Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 125 Boggart

In the auditorium, John was flipping through the book "The Relationship between Dreams and Divination".

This book is a divination book written by an ancestor of Sybill Patricia Trelawney.

Sybill Patricia Trelawney, the current professor of divination at Hogwarts, is a descendant of the famous fortune teller Cassandra Trelawney.

He is very thin, wears a pair of big glasses, and has countless chains and beads around his neck. He teaches how to predict the future from tea leaves and crystal balls.

But in fact, most of the time she used fraudulent methods to perform unfounded divination. Her favorite thing was to predict death.

She does, however, possess a certain gift, the so-called Celestial Eye, which allows her to prophesy in an unconscious state.

Regarding this, John guessed it was because of his ancestors.

Cassandra Trelawney is a priestess of the Temple of Apollo in Greek mythology, who has the ability to predict the future due to the favor of the sun god.

She was cursed by Apollo because she casually said the prophecy and leaked the secret, so that no one would believe her prophecy.

Cassandra Trelawney had as much life as sand, which she asked Apollo to give her, but she forgot to ask for youth, so that her only desire afterward was to die.

And Apollo's curse is more than that. No one will believe her words. For a prophet who likes to predict the results, this is simply unbearable torture.

In particular, she can't stop people's disasters when she predicts them. She can only watch the disasters happen, which makes her feel even more painful.

As a descendant of Sybill Patricia Trelawney, it is very likely that the curse still exists in the blood, which may be why the Trelawney family has a reputation in the records as liars, not prophets s reason.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Sybil, because most of the predictions she makes are nonsense and all are some kind of deception.

But it is undeniable that she does have the blood of a prophet, and there will indeed be a few real people in her family.

For example, the book John is reading now is a book written by one of her ancestors. This ancestor of Trelawney has profound attainments in dream omens and prophecies.

However, John did not take the other party's courses. He only took the protection of magical animals this semester.

One is because too many courses are not conducive to their own learning.

Choosing all the courses like Hermione is not worth the loss. The best way is to know what you want, and then work hard in that direction, instead of accepting it all.

The second is because even if Professor Trelawney is really capable, her third eye is often closed, and the precise words she makes are produced in a certain state of confusion.

And this kind of subject that is extremely important to talent is even stricter than the blood of a wizard. Without blood, you don't have Tianmu, so all the divination you do is just a retelling of knowledge to a certain extent, not really related to transcendence. .

This kind of mechanical learning is meaningless. Can John become a prophet by memorizing the images summarized by the predecessors in the book?

While John was concentrating on his books, Hagrid walked into the auditorium.

In his long moleskin overcoat, he was absently tossing a dead polecat with one large hand.

Hagrid saw John who was concentrating on reading at a glance. Originally, he wanted to say hello to John, but it could be seen that John was concentrating on the book in front of him, so he didn't bother John, but walked towards the long table in Gryffindor.

Hagrid stopped in front of Harry and the others, and said enthusiastically, "How is it? You guys come to my first class! As soon as you have lunch! I got up at five o'clock in the morning and got everything ready I hope the class goes well... I, finally became a teacher... Really..."

Hagrid smiled happily at Harry and the others, and Harry and the others also smiled to express their expectation for the course.

Hagrid then walked on to the staff table, still swinging the dead polecat.

"I don't know what he's been preparing for?" Ron said, with a hint of worry in his voice.

Harry looked at Hagrid who was greeting Professor Lupine, and said, "I don't think there should be any problems. Didn't Hagrid say that John gave him a lot of advice on the course?"

Ron heard Harry's words, looked at John's back in the distance, and nodded.

John didn't know what happened here, and continued to concentrate on reading the book in his hand.

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer students in the auditorium, and they all rushed to their first class.

When John was the only one left in the auditorium, he closed the book in front of him and got up to attend the first class of the new semester.

Hufflepuff's first lesson is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

John walked all the way to the classroom through the corridor, and almost everyone in the classroom came at this moment.

When John walked in, there was a brief silence in the classroom, and everyone's eyes fell on John, but soon they started talking again, but the protagonist of this conversation naturally changed to John.

John ignored other people's communication, but opened the textbook and started reading.

After a long time, Professor Lu Ping arrived late.

"Good morning, everyone." He had a faint smile on his face. "Please put your textbooks back in your schoolbags. The first class today is a practical class. You only need your wand."

After hearing the practical class, everyone had different expressions, but they were all a little curious.

Professor Lockhart had never given them a practical lesson last year, only in Gryffindor, and I heard it was a disaster.

But judging by the appearance of the new teacher, it shouldn't cause disaster like Professor Lockhart as rumored, right?
Except for John, everyone followed Professor Lu Ping out of the classroom with some apprehension and deep interest.

They walked all the way through the school, through the corridors.

Finally, they stopped at the door of a faculty lounge.

Professor Lu Ping opened the door, and the students filed in one after another. There was a long space inside.

It seems that this place should have been a room for storing sundries before, but it was only selected by Professor Lupine as a classroom.

Professor Lupine motioned the students to go to the other end of the room, where there was an old wardrobe, where professors usually put their replacement robes.

Professor Lupine followed and stopped beside the wardrobe.

At this time, the wardrobe suddenly shook and made a bang bang sound.

"do not worry."

Professor Lupine comforted a few students who were scared back because of the noise.

"It's just a Boggart inside."

However, Professor Lu Ping's explanation did not succeed in appeasing everyone. On the contrary, the students who were not afraid at first became frightened when they heard this.

Those who knew what a Boggart was were staring in horror at the rattling cabinet doorknob.

"Boggarts like dark enclosed spaces, wardrobes, under beds, cupboards under the sink... this one was just moved in yesterday afternoon, and I begged the principal to let the professors keep it and give it to my [-]rd graders for practice For class."

Professor Lupine started the lecture.

"Now the first question we have to understand is: What is a Boggart?"

Lupine looked expectantly at the little badgers, and soon Hannah Abbott raised her hand to speak.

"A thing that transforms. It becomes what it thinks scares us most."

"Very good! I can't make it clearer myself." Professor Lupine continued.

"So, the Boggart in the dark cabinet doesn't have a specific shape yet, and he doesn't know what the people outside the cabinet are afraid of. No one knows what a Boggart looks like when he is alone, but as long as I put it Let it out, and it instantly becomes what each of us fears the most."

The students looked at the cabinet again with terrified eyes.

John looked at the cabinet with interest. In fact, he was curious about what he was afraid of.

If it was John in the past, he would be afraid of his father, and if it was the part from the mysterious blue star, he would be afraid of those slippery creatures, such as snakes.

But as a new existence, he is not afraid of these, so he is really curious about what he is afraid of.

With his current abilities, even Voldemort wouldn't scare him.

With curiosity, John watched as Professor Lupine began to let everyone practice the spell "funny funny" against Boggarts.

After taking everyone to read it a few times and confirming the pronunciation, Professor Lupine emphasized the key point of dealing with Boggart again.

"Remember, it's the laughter that really kills a Boggart. What you need is to force it into an image that you find funny."

After speaking, Professor Lupine asked everyone to line up, and they were ready to try to deal with Boggart.

Because they are ranked according to their surnames, John is relatively low, so he has seen almost all the fears of other little badgers.

Mummies with bloodstained bandages, long-haired female ghosts, severed hands crawling on the ground, giant spiders several feet high, big snakes as thick as two hands hugging...

There is even his own figure, and the one who is afraid of himself is naturally Ernie McMillan who was threatened by him before.

When Boggart turned into him and walked out of the closet, everyone felt a little surprised, of course, this did not include Hannah who had witnessed John threatening Ernie.

"It's really unexpected." Professor Lupine had a surprised expression on his face when he saw that Boggart turned into John.

In the end, it all ended when Ernie cast a spell and False John turned into a balloon man.

Finally, it was John's turn.

John walked forward slowly. The Boggart in front of him still maintained the appearance of the last classmate after chanting the spell. It was a poisoned leopard that turned into a kitten.

Facing John's gaze, the Boggart shuddered, but quickly began to transform, just like before, like a black shadow changing in the air.

It's just that compared to other people, the Boggart took a particularly long time this time, and it seemed to be trying to explore John's fear.

Finally, seemingly finding John's fear at last, the Boggart is seen transformed.

It was an adult, wearing a pitch-black robe, and his hair was dull, but he could still see the fiery redness of the past.

The face is distorted and deformed, making it difficult to recognize, the body continuously emits black smoke, and the eyes are the same dark green as the death curse.

Holding a gnarled wand in his hand, the pale wand seemed to show off the power of magic.

The students behind John immediately let out exclamations after seeing it.

John had a strange expression on his face, because he recognized at a glance that the Boggart had turned into himself
After being stunned for a few seconds, John raised the wand in his hand:

"Funny!"

The "John" in front of him exploded like a balloon, turning into fireworks all over the sky.

(End of this chapter)