Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 232 The Boggart in the Wardrobe

Mike commanded Buckbeak to fly around the field for several circles until it landed in front of Harry, Hermione and others when the sky gradually darkened.

"Dude you're so cool!"

"Mike, this is too dangerous!"

Before Mike, who had just jumped off the beast's back, could stand firmly, Hermione and Ron spoke first. Their reactions were completely different. Ron was obviously very excited, while Hermione frowned and looked angry.

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

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

After saying that, he turned and walked towards the castle.

The temperature in Hogwarts in September is not high, and the temperature during the day is only about ten degrees. Now that the sun has set, the temperature has dropped to about ten degrees.

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

Hermione felt her body, which had been a little cold, suddenly became warm. She turned around and saw Mike smiling at her. Her face turned 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, looked confused.

"Doesn't Mike already have a senior named Penelope?" Ron asked Harry, "Why is he still thinking about hooking up with Hermione?"

Harry tightened his clothes and followed, saying, "You're overthinking it. Mike is just worried that Hermione will get cold."

"Tsk, then why didn't he cast a heat preservation spell on us as well?"

Ron muttered to himself, and seeing that everyone had walked a long way away, 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, so he had no choice but to play wizard chess with Ron.

After separating from Harry and others, Michael did not go to Lupin's office due to time constraints, but went directly to the Room of Requirement to begin practicing the Patronus Charm.

Now he must go all out and practice the Patronus Spell to perfection as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Professor Lupin has shown him the way, so now Mike only needs to concentrate on practicing hard. As for when he will be able to fully master the Patronus Charm, that depends on luck.

As time passed, the news that Draco was injured by Buckbeak spread within just two days thanks to the efforts of some people.

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

And the worst part was that Hagrid was so frightened after what happened that he now only dared to teach completely harmless creatures, such as flobberworms.

No matter how you think about it, the Flobberworm, a creature that looks like an ordinary caterpillar, would not be liked by little wizards.

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

As for Draco, he has been staying in the infirmary for the past two days after the injury. Mike's old friend, Soraka, who has a special fetish for human viscera, once revealed Draco's condition to Mike.

According to her, Draco's injuries were not serious, and Madam Pomfrey healed him in just ten minutes.

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

Overall, 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 following the group to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to prepare for his first Defense Against the Dark Arts class of the year.

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

Mike couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Lupin's expression at that time. Lupin certainly didn't know that he was facing a time traveler who had read the original novel and knew everything about his class.

"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's the happy thing..."

Before Franklin could finish his words, a cry of surprise from girls was heard in a 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 corner, and in the middle of the empty classroom was an old wardrobe.

"Welcome to my class, students." Lupin welcomed the students in enthusiastically. "Hurry up and find a seat with a good view. A wonderful scene will be staged soon."

Lupin's attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, but kind and gentle.

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

After everyone had scattered into the classroom, Lupin first asked everyone to put their books back into their bags, and then walked to the wardrobe in the middle of the classroom.

Surprisingly, there seemed to be some living thing locked in the old wardrobe. As soon as Lupin approached it, the wardrobe door shook violently, and there was a dull sound of slapping on the door panel from inside.

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

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

After these words were spoken, 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 your mind to know what you fear the 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, so you can often find them in closed cupboards and sewers."

"It's scary, isn't it? You're fixing a damaged sewer pipe, and suddenly out of the darkness appears the thing you fear the most..."

"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, it's best to go together. For example, I once saw a Boggart trying to scare two people at the same time, but it turned itself into a skull head with half a slug tail. That was not scary at all!"

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

"Okay, that's enough of the basic introduction. Our lesson today is how to defeat a Boggart on your own. 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 chant the spell 'Funny Funny'! Chant after me!"

"Funny!"

Everyone took out their wands and imitated them.

"Okay, now it's up to you. Who goes first?"

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

Professor Lupin's eyes darted back and forth, finally landing on Franklin.

"It's decided to be you! The guy with the owl on his head over there!"

Franklin walked up to him with a show of strength. What he didn't know was that Lupin chose him 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, just go!"

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

Everyone present held their breath, waiting for Bogut to appear.

One second, two seconds...

Time is slipping away bit by bit, and everyone's patience is being consumed bit by bit.

Franklin, standing in front of the wardrobe, breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that something was wrong with the Boggart. But just as he was about to ask Lupin, the wardrobe suddenly opened.

A skinny man wearing a brown and black top hat, a red and green striped sweater, and with severe burns on his face jumped out of the closet laughing.

Franklin's pupils suddenly shrank, and his eyes scanned the skinny man's body, finally falling on his right hand.

To be more precise, it should be a claw, a sharp iron claw made of metal, with some blood and flesh stuck on it...

"what!"

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

Mike recognized the skinny man in the crowd at a glance, the devil in his dream, Freddy the Ghost King, from the movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

Mike smiled and shook his head. He had already 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 dressed in the most ridiculous way you think!"

Franklin simply couldn't hear what he said. Freddy, who could kill people in his sleep, was 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 as before.

However, Mike just smiled at him and nodded.

I don't know why, but when Franklin saw this scene, he suddenly felt his strength coming back. 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 into a fat man. His clothes became brightly colored clothes that black people liked very much, but others looked very tacky. His lips were smeared with bright red lipstick, and the claw of his right hand turned into a pink hair dryer.

Everyone in the classroom was stunned, and then burst into shocking laughter.

Amidst the laughter, the Bogut was defeated and finally retreated back into the closet.

"Well done, ten points to Ravenclaw!"

With Lupin's approval, Franklin, who was still in shock, smiled.

"So who's next, Mike?"

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

There have actually been speculations about Bogut Mike for a long time.

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

So in theory, Occlumency is a perfect counter to it!

Mike's eyes began to turn cold, and his brain went into occlusion mode.

One minute, five minutes...

The Boggart in the closet was reluctant to come out, and everyone in the classroom had become impatient and began to whisper.

A smile also appeared on Mike's face, his guess was successful.

What followed was further experiments. In the original book, Harry once turned a Boggart 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 door of the wardrobe suddenly opened, and a mini fire dragon came out of the closet.

"Wow! Mike is afraid of fire dragons!?"

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

"Funny."

Having verified his guess, Mike did not hesitate at all and directly turned the fire dragon into a gecko. Such a large degree of transformation made Lupin raise his eyebrows in surprise. Finally, he gave Mike another 5 points before letting him leave.

This little 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 Blogger in the classroom, so Mike thought he would change the class location for the next class.

……

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

As someone who has read the original novel, Mike is still very curious about creatures like Boggart, so he came here late at night just to find out what he fears the most.

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

What is Mike afraid of?
He had already guessed it in his mind, it was either Voldemort or Dumbledore. Dumbledore was even more likely, after all, Mike had seen Dumbledore in action with his own eyes, and that power was too terrifying.

If the Boggart turned into Dumbledore in public...

What would others think? What would Dumbledore think?
Although Dumbledore would most likely just laugh it off, Mike would do his best to avoid any accidents.

In the darkness, Mike removed the Disillusionment Spell and Occlumency and completely relaxed his mind.

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

A girl wearing a princess dress and with long golden hair that shone like gold walked out barefoot.

The girl is very cute and her bare feet are very tempting. If he had to give her a score, Mike would give her full marks without hesitation!

However, at this moment, Mike opened his mouth in horror when facing such a beauty.

Because... this girl's face looks very similar to Mike's...

This is actually the female version of Mike!
"WTF!?"

(End of this chapter)