Chapter 792 (2/2)
”They didn't!” Dudley said, although he didn't sound sure. Harry laughed softly.
”You can't beat me without that thing, can you?” Dudley growled. ”So you need four guys to stand behind you so you can knock down a kid of a few years old? Do you know what your boxing title is? How big is your opponent? Seven years old? Eight years old? ”
”I knocked him out for 20 minutes. He's as heavy as you two! You wait for me to ask dad to take that thing out -- ”
” you're running to dad again? Is his darling boxing champion afraid of Harry's dirty little wand
”Not so brave at night, are you?” Dudley scoffed.
”This is the night, Dudley. This is what we call the night.”
”I mean when you sleep!” Dudley growled. He stopped, and Harry stopped, looking at his cousin.
From Dudley's fuzzy face, he saw a strange expression of victory.
”What do you mean? Am I not brave enough to sleep Said Harry.
”What do you think I'm afraid of? Pillow or what? ”
”I heard that last night,” said Dudley, holding his breath. ”You talk in your sleep. Moan again.”
”What do you mean?” Said Harry, but a cold feeling jumped into his stomach. He dreamed about the cemetery again last night.
Dudley let out a shrill laugh, then pretended a high pitched whimper, ”don't kill Cedric! Don't take him! Who is Cedric? Your boyfriend? ”
”I -- you lie!” Harry said mechanically, but his mouth was dry. He knew Dudley wasn't lying. Did he hear anything else about Cedric?
”Dad, help me! dad! He's going to kill me! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Shut up Harry said quietly, ”shut up! Dudley! I warn you
”Come and help me! dad! Come and help me! mom! That man took Cedric away! dad! Help me! He - don't you mean me? ” Dudley leaned against the wall of the alley.
Harry pointed his wand at Dudley's heart. Harry could feel the 15 years of hatred for Dudley hitting every inch of his body - why didn't he hit Dudley now? Let Dudley crawl home like a bug? Make him speechless and grow insect tentacles?
”Don't say that again!” Harry yelled, ”do you understand?”
”Point that thing at something else!”
”I said, do you understand?”
”Something else!”
”Do you understand?”
”Get that thing out of me -” said Dudley, panting in a strange trembling voice, as if he had been immersed in ice water. Something happened in the night sky. The stars in the indigo sky were suddenly painted black and lost their light - stars, moon, dim street lights at the end of the lane, the rumble of cars and the murmur of trees disappeared.
The mild night suddenly became sharp and cold. They were completely surrounded by an impenetrable, silent darkness, as if a huge hand had covered the whole lane with a thick cloak.
For a moment, Harry thought he had done some magic unintentionally, though he tried to restrain it. Then he realized that he was wrong. He had no ability to extinguish the stars. He turned his head to this way, and then to the other side. He wanted to see something, but the darkness seemed to cover his eyes with a thin veil.
Dudley's voice of fear came into Harry's ear. ”You - what are you doing? Stop - stop
”I didn't do anything! shut up! Don't move
”I can't see anything! I'm blind! I - ”
” I said shut up Harry stood still, turning his invisible eyes to the left and then to the right. The cold was so strong that his whole body was shaking. He had goose bumps on his arm. His hair was all up at the back of his neck. He opened his eyes to the largest extent and looked around in a daze, but he didn't see anything. It can't be - they can't be here - it can't be in Siu Wai Kim road. He listens nervously. He can hear them before he sees them”I - I'm going to tell Dad -” Dudley sobbed. ”Where are you? What are you doing - ”
” can't you shut up? ” Harry hissed, ”I'm trying to hear --”
but suddenly he was silent, and he heard what he was most worried about. There was something in the alley that didn't belong there. Something was giving out a long, hoarse, rattling breath. Harry felt a shaking of fear as if he were standing in the cold air.
”Stop - stop! Stop it!! I'll hit you! I swear I will
”Dudley, shut up...”
Bang!
A fist hit Harry on the head, making him unsteady. He saw stars.
For the second time in an hour, Harry felt his head split in half, and the next second, he felt like he had fallen to the ground and his wand was gone.
”You idiot! Dudley Cried Harry, his eyes full of tears from pain, and he crawled on the ground with his hands and knees. He heard Dudley run away clumsily, knock down the lane fence and fall.
”Dudley! Come back! You're running to that thing A scream of fear stopped Harry. At the same time, Harry felt the cold climb up his back, which can only prove one thing, more than one.
”Dudley! Shut up! No matter what you do! Shut up! Magic wand Harry grunted crazily, his hands crawling across the ground like spiders. ”Where? Come on - flash
He said the mantra mechanically, and recklessly lit up what he was looking for - he thought it was incredible, the wand glowed a few inches in his right hand - and the wand head lit up.
Harry grabbed it, staggered to his feet and looked around.
His stomach was twisting. A towering, turban - bearing object was sliding towards him, hovering on the ground, not seeing the face or feet under the robe, coming over, sucking hungrily at night. Stumbling back, Harry raised his wand.
”Call on God to protect you!”
A small sliver of silver gas shot from the end of the wand. The Dementor slowed down, but the spell didn't work.
Stumbling, he retreats as Dementors approach him, and fear fills his brain - concentration! ——A pair of gray, sticky, gnarled hands came out from under the Dementor's robe, trying to reach him. A quick voice filled Harry's ears.
”Call on God to protect you!” His voice sounded faint and distant, and another little sliver of silver smoke - weaker than it had been - came out of the Wand - he could not do it, he could not make the spell work. There was a burst of laughter in his head, sharp, cold laughter, and he could smell the Dementor's rotten, deathly cold breath filling his lungs, and he was about to drown him - think - happy things - but there was no happiness in his head, the Dementor's cold fingers were tightening in his throat, the shrill sneers were getting louder and louder, his head ”Bow to death, Harry - there may be no pain at all -I don't know ——I've never died... ”
He will never see his friends again! Their faces suddenly appeared in his mind. He struggled to breathe, ”hooray guard!”
A huge stag silver from his wand port, its antlers to the top of the Dementor's heart. The Dementor is knocked back and flies away like darkness. When the stag attacks again, the Dementor is repulsed, falls down, and runs away like a bat.
”This way!” Harry called to the stag. He ran down the alley and raised the lighted wand. ”Dudley? Dudley? ” He ran about a dozen steps to find them: Dudley fell on the ground bent, his hands covering his face. The second Dementor bent down, grabbed Dudley's wrist with his sticky hand, pulled them apart as if in love, and lowered his turban face to Dudley as if to kiss him.
”Catch it!” Harry roared. With a rapid roar, the silver stag he summoned quickly passed him. Just an inch from the Dementor's blind face, the antlers butted it, and the monster was lifted into the air. Then, like his companion, he flew away and disappeared from the night sky. The stag slowly ran to the end of the path and turned silver The smoke disappeared.