The train of horror

// THIS IS AN OLD CHAPTER. THE NEW CHAPTERS ARE IN VOLUME 2. YOU CAN READ THESE CHAPTERS IF YOU WANT SOME INSIGHT ON WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN LATER BUT SOME EVENTS CAN BE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW CHAPTERS.

Today is the day of the departure, Susan and I are in the car with our aunt who decided to bring us to the station because my parents are too busy at the moment. My father is always looking for Sirius Black with the other Aurors and does not come back until late at night to leave early in the morning. The black bags that are starting to form under his eyes tell me that he really needs some rest.

My aunt parks and we get out of the car to enter the station, I can see that my aunt is tense, she looks in all directions and her hand is never far from the inside pocket of her jacket in which she stored her wand.

"Is something wrong?"

"It's okay Sean, it'll be better when we reach the way 9 3/4." Sirius Black isn't putting her in such a state, is he?

As we walk through the wall to the Hogwarts Express platform, parents' farewells to their children are much quieter than usual. I spot several Aurors including my father and James Potter patrolling the train. Don't they think Sirius is going to make an appearance in front of so many people?

I see my father nod to my aunt before continuing his round. Susan and I get on the train, there is no reason to stay longer on the platform while our family is at work, we would only disturb them.

I join Blaise and Edward while Susan goes to join Hannah and other friends. The trip goes smoothly as we get closer to Hogwarts.

Suddenly, the train comes to a stop and the lights go out, the Beast inside my mind begins to move and he is on his guard. Frost begins to cover the windows as steam escapes from our three mouths. There is no noise in the train and the only clue of the presence of the dementors is the sound of the door opening which is coming closer and closer to us.

I'm starting to hear voices that are getting closer, but they sound like a clay that someone would press too strongly on a blackboard.

/ * Find ... Black * / / * Find ... prisoner * / / * Find ... Black * /

The sound of his voices is excruciating for overly sensitive ears like mine, when I look at Blaise and Edward, they don't seem to hear the voices.

"Sean, are you okay? You're really pale. You're bleeding from your ears ?!"

As he was about to check if I was okay, the door to our compartment unlocks and slides open revealing a skeletal hand in the doorway. A dementor pulls himself in front of the entrance to our compartment, he examines it, always repeating the same litany until his blind eyes rest on me.

/ * Herald ... where ... Black * / / * Herald ... where ... prisoner * /

The noise is unbearable, an excruciating migraine shatters all my thoughts as I throw up my breakfast on Blaise's shoes that didn't ask for so much.

Their litanies now change, and I have the impression that all the voices are approaching me. The pain becomes unbearable and I end up falling into unconsciousness.

When I finally wake up it is already dark. I am in a bed in the infirmary, and I am not the only one, several students are next to me and I have the impression that they are having nightmares, some of them are talking in their sleep. Talk about a relaxing atmosphere.

I get up, I have the impression that I can no longer hear anything from my left ear and that my legs are made in jelly. I drag myself to the door of the infirmary where I can hear people arguing across the hall.

"But Cornelius, what were all of these dementors doing around a single student? What happened is unacceptable. I was already against the use of dementors to search the train but now I have my son with a mountain of students in the infirmary by your fault. If I hadn't been on that train, he might have died by now. " Looks like my dad is putting Fudge in his place.

"Come on Arthur, let's not dramatize anything, the Dementors were just a little too curious about your son, they obviously had no intention of hurting him or he would have been kissed by now."

"Still happy for you that nothing bad happened to him or else I would have reduced you to shreds myself, even if it must cost me to spend the rest of my life in Azkaban."

He continues to argue until Madam Pomfrey opens the door to the infirmary I was leaning on causing me to fall heavily on the hallway in front of my father and Fudge's widening eyes.

"Ouch, hi dad." When my father sees me on the floor, he runs to help me get up.

"Sean, what are you doing out of bed ?!" He passes one of my arms around his shoulders to help me walk and brings me back to my bed in the infirmary.

"it's just that the atmosphere is quite bad here with all these people moaning and talking while sleeping. I'd rather go back to my room in the dorm."

"Well luckily, we don't always have what we want in life, you're going to be staying here tonight. Are you hurt somewhere?" Madam Pomfrey is stationed next to me and begins to examine my eyes and ears.

"I have the impression that I cannot hear from my left ear and my brain hurt but other than that everything is fine."

"Well, wait here for a minute, I'll get you a potion for your ear and pain, and tomorrow morning you'll be like new.

I lie back in bed and now my dad and Fudge are around me.

"Sean, could you explain to us what happened on the train?"

"We were with Blaise and Edward on the train, discussing our vacation when suddenly the train stopped. The lights went out and frost started to cover the train windows. Then there were the voices. "

"The voices?" My father looks at me without understanding what voice I'm talking about.

"It looked like broken glass rubbed against a stone, they kept saying find Black, find Prisoner."

"It's impossible!! Dementors don't speak. Non-beings don't have true consciousness !!" Fudge turns pale before he starts to get excited.

"Fudge, that's enough, let him finish."

"Then a dementor came into our compartment and started looking at us and his gaze landed on me. I think he understood that I heard him because he started to ask me the question directly and to other dementors have arrived and that's all I remember. "

"That's fine my boy, take a rest now, I'm taking over."

Author note : Don't forget the contest in chapter 40 if you want to have your character in a chapter of this ff ^^