Chapter 232 The Boggart in the Wardrobe

Mike directed Buckbeak to fly around the field several times, until he landed in front of Harry, Hermione and others again when the sky gradually darkened.

"You're so cool bro!"

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

Before Mike could stand up 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 looked angry.

Mike ignored Ron and quickly came to Hermione and said, "I'm sorry for making you worry. It's just that I just can't help it. Buckbeak is so handsome!"

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

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

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

Mike looked at Hermione who was walking in front and was wearing thin clothes. He had an idea and raised his wand to put a warming charm on her.

Hermione felt her body, which had been a little cold, suddenly become warm. She turned around and saw Mike smiling at her from behind. Her face turned redder and her pace became a little faster.

Mike was unimpressed by Hermione's performance and hurriedly followed her.

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

"Don't Mike have a senior Penello?" Ron asked Harry, "Why are you still thinking about dating Hermione?"

Harry tightened his clothes and followed suit. At the same time, he said, "You are overthinking it. Mike is just afraid that Hermione will freeze."

"Tsk, then why doesn't he give us a warming charm?"

Ron murmured in a low voice, and when he saw that everyone was already far away, he hurriedly followed.

…

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

After Mike separated from Harry and others, he did not go to Lupin's office due to time reasons. Instead, he went directly to the Room of Requirement and started practicing the Patronus Charm.

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

Fortunately, Professor Lupine has pointed out the way for him, so now Mike only needs to immerse himself in practice. 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 also spread in just two days due to the careful operation of people.

Now the entire Hogwarts students are doubting Hagrid's ability.

And the worst part is, Hagrid was so frightened after what happened that he now only dares to teach lessons with completely harmless creatures, such as the Flobber caterpillar.

No matter how much you think about creatures like the Florob caterpillar that resemble ordinary caterpillars, little wizards will not be attracted to them.

As a result, Hagrid, the Magical Creatures professor, has become a 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 hobby for human internal organs, once revealed Draco's situation to Mike.

According to her, Draco's injuries were not serious and it only took Madam Pomfrey ten minutes to heal him.

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

Generally speaking, the current situation is very unfavorable to Hagrid, but what does this have to do with Mike?

In fact, Mike was whistling happily at this moment, following 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 hard thinking, Lupine finally came up with the content of the class. When Mike asked him about the content, Lupine still pretended to do it. He was very proud and told Mike that he would know when the time comes.

When he thought of Lupine's expression at that time, Mike couldn't help but laugh. Lupine must not have known that he was facing a time-traveler who had read the original work, and the other party knew all about the content of his class.

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

Hearing Franklin's voice, Mike restrained his smile slightly and said, "I think of happy things."

"Oh? What's so happy about..."

Before Franklin finished speaking, there was a burst of exclamations from girls in the classroom not far away.

Mike and Franklin quickly stepped 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 in the center of the empty classroom was an old wardrobe.

"Welcome to my class, classmates." Lu Ping welcomed the students in very enthusiastically, "Quickly find a seat with a good view, a wonderful scene will be staged soon."

Lupine's attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, 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 huge change in their impression of him.

When everyone entered the classroom scattered, Lu Ping first asked everyone to put their books back into their schoolbags, and then walked to the closet in the center of the classroom.

Surprisingly, there seemed to be something alive inside the old closet. As soon as Lupine approached it, the closet door shook violently, and at the same time, there was a dull sound of tapping the door panel.

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

"Don't be afraid, students." Professor Luping reassured everyone, "The one locked inside is just a Boggart."

As soon as these words came out, a few students showed relief on their faces, but most students still looked confused.

"Aha! It seems that someone already knows what a Boggart is." Lupine scanned the crowd, "Mike! Please answer this question, what exactly is a Boggart?"

"Okay, Professor." Mike agreed and took two steps forward to walk out of the crowd. "Boggart is a shape-shifting monster that also has the ability to read your mind. It can know what you are most afraid of through its ability to read your mind. thing, and scare you by morphing into that thing.”

"Awesome! Ten points for Ravenclaw!" Lupine 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 when you think about it, isn't it? You are repairing a damaged sewer, and then suddenly the thing you fear most appears in the dark..."

"Getting back to the subject. The weakness of a creature like the Boggart is very obvious. It cannot 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 us all. So it's best to go together when dealing with boggarts. For example, I once saw a boggart try to scare two people at the same time, and ended up turning itself into a half-slug tail. Skeleton head, that’s not scary at all!”

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

"Okay, that's it for the basic introduction. Our lesson today is how to defeat Boggart alone. The method is very simple. You only need to have strong willpower to overcome your fear, and at the same time raise your wands and chant the magic spell. The curse 'Funny'! Come and say it after me!"

"Funny!"

Everyone took out their wands and imitated.

"Okay, then it's up to you. Who comes first!"

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

Professor Lupine's eyes glanced back and forth, and finally landed on Franklin.

"The decision is yours! That guy over there with the owl on his head!"

Franklin walked up arrogantly. What he didn't know was that the reason why Lupine chose him, besides his weird appearance, was because he was the only black man in the classroom... he was too conspicuous.

Despite his initial bravery, Franklin still felt a little nervous when he stood next to Lupin.

"Don't be nervous, just go for it!"

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

Everyone present held their breath, waiting for the Boggart to appear.

One second, two seconds...

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

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

I saw a skinny man wearing a brown and black top hat and a red and green horizontal striped sweater, with his face severely burned, jumping out of the closet laughing.

Franklin's pupils narrowed suddenly, and his eyes randomly scanned the skinny man's body, and finally fell 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 stuck on it...

"ah!"

Franklin screamed, and his voice was so frightened that it became shriller, almost like a girl's voice.

Mike in the crowd recognized the skinny man at a glance, the devil in his dreams, 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!" Lupine shouted from the side, "Try to imagine him in the most ridiculous costume you think!"

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

Franklin trembled all over and turned to look at Mike. He hoped that his friend could help him like before.

However, Mike just smiled and nodded at him.

I don't know why, but Franklin suddenly felt his power coming back when he saw this scene. Then he gritted his teeth and turned back, raising his wand.

"Funny!"

The spell took effect quickly, and the appearance of Ghost King Freddy changed rapidly.

His skin color became extremely dark, and his body swelled up to become a big fat man. His clothes turned into bright clothes that black people liked very much, but looked very tacky to others. His lips were smeared with bright red lipstick, and the paw on his right hand turned into a pink hairdryer.

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

Amid this laughter, the Boggart retreated steadily, and finally retreated into the closet.

"Well done, ten points to Ravenclaw!"

After receiving Lupin's approval, the frightened Franklin also had a smile on his face.

"So who's next, Mike?"

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

There have actually been speculations about Boggart Mac.

The main ability of this creature is not actually shape-shifting, but mind-reading.

So in theory Occlumency can completely overcome it!

Mike's eyes began to turn cold, and his brain closed state turned on.

One minute, five minutes...

The Boggart in the closet refused to come out. Everyone in the classroom had already become impatient and began to whisper.

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

Then came further experiments. In the original book, Harry once turned Boggart into a dementor to practice the Patronus Curse, which proved that Boggart could be misled.

With this in mind, Mike began to hypnotize himself.

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

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

The classmates excitedly discussed that Mike was the star student of Hogwarts, and most of the school liked to hear his gossip.

"Funny."

Having verified his guess, Mike didn't hesitate at all and directly turned the fire dragon into a gecko. Such a large deformation made Lupine raise his eyebrows in surprise. Finally, he gave Mike another 5 points before letting him go. .

And this episode did not delay the progress of the class. Everyone completed the course on fighting Boggarts during the entire class. Some people were afraid of weird things. Mike even saw a classmate who was afraid of butterflies.

After class, Professor Lupine moved the closet back to the storage room. It was a bit inconvenient to fight against the blogger in the classroom. Mike thought he would change the location of the next class.

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

For someone who has read the original work, Mike is still very curious about creatures like Boggarts, so he came here late at night just to know what he was most afraid of.

The reason why Mike hides what he is afraid of during the day is because he is afraid that letting others see what he is afraid of will cause him trouble.

What is Mike afraid of?

In fact, he himself had already guessed that it was either Voldemort or Dumbledore. Even Dumbledore is more likely. After all, Mike has seen Dumbledore take action with his own eyes. The power is really terrifying.

What if the Boggart turned into Dumbledore in front of everyone...

What will others think? What would Dumbledore think?

Although Dumbledore would most likely laugh it off, Mike would do everything in his power to avoid the unexpected.

In the darkness, Mike removed the Disillusionment Curse and Occlumency and completely let go of his mind.

The next moment, the closet suddenly opened in the darkness.

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

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

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

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

This is actually the female version of Mike!

"WTF!?"