Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 105 The Invalid Boggart
Professor Lupine was wearing a shabby robe, carrying a broken box, and his hair was greasy. He was only slightly better than Snape.

"Good afternoon, I believe you have heard that today is a practical class."

He beckoned and asked everyone to follow him, and came to a classroom on the fifth floor that had been abandoned for a long time.Pushing open the door, the inside was tidy and tidy.

Very empty, only a shaking wardrobe on the ground.

"So everyone knows what to face today..."

"Boggart!"

replied a Hufflepuff.

"That's right, Boggart." Professor Lupine nodded. "This is a shape-shifting magical creature that will transform into whatever it thinks scares you the most."

"However, the Boggart hiding in the darkness has no form, and we cannot observe its true appearance."

"But just let it out, and it will become the thing you fear the most..."

"Then, hurt you."

Professor Lupine's tone became serious.

"Boggarts can be vulnerable or brutal, it all depends on what your greatest fear is."

"The most horrific boggart attack ever recorded was 200 years ago when a wizard met a boggart while traveling and it turned into a giant dragon, a huge dragon several kilometers in size. can be seen from the outside.”

"Unfortunately, a group of Muggles were holding a rally there, and the dragon was exposed to the Muggles."

"For this reason, the Ministry of Magic had to dispatch a lot of manpower to erase the memories of these Muggles."

"Of course, this is an extremely rare case after all. It only takes a simple funny spell to deal with Boggarts."

"The real difficulty is whether you can use the Funny Charm."

Knocking on the closet, the boggart inside made more noise.

"Now, ladies and gentlemen, get out your wands, and remember the incantation of the funny spell 'funny funny,'" said Professor Lupine, "and line up, one by one, to face the Boggarts."

"Don't be afraid, strengthen your will, and take it from something you fear most to something funny."

Everyone lined up obediently. The first one was Stewart who managed to grab the front, and Ike was in the middle.

"Mr. Ackley, right? It seems that I remember correctly." Professor Lupine patted Stuart on the shoulder, "Now can you tell me, what do you think you are most afraid of?"

"Cockroach, Professor."

"Cockroach?" said Professor Lupine. "Then what does this cockroach have to do to make you laugh?"

"I'd be really happy if it got kicked around with a broom."

"Good job, remember that." Professor Lupine had Stuart stand in front of the wardrobe, while he stood aside, wand in hand.

"Also, don't forget the incantation of the Funny Curse!"

As soon as the words fell, a string of sparks flashed, and a giant cockroach about one meter in size crawled out of the closet, causing the group of little witches behind to scream piercingly.

The giant cockroach shook its tentacles and walked towards Stuart step by step.Stuart's hands trembled a little, he swallowed, and pointed his wand at the cockroach and shouted, "Funny, funny!"

The white light from the tip of the staff flashed, and the body of the cockroach jerked, as if it had been hit by something, and quickly rolled on the spot.

It rolled faster and faster, and it rolled smaller and smaller, until it was only the size of a palm, and fell to the ground with all four feet in the air, with three yellow birds spinning around on top of its head.

Ike saw black lines all over his head from behind. Isn’t this the scene that sometimes appears after Tom hits the wall in Tom and Jerry?
Some wizards born in Muggle families were taken aback for a moment, then remembered, and burst out laughing.The cockroach stopped immediately, and the bird on its head stopped turning.

"It's confused!" said Professor Lupine, laughing. "Next, up!"

Stuart quickly stepped aside, and Michael took a step forward.The cockroach immediately turned over and rushed towards him. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a zombie covered in carrion and blood.

"Funny!"

Another flash of white light flashed, a road cone appeared on the zombie's head, and the clothes turned into a pink princess dress. His feet seemed to be stirred, and he fell face down on the ground straight.

"Next!"

For a few minutes, one by one, everyone confronts the Boggart and turns it into one ridiculous thing after another.

Ike is an eye-opener, a centaur whose limbs are caught in mousetrap, a female ghost whose head is covered by a plastic bag, and a skeleton whose bones are all pink and even sprinkled with colorful sequins .

Slowly, the people in front of Ike succeeded, and finally it was his turn.

The previous person had just turned the Boggart into a lion chasing its own tail. The moment Ike stepped forward, the Boggart stopped suddenly and turned into a cloud of black mist in the original place. Spinning wildly.

"Crack, crack"

There was a strange noise in the black mist, and it was spinning faster, but it didn't turn into a concrete form for a long time.

Everyone looked at the black mist strangely, and Professor Lupine was also puzzled.Ike was a little puzzled at first, but then suddenly realized, and immediately performed Occlumency, imagining in his mind.

"Snapped!"

With a soft sound, an ordinary kraft paper bag fell to the ground.The mouth of the bag was open, and it was empty inside.

"Funny!"

Ike waved his wand, and the paper bag immediately turned pink, with a picture of a unicorn with a rainbow on it.

"Next!" Professor Lupine glanced at Ike, shook his head slightly, and called the students behind him.

As soon as he stood aside, Stuart and others surrounded him.

"That's the bag you put the cockroaches in! It must be!" Stuart put his arm around Ike's neck, and with the other hand, Terry and the others began to ravage its hair, "You guy, why are you afraid? A heap of cockroaches!"

Ike dodges and almost breaks free, but Terry and Michael hold him up left and right, allowing Stuart and Anthony to do whatever they want, begging for mercy.

After playing around for a while, the group stopped, and then looked at other people turning Boggarts into all kinds of funny things.

Ike smiled, but kept thinking in his heart.He knew very well that the swirling black mist just now was a manifestation of Boggart's inability to determine what he was afraid of. After spinning for a long time, it was exploring what Ike was most afraid of.But under a force majeure, Boggart has no way of knowing.

Slightly squinting his eyes, Ike's attention fell on a line on the waste notepad system:

Occlumency Master (customized version)
(Your darkest secrets won't be known if you don't tell them, for the rest it's up to you)

(not upgradeable)
(End of this chapter)