Navigating Hogwarts

Chapter 23

I stood face to face with my Boggart, which was surprisingly... myself. There I stood, face to face, with myself. Boggart-me was mirroring everything I was doing. I took a step closer, so did the boggart-me, I lifted my hand, so did boggart me, I stretched my arm to the boggart-me, so did boggart-me to me. We almost touched fingers and it looked just as surprised as I was feeling.

"Skye, don't!" Lupin yelled as the Boggart and I touched fingers, but it was too late. The moment our fingers touched, the boggart-me jumped behind me and started holding her hands around my neck, trying to kill me. This sudden action caused me to drop my wand, totally forgetting that I was a witch who could have protected herself with her magic.

I started panicking, what am I suppose to do now?

Lupin pushed boggart-me off me, resulting to me falling on to the ground. The boggart started twisting again, now turning into his fear. The twisting boggart now went from the ground, up into the air and turned into a moon, a full moon. Lupin held out his wand: "Riddikulus", he said calmly. The full moon turned into a balloon and flew back into the closet, which Lupin closed immediately. He set down on the gourd against the door of the closet, catching his breath from the event that just took place.

We both set there on the ground, in silence, progressing what just happened.

"I'm sorry," I tried catching my breath, but I noticed I was starting to breath faster and talk faster, "I'm sorry. I should have... I should have just asked you straight away. I don't know why I always take the... always take the hard way. Why can't I just be nice, why do I have to be mean and see your bogart first before I make assumption. I guess everyone is right, I'm the evil twin, that also explains my Boggart, right? I suck at magic, why couldn't I even defeat -"

"Skylar. Skye!" Lupin took my hands, trying to calm me down, "breath in," he breath in with me, "and breath out."

I breath out and felt myself calming down.

"I'm sorry" I said when I finally calmed down.

"For what? You did nothing wrong" he set down on the ground next to me.

"The thing is... I did. The only reason I wanted to see my boggart was because I wanted to see yours"

"Why would you want to know my boggart?" Lupin looked at me confused.

"You're a werewolf, right?"

Lupin looked surprised by my sudden words, "why do you think that?"

"I saw you eating chocolate, something that is dangerous for not-humans, the moment you eat it, I could hear a wolf howling, asking for help. Chocolate isn't good for a wolf. Plus you disappeared once a month."

"That doesn't mean that -"

"Your boggart is a full moon."

Lupin looked at me in silence for a moment, before he started talking again, "it true. I was turned into a werewolf when I was younger."

"That must have been really hard for you"

"It was. But I was lucky to make some friends who understand, accept and help me"

"Than you're a lucky man"

"I was"

"I'm sorry. I promise I wont tell anyone. Not even Harry"

"I would appreciate that. Thank you, Skye"

After that boggart incident I could definitely use some food, luckily it was already lunch time. I walked into the Hall and set down on my table. In the corner of my eye, I saw Harry, Hermione, Ron and the twins sitting at the Gryffindor table, all looking at me as I tried to ignore their presence. I was so annoyed at Harry, however I was even more disappointed in Fred, expecting him to tell me the truth, we're friends after all.