Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 178: Boggart
"The entrance to classroom 21 is related to Gamp's basic law of transformation." Albert led Katrina to the corridor on the sixth floor of the castle.
"What is this, a test?" Katrina raised her eyebrows and looked at the portraits on both sides of the corridor. She knew that many portraits and tapestries had secret passages hidden behind them.
Albert said with a smile: "If you think so, I don't deny it either."
"In the beginning, did you find the entrance?" Katrina stared at Albert, seeming to care about this question.
"I found it, but Isobel took me to classroom 21 in the end?"
"Why?" Katrina asked, puzzled.
"Because the way to get in is a bit special," Albert asked. "How about trying it out? Or should I just tell you where the entrance to classroom 21 is?"
"I'll find it." Katrina glanced at Albert and began looking for the entrance to the Transfiguration Club on the sixth floor.
Ten minutes later, the two had walked all over the sixth floor, but still couldn't find the location of the entrance to classroom No. 21, and they returned to the original corridor.
"Okay, you won. I wasted my time on this kind of thing, where is the entrance?" Katrina bit her lower lip reluctantly and asked where the entrance to Albert's Classroom 21 was.
She knew that she shouldn't waste her time on this kind of anger. She must have been angry with the other party.
"It's here." Albert pointed to the portrait beside him.
"Could it be that you did it on purpose!" Katrina looked at Albert with a strange look. Sure enough, this guy was deliberately misleading himself from beginning to end?
"No." Albert shook his head in denial, "It is impossible for magic to conjure delicious food out of thin air."
"I know that," Katrina said dissatisfied.
Albert didn't pay attention to the other's tone and said to the witch in the portrait, "We need to enter classroom 21."
The witch nodded slightly towards the two of them, and the painting suddenly moved to one side, revealing a half-human-high hole on the wall behind the portrait.
"You need to tell the witch to enter classroom 21, and she will open the door for you," Albert reminded.
"So, you must be doing it on purpose, right, what a bad guy!" Katrina gave Albert a deep look, and bent over to get into the hole.
"It's almost time." Albert took out his pocket watch from his pocket, glanced at the time, looked up and said to Katrina, "Then I'll go first, and I'll have a Defense Against the Dark Arts class later, and a party at night. Remember to speak to Professor McGonagall for me."
"If I remember." Katrina muttered as she watched Albert's departing back.
Albert arrived in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom before the bell rang, and most of the students were basically there already.
Professor Rowena stepped on the bell and appeared in the classroom. He walked to the podium under the eyes of everyone, and when he took out the roster, he said: "I received a letter from Professor Broad, he told me Your progress. Now, what you need to learn is to know, recognize, and know how to deal with dark magical creatures such as Boggart, Red Hat, Hinkpunk, Grindylo..."
Professor Rowena glanced at the roster, then glanced across the classroom again, making sure that no one was missing, and continued: "Today, you just need to bring your wand and figure out how to deal with Boggart. Come with me, it's not easy to practice, I finally asked someone to get you a Boggart from outside."
Professor Rowena took everyone out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to a long-empty classroom on the third floor. In addition to the stacked, dusty desks, there was also a box. When Professor Na approached the box, it suddenly shook, startling everyone.
"There is no doubt that this Boggart is in a hurry to come out and be scary." Professor Rowena sat on the box, calmly looked around the crowd, raised his index finger and asked, "Now, Who can tell me what a Boggart is?"
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and in the end they all focused on Albert, the meaning is self-evident.
"Well, in that case, Albert," Professor Rowena noticed everyone's move, looked at Albert, and asked, "I think this question should not be difficult for you. Well."
"The Boggart is a deformable non-being that appears out of nowhere but never lived, and can transform itself into something that anyone nearby fears."
“I especially like to inhabit dark, narrow spaces like wardrobes, crevices under beds, sinks, lockers under desks and boxes, and I like to make some noise to prove my existence.”
"No one knows what Bogut looks like when he's alone, because it will immediately become the person that person is most afraid of." Albert finished, his tone paused, and continued: "Maybe, let's try to get through Some special methods can take pictures of Boggart when he is alone."
"Wonderful idea. However, this requires equipment support to try." Professor Rowena was satisfied with Albert's idea and gave Gryffindor a 10.
"So, can anyone tell me what's the best way to deal with Boggart?
"Let's go together," said Lee Jordan.
"Yeah, so we have an advantage against Boggart now, because this way, we can confuse it, Boggart will become a nondescript thing when there are many people." Professor Rowena Not caring at all about the box that was shaking under his ass, he continued: "The spell to fight off Boggart is simple, you just have to focus and force it into what you think is ridiculous, but there's one thing you guys need to know, it's really scary. It's your laughter that turns Boggart back, otherwise you'll just change its image by casting a spell on Boggart, you won't be able to knock it down completely."
"Now, without a wand, say a spell to me: hilarious."
"Funny!" the class said in unison.
"Very good. Let's test this spell with practice, who wants to come first?" Professor Rowena clapped his palms, looked at the class and asked, "Is there anyone?"
"I go first." Albert stepped forward.
"Very well, Albert." Professor Rowena asked, "What is your greatest fear?"
"Well, actually, I'm also curious about what I'm afraid of." Albert replied with a shrug.
To be honest, Albert really didn't know what he would be afraid of.
Is your secret known?
"Well, Boggart will become something you're afraid of later, you need to imagine how you can force it to become something ridiculous. First in your head, then you're spelling it." Rowan Professor Na's translation was actually addressed to other students.
"Now, with everyone backing up, we need to leave an open space for Boggart to be free from other people's interference." Professor Rowena motioned everyone to step back to the wall and let Abe Te faced the Boggart in the box alone.
"Are you ready?"
"Okay." Albert raised his wand and stared at the shaking box.
"One, two, three, start!" Professor Rowena used a spell to open the box.
Boggart rushed out of the box, and the moment he met Albert, it suddenly spun and turned into... a thick book?
Not only Albert, but everyone else in the classroom was stunned and began to whisper softly.
Many people even craned their necks to look forward, as if trying to figure out what kind of book Albert's Boggart had become.
"I can only say, it's really worthy of being Albert, and even the things he is afraid of are different from others." Lee Jordan couldn't help but complain, "Is this the fear that the book is too thin and you can finish it by yourself? ?"
"Professor Rowena, what's the situation?" George asked in astonishment.
"Perhaps, it can only be said that Albert may have nothing to be afraid of, so Boggart..." Before Professor Rowena finished speaking, he saw that Albert had stepped forward. Now, he raised his hands and patted the book, trying to... um, trying to open the book, do you want to read the contents of the book?
That's right, Albert is trying to open the book that Boggart turned into!
Actually, Albert guessed what the book was when Boggart turned into a book - The Complete Works of Harry Potter.
So, what I'm afraid of is actually the fear that the plot of the Harry Potter novels will be changed?
Maybe, yes, maybe, no, Albert himself couldn't be sure.
However, Albert wants to try it now, to see if the book can be opened, ready to flip through the contents.
However, Boggart's conjured items do not seem to have such a function.
"I can't open it, what's the use of you." Albert threw the book on the ground, raised his foot and chopped it hard.
See everyone else in the classroom dumbfounded.
This is too sturdy.
At this moment, they suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the Boggart.
Let you come out scary, now you have a hard stubble!
"Wait~IndoMTL.com~ Albert, please don't treat this Boggart so rudely and give everyone a chance to practice." Professor Rowena's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stop Albert Extraordinary brutality.
After Professor Rowena appeared, Boggart finally got rid of the bad luck of being trampled under his feet and turned into a corpse.
Albert frowned slightly, glanced at Professor Rowena next to him, and stepped aside.
"Okay! If that's the case." Professor Rowena sighed, raised his wand, and chanted: "Funny!"
With a bang, the body disappeared and was placed in a coffin.
"Albert, please excuse me." Professor Rowena stepped aside and let Albert face Boggart again.
The coffin turned into a book again, and the book was finally wrapped in iron and turned into an iron brick.
No one cared about Boggart, however, and everyone noticed that Professor Rowena was a little down.
"A good friend of mine died in a magical experiment." Professor Rowena said sadly. "Okay, everyone starts to line up and try to spell Boggart."
No one would laugh at Professor Rowena, and no doubt he was hit hard by the death of his best friend.
Both Fred and George's Boggart turned into a giant eight-eyed spider, nearly eaten by them a few months ago, and still left some shadows in their hearts.
However, they put skating boots on all eight feet of the eight-eyed giant spider, which made it unbalanced and could only dance in place, and could never stand up again. This funny scene made everyone laugh.
Lee Jordan's Boggart is even funnier, turning into a dish of Bibido flavored beans poured out. It's just that there are some disgusting tastes such as earwax and snot in it, which made him teased by Fred and George for a long time.