185: Boggart
Due to the escape of the most wanted criminal, Sirius Black, from Azkaban, the Dementors have moved into Hogwarts, and Hagrid, the original gamekeeper, has taken on the role of Professor of Protecting Magical Beasts.
But it had nothing to do with Joel, neither he nor Haylis took the elective.
But the careless Hagrid made a big fuss in the first class, and he somehow found a few Hippogriffs and asked the third-graders to try to pet them.
The danger of the Hippogriff is not low, and it will be an accident to let the students try it.
Draco Malfoy muttered a few harpy words about Hippogriffs before being taken to the infirmary by a Hippogriff named Buckbeak.
"I read Hagrid right," Eddie said with joy on his face as he shared the news, "If it weren't for Lady Trelawney's insistence that I be the representative of her class, I would have changed the divination class to Conservation of Magical Beasts." ”
Ever since Malfoy had been insulting to Muggle students last year, Eddie had been hoping that Malfoy had been unlucky, and now his excitement was palpable when he heard that he had been admitted to the medical room.
"It's not good news," Cho said worriedly, "Hagrid may be a bit reckless, but he has some real talent, if Malfoy goes back and complains to his father......"
She stopped, but everyone understood what she meant.
A small hunting ground caretaker and professor of Conservation Magical Beasts, the Malfoy family has a hundred ways to deal with him.
However, the fourth-year classes were dense and difficult, and everyone did not have much energy to spend worrying about a professor who had nothing to do with them.
"In this lesson, we're going to learn about another creature of the dark arts," Professor Lupin said softly as he stood on the podium, "Boggart. ”
"Actually, you should have studied last year, but Professor Lockhart doesn't seem to have time to find a wild boggart for you to practice," Professor Lupin motioned for them to close their textbooks, "and he wrote to me during the summer vacation in France, asking me to make up for this lesson." ”
"Deceived Kangxi"
The students in the audience sighed for a while, and it was really touching that Professor Lockhart, who was full of trivial matters, could take time out of his busy schedule to care about their students.
Professor Lupin left the classroom, and two minutes later, he waved his wand and used a levitation charm to move an old wardrobe into the classroom.
The closet kept shaking, as if something was hidden inside.
Joel took Haylis's hand and followed the students in a long line.
"Don't be afraid," Lupin reassured softly, "Boggart's attack power is quite low, as you should know. ”
"You all know the spell to subdue the Boggart, right?"
"Funny funny." Haylis raised her hand to answer the question.
"That's right," Lupin nodded, this part of the knowledge was in their third-year textbook, and many Ravenclaw students had looked it up before, but there were also some Hufflepuff badgers with blank expressions and big eyes full of doubt, and Lupin had to explain to them again, "The Boggart can be presented as whatever image it thinks will frighten us the most." ”
"You can understand it this way, Boggart can read people's hearts."
"Come on, come on, everybody......" Lupin saw that many of the little badgers were still a little scared, so he arranged for the students of Ravenclaw House to take the lead.
"Mr. Taylor," Lupin said to Joel at the back of the line, "you'll be the first to get on." ”
He was very impressed with the student, who was able to cast a physical Patronus on Hogwarts Special, and was one of the best among the students in school.
Joel didn't hesitate, a paper tiger like Boggart was no threat to him at all.
Standing at the front of the line, Lupin asked a few questions, and after making sure Joel was okay, he flicked his wand hard and opened the cabinet door.
A human corpse rolled out of the black cabinet, dressed in Hogwarts robes, with a Ravenclaw badge on his chest, his face was blurred and broken, both eyes were gouged out, blood soaked out of the black robe and slowly flowed out, and the death was extremely miserable.
The crowd behind Joel let out a burst of exclamations, and many timid students were stunned by this bloody scene, and even more had covered their mouths and screamed in low voices.
Joel was instinctively startled when he saw the corpse rolling out of the closet, and then helplessly bitter.
Although it is impossible to identify it from the face, Joel knows that Boggart has turned into Helis's body.
"Funny funny." Joel's heart was like water, but the slightly trembling wand revealed that his state of mind was not calm.
There was a crack of white smoke that filled the corpse, and by the time the white smoke cleared, Haylis's corpse had already crawled up and performed a court dance in front of the students.
"Next!" Lupin didn't give Joel more time to react.
Haylis stood right behind Joel, who took Joel's place to face Boggart.
Helis, who was performing a court dance in front of the podium, was transformed into a bloodied Joel Taylor, who was crumbling and had a broken arm, and looked miserable.
Joel could see Helis's slightly trembling shoulders in front of her, and he could faintly hear a sobbing or two.
He reached out and gently grasped Helis's left hand, as if to convey her courage.
Haylis bit her lower lip and mustered up the courage to raise her wand and point it at the bloody Joel and chant the incantation: "Funny funny! ”
Joel, the Boggart incarnate, stopped in place and grimaced, amusing many of the students, including Lupin.
"Next next, next!" Lupin urged.
Joel pulled Haylis to his side and whispered comfort.
"Joel, I'm scared to death......" Haylis buried her head in Joel's shoulder socket, her thin body trembling.
"It's all fake...... Joel patted his girlfriend on the back, "I promise you, I'll never be ugly like that in my life." ”
"What about you?" Haylis tugged at Joel's collar and didn't give up, "How did you feel when you saw my body lying there?" ”
"How do I feel that you're not sad at all?" Haylis looked Joel in the eye and asked with a slight suspicion.
"Where?" Joel shouted, "My hands were shaking when I shot the spell, okay?" ”
"Really?" Haylis raised an eyebrow, "I don't believe it. ”
Joel was embarrassed, he scratched his head and looked up to see Helis looking at him with a smile, knowing that he was being tricked by Hylis again.
A month into the semester, Professor Lupin's classes were so popular with the students that even the awkward Slytherin students had to admit that Remus Lupin was the best Defence Against the Dark Arts professor they had ever met in recent years.