion, and the Shrieking Shack
is supposed to be haunted. Harry won't be able to go since he has no
written permission.
- Crookshanks tries to attack Scabbers again.
- Draco, Crabbe and Goyle pass through their compartment.
- They are nearly at Hogwarts when the train stops and the lights go
out. Professor Lupin wakes up. He has conjured up a handful of flames
for illumination. When he gets up to check out what's happened, a cloaked
figure enters the compartment. An intense cold sweeps over Harry, he
drowns in coldness, he hears screaming, and passes out. When he comes
to, he is lying on the floor. No one else heard the screams he heard.
Lupin explains it was the effect of the cloaked figured which entered;
a Dementor, a guard from Azkaban.
- The train continues and they arrive at Hogwarts, being welcomed by Hagrid. There
are more Dementors guarding the entrances. Hermione, Ron and Harry are
called by Professor McGonagall to follow her to her
office. Professor McGonagall heard from Lupin that Harry was taken ill
on the train and called Madam Pomfrey to take a look at Harry.
Then Harry and Ron are excused while Professor McGonagall has a word
with Hermione about her timetable.
- Ariving in the Great Hall they find that the Sorting Ceremony is already over.
Dumbledore adresses the students
about the Dementors, telling that nobody is to leave school without
permission. He also announces Lupin as the new Defense against the Dark
Arts teacher and the retirement of the Care
of Magical Creatures teacher Professor Kettleburn. Hagrid will be teaching that course.
- After dinner they go to Gryffindor tower, entering through the portrait
of the Fat Lady with the new password "Fortuna Major"
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