Chapter 232: Boggart in the Wardrobe

Mike directed Buckbeak to fly around the field for several laps until it gradually darkened and landed in front of Harry, Hermione and others.

"Brother, you are so cool!"

"Mike, it's too dangerous for you to do this!"

Before Mike could stand firm after jumping off the beast's back, Hermione and Ron spoke first. Their reactions were completely different. Ron was obviously very excited, while Hermione frowned and was angry.

Mike ignored Ron directly and walked quickly to Hermione and said, "I'm sorry, I made you worry. It's just that I really couldn't help it. Buckbeak is so handsome!"

Mike's words made Hermione blush. She stamped her feet and said, "Who is worried about you! Humph!"

Then she turned and walked towards the castle.

The temperature in Hogwarts in September was not high. The temperature during the day was only a dozen degrees. Now that the sun had set, the temperature dropped to about ten degrees.

Mike looked at Hermione, who was walking in thin clothes in front of him, and a flash of inspiration came to him. He raised his wand and put a warming spell on her.

Hermione felt her body, which was a little cold, suddenly became warm. She turned her head and saw Mike smiling at her. Her face became even redder and her steps became faster.

Mike didn't care about Hermione's performance and hurriedly followed.

Harry and Ron, who stayed where they were, were confused.

"Doesn't Mike have a senior sister Penelope?" Ron asked Harry, "Why is he still thinking about flirting with Hermione?"

Harry tightened his clothes and followed, saying, "You think too much. Mike is just afraid that Hermione will get cold."

"Tsk, why doesn't he cast a warming spell for us too?"

Ron muttered in a low voice. Seeing that everyone had walked a long way, he hurriedly followed.

...

After arriving at the castle, everyone separated. Harry wanted to continue chatting with everyone, but Hermione had to do homework and Mike had to go to training. He had no choice but to play wizard chess with Ron.

After parting with Harry and the others, Mike did not go to Lupin's office again due to time constraints, but went directly to the Room of Requirement to start practicing the Patronus Charm.

Now he must go all out and practice the Patronus Charm as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Professor Lupin has pointed out the way for him, so Mike now only needs to concentrate on practicing hard. As for when he can completely master the Patronus Charm, it depends on the sky.

Time passed slowly, and the news that Draco was injured by Buckbeak spread in just two days under the operation of someone with a heart.

Now all the students in Hogwarts are doubting Hagrid's ability.

And the worst thing is that Hagrid was frightened after that incident. Now he only dares to take some completely harmless creatures to class, such as Flobberworms.

No matter how you think about it, creatures like Flobberworms that look like ordinary caterpillars will not be liked by young wizards. As

a result, Hagrid, the professor of magical creatures, became a representative of incompetence.

As for Draco, he had been staying in the infirmary for the past two days after the injury. Soraka, an old friend of Mike, who had a special fetish for human internal organs, had revealed Draco's situation to Mike.

According to her, Draco's injury was not serious, and Madam Pomfrey cured him in just ten minutes.

But he refused to leave the infirmary and ordered his two followers to spread the news that he was seriously injured.

In general, the current situation is not favorable to Hagrid, but what does this have to do with Mike? In fact

, at this moment, Mike was whistling happily and followed the large group to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to prepare for his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class this year.

After two days of thinking hard, Lupin finally thought of the content of the class, but when Mike asked him about the content, Lupin pretended to be proud and told Mike that he would know when the time came.

Thinking of Lupin's expression at that time, Mike couldn't help but laugh. Lupin definitely didn't know that he was facing a time traveler who had read the original book and the other party knew the content of his class very well.

"Why are you in such a good mood today?"

Hearing Franklin's voice, Mike restrained his smile a little and said, "I thought of something happy."

"Oh? What happy..."

Franklin's words had not yet been finished when a burst of girls' exclamations came from the classroom not far away.

Mike and Franklin hurried forward to check, and saw that the classroom that was originally filled with desks and chairs was now empty. All the desks and chairs were piled in the corners, and an old wardrobe was placed in the middle of the empty classroom.

"Welcome to my class, classmates." Lupin welcomed the students in very enthusiastically, "Hurry up and find a position with a good view, and a wonderful scene will be staged later." Lupin

's attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was both kind and gentle.

This immediately won the favor of many people, and even those students who originally disliked him for being too poor had a greatly changed impression of him.

When everyone entered the classroom in a scattered manner, Lupin first asked everyone to put their books back into their schoolbags, and then walked to the wardrobe in the middle of the classroom.

Surprisingly, there seemed to be something alive locked inside the old closet. As soon as Lupin approached it, the closet door began to shake violently, and there was a dull slapping sound from inside.

The students in the classroom were all startled by the noise, and some timid girls even screamed.

"Don't be afraid, students." Professor Lupin comforted everyone, "It's just a Boggart locked inside."

After these words came out, a few students showed a look of relief on their faces, but most of the students were still confused.

"Aha! Looks like someone already knows what a Boggart is." Lupin glanced at the crowd, "Mike! Answer this question, what exactly is a Boggart?"

"Okay, professor." Mike agreed and took two steps forward and walked out of the crowd, "Boggart is a shapeshifting monster that also has the ability to read minds. It can use its ability to read minds to know what you fear most, and scare you by transforming into that thing."

"Great! Ten points to Ravenclaw!" Lupin applauded, "Let me add that Boggarts like dark and closed environments very much, so you can often find them in closed cupboards and sewers."

"It's quite scary, isn't it? You are repairing a damaged sewer, and suddenly the thing you fear the most appears in the darkness..."

"Let's get back to the point. The weakness of a creature like a Boggart is very obvious. It can't deal with multiple enemies at the same time. When it faces many targets like now, it doesn't know what to turn into to scare all of us. So when dealing with a Boggart, you'd better go together. For example, once I saw a Boggart trying to scare two people at the same time, but it turned itself into a skull with half a slug tail. That was not scary at all!"

As soon as Lupin said this, everyone in the classroom laughed, but a girl next to Mike said to another girl next to her with a look of horror: "That's quite scary..."

"Okay, that's the basic introduction. Our lesson today is how to defeat a Boggart alone. The method is very simple. You just need to have a strong willpower to overcome your fear, and at the same time raise your wands and recite the spell 'Funny, Funny'! Recite it with me!"

"Funny, Funny!"

Everyone took out their wands and imitated.

"Okay, then it's up to you. Who's going first?"

Many brave students raised their hands, mostly boys, who wanted to show their bravery in front of the girls.

Professor Lupin looked around and finally landed on Franklin.

"It's you! The guy with the owl on his head!"

Franklin walked up proudly. What he didn't know was that the reason why Lupin chose him was not only because of his strange appearance, but also because he was the only black person in the classroom... He was too conspicuous.

Although he was very brave at the beginning, Franklin still felt a little nervous when he stood next to Lupin.

"Don't be nervous, go!"

Franklin took a deep breath and then came to the wardrobe.

Everyone present held their breath, and everyone was looking forward to the appearance of the Boggart.

One second, two seconds...

Time slipped away little by little, and everyone's patience was also being consumed little by little.

Franklin, who was standing in front of the wardrobe, breathed a sigh of relief. He thought there was something wrong with the Boggart. But just when he was about to ask Lupin, the wardrobe suddenly opened.

A skinny man wearing a brown top hat, a red and green striped sweater, and a severely burned face jumped out of the closet with a big laugh.

Franklin's pupils shrank suddenly, and his sight randomly scanned the skinny man's body, and finally landed on his right hand.

To be precise, it should be a claw, a sharp iron claw made of metal, with some blood and minced meat on it...

"Ah!"

Franklin screamed, and his voice was distorted by fear, becoming more shrill, a little like a girl's voice.

Mike in the crowd recognized the skinny man at a glance, the dream demon, the ghost king Freddy. From the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

Mike smiled and shook his head. He had guessed the general situation. Franklin must have watched too many horror movies during the summer vacation.

"Calm down! Franklin!" Lupin shouted from the side, "Try to imagine him in the most ridiculous outfit you think!"

Franklin couldn't listen to what he said at all. Freddy, who could kill people in his sleep, was simply the common nightmare of a generation of American children.

Franklin turned his head and looked at Mike, trembling all over. He hoped that his friend could help him like before.

However, Mike just smiled and nodded at him.

For some reason, Franklin suddenly felt that his strength had returned when he saw this scene. Then he gritted his teeth and raised his wand.

"Funny!"

The spell took effect quickly, and the appearance of the ghost king Freddy changed rapidly.

His skin color became extremely dark, and his body expanded and became a fat man. The clothes on his body became bright clothes that black people liked very much, but others looked very tacky. His lips were smeared with bright red lipstick, and the claws of his right hand turned into a pink hair dryer.

Everyone in the classroom was stunned, and then there was an amazing laugh.

In this laughter, the Boggart retreated step by step and finally retreated back to the closet.

"Well done, Ravenclaw plus ten points!"

After receiving Lupin's praise, Franklin, who was still in shock, also smiled.

"Then what about the next one, Mike?"

Lupin asked Mike in an inquiring tone, and Mike walked to the closet without saying a word.

Mike had already guessed about the Boggart.

The main ability of this creature is not actually transformation, but mind reading.

So in theory, the brain block technique can completely defeat it!

Mike's eyes began to become cold, and the brain block state was activated.

One minute, five minutes...

The Boggart in the closet was reluctant to come out, and the people in the classroom had been waiting impatiently and began to whisper.

Mike also smiled on his face, and his guess was successful.

Then there was a further experiment. In the original book, Harry once made the Boggart turn into a Dementor to practice the Patronus Charm, which proved that the Boggart could be misled.

Thinking of this, Mike began to hypnotize himself.

The next moment, the closet door suddenly opened, and a miniature dragon came out of the closet.

"Wow! Mike is afraid of dragons!?"

The classmates talked excitedly. Mike was a star student at Hogwarts, and most people in the school liked to listen to his gossip.

"Funny, funny."

Having verified his guess, Mike did not hesitate at all and directly turned the dragon into a gecko. Such a large degree of transformation made Lupin's eyebrows raise unexpectedly. In the end, he gave Mike another 5 points before letting him go.

This episode did not delay the progress of the class. Everyone completed the course of fighting Boggart in the whole class. Some people were afraid of very strange things. Mike even saw a classmate who was afraid of butterflies. After

class, Professor Lupin moved the wardrobe back to the storage room. It was really inconvenient to fight Boggart in the classroom. Mike thought he would change the class location for the next class.

...

That night, Mike, who was hiding himself, came to the storage room where the wardrobe was stored silently.

For someone who had read the original book, Mike was still very curious about creatures like Boggart, so he came here late at night just to find out what he was most afraid of.

The reason why he had to hide what he was afraid of during the day was because Mike was afraid that if others saw what he was afraid of, it would cause trouble for him.

What was Mike afraid of?

He had already guessed in his heart that it was either Voldemort or Dumbledore. Even Dumbledore was more likely, after all, Mike had seen Dumbledore take action with his own eyes, and that power was really terrifying.

If the Boggart turned into Dumbledore in public...

what would others think? What would Dumbledore think?

Although Dumbledore would most likely laugh it off, Mike had to do his best to avoid accidents.

In the dark, Mike removed the Disillusionment Charm and the Occlumency, and completely let go of his mind.

The next moment, the wardrobe in the dark suddenly opened.

A girl wearing a princess dress and with long golden hair came out barefoot.

The girl was very cute and her bare feet were very attractive. If Mike had to give her a score, he would give her a full score without hesitation!

However, Mike opened his mouth in horror at the sight of such a beauty.

Because... the girl's face looked very similar to Mike's...

This was actually the female version of Mike!

"WTF!?"