Today, the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom no longer has the same repetition of vomiting as it did in the last two classes, not a single one, whether retching or genuine vomiting. Instead, there was a rustling of writing in a phased cycle, and an unguarded shouting.

In fact, since Snape became professor of defense, the classroom had been largely unpeaceful. And the little wizards who came out of it were often pale, panting, and looking like they were about to die.

"Sarah Hohenheim."

As yet another sweaty, swaying student lifted the curtain and stepped out of the front, Snape announced the next name without pause.

So far, even when Snape forbade students to tell others what they had seen, a few had managed to describe it. But what made everyone feel helpless was that except for the need to open a box after going in, the content revealed by those students was different.

Therefore, the young wizards had to give up - all in all, they were bound to face something terrible when they entered it, and it must be true.

Sarah, whose name was called, stood up calmly and walked forward with a calm face. Before lifting the curtain, she even had the heart to nod slightly to her classmates.

Among the freshmen in this class, Sarah can be said to be a very eye-catching one. She is usually quite calm and quiet, but occasionally shows a sweet smile to others, rather than being cold and unapproachable. Although he is still young, he has gradually gained a lot of popularity among other senior students.

Snape, who was standing behind the podium, still looked indifferent when he saw Sarah walk in, but he waved impatiently at the open space to the right of the podium, where there was a large box large enough to fit an adult. At present, the lid of the box is firmly closed, but the box is faintly shaky, giving the impression that there is something alive inside.

When Sarah bowed politely toward the podium and turned to walk towards the large box, Snape glanced at her back a few more times, seemingly casually.

Of course, he knew the girl's background - first, the surname Hohenheim was rare; Secondly, there is a "Hohenheim" in the global wizarding world, and that's it, isn't it?

Coupled with the fact that at the end of last semester, Maca and the siblings wandered around the castle several times, and even if they weren't officially introduced, Snape had already noticed.

And just this school year, this Miss Hohenheim whose family lives in Switzerland and whose father works in Egypt actually came to Hogwarts to go to school, and Snape must not believe that Maca, who did not go out of France, took it from it.

So, what exactly is it about this little girl that attracts Maca? Is it the alchemy family behind it, or the child itself...... Snape was somewhat curious.

He was thinking casually, and Sarah was already standing in front of the box. I saw that she paused slightly, and immediately stretched out her hands and lifted the big lid.

It was at that moment that Snape was surprised that a man slowly stood up in that box! And this person looks exactly like Sarah.

When Sarah herself saw the "self" in front of her, her originally puffy face suddenly lost most of its blood, and when a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, she subconsciously took two steps back.

Snape's surprise was not because of the presence of a second Sarah in the box, but because he didn't understand the reason for the scene.

Actually, what he packed in this box was a boggart. Lupin had brought it to the third-grade classroom and used it as a biology teaching aid, and the effect was quite good.

At the time, however, Snape felt that it was superficial to teach him how to decipher it as a dark creature, as Lupin did, and that he would obviously do it better than Lupin.

From the beginning of the lesson to the present, Snape was feeling good—he saw the students babbling in fright, and he learned about the things that the students feared one by one.

This is undoubtedly a positive start in his preparation for class.

However, about the fear in Sarah's heart at this moment, he is a little difficult to decipher. The previous students were either afraid of something disgusting and cruel, or of something weird that didn't exist, or even a little girl who had developed a fear of ghouls because of two classes.

But this Miss Hohenheim in front of her ...... Self-loathing Snape could understand, but what about self-fear?

Just as Snape frowned slightly, struggling to guess, Sarah suddenly took a deep breath. And in the next second, she suddenly raised her hand and pushed the "fake Sarah" who was about to slowly approach her into the box, and then closed the lid heavily.

"Professor Snape, is it okay?"

After a little tidying up her slightly disturbed breathing, she turned around slightly, and her face had regained its calm just now.

"Hmm."

Snape waved her hand, signaling that she could go back. When Sarah had pulled back the curtain and walked out, he looked at the closed box again, and at the same time gave the name of the next student.

In the classroom, the students were still rustling the passages from their textbooks, but the movement behind the curtain was mixed with the boredom of copying the books, which invisibly amplified the uneasiness in the hearts of the students who were still waiting for the roll call.

Before he knew it, there were only a few people left on Snape's list, and he finally ......

"Alexander Wolf."

Alexander scratched his head at a pleading look from his new acquaintance, and walked straight to the curtain, where he soon disappeared through the gap in the center of the curtain.

Without Snape's signal, he already knew what he was supposed to do. Because just ten minutes ago, his friend secretly wrote down the whole process on a piece of paper and handed it to him. Judging from his progress in preparing for the textbook and the performance of the students just now, he had roughly guessed what he was going to face.

"Boggart......" stood in front of the box, and he secretly said in his heart, "There should be nothing wrong, it's just ......"

Even if they knew what the dark creature was hiding in the chest, it wasn't easy to deal with it - especially if they were first-year students who were new to magic and couldn't cast spells yet.

What's more, as far as Boggart would choose to turn into something to scare him, Alexander was somewhat expected.

Sure enough, when the lid of the box was opened, a blackened, blurred mutilated corpse crawled out of it. For a moment, it was as if Alexander had really smelled a sickening stench...... As the corpse crawled out of the box, dark red blood immediately spread at his feet, and he even saw the familiar ring on the corpse's finger at a glance.

This was his mother, the woman who had died in the explosion not long ago.

Reality taught Alexander that sometimes even if you know what you're about to see, you still can't calmly deal with the cruelty.

He gritted his teeth involuntarily, his breathing slowly became heavy, he wanted to step forward and touch his mother, but instinctively retreated, and finally he just froze in place.

“…… Mom. ”

In his dry throat, he gently spit out this touching word. And in the next moment, Alexander suddenly bent down, turned his head sideways and vomited in the open space next to him.

Obviously, the "strong and optimistic Alexander" that Maca saw during the holiday was still fragile after all. But there is one thing that Maca sees very accurately, this Alexander is a sensible child.

After witnessing his father's devastation, he put away the sadness in his heart and smiled for his father like Luna did back then—an extremely rare thought.

On the podium, Snape narrowed his eyes and waved his wand. The corpse-turned, Boggart, was thrown back into the box with the blood on the ground, and the box closed firmly with a soft "bang".

This time, he waited a little for a moment, and then he took an impatient gesture and tapped the podium table with his knuckles.

"Have you vomited enough? When you've vomited enough, go back to your seat—"

Alexander didn't care about Snape's urging that had nothing to do with the word "kind", because his mind was still occupied by the scene just now! After hearing Snape's words, he wiped his mouth weakly, and then slowly walked back with his sluggish legs.

Snape looked at the vomit on the floor again, and when he had cleared the filth, he picked up the quill from the inkwell and drew a circle next to Alexander's name on the list......

There has been little of an anomaly since Alexander, and of course, the so-called "no anomaly" is for Snape. As for the other students, it must be as uncomfortable as it gets.

"Hmph, yes...... Well done! That's great! After removing the curtains, Snape sneered, "I gave each of you a full three minutes to cover the boxes, and a third of them took less than five seconds - yes, five seconds to escape!" You guys are so good! ”

As he spoke, Snape, who had just walked to the side of the big box, lifted it lightly on his toes, and the Boggart in the box was in a commotion, causing the entire box to shake slightly.

"From today onwards, you're going to have a chance to meet with it every week until you can handle it easily, understand?"