Alex Hale Book 1 by Spielar

Chapter 23

We got on the train and found Hermione sitting in a room with Harry, Ron, and a man sleeping while covered in a cloak.

We all had idle chatter, mostly about what was going to happen at Hogwarts this year. It eventually turned to Sirius.

"I don't think he's guilty." I said causing the others to look at me disbelievingly while Lupin shifted under his cloak listening in.

"What makes you say that? The guy is obviously mad. Haven't you seen his picture on the paper, he was absolutely terrifying." Ron said shivering.

"Not everything can be judged by looks Ron." I scolded him lightly. "That picture was taken years after being stuck in Azkaban and that will make anyone look mad. As for my reasoning." I said slightly lowering my voice.

"Well you see, Sirius has been convicted of a number of crimes, but he never confessed to any of them. They never found any other pieces of Peter Pettigrew than his finger. This of course makes me doubt his death. For such a dangerous wizard who was willing to kill his friends he didn't even try to fight back against the aurors who came for him. He just sat there in the street that he had supposedly blown up. I doubt he was the one who did such horrid things."

I noticed Lupin start breathing faster as he thought about my words and Ron's rat had frozen when I said my thoughts about his faked death being unbelievable since there was only one piece.

"In any case these are my theories on him, it doesn't mean he isn't completely mad after a decade in Azkaban. The only things there are dementors, death eaters, and other nasty things. So if you do meet him be very careful since if I'm wrong and he did commit those crimes he'll want to kill you. If I'm right then he might be crazy and still try to kill you. So yeah, be careful."

Everyone nodded to that before we noticed the train stopping.

The windows froze over and it began to get colder and colder in the car. "Dang dementors." I muttered out.

"What did you say?" Ginny squeaked out.

"Did you just say dementors, what are dementors doing here?" Hermione gasped out.

"They're searching for Sirius to see if he snuck on. Everyone should get ready, these guys tend to bring up the absolute worst memories a person could have." I told them while hugging the girls. I noticed Lupin nod at what I had said.

When the dementor came to our room it opened the door while floating there and letting out a rasp. It looked around the room before focusing on Harry who had gone pale and was holding his scar.

I stepped forward and looked at the dementor right where it's eyes should be and said. "Sirius Black is obviously not in this room, leave now and finish your search. You have failed once, do not fail again because of your hunger."

The dementor backed off and continued down the hall and I closed the door to see Harry slump to his seat in a cold sweat. Ginny also looked extremely pale and was holding onto Hermione.

"Well that was quite interesting." Lupin said throwing his cloak off and stretching. "You handled that dementor better than most professionals would Alex. Here Harry take this and eat it before you pass out." He said handing Harry a piece of chocolate.

"So Alex, how did someone so young have such ability to stand up to a dementor and have it leave while most others would cower in fear?" Lupin asked eating his own piece of chocolate.