harry potter book of crimes

"Then what I want to tell you next is: the Boggart sitting in the darkness in the closet has not yet taken on any form. It doesn't know what can scare people outside the door... No one can

I don’t know what the Boggart looks like when it’s alone, but when I release it, it will immediately become what each of us fears the most.”

"This means," Professor Lu Hu said, "Before practice officially begins, we have a huge advantage over Boggart... Does anyone know where the advantage is?"

"I think...it's because there are too many people here," one student said.

"Yes, that's right!" Lupine said with a smile, "When dealing with a Boggart, the best way is to have more people, so that it becomes confused. Because it doesn't know what to do."

"The spell to repel a boggart is very simple, but it requires willpower. You know, what really scares away a boggart is laughter! All you have to do is force it to become something you think is ridiculous."

"Let's say the incantation without the wand first. Please tell me... funny!"

Maka is obviously not interested in this. In fact, Boggarts are almost harmless. Even if the other party becomes the thing you fear most, it will not cause any corresponding harm to you - they will just whir and purr.

Just to scare you.

"Okay," said Professor Lupin, "very good. But this is only the easy part. You know, just saying this incantation is not enough..."

Lupine asked everyone to line up and go up one by one to deal with the Boggart in the closet.

At this point, the course content chosen by Lupine is undoubtedly much better than Hagrid's. Although Boggart looks scary, it has no possibility of hurting people, so it is very suitable for the first course.

Everyone seemed very happy, after all, such interesting courses are rare.

Of course, it is inevitable that students will be stunned from time to time, but at least so far, this has not happened to anyone.

Soon, it will be Maka's turn.

"...Oh, okay! Very good!" Lupine praised loudly, and then continued, "Then, next one!"

Maka stepped forward, facing the Boggart who had transformed into a snow monster wearing a Christmas costume, and waited quietly.

He was also curious about what kind of reaction the Boggart would make when facing him.

The next moment, the snow monster twisted and spun, making a crackling sound - this was a sign that the boggart was about to transform.

But the crackling sound continued, and it spun rapidly, but it never completed its transformation.

There were doubtful looks on everyone's faces, and Professor Lupine also looked at the Boggart doubtfully, not knowing what it was doing.

You know, everyone has fear, no matter how small it is, Boggart will notice it and transform himself into what the other person is afraid of.

So Lupine didn't think about anything else at all. He just thought that something was wrong with this Boggart.

But Maka knew this situation clearly. He looked at the Boggart that was twisting and turning in mid-air, and seeing that it didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, he couldn't help but stretched out his wand.

Originally, Maka wanted to use a freezing spell, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up.

"Funny."

Maka turned the spinning Boggart into a big ball of yarn, which bounced on the ground a few times and rolled to the side.

"Maybe it's because I'm afraid of fainting, so it wants to knock me out by spinning constantly," Maka explained dryly.

"Well..." Lupine spread his hands and said, "Oh, okay... maybe that's right."

The other students were confused. When they heard Maka's reason, they couldn't help laughing.

Overall, this class was a success. If possible, everyone hopes that Professor Lupine can break the curse of "the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor can only serve for one year" and stay.

Students love his Defense Against the Dark Arts courses.

Perhaps only Draco Malfoy and his gang of Slytherins are speaking ill of Professor Lupine.

"Look at his robes," Malfoy would say loudly as Professor Lupin passed by. "He's dressed like our house elf."

But except for them, no one cared that Professor Lupine's robe was patched and frayed.

His subsequent classes were as lively and interesting as the first class.

After the boggart, they studied the red hats, which are unpleasant little guys like monsters. They lurk wherever someone bleeds. In the main building of the castle, on the deserted battlefield

In the potholes, they wait to violently attack those who are lost.

Then, the content of the class changed from red hat to Kabbah.

They are crawling aquatic animals that look like scaly monkeys with webbed hands, busy strangling waders who wander in their ponds.

Everyone is looking forward to every class. The Defense Against the Dark Arts class has not given everyone this feeling for a long time.

But compared to Defense Against the Dark Arts, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class looked terrible.

This course became very dull after the action-filled first lesson.

Although Maka gave Hagrid a good start, the rumors spread by Malfoy made Hagrid lose confidence. Now they are learning how to take care of Flobber caterpillars one lesson after another, often cutting all kinds of flowers in class.

Thin lettuce stuffed into the slimy throat of the Flobber caterpillar...

In the eyes of students, they must be the most annoying creatures in existence.

There was nothing Maka could do about it.

Although he didn't mind being a "teaching assistant" outside of the establishment, since Hagrid had lost confidence, he wasn't the kind of person who insisted on stepping in to help.

What's more, he has a lot of things to be busy with!

For example, tonight, he will take time to go to Hogsmeade Village to pick up something from his partner Tyrande.

Because Hogsmeade is located above the snow line all year round, it is always covered in white. Maka has long been used to this.

But the recent Hogsmeade is a little different from usual - the place is full of dementors who are searching, and most wizards rarely go out.

The incident of Sirius Black's escape from prison really caused a big stir. After all, since Azkaban was run as a wizard prison, there has never been a prisoner escaping!

Maka walked alone in the Hogsmeade village at night. After a while, she would pass by one or two dementors, but without exception, they ignored Maka's existence.

It turns out that they really can't find Maca.

And Maka didn't have time to pay attention to those monsters. He hurriedly bypassed those tall and thin guys and quickly came to the back door of an inconspicuous shop in a certain alley.

"Dong dong."

Maka knocked gently on the wooden door, the sound was particularly abrupt in the silent night.

Soon, the door was opened a crack from the inside, and a face covered with bandages appeared behind the door.

"Oh, it's you... come in quickly." Tyrande opened the wooden door halfway, waved and said hastily.

Maka walked in sideways, and the door quickly closed again with a creak.

"It's really terrible! Those damn...ahem...damn dementors!" Tyrande said angrily, "All business...ahem...have been driven away by them!"

"So I'm here to give you something good." Under Maka's disguise, the rasp-like voice still makes people want to pick their ears.

He took out a small bottle and placed it on the table in front of Tyrande.

"This is a gadget that has a similar effect to the Patronus Charm. Although the effect is much worse than the Patronus Charm, after all, anyone can use it..."

"How...ahem...how to use it?" Tyrande picked up the small bottle and looked at it. There seemed to be a milky white floc inside, glowing with a faint brilliance.

"Just pull out the cork." Maka explained, "It will emit a burst of white light, blocking the dementors from outside. The effective duration is about one minute."

"Oh! This is really a...ahem...good thing." Tyrande looked very happy, "How much is this thing?"

"It's a pity, not much." Maka spread his hands and said, "At least don't expect it to be mass-produced... But the price can be higher, right?"

"Ahem... yes, I think... ahem, yes!" Tyrande kept nodding his head and said, "Oh, by the way... ahem... your things are done."

He stood up, moved a flat box from the shelf behind him, and placed it in front of Maka.

Maka opened the box gently and took out the contents.

It was a dark outfit, from clothes to trousers, to a long cloak with a hood, and even a pair of boots and a pair of gloves.

They all look delicate. At first glance, they seem to be black, but if you look closely, you will find a faint hint of dark green. And just on their surface, there seem to be fine scales, which make people think of snakes.

skin.

That's right, this is a good thing made by using the snake skin that Maka took great pains to peel off from the basilisk as raw material, and asked Tyrande to find a craftsman to order it.

In addition, there are still a lot of materials left on the basilisk, enough for Maka to slowly arm herself.

Especially the basilisk horn, Maka plans to handle it with her own hands. If nothing unexpected happens, a powerful homemade wand will become one of his powerful aids in the future.

The things she wanted to do had been done. Maka sat here with Tyrande for a while, and after learning about the recent rumors, she got up and left.

But what he didn't expect was that in Hogsmeade, a village full of dementors, Sirius Black was running around boldly in his Animagus form.

"...You are really big-hearted."

Just when Maka walked out of the back door of Tyrande's shop, he caught a glimpse of a black dog flashing past deep in the alley.