Chapter 224 The Boggart in the Closet (Modified)

Ravenclaws have been wanting Defense Against the Dark Arts for a long time – this term, Gryffindor wizards are the first House to do Defense Against the Dark Arts. After they were done, they boasted about their experience in dealing with Boggarts, which made the little wizards of Ravenclaw both curious and looking forward to it.

"Okay," said Professor Lupine, seeing that everyone was ready, "you come with me."

Puzzled and a little interested, the students stood up and followed Professor Lu Ping out of the classroom. He led them through empty corridors, rounded a corner, and they caught sight of Peeves, their favorite prankster, approaching. Everyone thought that Peeves was going to make trouble, but unexpectedly, it turned around and left, which can be called running away.

The Ravenclaws looked at the ragged Professor Lupine with admiration. They had all heard about Professor Lupine's rectification of Peeves. Alan, the painful impression of being stuck in the nose with an iron spear, tightly bound, and unable to escape is too deep.

Therefore, as soon as Peeves swept Alan in the crowd, he turned and ran away.

Professor Lupine looked at Peeves' reaction in surprise, but then he didn't care anymore and continued to lead the little wizards through the second corridor, stopping outside the door of the faculty lounge.

"Go in," said Professor Lupine, opening the door and taking a step back.

The staff lounge is a long room with wood paneling on all sides and filled with old mismatched chairs. There was no teacher in the room, and the students filed into the room.

"Thank you very much to the professors, they are very supportive of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class and have vacated this lounge for me." Professor Lupine closed the door.

"Okay." Professor Lupine said, motioning the students to walk across the room.

There was just an old wardrobe in which the teachers kept their replacement robes. Professor Lupine walked over and stood beside the closet. The closet suddenly shook and slammed against the wall.

"Don't worry," Professor Lupine said calmly when he saw several students jumping back in shock, "There's a Boggart inside."

Most of the students seem to think that this is exactly what needs to be worried about. With the vigorous publicity of the little Gryffindor wizards, everyone knows that there are Boggarts in it, but after listening to the thrilling descriptions of those little lions, Ravenclaw They will inevitably be nervous, after all, no one wants to expose their weaknesses and privacy.

"Oh, Professor Traorini said that I may encounter something unknown this week!" Padma Patil looked at Professor Lupine in horror.

Marietta Exmo stared in horror at the rattling cabinet doorknob.

"Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces," says Professor Lupine. "Wardrobes, voids under beds, cupboards under sinks, and once I met one that lived in a grandfather clock."

"Now, the first question we have to ask ourselves is: What is a Boggart?" Professor Lupine looked around at the little wizard in the room.

The Ravenclaws looked at Allen in unison - this also made him a little bit dumbfounded, obviously most Eagle Academy students should know, but they are used to letting themselves answer the first question...

Professor Lupine followed their gazes, "Allen, it seems that you are expected to answer this question!"

"Boggart is a magical creature in the magic world. It is a deformed creature. It will see through your heart and become what you are most afraid of." After Allen finished speaking, he paused, and he added: "Boggart Gert's purpose in being scary seems to be to feed on the fear of humans, rather than to use it for self-defense. Because of this, it is counted as a dark magic creature."

Professor Lupine nodded in agreement: "It seems that you really learned well. For detailed and accurate answers, Ravenclaw will add five points."

Smiles appeared on the faces of the little Ravenclaw wizards. They felt that they were beginning to like the most impoverished professor in Hogwarts. At least he was not stingy at all in terms of extra points.

"So, the Boggart in this dark cabinet doesn't have a specific shape yet, and it doesn't know what the people outside the cabinet are afraid of. No one knows what a Boggart looks like when it's alone, but as long as I put it Let it out, and it will immediately become what each of us fears the most." Professor Lupine reminded the little wizards, Ravenclaws listened carefully, and no one wanted to be ashamed in front of their classmates.

Allen nodded, feeling in his heart that this thing is really a typical example of the observer effect.

"That is to say," continued Professor Lupine, and Padma muttered incoherently in fright, which he pretended not to hear, "that we have a great advantage over the Boggarts. Have you found this advantage yet? "

The Ravenclaws looked at Allen habitually again.

Professor Ping shook his head and said: "No, no, you can't always count on Allen to give you answers, you need to think for yourself. Think about it, you are smart Ravenclaws! I know many of you know The answer, you Eagle Academy students should be more active like last year, instead of habitually observing from a distance - if Ravenk had been more active in previous years, he would not have allowed Slytherin to win so many Academy Cups time."

Michael Corner raised his hand hesitantly.

Professor Lupine pointed his finger at him, looking down at him approvingly.

"I think, because we have so many people, it doesn't know what shape it should take?" Michael said his thoughts.

"Very correct," said Professor Lupine, and added two points for encouragement.

"When you're dealing with a boggart, it's best to go in groups. That's what confuses it: is it a headless skeleton, or is it a meat-eating slug? I saw a bogger once Tet made the mistake of trying to scare two people at once, and ended up turning himself into a half-slug, which wasn't scary at all."

Allen thought about it after hearing the words, and felt that Professor Lupine's example was at least not convincing, "...in fact, I think this is actually more scary..."

Lupine didn't pay attention to the strange faces of the little wizards, but picked up his wand: "The spell to repel a Boggart is very simple, but it requires a strong willpower. You know, the one that really killed the Boggart completely It's laughter. What you need is to force it into an image that you find funny. Let's practice the spell without the wand first. Please read to me... funny funny!"

"Funny funny!" said the whole class together.

"Very well," said Professor Lupine, "very well. But this is the easy part. The spell alone is not enough, you know. Who wants to be the first to try?"

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, no one wants to go forward, Allen sighed when he saw this, and wanted to be the first to go up, to give everyone a demonstration-this year Ravenclaw did not have points deducted last year The enthusiasm for chasing points after that.

But Professor Lupine shook his head and said: "Alan, I have no doubt that you can defeat Boggart, but I think you are more suitable as the last person to solve it."

"Except for Alan, no one is willing to try first?" Professor Lupine seemed a little disappointed.

"Well, I hope you all take a moment now to think about what you're most afraid of, and imagine how you could make it comical..."

There was silence in the classroom.

Allen was also thinking: "In this world, what am I most afraid of? But I have Occlumency, so what kind of image will a Boggart create?"