Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 331 The Boggart of the MacGuffin

"Then who knows what a Boggart is?" Professor Lupine looked at the little wizards and asked.

Hermione raised her hand.

However, Professor Lupine didn't call her, but asked the nearby McGuffin to answer.

The last Hogwarts train dementor incident left a deep impression on Lupine, and Dumbledore specifically asked him to teach this little wizard and Harry together with Snape.

This made him very curious about who this little wizard was?

And when the teachers are interested, the most common method they use is...

"Boggarts are a type of shapeshifting monster... Different from the dark monsters like skinwalkers created by dark wizards in North America, this kind of shapeshifting creature is mostly distributed in urban areas in Europe, Britain, and Russia..."

"It especially likes dark, closed spaces... The space under the bed, the sink, the cupboard, the clock, are all its habitats... Of course their favorite and most well-known living space is hiding in the old wardrobe... Especially the wardrobe in the Muggle children's room!"

"... These creatures are almost never exposed to the sun and the eyes of everyone."

"These boggarts, they're capable of morphing into pretty much anything we can imagine and scare us..."

"Some wizard studies believe that this kind of creature survives by absorbing people's fear, which also makes many monster research wizards believe that these funny and weird creatures belong to the same category as dementors...or at least they are also magical creatures born at the same time."

"Otherwise it is impossible to explain why they have so many similarities."

"But we still know very little about this kind of creature... For example, we can't know how they transform, how they move between wardrobes..."

"Boggarts can move between two continents through the wardrobe. It is said that the lost disappearing cabinet was built according to this principle, and this kind of movement can hardly be prohibited by any magic we know."

"In short, it is a deformed monster, a kind of magical aggregated creature, hiding in a dark corner to absorb..."

"Okay, okay, I can't say any more!"

Professor Lupine was dumbfounded and interrupted McGuffin's out-of-spec narration.

——There are some things he said that as a little wizard in the third grade, he can't use it at all, and even he, a professor, only understands a part of it.

Lupine couldn't let the little wizard talk anymore.

"Okay, McGuffin has given us a detailed description of what a Boggart is, so now the Boggart in the closet has not shown any image, it is completely a cloud of smoke, a magical aggregate creature, but when it is alone with us, it will immediately become the thing that each of us fears the most."

"That means we now have a big advantage! Can you find that advantage, Harry!"

Lupine asked, and Hermione, who was next to her, simply stood up this time and raised her hand high.

This embarrassed Harry, but he had to answer.

To Hermione's disappointment, Harry replied that the boggart was unable to transform other creatures because of the crowd.

"That's right, it will confuse them. You guys know that this kind of monster doesn't have very deep intelligence, but can perceive people's fear. If you can muster up the courage and will, even a Muggle can easily expel it... This is also the legend of so many exorcisms in the Muggle society... Most of the ghosts in the Muggle society in modern times have haunted them. Werewolf dark monsters are created by creatures like Boggarts."

"Then who of you knows how to expel a Boggart!"

Professor Lupine finally got Hermione, who almost jumped up in place, to answer this time.

"Professor, as you said, Muggles can also expel Boggarts with willpower and courage, so the real expulsion of Boggarts is not a spell, but laughter. The most optimistic and joyful emotions can expel fear... Of course, this is why wizards associate Boggarts with dementors..."

"Ahem!" Professor Lupine deliberately coughed twice. He didn't expect why all the little wizards in Gryffindor were like this, and the topic turned to the Pacific Ocean.

"By the way, the spell to repel Boggarts is very simple. Use it to force Boggarts to change into the funniest look in your heart, which can drive away the fear in your heart..."

Perhaps it was because of the MacGuffin that Hermione also started to ramble and go off topic, so Lupine had to interrupt her.

"Okay, Miss Granger's speech is indeed very complete!" Lupine interrupted hastily.

"The spell to repel a boggart is simple, tell me... funny funny!"

Professor Lupine led the little wizards to wave their wands repeatedly. After trying to cast the spell a few times, Neville, who was trembling, walked into the closet and faced the Boggart.

Professor Lupine is indeed a very funny professor who understands and considers little wizards. In a few words, he cleverly brought together the two most terrifying things in Neville's mind, Professor Snape and Neville's grandma.

This greatly reduced the fear in Neville Longbottom's heart.

After the little wizards laughed loudly at Professor Lupine's image of Snape several times, Neville finally stopped shaking like he was on the gallows, and couldn't even stand upright.

"I count to three, Neville!"

"Three, two, one—go!"

said Professor Lupine, and a spark shot from the end of his wand, focusing on the wardrobe door.

Professor Snape with a hooked nose and a menacing expression rushed out of it.

Soon, Neville screamed 'funny funny'.

Professor Snape, the master of women's clothing, makes a grand debut.

He was wearing an old-fashioned long dress that dragged on the floor, or lace, a lady's hat with a moth-eaten old stuffed carving on it, and a huge scarlet handbag, like a middle-aged and elderly woman in the 70s and [-]s.

Laughing again, the Boggart stopped where he was, looked at the little wizards with Professor Snape's flustered expression, and then hurriedly turned around and wanted to escape back into the closet.

"Parvati!"

But before the Boggart fled back, he was stopped by a little witch called by Professor Lupine.

After a crack, Snape turned into a bandaged, bloodstained mummy, with two hollow holes in his head staring at the little witch trembling with her wand.

"Funny!"

The mummy's bandages fell apart, and the whole body fell apart.

Next, the little wizards came on stage one by one, female ghosts, mice, giant spiders (that belonged to Ron)...

McGuffin saw Harry beside him trembling, sweating, and pale. He knew that Harry was recalling the feeling of meeting the dementor on the train again.

Professor Lupine was staring at Harry thoughtfully
— It looked like he wasn't going to let Harry play.

Just in case...the real body of Voldemort is really created...what if I scare other little wizards.

And according to the tradition of the wizarding world being jittery when they heard a little news about Voldemort, if this kind of thing really happened in front of the young wizards at Hogwarts, it is very likely that the entire wizarding world will be overthrown, and Lupine will also get into great trouble.

He, who was naturally standing behind Harry, had a high probability that he would not be called up.

After all, McGuffin had also met Voldemort head-on...

Just as McGuffin slowly let go of his worry.

"McGuffin!"

Professor Lupine shouted, "Come to the front, you handle it!"

He stared expectantly at the little wizard standing in front of him, and Ron even ran back, encouraging him excitedly.

What am I-

way?

Not only Harry had three question marks, but McGuffin also had a question mark the size of an iron pot on his forehead, hitting him hard.

However, although there was an accident, and McGuffin still hadn't figured out what he was most afraid of, but after making some calculations in his heart, he was confident that he wouldn't be so busy...

—— Nima!

— Gan!

The scene in front of him made McGuffin turn pale with fright, cursing crazily in his heart.

In less than a second before he came to the closet, a stack of books appeared in the air in front of him.

It is full of exotic characters that others do not recognize.

But the MacGuffin is very familiar... very familiar!

How could he not know...

——Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter's Chamber of Secrets, and the Prisoner of Azkaban...

The cover is red, green and green, and there are seven different cover posters, most of which have a little wizard wearing glasses... and a few words such as J.K Rowling.

——The set of books, all seven books.

Professor Lupine and the little wizard probably only know each other, and the HP font size in the corner is the same.

Of course, apart from the author's name, there are seven block letters directly below the bottom that remain unchanged in every book...

--People's Literature Publishing House.

"Why didn't I think of it! Why didn't I think of it!"

After reading the seven books, McGuffin felt the blood in his whole body tremble and roar like a glacier bursting.

He screamed in his heart.

This is indeed the object he fears the most, a secret that does not exist in this world and is sealed deep in the depths of his mind by [Occlumency].

The left and right halves of his brain seemed to explode on impact.

A burst of anger immediately surged in McGuffin's heart. It was anger at the uncontrollable, unexpected, and very likely to reveal his secret.

——When other people connect Harry with this book (see clearly that the little boy on the cover poster also has a lightning-strong scar), he must quickly chop up, smash, and destroy this scene...

Anger was burning in McGuffin's heart, and the magic power kept jumping and agitating. He knew what to do.

"Funny!"

Within a few seconds of this scene, McGuffin strengthened his thoughts, and he resolutely moved towards the book transformed by Boggart.

Then flick the wand hard.

--Snapped!

At this time, the book shrank rapidly and became the size of a palm, with two sentences on it:

——Sweep away all ghosts and monsters, and overthrow all imperialism.

McGuffin stared at the cover of the book with his lips pursed, without saying a word.

It seemed that only this book and this passage allowed McGuffin to temporarily eliminate the fear in his heart just now, and could temporarily free him from the restless situation.

Even the little wizard at the back could feel the magic power surging from him, the suppressed anger.

Not to mention Professor Lupine who is on the sidelines,
Although I don't know what the book that Boggart turned into just now... But it seems that the little wizard Albert is completely irritated.

Although Lupine had heard of such wizards, when faced with fear, what they felt for a while was not timidity, but anger, an anger that almost lost their minds.

Now he finally understands why the little wizard was able to tear the dementors with his hands, and according to the rumors at Hogwarts, the little wizard survived face to face with Voldemort. Judging from the current situation, this is also possible...

— magic of this nature.

But now we need to stop this little wizard's magic power from getting out of control...

"McGuffin!" Lupine hadn't finished.
The little wizard in front of him didn't know whether to roar or laugh.

"--what!"

The little wizard exhaled from his lungs, and the voice that came out of his throat echoed loudly throughout the faculty and staff lounge.

McGuffin raised his hand, squeezed it hard, and closed his fingers.

There was a black flame in the air in front of him, and the Boggart was slowly burned to ashes and disappeared.

With a cold face, McGuffin returned to the team of little wizards with his head down.

Everyone immediately moved out of the way, and almost no one around him dared to come over.

There was silence in the room.

The little wizards looked at McGuffin in shock, thinking about what he had just done.

After half a sound,

Professor Lupine took the lead in applauding, and shouted, "It's wonderful! You see, McGuffin has completely restrained his fear!"

At this time, the whole class was led to applaud for no apparent reason, although they didn't know why.

In the applause, the frozen atmosphere gradually began to be loosened.

"It's great, McGuffin... Let me see... I'll give Neville five points for the wonderful demonstration he gave us the first time. McGuffin, Harry, and Hermione will each add two points. In the end, McGuffin's perfect performance, I'll give him another five points."

"But I didn't do anything!" said Harry.

"All three of you answered our questions correctly at the beginning of class, Harry!"

"Okay! It's getting late. Let's end today like this... By the way, homework, please write a paper on Boggarts. Books about dark creatures or low-risk magical animals in the library always have information about this monster... Remember to pay it next Monday."

After Professor Lupine ended the class in a panic, he hurriedly left the classroom, as if he was going somewhere.

The whole class of young wizards was talking excitedly about the just-concluded Defense Against the Dark Arts class. They left the teachers' lounge, but everyone was careful to avoid the MacGuffin.

Because he still had a cold face, full of anger.

Only Harry and the others approached McGuffin cautiously.

The carefree Ron was very surprised by what McGuffin was afraid of.

"I didn't expect you, McGuffin, to look like Hermione... you're actually afraid of some books, right? What kind of book is that?"

"It's nothing, I guess it's a McGuffin's horror story from your childhood, isn't it?" Hermione asked cautiously, looking at the expression on McGuffin's face.

"I guess so...I didn't expect you to have such a psychological shadow, McGuffin." McGuffin didn't answer, his face was stiff, and he was very silent, but Ron was very excited about this topic.

"But it's a pity that you two, Hermione and Harry, didn't fight Boggarts... I guess Hermione, you are probably as scared as a book... It's too easy for a homework assignment, or a paper, isn't it?"

he snickered.

(End of this chapter)