Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Illusion of Fear

Lillian walked slowly towards the Boggart, drew her wand and got ready, she was actually quite looking forward to what the Boggart would become next, an explosion, a gasp of cold air circulated in the crowd, and a giant moth appeared in front of Lilian, the pale yellow moth flapped its wings rapidly, and countless pollen-like phosphorus powder were sprinkled around it, and the dark compound eyes coldly revealed a dangerous aura, and the moth's huge mouthparts silently opened again, inciting its wings to fly straight away.

Lilian looked at the moth in the air, and was in a trance for a moment, as if she remembered something, and the next second she reacted, she waved her wand, "Funny funny." A crisp voice sounded, and the moth flying in the air broke its wings in an instant, fell to the ground and turned into a silkworm chrysalis.

"Good, next." Professor Lupin shouted, "Parvati, come forward!"

Parvati stepped forward, grimacing. Snape walked around her. There was another popping sound, and the place where the silkworm chrysalis on the ground appeared was now a bloodstained mummy wrapped in bandages; Its blinding eyes turned to Parvati and began to walk towards her, slowly, slowly, shuffling, stiff arms raised??" Funny funny!" Parvati shouted.

The bandages on the mummy's feet were untied; It stumbled from the loose bandages, its face fell forward, and its head rolled down.

"Stupid Gryffindor, the mummy doesn't know what's so terrible about the road, these guys who can't move a little in the coffin, I don't know where the road has the slightest fear, it's really boring." Malfoy snorted, dismissive of Parvati's conjured fear.

"Oh? In fact, I don't know what is so terrible about the lion, could it be that you were bullied by a poodle when you were a child, it must have bitten you a few more times, right? So the word with a lion instinctively has a fear of it? Harry looked at Malfoy with a blank look on his face and a question mark on his face, which caused Ron to scoff.

"Don't pretend to be in front of me, I'm looking forward to what our great savior will be afraid of, is it a dementor in black skin, the feeling of being scared out of the past should still be fresh in my memory." Malfoy glared at Harry viciously, furious that Potter had dared to provoke him.

Before Harry could speak, he glanced at Ron, who was holding back a smile, "And you disgusting red-haired Weasley, do you think it's funny?" When it's your turn, I'm guessing it's a pig in the classroom, and it's just a lot of fun to fit in with your pigsty-like room. Malfoy started the crowd and fired on all the firepower, completely ignoring Professor Lupin, who was standing not far away.

"Ron, you're next!" Professor Lupin suddenly called out Ron.

Ron jumped forward.

Syllable! Several people screamed. A giant spider, six feet tall and covered in hair, was crawling towards Ron, dancing its hooks menacingly along the way. There was a moment of work. Harry felt Ron too scared to move. And then??" Funny funny!" Ron roared, and the spider's leg was gone. The spider kept tumbling; Lavender Brown screamed and dodged.

"Yo, it turns out that you are afraid of spiders, according to Loki's words, such a humble little bug can actually be the source of your fear, and the Weasleys are really mavericks." Malfoy looked like he was watching a show, and he didn't pay any attention to the giant spider that Ron had conjured.

"Seamus!" Professor Lupin exclaimed.

Seamus hurriedly stepped forward over Parvati.

Syllable! The place where the spider stayed is now a woman, with black hair dragged all the way to the ground, a face with only a skeleton, and a green yin?? A female ghost. She opened her mouth wide. An inhuman voice filled the room, and a long, mournful cry sent Harry's creeps out. Funny funny!" Seamus shouted.

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

Syllable! The female ghost turned into a rat and spun around looking for her own tail, and then?? Syllable! Turns into a rattlesnake, snaking and twisting and twisting?? And then?? Syllable! It turned into a bloody eyeball again.

"It's already dizzy!" Professor Lupin exclaimed, "We've taken another step forward!" And then, Augustus!"

When Augustus stepped forward, the Gryffindor and Slytherin students held their breath, for what Augustus was afraid of, it is no exaggeration to say that the entire Hogwarts students want to understand, this man who has defeated Voldemort head-on, ended Voldemort's plan twice, and led Slytherin to win two consecutive House Cups by himself, and is the spiritual leader of Slytherin, what will such a person be afraid of? Or is there something that really scares him?

Augustus stepped forward calmly, with a faint smile on his face, at no time had the Slytherin students seen a trace of surprise on Augustus' face, for such a figure, the next change in the Boggart was indeed quite exciting.

There was an explosion, a smell of sulfur was generated, and a bottomless abyss appeared in the classroom, a huge black palm poked out of it, just one palm, made all the students, including Professor Lupin, pale, and a vicious and dark aura spread throughout the classroom, and the engulfing aura of intimidation made all the students tremble involuntarily, as if what was about to appear next was a terrifying fate that they had never experienced. Demon, a simple word that appeared in everyone's minds, I am afraid that only the powerful demons in hell have such power.

Augustus laughed dumbly, this Boggart is really foolish, before the students and Lupin could breathe slowly, Boggart let out another explosion, a wing that covered the sky and the sun suddenly appeared in the classroom, in everyone's exclamation, a dark dragon image soared into the air, the golden pupils of the dragon in the image with cold coercion, including Lupin, the dragon power as if it was real, making everyone breathe rapidly, cold sweat, the dragon in the image hovered over the city, the dragon's breath erupted, the earth overturned, and the tower fell, Countless ant-like humans are running in all directions, dragons let out haughty dragon groans, countless meteors and fire rains down from the sky, spreading for thousands of miles, huge buildings falling apart in huge meteorites, flames and ice filling the ground and air, a scene of the end of the world that makes the faces of people who have never experienced war full of horror.

"Occlumency!" Lupin, who has always been calm, suddenly exclaimed, Boggart's continuous changes can only show one point, these scenes in front of him are all illusions presented by Augustus using brain occlusion to deceive Boggart, that is, these two scenes are so terrifying that the embodiment is not Augustus's real fear, he is playing with Boggart, but obviously, these scenes must have been experienced by Augustus, otherwise it would not be so real, but the amazing thing is that even such horror did not interfere with Augustus's mind, Lupin wondered what kind of strength this could have, perhaps only such a person could have the terrifying strength to defeat their fearful Voldemort in the true sense. However, what was his real fear, Lupin suddenly had the desire to explore others for the first time in his life.

Quite disappointed glanced at Boggart, Augustus had a smile on the corner of his mouth, it seems that if he doesn't let go of his mind, this Boggart will never find out where his real fear is, or let this Boggart find out the fate of his real fear, in fact, he is also quite interested in this. A faint light flashed in his silver pupils, and the next moment, Augustus opened the forbidden place of his mind.