Hogwarts: From Silent to Dark Lord

Chapter 346 Facing Boggart!!

“Let’s go inside.”

Professor Lupin opened the door to the staff lounge, he took a step back and flashed to the side, and the little wizards began to rush in.

The faculty lounge was a long room with planks on four walls, piled up with old chairs that didn’t match, and there was no one in the room now.

“Okay, okay, come over here.”

Professor Lupin led the group to the other end of the room, where a large old wardrobe had been erected, which was still shaking and banging against the wall.

“Professor Lupin, are you going to teach us how to deal with the boggart today?”

Toby asked.

“Yes, the creature of Boggart is very peculiar, I think you should have seen it in books, but you have not seen it with your own eyes, and today is just an opportunity.”

Professor Lupin said that he was very impressed by Toby, and that the scene on the train was still vivid to this day, especially Toby also made a big deal to clear Sirius’s wrongs.

“You don’t need to worry, there is only one boggart here, it’s not a difficult creature to deal with, as long as you master the method, you can easily deal with a boggart.”

Professor Lupin said to the worried little wizards, but the little wizards jumped back in shock when they saw the sound of the big cabinet being hit.

“Boggart loves dark and enclosed spaces, wardrobes, cupboards under the empty sink under the bed – again I came across one who lived in the old clock.”

“This one just moved in yesterday afternoon, and I asked the principal to let the teachers keep it for practical lessons for my third-graders.”

“So now, I’m going to ask the question, what is a boggart?”

Professor Lupin asked, his gaze sweeping over everyone.

“It’s something that deforms, and it thinks that what scares us the most will become.”

Hermione raised her hand and snapped up.

“I can’t say it more clearly, so the boggart in this dark cabinet doesn’t have a specific shape, and it doesn’t know what the people outside the cabinet door are afraid of.”

“No one knows what Boggart will look like when he’s alone, but as soon as I release it, it immediately becomes the thing that each of us fears the most.”

“But now, we have a big advantage over Boggart, Harry, do you know what it is?”

Professor Lupin looked at Harry.

“Hmm – I guess it should be that there are so many of us that it doesn’t know what shape it should be?”

Harry replied with some disbelief.

“That’s right, when we deal with Boggart, it’s best to go together so that we can confuse it, will it turn into a headless skeleton, or into a meat-eating slug?”

“I once saw a boggart make this mistake – it scared both of them when it wanted to, and turned itself into a half-slug, which is not scary at all.”

“The spell to repel the boggart is very simple, but it takes a lot of willpower, you know, what really makes the boggart completely ruined is laughter, what you need is to force it to become an image that you find funny.”

“Let’s practice the spell without taking the wand first, please follow me… Funny! ”

Professor Lupin said.

“Funny funny!”

All the little wizards said together.

“Very good, very good, but this is still the relatively easy part, you must know that this spell alone is not enough.”

“So, who is willing to come and try it now?”

Professor Lupin looked at everyone.

But most little wizards don’t dare, and it’s not an easy task to face what they fear the most.

“Since no one wants to, then I will name Toby, let you demonstrate it for everyone, I think if it were you, there should be no problem at all.”

Professor Lupin nodded Toby, he already understood Toby’s level of magic, he had surpassed most adult wizards, and it was no problem to deal with a boggart.

“Okay, Professor, then I’ll give it a try.”

Toby didn’t refuse, and Boggart was facing it for the first time, and he wanted to see what he would be afraid of.

“Well, let’s all back off a bit and make way for a vacant lot.”

Professor Lupin said to the little wizards.

The little wizards immediately retreated back, but their eyes were firmly fixed on Toby and the large wardrobe in front of him.

“Toby, I’m going to start, I’ll count back to three, and then open the closet.”

Professor Lupin pointed his wand at the doorknob of the wardrobe.

“——— two-three-one!”

Professor Lupin’s wand shot a string of sparks from the tip of his wand, hitting the spherical doorknob, and the wardrobe suddenly opened.

An endless and distant road paved by starlight appeared in front of Toby, much to the surprise of Professor Lupin and the young teachers.

“What is this, it’s so beautiful!”

“It seems to be a road paved by starlight, but why is Toby afraid of this?”

“It’s just a road, what’s there to be afraid of.”

The little wizards discussed it in private.

Toby looked at the road paved by the stars in front of him, but thoughtfully, it turned out that what he was afraid of was the unknown, there was nothing worth fearing, only the endless distant unknown was what he was afraid of…

“The road is long, and I will seek it up and down!”

Toby waved his wand and wrote the line in the air, but no one could understand it because it was a Chinese character.

“Funny funny!”

Toby pointed his wand at the starlight road, and the starlight road suddenly collapsed, turning into a black mist and burrowing into the closet.

“Well done, everyone has seen it, Toby successfully drove the boggart back to the closet.”

“But Toby’s approach, you may not be able to do it, I hope you all take a moment to think about what you fear the most, and then imagine how you can make it funny…”

Professor Lupin said to everyone.

Toby’s method of driving the boggart is not something that ordinary small wizards can do, not even many adult wizards.

“Toby, do you already know what you’re afraid of?”

While the other little wizards were thinking, Professor Lupin came over and asked.

“I don’t think I’m particularly afraid of people, things or things, if there is anything worth fearing, it is probably unknown!”

Toby said.

“Unknown?”

Professor Lupin frowned.

“The starlight road with no end in sight represents the unknown, and what I fear is the endless distant unknown.”

Toby said.

“Toby, it seems that you are really a very special little wizard, you are very much like Professor Dumbledore, giving people an inscrutable feeling.”

Professor Lupin shook his head and smiled, he didn’t understand what Toby meant, but this kind of thing was not possible for a third-year wizard.

“Okay, everyone is ready, then the 3.3 classmate whose name I called will come forward, Neville-”

Professor Lupin shouted.

Neville panicked when he heard that Professor Lupin had let him go up first, and he looked left and right, as if hoping that someone could help him, but there was no one, he only stepped forward trembling.

“Neville, before that, I want to ask you, what are you afraid of in this world?”

Professor Lupin asked.

“Yes—Professor Snape!”

Neville said in a low, almost inaudible voice, which made the other little wizards burst into laughter, and even Neville grinned embarrassedly with a red face.

“Ah, it’s Professor Snape… Not…… Neville, I guess you live with your grandmother, right? ”

Professor Lupin asked all that thought.

“Yes… yes, but I don’t want Boggart to look like my grandmother, Neville said uneasily…”