Chapter 274: The Boggart Arrives Late

Because Snape's behavior caused strong indignation among the young wizards, when Professor Lupin finally came back, the young wizards immediately complained.

"It's unfair, he just came to substitute for the class, why did he give us homework?"

"We don't know what a werewolf is--"

"--Two rolls of parchment!"

"He also deducted points from us casually!"

Ron's voice was the most painful, he raised his hands, showing the scars left deliberately:

"I spent three whole nights dealing with horned toads and hedgehog balls! Snape also threatened me that next time I would get spider venom!"

Werewolf? Professor Lupin shook his head gently, Snape sighed.

He did look sick, the old robes made him even looser, there were heavy dark circles under his eyes, and he looked sickly.

"Didn't you tell Professor Snape that we haven't learned that much yet?" Lupin asked, frowning slightly.

Everyone started talking again.

"He did, but he said we were too backward--"

"--He didn't listen--"

"He asked us what a werewolf was, and Granger knew it, but he deducted points from Granger!"

"--Two rolls of parchment! Two full pages!"

Everyone was indignant, wishing that Professor Lupin would immediately draw his wand and duel with Snape.

But Zhang Xiao knew that Lupin would never take the initiative to cause trouble for Snape, but Snape would not deliberately cause trouble for Lupin either.

Among the Marauders, Snape's hostility towards Lupin was probably the lowest.

Both sides would be irritated with each other, but that was it. If it were James and Sirius, Snape would never brew a potion, even if Dumbledore ordered him to.

So it was normal for Professor Lupin to just smile at this time.

"Don't worry, I'll tell Professor Snape--you don't have to write that paper."

No need to write two pages of parchment homework?

The little wizards immediately became happy and closed their mouths with satisfaction.

Only Hermione looked disappointed: "Oh no! I've finished it."

Harry turned his head and whispered to Zhang Xiao and Malfoy: "She spent more than four hours last night! She looked up information that was almost half my height!"

Malfoy looked at Hermione in confusion, wondering why someone would like to do homework.

"Okay, let's forget about the last class, now--" Professor Lupin said, waving his hand to signal the whole class to stand up. He waved his wand, and the tables and chairs immediately scattered to both sides of the classroom.

The little wizards happily stood in the extra space in the middle of the classroom.

Lupin waved his wand again, and a shabby wardrobe standing against the wall suddenly flew over and landed gently at the other end of the classroom.

He walked to the side of the wardrobe and stood still. The wardrobe suddenly shook and banged on the ground.

"Don't worry." Professor Lupin said calmly, because several students jumped back in fear at this time.

"There's a Boggart in there.

In fact, I wanted to teach you about Boggarts in the first class, but I didn't expect that everyone's foundation would be so poor, so I had to postpone my plan with regret.

Fortunately, everyone studied very hard and seriously-"

Most people felt that they did need to worry. Neville glanced at Professor Lupin with curiosity in his eyes, and Seamus Finnigan glanced at the door handle that was shaking now with fear.

"Boggarts like dark, closed spaces." Professor Lupin said: "Wardrobes, gaps under beds, cupboards under sinks-once I encountered one hidden in an old clock of my ancestors.

This one was moved in yesterday afternoon. I asked the headmaster for permission. With the consent of Headmaster Dumbledore, we can now use it for practice.

"So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a Boggart?"

Hermione raised her hand so fast that it left an afterimage, and the wind and waves blew Ron's hair.

"Professor, it is a kind of thing that can be transformed," the little witch said confidently: "It can present any image that it thinks can scare us the most. ”

“I couldn’t have said it better myself,” Professor Lupin nodded approvingly, and Hermione pursed her lips tightly to prevent herself from smiling.

“So, the Boggart in the closet has not yet taken on any form.

It doesn’t know what can scare the people outside the door.

No one knows what the Boggart looks like when it is alone, but when I let it out, it will immediately become the thing that each of us fears the most.

“This means,” Professor Luhu kept it a secret, deliberately ignoring the frightened face of the little wizard: “Before we start, we have a huge advantage over the Boggart!”

He suddenly looked at Harry:

“Have you found this advantage, Harry?”

Hermione raised her hand again in a whoosh, jumping up and down on tiptoe.

Her arm was like a javelin, pointing straight to the sky.

In this case, it would be embarrassing if he couldn’t answer the question, but Harry decided not to let Lupin down.

He racked his brains and slowly answered, "Oh - because there are so many of us, it doesn't know what to look like, is that right?"

"Excellent, five points for Gryffindor!" Professor Lupin clapped his hands gently.

"When dealing with a Boggart, the best way is to have a large number of people.

This way it will be at a loss and won't know what to look like.

Is it a headless corpse? Or a carnivorous slug?

Once I saw a Boggart make such a mistake - he wanted to scare two people at the same time, so he turned himself into a half slug.

To be honest, it was not scary at all. Instead, it made us laugh. "

Professor Lupin then introduced the key points and spells to deal with Boggart.

The spell is [Funny Funny], but this spell cannot be used to kill Boggart.

This spell is more like a forced transformation spell for Boggart, forcing Boggart to become what you want.

Without the terrifying appearance that strikes your heart, the danger brought by Boggart disappears.

After introducing Boggart, Professor Lupin pinched the head and tail of the wand with both hands and said solemnly:

"You know, it's not enough to just say this spell.

Who will go first?"

The little wizards shook their heads nervously.

He suddenly pointed: "Okay, it's your turn first, Neville! "

The young wizards looked at Neville with a sad look as if they were sending him to the gallows.

But Zhang Xiao immediately cheered up. Neville had changed a lot, but except for his closest friends, who cares what you become?

Even though he had shocked Snape for a whole year in the Potions class, everyone's stereotype of Neville still exists.

That is, he is good-tempered, kind, courageous, but very clumsy.

Neville nodded and walked forward directly. Lupin looked at Neville's calm expression with some surprise.

In the list of attention given to him by McGonagall, Neville is the focus of attention, and the comments are basically the original ones.

Interesting, this is not the "good person", "good boy", "cowardly" and "inferiority" that Professor McGonagall said.

"Neville--" Professor Lupin said gently, "First thing: what are you most afraid of in the world?"

Neville frowned and thought carefully.

"Hurry up and tell me, this careful consideration is not accurate! "Professor Lupin said happily.

Neville was obviously distressed, he sighed: "Before, I was most afraid of Professor Snape"

Almost everyone laughed.

Even Neville himself grinned apologetically.

However, Professor Lupin was thinking deeply.

"Before. Professor Snape... um... Neville, what about now?"

"I don't know, professor." Neville scratched his head embarrassedly.

Lupin was also a little troubled, he thought for a while: "Okay, then we will know if we try it directly."

"When the Boggart rushes out of the closet, Neville, and sees you, it will show what you fear most."

Lupin said: "You, pick up the wand - hold it like this - and shout "funny funny" - and try to concentrate, thinking about what you think is funny. "

Neville nodded, and the other little wizards also looked at Neville and the wardrobe in front of them nervously - the wardrobe shook even more violently.

"If Neville succeeds, this Boggart may turn his attention to each of you in turn." Professor Lupin was still trying to impart knowledge.

"Now, I hope each of you will take a little time to think about what you are most afraid of, and then imagine how you can force it to become something that looks ridiculous..."

The room was very quiet.

Harry thought about what in the world scared him the most?

Voldemort jumped out immediately, with scarlet eyes and a thin nose.

Harry trembled, then looked around, hoping that no one noticed him.

Many classmates closed their eyes, and Ron muttered to himself: "Take off its legs."

Harry knew what Ron was talking about: Ron was most afraid of spiders.

Hermione had covered her mouth: "Oh no! Fail! "

Zhang Xiao also began to think, what am I most afraid of?

Monsters? Or a dream? No, this is not a dream, this reality has been experimented countless times.

But magic, such a power of idealism, is really like a dream.

In short, I am very curious!

"Is everyone ready?" Professor Lupin asked.

Harry felt a sense of terror - he was not ready.

Others nodded and rolled up their sleeves.

"Neville, we are going to step back," Professor Lupin said, "Let you have a space, okay?

I will ask the next person to come forward... Now, everyone step back and let Neville have a wide space -"

Everyone stepped back, retreated to the wall, and let Neville stand alone next to the wardrobe.

But many little wizards were very surprised that Neville's round face did not have How many scared expressions.

He slowly rolled up his sleeves on both sides, and he looked calm and unhurried, with his wand already in his hand.

"I'll count to three, Neville," said Professor Lupin, and he also pointed his wand at the wardrobe, "One-two-three-start!"

A burst of sparks shot out from the end of the professor's wand, and the sparks hit the handle of the wardrobe door.

The wardrobe door opened, but nothing rushed out.

But Neville's expression suddenly froze.

There was only a tombstone in the wardrobe, and with his extraordinary eyesight, Zhang Xiao saw the words on it at a glance.

This is the tombstone of Frank and Alice, and the cause of death was fighting Voldemort again after recovery.

The little wizards stretched their necks and looked at the tombstone curiously, but they didn't know what was so scary about this tombstone.

But looking at Neville's expression, it was obvious that the tombstone had a great impact on him.

Zhang Xiao looked at the boy in front of him who was bowing his head and not talking with concern. If he had never had it, he would not be like this.

The most hurtful thing is to have it but lose it again.

Neville held the wand and felt a pain in his heart. He was silent for a while, but finally let out a sigh of relief.

He raised his wand: "If there really is such a day, I think they must be willing.

So - funny!"

There was a crisp sound of "snap", like the sound of waving a whip.

The tombstone suddenly and rapidly transformed into Snape, who was wearing women's clothes and was extremely charming;

He wore a long, lace-embroidered women's dress, a tall hat, and an old eagle specimen that had been eaten by insects on the top of the hat. He dangled a huge scarlet handbag in his hand.

Neville grinned. This was what he had always wanted to do.

The class burst into laughter; the Boggart paused, bewildered;

Professor Lupin, relieved, hastened to strike while the iron was hot, and shouted: "Parvati, come forward!"

Parvati stepped forward, face stern.

Snape walked around her. There was another pop, and where Snape had stood was now a bandaged, bloodstained mummy;

Its sightless eyes turned to Parvati and began to walk towards her, very slowly, dragging its feet, with its stiff arms raised - "Funny!" Parvati cried.

The bandages on the mummy's feet came untied; it stumbled on the loose bandages and fell face first to the ground, its head rolling off.

"Seamus!" Professor Lupin shouted.

Seamus hurried over Parvati.

Snap! Where the mummy had been was now a woman, with black hair that trailed to the floor, a face that was only skeleton and greenish--a ghost.

Her mouth opened wide, and an inhuman sound filled the room, a long, shrill cry that made Harry's hair stand on end--"Funny, funny!" Seamus shouted.

The ghost made a tearing sound, grabbed at her throat, and her voice was gone.

Snap! The ghost turned into a rat, circling to find its tail, and then--snap! a rattlesnake, slithering and twisting--and then--snap! it turned into a bloody eyeball.

"It's lost its mind!" Professor Lupin shouted. "We've made another step forward! Dean!"

Dean hurried forward.

Snap! The eyeball turned into a severed hand, which hopped and jumped and began to crawl along the floor like a crab.

"Funny, funny!" Dean shouted.

There was a crisp sound, and the hand was caught in a rattrap.

"Great! Ron, you're next!"

Ron stepped forward confidently.

Snap! Several people screamed.

A huge spider, six feet tall and covered with hair, was crawling towards Ron, waving its claws threateningly along the way.

Ron made a 'hiccup' sound from his throat, and the whole person was stunned.

Fortunately, he didn't faint completely, and then-"Funny!" Ron yelled, and the spider's legs disappeared.

"Granger!"

Hermione took a step forward, eager to try.

The spider kept rolling and suddenly exploded again. In the smoke, Professor McGonagall's voice came:

"Granger, you are expelled!"

Professor McGonagall, with a high bun and a stern face, walked out, holding a pile of report cards in her hand, shaking constantly:

"Failed every exam! Hogwarts doesn't need stupid students like you!"

Hermione let out a sharp cry, covered her face and cried softly.

The little wizards in the class opened their mouths wide enough to fit duck eggs - Merlin! How could someone be most afraid of failing and being expelled? ? ?

Is this the academic bully?

Not only the little wizards, but even Lupin didn't expect it. He was stunned for a moment, looking at Hermione who was about to collapse in surprise.

Lupin thought about it and winked at Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao understood it immediately and patted Malfoy's shoulder immediately.

Malfoy was worthy of being the king's deputy. He understood it instantly after a little daze. The two of them stepped forward to help Hermione up.

Other little wizards who had a good relationship with him also hurried forward and took the crying little witch back (Hermione, that's a Boggart! You are not expelled!)

Zhang Xiao was the only one facing the Boggart on the field.

'Professor McGonagall's' gaze shifted to himself, not just Zhang Xiao himself.

Even the little wizards held their breath.

What is Zhang, the school's celebrity, the legendary 'successor to Dumbledore' and 'the next legend', afraid of?

A knowing smile appeared on Professor McGonagall's face.

Then it exploded into a cloud of mist - (To be continued)

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