After banishing Peeves, Professor Lupin leads the lion cubs to the professor's common room.

The professor's common room was long and spacious, and the walls were well decorated, but the corners of the room were littered with broken chairs, tables with missing legs, and other scraps.

After all, it's not very popular with professors.

Professors other than the dean don't really work that much.

Therefore, when they stayed at Hogwarts, they were in the classroom and the office, and three meals a day were delivered directly to the office by the house-elves.

A professor like Professor Trelawney who does not go out of the door and does not go out of the second door is the most typical example.

Of course, other professors don't fish and paddle like Professor Trelawney, and everyone has their own research projects.

As for the deans, they don't like it even more.

Just two years after Professor Snape became Slytherin's Headmaster, Slytherin began to win the House Cup and began their journey to victory.

And every time Professor Snape liked to show off when the dean met privately, he lamented how competitive his college students were.

At this point, even Professor Sprout, who had the best temper, was secretly regretting why he hadn't locked Snape in the first place.

We really don't know how Slytherin won the championship! It's just that we want faces, not so blatantly brushing points!

After listening to the show-off twice, the other deans rarely came here under the pretext that they had research.

Last year and the year before, after Gryffindor won two consecutive titles, Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration research came to an abrupt end, and Professor Snape suddenly had an idea for a new Potions topic.

However, at this time, Professor Snape did not study his potions, but appeared in the professor's common room.

As his classmates rushed in, he was lazily flipping through an issue of Potions Master, and was reading the paper on invisibility potions with satisfaction.

Seeing Professor Lupin come in with the Gryffindors, Professor Snape casually closed the journal and stood up from his armchair:

"Don't close the door, Lupin, I think I'd better leave."

"After all, after all these years, we all know what you've been through. It's still too hard for someone like you to be a teacher! ”

"Our relationship is so 'good', it can be said that we are friends of life and death, I won't witness you make a fool of yourself!"

Professor Snape's tone was heavy, revealing strange emotions.

However, Professor Lupin didn't seem to hear it at all, and was still so polite.

"Thank you for your concern, Snape." Professor Lupin replied quietly,

"However, thank you Professor Dumbledore for believing in me and giving me this position. And I'm going to do my best to teach every Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson. ”

Professor Snape snorted and strode out of the professor's common room.

After watching Professor Snape leave, Professor Lupin slammed the door to the common room with a flick of his wand.

At the same time, a dilapidated wardrobe floated and flew from the other end of the room to the center of the classroom, falling heavily.

The wardrobe suddenly shook, bumping up and down.

Something inside seemed to be struggling desperately to break through the door.

The Gryffindors remembered the scene a year ago, remembered the elves in the sky, and suddenly took a few steps back in fear.

"Don't worry." Professor Lupin gestured to the cabinet to silence it, "There's just a Boggart in there." ”

"Now the first question we're going to ask is, what is a Boggart?"

Despite her exhaustion, Hermione was the first to raise her hand and easily recited the standard explanation from the book:

"The Boggart is a spirit magical creature that can shapeshift."

"The Boggart lives in a cramped, dark place, and becomes the most feared thing for those who meet it, which is why no one can observe the true form of the Boggart."

"Good." Professor Lupin nodded, continuing to ask other basic questions about Boggart.

After all the theoretical explanations, Professor Lupin asked, "Do you have any questions?" ”

"Professor!" Hallie raised her hand, "I have a question, is it true that the true form of the Boggart cannot be observed?" ”

Professor Lupin smiled, "That's a good question, I can tell you with certainty that the true form of the Boggart can actually be observed. ”

"Of course, I remember someone proposing to observe it through the planks with perspective magic, but it failed."

"It is impossible to observe the true form of the Boggart simply by using the clair-through magic, because when using this magic, the Boggart will also know that he is being observed."

"But there's a very advanced but obscure magic that can be used here. It's a pity that that kind of magic is so advanced that we won't talk about it until we graduate. ”

"But Professor," Hallie raised her hand again, "why don't we use inanimate objects for observations?" ”

"For example, use a camera to point at the Bogut and release a small spell on it, so that the camera function can be achieved without human intervention."

"There is nothing to fear in an inanimate camera, so the Boggart is theoretically not deformed."

Professor Lupin was stunned for a moment, then nodded approvingly, "That's a good idea, Harley." ”

"I'm sorry, when people reach middle age, their thinking has become ossified, and they didn't expect such a simple method."

As he spoke, Professor Lupin looked at Hallie:

"Harley, if you don't mind, you can pick a free time to talk to me about this experimental design."

"Okay, Professor." Harley replied deftly.

After making sure that there were no problems with the other students, Professor Lupin clapped his hands:

"Then we are going to enter the most important phase of practice."

"I think you've remembered before that we have an advantage against Boggart."

"After all, there are a lot of people here, and Boggart doesn't know what to become."

"But if we encounter Boggart alone in the wild, we still have to overcome the fear in our hearts."

"So remember, the first priority in dealing with Boggart is always to maintain a strong will, overcome the deepest fears, and maintain a happy mood."

"The spell is funny, and there are no gestures or other requirements, but you have to imagine in the back of your mind what you think is funny."

"Immediately I will take a roll call, and the students who call out their names will come and face Boggart."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, you'll be fine."

"As for the rest of the students, I hope you can spread it out so that this poor Boggart doesn't get a mess of his brain and become half a carnivorous slug."

I don't know who shouted: "Professor, it's even more terrible to encounter half a slug while eating!" ”

The students burst into laughter and dispersed around the classroom.

Amid the laughter of the little wizards and the restless struggle of the poor boggart, Professor Lupin named the first:

"Neville Longbottom!"

……

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(Thanks to the nine-tailed Yanhu and Cui Mai for their tips!) ）

(P.S. Regents and Occlumency are not dark magic, but like the Unforgivable Spell, they can't spread widely.) ）

(P.S. The camera was invented in 1839, and it is reasonable to assume that the wizarding world did not use it for too long.) ）

(End of chapter)