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HARRY POTTER AND THE AZKABAN PRISONER CHAPTER 5 DEMENTORS AND OLD FRIENDS

The next morning Harry woke early so he could meet the Weasley's for breakfast while waiting for the ministry cars. After a bit of waiting, three ministry cars arrived, MR. Weasley started rushing people out of the leaky cauldron and into the nearest car, MR. Weasley, Ron, and Hermione where in the first car, MRS. Weasley, Fred, and George where in the second car and in the third car was Harry, Ginny, and snuffles.

The ride to Kings Cross station was fairly short, upon arrival both MR. And MRS. Weasley began to rush everybody with getting there trunks on the carts and going through the magic barrier without any muggles seeing them. Harry, Ron, and Hermione took there usual cabin near the back of the train, but this year they where also joined by Ginny, snuffles, and a stranger in tattered robe's sleeping against the window, for some reason snuffles was trying to stay away from the strange man and Harry almost talked his friends into finding a different cabin, but thought it might look a bit odd.

Harry and his friends all talked about school and quidditch for a while then shortly after the witch selling treats passed by they all decided to take a quick nap before they reached Hogwarts(Harry was up late with animagus training and Ron kept almost everyone else up late while looking for scabbers).

A few hours passed and it was starting to get dark when Harry woke, the first thing he noticed was the train slowing down, so he woke up everybody except the strange sleeping man.

Hermione look out the window and told everybody else to.

"we can't be there yet, we should have at least another hour or two"

A few seconds later the lights went out and everybody stood up to get to the door so they could see if it was the whole train, but nothing went according to plan, Ginny tripped over snuffles and knocked over Harry landing perfectly in his lap leaning back against him, then Hermione tripped over crookshanks and knocked Ron on the floor landing right next to him, then the noise they where making trying to get up woke the mysterious stranger sleeping in the corner, which became obvious when the room lit up and he started yelling.

"what the HELL! Is going on here?"

Everybody got back in there own seats and started sputtering out there own versions at the same time, a few seconds later they where all silenced by a tall, dark robed figure opening the door, Harry noticed Sirius was hiding under his seat, he also noticed it was getting colder in the room and he thought he could hear a woman screaming in the distance.

Harry looked at snuffles (Sirius) then back at the robed creature in the doorway, he soon realized the scream was getting louder and his vision was beginning to get a bit foggy, he saw the strange man stand and shoot a silver mist out of his wand at the creature, the thing ran and everything went black.

Soon Harry awoke being lightly slapped, he opened his eyes and saw the strange man, Harry got back in his seat and looked around, for the first time he noticed all the lights where back on and the train was moving again.

Everybody sat looking at him, then Harry realized he had passed out, feeling a bit embarrassed he noticed snuffles was nowhere to be seen, he was looking for snuffles until something nudged the back of his leg, after a few more seconds Harry realized everybody was staring at him.

The strange man spoke first "well Harry, are you feeling all right?"

Harry didn't even bother asking how the man knew his name, but since he was still feeling a bit out of it and extremely cold, he just nodded his head.

The strange opened his bag and pulled out a large piece of chocolate, he then proceeded to break it into smaller chunks and handed them to everybody, "my name is Remus Lupin, or Professor Lupin to you, eat some chocolate it will make you feel better, I'm going to talk to the conductor"

The second Professor Lupin left the cabin snuffles came back out from under Harry's seat long enough to sniff Lupin's bag then went back under the seat.

A few minutes later, Lupin came back in and looked around.

"don't worry I didn't poison it, you'll feel better just eat it"

Harry looked at his piece of chocolate, then finally decided to taste it, the second it entered his mouth he could feel the warmth returning to his body, he quickly finished the rest.

"Um, Professor Lupin sir?"

"yes Harry?"

"what was that thing?"

The question seemed to be the same one Ron, Hermione, and Ginny where thinking about asking, the second somebody did ask it all there attention seemed to be completely focused on Professor Lupin.

"well Harry, that is a good question, nobody knows exactly what those are, there called Dementor's"

The rest of the train ride was fairly boring, and for some reason snuffles seemed to be hiding from Professor Lupin, when they reached the station at Hogsmead, Lupin left first and everybody followed shortly after.

They all shared a carriage together (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and snuffles) and by the time they entered the great hall they could hear an angry grumbling from Ron and Harry's stomach's, but before they could enter, Professor McGonagall stopped Harry and Hermione and told them to follow her.

Harry, Hermione and (to Professor McGonagall's dismay) snuffles, followed the stern looking professor through the empty hallways, They entered a small office decorated in red and gold with a large warm fireplace, they where in the office of Minerva McGonagall head of Gryffindor house.

A few seconds later there was a soft knock on the door and Madam Pomfrey walked in, as soon as she spotted Harry, she began to check him and ask questions about what he had done this time, Harry kept saying he hadn't done anything stupid yet and he was fine, Harry noticed the whole time snuffles looked extremely amused.

After explaining about Professor Lupin already giving them some chocolate he was excused and after a few minutes of waiting outside he was joined by Hermione, they went back to the great hall for the rest of the feast and noticed that Professor Lupin seemed to be missing, after enjoying a delicious feast (even snuffles got some) they all retreated back to the warmth of the Gryffindor common room.

The small group sat and talked about the events of the day, then after Ginny nearly fell asleep on Harry's shoulder, they all split up and went to there respective dorm rooms.

Harry quickly got changed into his pajama's and silently got into his four poster, snuffles lay at the foot of his bed acting as a silent protector, and everybody enjoyed a great nights sleep.