Conall Wolf

42) Boggart

Thierry and Conall had a good conversation after their discussion. Thierry told everything that bothered him the last time. It came down that he expected to much of this year. They had some big plans for their last year at Beauxbatons, and they would have the best year they ever had. And then out of nowhere they were having a Triwizard tournament, they wouldn't have their last year at Beauxbatons, and they didn't had a chance to do their big plans, they spend less time together than ever. Thierry thought that they would do everything together, with just the four of them. But Thierry and Conall both got a relationship, where they wanted to spend some alone time with. Faolán and Roselyn got more and more serious and they wanted to spend more time alone as well. They really are more separated than ever.

Conall talked about him that life never goes the way that it is supposed to go. They still did some things together, but they fade away over some other big things. Conall also reassured him that he will win this tournament, for all of them. If it wasn't of this friends he would never have gotten so far, so if he wins then they win together. They talked a bit more, and also about more and more random things. This happened the whole evening and eventually they went to bed really late.

The next morning it was time to continue training. They where in an empty classroom again, and this time Conall wanted everyone to be there. He wanted everyone to learn the things that he was learning, so they can learn more as well. They are doing this as a team, so the whole team should learn the same.

After training they are cleaning the classroom. They might have broken a few things while training, so they are now fixing everything so it didn't look like they were practising. It was already lunchtime so everyone was walking excited to the Great Hall, because they became really hungry during training. Conall wasn't feeling of leaving this classroom, so he says that he will stay behind a bit longer.

Conall watches them leave and Conall stays alone in the classroom. Conall stands in the middle of the classroom, he holds his wand in the air and he closes his eyes. He needs the fully concentration for this. Conall always wanted to learn the patronus charm. Everyone already could do the charm because they practised it last year, but Conall could never do it. Him being a werewolf kept creeping in his mind and he couldn't get a happy memory.

Roselyn demanded to learn this spell as well, just in case. Conall refused however, he didn't want to go through that again. He didn't want to do this in front of his friends. He has to do this alone.

Conall gets these thoughts out of his mind, they will only demotivate him and he goes through everything else. He thinks about the tournament. Winning it for his school, his friends, himself. The euphoria he will feel when he holds the cup. He thinks about his family, that always stands beside him, whatever fallback happens to him. He thinks about Katsumi, their rare friendship and now being the two happiest persons alive and together. Lastly, he thinks about his friends. Their adventures, their love, their help.

He tightens his eyes even closer and he holds his wand tight in his hand. He thinks about the words in his head, expecto patronum, expecto patronum... Then he feels his whole body getting warm, as if the memories escape his head and fill his whole body. He opens his eyes and looks at the tip of the wand that is trembling.

"Expecto patronum." He says out loud, not to hard, he doesn't shout it. But calmly, and with a lot of strength behind it. Then out of the tip of his wand a silver trail escapes and it shapes in the air. Conall looks at it and a wolf appears in the air, not that it surprises him. However, this wolf isn't that wounded and empty. It is strong, like a wolf should be. A leader, a strong leader just like his name. A strong wolf, high and mighty.

Conall smiles when he sees it. Everything is coming together, and Conall is ready to start the end of this journey. He lets his patronus run through the classroom and he looks happy at it. He overcame his fear of being a werewolf, and he accepts that it can be a beautiful thing.

While he looks at the patronus he sees that it is really excited. It jumps around in the air, and sometimes he hits an object in the room. Eventually the wolf hits an old chest and it starts to tremble a lot. The patronus shock a bit and keeps his distance. Conall looks closer to the chest, wand ready. Then out of nowhere it opens up and Conall falls back because of the big blast.

When Conall is back on his feet something appeared on the ground. He slowly walks towards it. It looks wounded, hurt. Conall gets a bit closer and he kneels down to see his face. Conall can now clearly see that it is a human and when he turns the person around he sees to his horror that is is Faolán. His face is filled with blood, blood caused by claws. Did he do this? Conall his heartbeat races when he sees it and then Faolán changes into Thierry. This time he isn't covered in blood, but his eyes are open and Conall can't see any sign of life in them. Thierry lays motionless on the ground and Conall crawls back of it, what is this?

It changes again, this time it is Roselyn. Her mouth is covered with foam, as if she is poisoned by someone. Conall shakes his head, he covers his face. He doesn't want to see this, he doesn't want to see his friends like this. Why is this happening? He is on the brink of crying and then the body changes again, and he immediately recognises the curls of Katsumi. Katsumi is covered in blood as well, as if he was stabbed with several blades. Conall now fully covers his face, he doesn't want to look at Katsumi his face. He can't have that confrontation.

Conall really cracks when he hears the body change again. His curiosity wins and he looks to see who it is, and it is back with Faolán. Conall starts to cry when he sees him laying dead and he makes himself as small as possible. He already reaches the wall at the other side of the classroom, and he hides as much as possible. He doesn't want to see it again.

He hears someone burst into the classroom and standing in front of him.

"Ridiculous!" The voice shouts. Conall looks up and he can still she a moon changing into a ball, and falling down on the ground and when he hits the grounds it gets leak and it makes a weird sound. It flies into the chest and Conall hears a click while the chest closes. Conall relaxes a bit more, but his heart is still pounding hard. Faolán turns around and kneels down in front of Conall.

"Con... I already thought that something was wrong so I went checking on you." Faolán starts. Conall gets a miserable face. The corpses might be gone, but the images are still clear in his mind. Faolán gets a really worried face.

"Come you need some rest. Lets first sit down." Faolán says worried and he helps Conall to get up, and sit down on one of the benches. Conall starts to tremble and he holds his hands tight to each other.

"It was a boggart... it wasn't real." Faolán says, but he didn't sound that convincing. Faolán must have seen his own corpse, his face fully covered in blood. Conall still shakes a bit but slowly it gets better and better.

"I- I wanted to... I wanted to make a patronus. And- and then it hit that chest. And then..." Conall can't bare to say what he saw. He swallows and it all creeps back in his mind again.

"Maybe we should go the hospital wing, they probably know what to do there." Faolán suggest. Conall nods and together they walk slowly towards the hospital wing. When they arrive there Conall gets a pepper up potion. They quickly get send away again, because the healer doesn't want to much people in the hospital wing. She suggests that he should take some time alone, to process everything.

Conall went to the lake alone, Faolán said that he would first inform the others, and then he would come back immediately. Conall was staring over the lake. He still wasn't over the boggart, the pepper up potion did make him feel a bit warmer but he didn't feel that good. Faolán joined him quickly after it, and he talks a bit about what exactly happens. Conall tells everything, but he doesn't dare the say the details out loud. Conall prefers to talk about the patronus he could produce, but he doesn't even know if he is able to do it again.

Faolán sensed this and he starts to talk slowly to him. "I know what you are thinking Conall, and you will be able to produce it again. You are just really sad right now, but you will get over this. And see it from the bright side, you are finally able to produce a patronus! That seemed impossible last year..."

"I know..." Conall says and he stares in front of him. He remembers their lessons about the patronuses. He was so frustrated that he wasn't able to do it, and he got mad every time when someone told him how to do it, because they were able to do it. He remembers some girls whispering behind his back that they finally found something that Conall couldn't do, which almost never happens. That demotivated him even more, so he never ever tried it again after the classes. Now he did it after almost a year, and he is sort of proud that he finally did it.