"Then what I want to tell you next is: the Boggart sitting in the darkness in the closet has not yet taken on any form. It doesn't know what can scare people outside the door... No one I know what a boggart is like when it's alone, but when I let it out, it immediately becomes what each of us fears the most."
"This means," Professor Lu Hu said, "Before practice officially begins, we have a huge advantage over Boggart... Does anyone know where the advantage is?"
"I think...it's because there are too many people here," one student said.
"Yes, that's right!" Lupine said with a smile, "When dealing with a Boggart, the best way is to have more people, so that it becomes confused. Because it doesn't know what to do."
"The spell to repel a boggart is very simple, but it requires willpower. You know, what really scares away a boggart is laughter! All you have to do is force it into what you think is a ridiculous image."
"Let's say the incantation without the wand first. Please tell me... funny!"
Maka was clearly not impressed by this, and in fact, the boggart was mostly harmless. Even if the other party becomes the thing you fear most, it will not cause you corresponding harm - they will just scare you with their whirring.
"Okay," said Professor Lupin, "Very well. But that's only the easy part. You know, just saying this incantation isn't enough..."
Lupine asked everyone to line up and go up one by one to deal with the Boggart in the closet.
At this point, the course content chosen by Lupine was undoubtedly much better than Hagrid's. Although Boggarts look scary, they are not likely to hurt anyone, making them a good choice for the first lesson.
Everyone seems to be very happy, after all, such interesting courses are really rare.
Of course, it is inevitable that students will be stunned from time to time, but at least so far, no one has ever had this happen.
Soon, it was Maka's turn.
"...Oh, okay! Excellent!" Lupine praised loudly, and then continued, "Then, next one!"
Maka stepped forward, facing the Boggart who had transformed into a snow monster wearing a Christmas costume, and waited quietly.
He was also curious about how the Boggart would react when facing him.
The next moment, the snow monster twisted and spun, making a crackling sound - this was a sign that the Boggart was about to transform.
But the crackling sound continued, and it spun rapidly, but it didn't complete its transformation.
There were doubtful looks on everyone's faces, and Professor Lupine also looked at the Boggart doubtfully, not knowing what it was doing.
You know, everyone has fear, no matter how small it is, Boggart will notice it and transform himself into what the other person is afraid of.
So Lupine didn't think about anything else at all. He just thought that something was wrong with this Boggart.
But Maka was fully aware of this situation. He looked at the Boggart that was twisting and turning in the air, and seeing that it didn't seem to have any intention of stopping, he couldn't help but stretched out his wand.
Originally, Maka wanted to use a freezing spell, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up.
"Funny."
Maka turned the spinning Boggart into a big ball of yarn, which bounced on the ground a few times and rolled to the side.
"Maybe it's because I'm afraid of fainting. It wants to knock me out by spinning constantly." Maka explained dryly.
"Well..." Lupine spread his hands and said, "Oh, okay... maybe that's right."
The other students were confused. When they heard Maka's reason, they couldn't help laughing.
Overall, the class was a success. If possible, everyone hopes that Professor Lupine can break the curse of "the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor can only serve for one year" and stay forever.
Students love his Defense Against the Dark Arts classes.
Perhaps only Draco Malfoy and his gang of Slytherins were speaking ill of Professor Lupine.
"Look at his robes," Malfoy would say loudly as Professor Lupin passed by. "He's dressed like our house elf."
But no one except them cared that Professor Lupine's robe was patched and frayed.
His subsequent classes were as lively and interesting as the first.
After the boggart, they studied redcaps, unpleasant little monster-like creatures that lurk wherever someone bleeds. In the castle keep and in the hollows of deserted battlefields, they wait to lash out at those who have lost their way.
Then, the content of the class changed from red hat to Kabbah.
They are crawling aquatic animals that look like scaly monkeys with webbed hands, busy strangling waders who wander in their ponds.
Everyone is looking forward to every class. The Defense Against the Dark Arts class has not brought this feeling to everyone for a long time.
But compared to Defense Against the Dark Arts, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class looked terrible.
This course became very dull after the action-filled first lesson.
Although Maka gave Hagrid a good start, the rumors spread by Malfoy made Hagrid lose confidence. Now they learn lesson after lesson how to take care of the Flobber caterpillar, often stuffing shredded lettuce down the Flobber caterpillar's slimy throat...
In the eyes of the students, they must be the most annoying creatures in existence.
There was nothing Maka could do about it.
Although he didn't mind being an "assistant coach" outside the establishment, since Hagrid had lost confidence, he wasn't the kind of person who insisted on stepping in to help.
What's more, he has a lot of things to be busy with!
For example, tonight, he will take time to go to Hogsmeade Village to pick up something from his partner Tyrande.
Hogsmeade is always covered in white because it is located above the snow line all year round. Maka has long been used to this.
But the recent Hogsmeade is a little different from usual - it is full of dementors who are searching, and most wizards rarely go out.
The incident of Sirius Black's prison escape did cause a lot of trouble. After all, since Azkaban was run as a wizard prison, there has never been a prisoner escaping!
Maka walked alone in the Hogsmeade village at night. After a while, she would pass by one or two dementors, but without exception, they ignored Maka's existence.
It turns out that they really can't find Maca.
And Maka didn't have time to pay attention to those monsters. He hurriedly bypassed those tall and thin guys and quickly came to the back door of an inconspicuous shop in a certain alley.
"Dong dong."
Maka knocked gently on the wooden door, the sound seemed particularly abrupt in the silent night.
Soon, the door was opened a crack from the inside, and a face covered with bandages appeared behind the door.
"Oh, it's you... come in quickly." Tyrande opened the wooden door halfway, waved and said hastily.
Maka walked in sideways, and the door quickly closed again with a creak.
"It's really terrible! Those damn... ahem... damn dementors!" Tyrande said angrily, "All business... ahem... were driven away by them!"
"So I'm here to give you something good." Under Maka's disguise, the rasp-like voice still made people want to pick their ears.
He took out a small bottle and placed it on the table in front of Tyrande.
"This is a gadget that has a similar effect to the Patronus Charm. Although the effect is much worse than the Patronus Charm, after all, anyone can use it..."
"How... ahem... how to use it?" Tyrande picked up the small bottle and looked at it. There seemed to be a milky white floc inside, glowing with a faint brilliance.
"Just pull out the cork." Maka explained, "It will burst out with a burst of white light, blocking the dementors from the outside. The effective duration is about one minute."
"Oh! This is really a... ahem... good thing." Tyrande looked very happy, "How many are there in this thing?"
"It's a pity, not much." Maka spread his hands and said, "At least don't expect it to be mass-produced... But the price can be higher, right?"
"Ahem... yes, I think... ahem, yes!" Tyrande kept nodding his head and said, "Oh, by the way... ahem... your things are done."
He stood up, moved a flat box from the shelf behind him, and placed it in front of Maka.
Maka opened the box gently and took out the contents.
It was a dark outfit, from clothes to pants, to a long cloak with a hood, and even a pair of boots and a pair of gloves.
They all look exquisite. At first glance, they seem to be black, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a faint hint of dark green in them. And just on their surface, there seem to be fine scales, which are reminiscent of snake skin.
That's right, this is a good thing made by using the snake skin that Maka took great pains to peel off from the basilisk as a raw material, and asked Tyrande to find a craftsman.
In addition, there are still a lot of materials left on the basilisk, enough for Maka to slowly arm herself.
Especially the basilisk horn, Maka planned to deal with it herself. If nothing unexpected happens, a powerful homemade magic wand will become one of his powerful aids in the future.
The things she wanted to do had been done. Maka sat here with Tyrande for a while, and after learning about the recent rumors, she got up and left.
But what he didn't expect was that in the village of Hogsmeade, which was full of dementors, Sirius Black was running around boldly in his Animagus form.
"...You are really big-hearted."
Just when Maka walked out of the back door of Tyrande's shop, he caught a glimpse of a black dog flashing past deep in the alley.