Chapter 210 Boggarts and Dementors

Fudge and other Ministry of Magic officials left with the Dementors satisfied;

Dumbledore not only received the Ministry of Magic's promise to keep the Dementors away from the castle, but also gave the Order of the Phoenix people the opportunity to be promoted in the Ministry of Magic. He was also very satisfied;

And Dracula was also satisfied.

The number of Dementors collected in the trash can that he cast the Invisible Stretching Charm on doubled, and Fudge didn't even notice that the Dementors he got were missing some.

The wizards at the Ministry of Magic only regard dementors as tools to guard prisons. Who would seriously count the number of these dark and corrupt creatures?

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After another weekend, Harry recovered and was discharged from the school infirmary.

On Monday, he came to the second floor of the teaching area with complicated thoughts, preparing to take his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class after being discharged from the hospital——

"What did Professor Lupine teach you in the previous classes?" Dracula asked standing on the podium after the class bell rang.

Facts have proved that since Lupine taught the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in place of Dracula last Monday, Dracula once again couldn't help being lazy and directly asked Lupine to teach for a whole week.

If it weren't for the night of the full moon, Lupine would have to drink the wolfsbane potion brewed by Snape, and his body would be weak for a period of time. At the same time, Dumbledore also thought that Lupine would have to inspect Sirius Black's house. I tried to persuade Dracula on the grounds of finding out his traces, and I am afraid that this time of substitute teaching will continue to be extended.

"Professor, Professor Lupine told us about Kabbah and Boggart, and took us to practice." Hermione was the first to raise her hand and answered.

After her time turner was confiscated by Dracula, she had to take a few days off and take a few classes off.

When Dumbledore received the fully charged time turner sent again from the Ministry of Magic, Miss Academic Master finally resumed her continuous study life.

Fortunately, after those few days of adjustment, her mental condition improved a lot, and now she is back to the efficient learning state she used to have.

"Cabba and Boggart, right?"

Dracula thought for a moment and remembered that over the weekend, Lupine dutifully came to his office to take over the teaching work and seemed to mention that he found a Boggart in an old wardrobe in the castle.

"Let me take a look... Well, sure enough, I found you here." He quickly found a Boggart from a box inside the desk and took it out of the box, " Okay, let’s review the previous content before starting this class..."

Halfway through his words, Dracula's expression suddenly darkened.

I saw that the shape of the Boggart was constantly changing, as if it was thinking about what Dracula in front of him was afraid of.

Finally, it suddenly swayed and turned into a very regular sphere. There was a picture inside the sphere——

A figure that looked very similar to Dracula was sitting on a chair, meditating. There was nothing around him, and the expression on that figure's face was lifeless and extremely boring.

Dracula: "..."

"What an unpleasant species..."

In order to allow the class to continue, he forcibly suppressed his inner desire to destroy the Boggart, and then stuffed it into the box again.

"Line up and come one by one. I'll see who else hasn't learned how to deal with Boggarts. I'll take good care of him!"

The little wizards in the audience lined up happily and stood in front of the lectern one by one, looking at Dracula eagerly.

Professor Lupine had made it very clear in class. They were all very confident and felt that they could easily deal with Boggarts. Only Neville looked sad——

In Neville's Defense Against the Dark Arts class last week, when the Boggart faced him alone, he turned into the form of Professor Snape that he feared most.

Under Professor Lupin's persuasion, he successfully used magic to turn Snape into a funny figure, wearing Neville's grandmother's clothes and walking around the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom in women's clothing.

The little wizards of Gryffindor didn't mind the excitement and quickly spread the news.

After Snape learned of this incident, he launched an even more vicious revenge on Neville in Potions class. Neville didn't know how Professor Snape would treat him if he dealt with a Boggart again...

In addition to Neville who was crying, Harry also raised his hands in confusion.

"Professor, I didn't come to class last week and I don't know the spell to deal with Boggarts," he said.

"It's okay, you can be the last one in line." Dracula smiled nonchalantly, "Take a good look at what the classmates in front of you did, or ask Miss Granger to give you some tutoring. When you practice, I hope you can successfully cast the corresponding magic."

After hearing this, Hermione nodded confidently to Dracula, pulled Harry aside and whispered to him the characteristics and defensive spells of Boggarts.

Other little wizards began to step forward to deal with the poor Boggart——

Parvati Patil saw a mummy, and she skillfully used the corresponding magic spell to untie the mummy's bandages, revealing its somewhat funny skin after drying inside; Seamus Finnigan watched. He saw a female ghost with a green face, and he used magic to turn the ugly female ghost into a beautiful female ghost; Ron saw a big spider, and he put on skates for the spider; and Hermione saw Mai Professor Ge took a report card and told her that she failed all the exams. She used magic to change the "p" on the report card into an "o"...

It was not difficult to resist the Boggart's spell, and everyone did a great job.

However, when Neville arrived, he stood at the back of the team at a loss, and did not dare to stand in front of the podium.

"Other than Potter, you are the only one missing, Mr. Longbottom." Dracula urged, "Come here quickly, I'm still waiting to see Professor Snape in women's clothing!"

There were bursts of knowing laughter in the classroom.

Neville suppressed his blush. After all, he still didn't want all his classmates to wait for him alone, so he took two steps forward.

With a "pop" sound, the Boggart turned into Snape's appearance——

Thin body, straight greasy hair, sallow skin, cold and unfathomable eyes, big aquiline nose... But it can be seen from Neville's performance that this time Snape seems to be better than last time. Even more terrifying.

He held the Potions textbook in his hand and walked towards Neville step by step. The corners of his mouth were slightly curled up in a sneer, as if to say: "Have a good time in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Longbottom?"

Neville was trembling with fear. He held his wand tremblingly for a long time without having the courage to lift it up.

"Didn't you do well in Professor Lupin's class, Mr. Longbottom?" Dracula's voice appeared in Neville's ears, "Imagine something interesting, you just need to force it to become something you think is ridiculous. image of."

"Doesn't Professor Snape's cross-dressing make you happy?"

"But...but, if Professor Snape hears about what happened in this class, he will never let me go." Neville stammered.

"Don't worry, if he troubles you because of this matter, then I will definitely trouble him for you." Dracula chuckled, "No need to doubt, I will do what I say."

Neville raised his head and glanced at Dracula's eyes, which seemed to be calming. He gradually gathered a little courage in his heart and slowly raised his wand.

"Ridiculus!" he shouted, thinking of the clothes his grandmother used to wear.

The image of Snape transformed by the Boggart immediately changed. The black robe on his body turned into a long, embroidered women's dress, and he put on a tall hat with a An old withered specimen that had been eaten by insects, with a huge red handbag dangling in its hand.

"Snape" seemed to be frightened, staggering back two steps and retreating to Dracula's side.

Dracula looked at the female "Snape" in front of him with great interest and said "tsk".

"I heard that Professor Lupin suggested that you change the image of the Boggart by thinking of your grandmother's dressing style?" he asked happily.

"Well...if it weren't for Professor Lupin, I wouldn't have thought of this method myself." Neville said weakly.

Although his words were still a bit shaky, at least he wasn't as scared as before... Snape wearing an old lady's outfit really couldn't make people scared.

"Tsk, it seems that Professor Lupine is not as serious as he appears." Dracula chuckled softly, "It seems that Snape is very familiar with Lupine and Sirius Black. How about asking Snape what he thinks of the Azkaban escapee?"

"Professor, professor! Is it my turn?"

Harry's voice interrupted Dracula's thoughts.

Dracula turned his head and saw Harry getting ready to walk towards the Boggart next to the podium.

"Oh? It seems that you have learned the spell to resist the Boggart." He nodded, "Then come over here and let me see what your level will be like when you use this spell for the first time."

Dracula looked at Harry expectantly, wondering what Dumbledore's chosen savior might be afraid of.

Will the Boggart directly bring out Voldemort's bald head? That would be a lot of fun.

Harry took a deep breath and walked up to "Snape" who was wearing women's clothing.

"Snape" hesitated for a moment after seeing Harry, and his body suddenly swelled...

Under Dracula's interested gaze, the Boggart suddenly transformed into a tattered black cloak.

Just when he thought that the big bald head of Voldemort was on top of the black cloak, a rotten, glowing hand swayed under the cloak. Then, a long, trembling breath came from an invisible mouth...

The thing Harry fears most is not Voldemort, but Dementors!

The dementor transformed by the Boggart slid towards Harry silently while taking a deep breath. Its penetration was so strong that it seemed as if Harry's entire body was submerged in ice water...

"Funny...funny, funny..." Harry was a little confused and uttered the curse spell incomprehensibly.

Obviously, this method of chanting a mantra has no effect at all.

All the defense methods he had thought up in his mind were useless. Only when he actually faced the dementors did he know how much impact this deepest fear in his heart could have on him.

In Harry's eyes, the entire Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and the dementor seemed to be melting...

He fell downward again in the thick white mist, and the woman's voice was louder than ever. This voice echoed in his mind——

"Don't touch Harry! Don't touch Harry! Please...I promise anything..."

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way, you woman in the way!"

"..."

"Harry!"

Harry came back to reality and found himself lying on his back on the floor. The scene in the classroom returned to form, with Hermione and Ron surrounding him, looking at him with worried faces.

"Sorry, Professor..." He murmured feebly, sitting up from the ground, feeling cold sweat flowing down behind his glasses, "Sorry, I didn't complete your task."

"Your situation seems to be a bit special." Dracula looked at Harry who was covered in cold sweat and said thoughtfully, "Dementors obviously arouse your deepest fear more than Boggarts, so Boggart Gert opportunistically took on the form of a dementor.”

At this time, he had already captured the Boggart and put it back into the original box, with some curiosity in his eyes.

"Can you please tell me what kind of scene you saw before you fell into coma?" Dracula asked.

Harry opened his mouth, his lips trembling, unable to force himself to describe in words what he had seen before.

"It doesn't matter if you can't explain it, just get used to it slowly." Dracula waved his hand, "It seems that I have to teach you to resist two dark creatures at the same time, otherwise you won't even be able to pass the Boggart test."

"Two creatures..." Harry was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared on his face.

He suddenly realized that Professor Dracula not only wanted to teach him how to resist Boggarts, but also how to resist Dementors!

"Okay, the review time is over." Dracula casually threw the box containing the Boggart into the cabinet under the desk, and then walked onto the podium, "Let's start today's content -"

"How to defend yourself against dementors!"

He thought about the annoying dementors arranged by the Ministry of Magic around Hogwarts, and the young wizards' disgust and rejection of those dementors, and an extremely interesting picture emerged in his mind -

A group of little wizards held up their wands, and each of them summoned a patron saint, using silver light to fight against the dementors and drive them far away from the castle.

This image must be spectacular and very comforting.

It's just that the difficulty of achieving it is a bit high.

"Professor, as far as I know, the Patronus Charm is not a magic that can be learned in our grade." Hermione raised her hand high and retorted, "I heard that even adult wizards are very few who can master it. Use this spell."

"Of course, Miss Granger, there is nothing wrong with your conclusion." Dracula chuckled, "But this kind of thinking...isn't it meant to be broken?"

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