chapter 4

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"Intriguing isn't it, anybody like to venture a guess as too what is inside?" Professor Lupin steps to the front of the class

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"Intriguing isn't it, anybody like to venture a guess as too what is inside?" Professor Lupin steps to the front of the class.

"That's a boggart that is."

"Very good mr. Thomas, now can anybody tell me what a boggart looks like?"

"No one knows, Boggarts are shapeshifters they take the shape of whatever particular person, fears the most....that's what makes them so-" Hermione says clearly confusing Ron, before Lupin interrupts her.

"So terrifying yes. Luckily very simple charm exists, to repel a boggart, let's practice it now......without wands please, riddikulus." Everyone repeats the man.

"Very good, little louder. Very clear listen, riddikulus."

"riddikulus!" Everyone repeats again.

"This class is riddikulus..." Draco rolls his eyes sighing, Ophelia ignores the boy as does everyone else in the room, and carries on with Lupin's class.

"Well so much for the easy part, you see the incantation alone is not enough. What really finishes, our boggart is laughter. You need to force it to assume the shape you, find truly amusing...let's see uh Neville! Will you join me please? Come on don't be shy, Neville what frightens you most of all?"

Neville mumbles something so quietly that Ophelia hadn't even realised he had spoken yet.

"Sorry?"

"Professor Snape." Neville speaks up as everyone in the class laughs including Lupin himself.

"Frightens all, and I believe you live with your grandmother?"

"Yes....but I don't want that boggart to turn into her either..."

"No it won't, I want you to picture her clothes....only her clothes very clearly in her mind."

"Well, she carries a red handbag."

"We don't need to hear.....as long as you see it we'll see it, now when I open that wardrobe here's what I want you to do." Lupin whispers something in Neville's ear and he nods.

"Can you do that? Wand at the ready, 1. 2. 3.......think Neville think."

"riddikulus!" Neville says as the once Professor Snape in his usual black robes was now in supposedly his grandmother's coats and hats, Ophelia upturns a smile.

"Okay everyone form a line, I want everyone to picture the thing they fear the very most...and turn it into  something funny, next, Ron."

Ron stands up to the front as Ophelia gives him a small pat on the back, When Ron sees his boggart he completely freezes but still manages to get out his wand.

"Now wand at the ready wand, at the ready Ron."

"riddikulus."

"Marvellous, very enjoyable....Ophelia next!" Ophelia steps forward as she high fives Ron.

"Show us what you see."

The boggart shows her friends and aunt and uncle telling her she failed them, before walking away leaving her alone, Ophelia's expression changes watching the boggart play out.

"Oph.." Harry says sensing to her that it's just fake and not real.

"riddikulus!" she says before calming down and walking to the back of the classroom, before Harry steps forward smiling before a Dementor appears facing the boy.

Professor Lupin steps forward as Harry's boggart turns into Lupin's which was the moon, before it turns into a balloon.

"Alright, we'll sorry about that. Uh well that's it for today, if you'd like to collect you books from the back of the class..that's the end of the lesson, thank you! Sorry can never have too much of a good thing!" everyone groans before waking out.

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