Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 232 Boggart in the Closet

Mike directed Buckbeak to fly around the field for several times, and it was not until the sky was getting dark that he landed in front of Harry, Hermione and others again.

"Brother you are so cool!"

"Mike, it's too dangerous for you to do this!"

Before Mike, who had jumped off the back of the beast, stood still, Hermione and Ron spoke first. Their reactions were completely different. Ron was obviously very excited, while Hermione frowned tightly, looking angry.

Mike ignored Ron, walked quickly to Hermione and said, "I'm sorry for making you worry. It's just that I can't help it, Buckbeak is so handsome!"

Mike Dow's words made Hermione's face blush, and she stomped her feet and said, "Who's worried about you! Humph!"

Then he turned and walked towards the castle.

The temperature at Hogwarts in September was not high, and the temperature during the day was only in the [-]s, and now that the sun had set, the temperature had dropped to around [-] degrees.

Mike looked at Hermione, who was walking in front of her in thin clothes, and raised his wand and cast a warming charm on her in a flash of inspiration.

Hermione only felt that her cold body was suddenly warmed up, and when she turned her head, she saw Mike smiling at her, her little face turned redder, and her pace became a little faster at the same time.

Mike didn't care about Hermione's performance, and hurriedly followed.

Harry and Ron, who stayed where they were, looked confused.

"Mike, doesn't he have Senior Penello?" Ron asked Harry, "Why do you still want to pick up Hermione?"

Harry tightened his clothes and followed, and at the same time said, "You think too much, Mike is just afraid that Hermione will freeze."

"Tsk, why doesn't he give us a warming spell?"

Ron muttered in a low voice. Seeing that everyone had gone a long way, he hurriedly followed.

……

After arriving at the castle, everyone separated. Harry wanted to continue chatting with everyone, but Hermione had to do homework, and Mike had to go to training. In desperation, they had to play wizard chess with Ron.

After Mike separated from Harry and others, he didn't go to Lupine's office because of time, but went directly to the Room of Requirement and started practicing the Patronus Charm.

Now he must go all out to practice the Patronus Charm to a great success as early as possible.

Fortunately, Professor Lupine has pointed out the way for him, so now Mike only needs to bury his head and practice hard. As for when he will be able to fully master the Patronus Charm, it depends on the sky.

Time passed slowly, and the news that Draco was injured by Buckbeak also spread in just two days under the operation of people with good intentions.

Now the entire Hogwarts students are doubting Hagrid's ability.

And worst of all, Hagrid was so intimidated after that incident that he now only dared to bring some completely harmless creatures to class, like Flobber caterpillars.

No matter how you think about it, the Flobber caterpillar, which looks like a normal caterpillar, is not a favorite of young wizards.

Ever since, Hagrid, the professor of magical creatures, became a representative of incompetence.

On Draco's side, he stayed in the infirmary for two days after the injury. Mike's old friend, Soraka, who has a special penchant for human internal organs, once revealed Draco's situation to Mike.

According to her, Draco's injuries were not serious, and it took Madam Pomfrey only 10 minutes to heal him.

But he stayed in the infirmary desperately, and ordered his two followers to spread the news that he was seriously injured.

Generally speaking, the current situation is not good for Hagrid, but what does this have to do with Mike?

In fact, Mike was whistling happily at this moment, and followed the group to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to prepare for his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class this year.

After thinking hard for two days, Lupine finally thought of the content of the class, but when Mike asked him about the content, Lupine still put it on, and proudly told Mike that he would know when the time came.

Thinking of Lupine's expression at that time, Mike couldn't help laughing. Lupine certainly didn't know that he was facing a traveler who had read the original book, and the other party knew the content of his class clearly.

"Why are you in such a good mood today?"

Hearing Franklin's voice, Mike restrained his smile a little and said, "I think of happy things."

"Oh? What kind of happiness..."

Before Franklin finished speaking, there was a burst of exclamation from girls in the classroom not far away.

Mike and Franklin stepped forward to check quickly, and saw that the classroom full of desks and chairs was empty at the moment. All the desks and chairs were piled up in the corner, and in the center of the empty classroom was an old wardrobe.

"Welcome to my class, students." Lu Ping welcomed the students in very enthusiastically, "Find a place with a good view, and a wonderful scene will be staged later."

Lupine's attitude is neither humble nor overbearing, both kind and gentle.

This immediately won the goodwill of many people, and even those students who originally thought he was too poor have greatly changed their impression of him.

After everyone entered the classroom scatteredly, Lu Ping first asked everyone to put their books back in their schoolbags, and then walked to the closet in the middle of the classroom.

Surprisingly, there seemed to be something alive in that old wardrobe. As soon as Lupine approached it, the wardrobe door shook violently, and at the same time there was a dull sound of slapping the door panel.

All the students in the classroom were taken aback by the movement, and some timid girls even screamed directly.

"Don't be afraid, students." Professor Lupine reassured everyone, "It's just a Boggart locked inside."

As soon as this remark came out, a few students showed a relieved look on their faces, but most of the students were still stunned.

"Aha! It seems that someone already knows what a Boggart is." Lupine scanned the crowd, "Mike! Come and answer this question, what exactly is a Boggart?"

"Okay, professor." Mike agreed and walked out of the crowd two steps forward, "Boggart is a shape-shifting monster, and it also has the ability to read minds. It can use the ability to read minds to know what you are most afraid of. stuff, and scares you by transforming into that."

"Great! Ravenclaw is very good!" Lupine applauded. "Let me add that Boggarts like dark and closed environments very much, so you can often find them in closed cabinets and sewers."

"It's kind of scary to think about, isn't it? You're repairing a damaged sewer, and then suddenly the thing you're most afraid of appears in the dark..."

"Come on. The weakness of a creature like a Boggart is very obvious. It can't deal with multiple enemies at the same time. When it faces many targets like it is now, it doesn't know what to turn into to scare us all. So when you're dealing with boggarts it's best to go in groups. For example, I once saw a boggart try to scare two people at the same time, and ended up turning himself into a half-slug tail The skeleton head, that's not scary at all!"

As soon as Lupine said this, everyone in the classroom laughed, but a girl next to Mike said to another girl next to him with a look of horror: "That's pretty scary..."

"Okay, that's all for the basic introduction. Our lesson today is how to defeat a Boggart alone. The method is very simple. You just need to have strong willpower to overcome your fear, and at the same time raise your wand and say the magic word. The curse 'funny funny'! Come and say it with me!"

"Funny!"

Everyone took out their wands to imitate.

"Okay, then it's up to you guys. Who will come first!"

Many daring students raised their hands, mostly boys, wanting to show their bravery in front of the girls.

Professor Lupine glanced back and forth, and finally fell on Franklin.

"It's up to you! The kid with the owl on his head over there!"

Franklin strutted forward and walked up. What he didn't know was that Lupine chose him not only because of his weird appearance, but also because he was the only black man in this classroom...it was too conspicuous.

Despite his bravery at first, Franklin was a little nervous when he stood next to Lupin.

"Don't be nervous, let's go!"

Franklin took a deep breath, and then came to the wardrobe.

Everyone present held their breath, and everyone was looking forward to Bogut's appearance.

One second, two seconds...

Time is passing by little by little, and everyone's patience is also being consumed little by little.

Franklin, who was standing in front of the closet, breathed a sigh of relief. He thought something was wrong with the Boggart.But just when he was about to ask Lupine, the closet suddenly opened.

I saw a skinny man wearing a brown and black top hat and a red and green horizontal striped sweater, his face was severely burned, and jumped out of the closet laughing.

Franklin's pupils narrowed sharply, his gaze randomly scanned the skinny man, and finally landed on his right hand.

To be precise, it should be a claw, a sharp iron claw made of metal, with some blood and minced meat stuck to it...

"what!"

Franklin screamed, his voice was deformed by fright, and became thinner, a bit like a girl's voice.

Mike in the crowd recognized the skinny man, the demon in his dream, Freddy the Ghost King at a glance.From the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Mike shook his head with a smile. He had guessed the general situation. Franklin must have watched too many horror movies during the summer vacation.

"Calm down! Franklin!" Lupine shouted from the sidelines. "Try to imagine him dressed in the most ridiculous way you can!"

Franklin couldn't listen to what he said. Freddy, who could kill in his sleep, was a common nightmare for a generation of American children.

Franklin shuddered and turned his head to look at Mike. He hoped that his friend could help him like before.

Mike, however, just smiled and nodded at him.

Not knowing why, Franklin suddenly felt his power come back when he saw this scene.Then he gritted his teeth and raised his wand over his shoulder.

"Funny!"

The spell took effect quickly, and the appearance of the ghost king Freddy changed rapidly.

His complexion became extremely dark, and at the same time, his figure swelled into a big fat man, and the clothes on his body became the bright clothes that black people like very much, but others look very tacky.His lips were painted with bright red lipstick, and the paw of his right hand turned into a pink hair dryer.

Everyone in the classroom was stunned, and then amazing laughter broke out.

Amidst the laughter, Boggart retreated steadily, and finally retreated into the closet.

"Nice job, Ravenclaw plus ten points!"

With Lupine's approval, a smile appeared on the frightened Franklin.

"So next, Mike?"

Lupine asked Mike in a questioning tone, but Mike walked to the wardrobe without saying a word.

There have been speculations about Bogut Mike.

The main ability of this creature is actually not shape-shifting, but mind-reading.

So in theory Occlumency can overcome it!

Mike's eyes began to turn cold, and the closed state of the brain was activated.

1 minute, 5 minutes...

The Boggart in the closet refused to come out for a long time. Everyone in the classroom got impatient and started whispering.

There was also a smile on Mike's face, and his guess was successful.

Then came further experiments. In the original book, Harry turned Boggart into a dementor to practice the Patronus Charm, which proves that Boggart can be misled.

Thinking of this, Mike started to hypnotize himself.

The next moment, the door of the closet opened suddenly, and a miniature fire dragon emerged from the closet.

"Wow! Mike is afraid of dragons!?"

The students discussed excitedly that Mike was a star student at Hogwarts, and most of the school liked to listen to his gossip.

"Funny."

Mike, who verified his conjecture, did not hesitate at all, and directly turned the fire dragon into a gecko. Such a large deformation range made Lupine raise his eyebrows unexpectedly, and finally added 5 points to Mike before letting him go. .

And this little episode did not delay the progress of the class. In the whole class, everyone completed the course against Boggarts. Some people were afraid of strange things. Mike even saw a classmate who was afraid of butterflies.

After class, Professor Lupine moved the closet back to the storage room. It was inconvenient to fight bloggers in the classroom. Mike felt that he would change the class location in the next class.

……

That night, the invisible Mike came to the storage room where the wardrobe was stored.

For someone who has read the original book, Mike is still very curious about creatures like Boggarts, so he ran here late at night just to know what he was most afraid of.

And the reason why he has to hide what he is afraid of during the day is because Mike is afraid that letting others see what he is afraid of will cause him trouble.

What is Mike afraid of?
In fact, he had already guessed in his heart that it was either Voldemort or Dumbledore.It is even more likely that Dumbledore is more likely. After all, Mike has seen Dumbledore make a move with his own eyes, and the power is really terrifying.

If the Boggart turned into Dumbledore in full view...

What would others think?What would Dumbledore think?
Although Dumbledore is likely to laugh it off, Mike will do his best to avoid accidents.

In the dark, Mike removed the Disillusionment Charm and Occlumency, completely letting go of his mind.

The next moment, the wardrobe in the dark suddenly opened.

A girl in a princess dress with long blond hair shining like gold came out barefoot.

The girl is very cute, and her bare feet are very attractive. If there is a rating, Mike will give her full marks without hesitation!

However, facing such a beauty at this moment, Mike opened his mouth wide in horror.

Because... the girl's face is actually very similar to Mike's...

This turned out to be the female version of Mike!
"WTF!?"

(End of this chapter)