"Expecto Patronum!"
Following a shout that still sounded somewhat weak, a silver-white giant beast burst from the man's wand and charged toward the Dementor at the compartment door.
The Dementor immediately retreated, drifting away from the compartment entrance.
Lynn, who had been immersed in the "painful" illusion, felt the tension in her mind suddenly relax for no apparent reason.
Her two talons could no longer support her weight, and with a loud crash, Lynn's Deinonychus form fell heavily to the ground.
Her entire body was trembling incessantly, as if she were sobbing or shivering from some immense pain.
Tears continuously streamed from the dragon's eyes, and Lynn's breathing was now so heavy that Hermione and the others could hear it without even trying.
As Lynn collapsed, her tail, which had been blocking Hermione and the other two, also fell to the floor.
Hermione jumped up immediately, ignoring the tear stains on her face as she lunged forward to embrace Lynn's dragon head. "Lynn, Lynn, wake up! Don't scare me, please don't scare me!"
At that moment, she had long forgotten the books she had read, forgotten that Dementors do not cause death, and that only a Dementor's "Kiss" takes away a person's soul.
She had even forgotten that Lynn had not been "Kissed" by the Dementor.
She only knew that Lynn had collapsed again, right in front of her, and had done so to protect them.
Tears blurred Hermione's vision, and grief and self-reproach shattered her reason.
"Miss Granger! Miss Granger!"
The man's calling pulled Hermione out of her grief and self-reproach, and she finally regained her senses to look at him.
Seeing that Hermione had finally recovered, Professor Lupin breathed a great sigh of relief. He stood up and carefully stepped over Lynn to head outside.
"I need to go see how the other compartments are doing. Don't worry, Miss Lynn has only fainted. I've left some chocolate for your two friends."
"Once Miss Lynn wakes up and returns to her human form, feed it to her. It will make her feel much better."
Professor Lupin spoke as he walked, and after finishing, he prepared to rush toward the other carriages.
However, before he could move, a series of thundering footsteps came from the carriages connected on both sides.
It sounded like two large groups of people were rushing toward this spot.
"What is this?"
Professor Lupin paused, not quite understanding what the footsteps were about.
The Dementors were inspecting the train; shouldn't the students be hiding in their compartments?
Why would they be running out in such large numbers?
Not long after his confusion arose, a dozen or so silver-white Patronuses burst out from the directions where the footsteps were heard on both sides of the carriage.
Elks, eagles, cheetahs, sharks... all sorts of Patronuses charged toward this carriage from both the front and the back of the train.
Professor Lupin was completely stunned. Was the overall quality of Hogwarts students these days really this high?
To be able to rush out so unitedly to drive away the Dementors on the train?
Wait, there was another question: how could so many students have mastered the Patronus Charm?
This spell was extremely difficult.
The silver-white Patronuses charged into the carriage, followed closely by the upper-year students of Ravenclaw.
The Seventh Year students led the way, with the Sixth Years right behind them; almost every student in these two years was waving their wand.
It truly looked as if every single one of them had mastered the Patronus Charm.
Even among the fifth and Fourth Years who followed, many were waving their wands to urge their Patronuses forward.
Watching the fierce approach of The Ravenclaws, Professor Lupin swallowed hard and leaned against the wall to clear the compartment doorway.
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