alt_sally_anne | Defence today

So Defence today was rather exciting. Professor Lestrange had arranged for us to each face a boggart. I suppose I shouldn't say more than that because he'll want to explain how it works to all the other houses in turn, I should think. But it was dead interesting.

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alt_sally_anne

Pansy, did you get a good look at Draco's boggart?

It looked like Professor Carrow. It was, wasn't it? I wasn't just imagining things.

Harry's -- ugh. Thank goodness Professor Lestrange had chocolate in his desk.

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alt_terry

It looked like Master? Or his sister?

What's a boggart anyway?

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alt_sally_anne

Like Mr Professor Carrow, not Miss.

A boggart -- it's a dark creature that transforms into whatever you fear the most. If you faced off with a boggart I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned into Carrow, but this was Draco.

~~I guess they really meant it about~~

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alt_sally_anne

Oh and just in case you ever run into one, the way you defeat it is to force it to transform into something funny and then laugh at it.

Of course, we all KNEW going in that we were about to encounter a boggart which is totally different from running into your greatest fear in a dark corridor some night. We were prepared.

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alt_pansy

I couldn't do it when it was my turn at all. Make it funny. Even when I was prepared.

I'm not sure I particularly liked this lesson.

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alt_neville

Blimey. How could you force Professor Carrow into being something funny?

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alt_gredforge

Oh, we can think of a few things.

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alt_neville

Wait a minute.

You said it's something that turns into what you're afraid of the most. What, like a creature? Or . . . or like it's whatever scares you more than anything? Whatever it is?

From:

alt_sally_anne

It's whatever scares you the most.

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alt_pansy

That was your dad, wasn't it?

I mean, I know you don't get on, but I didn't know that he was your thing you were most scared of.

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alt_sally_anne

Well you didn't get to hear what he was saying, I knew by the time it was my turn I wanted to get it over with as fast as I possibly could and I wanted my funny thing to keep him from talking.

He was saying I wasn't his daughter. That I was a mudblood.

We don't always get on and

Yeah anyway. I'm sorry about yours. I couldn't think of a way to make it funny either.

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alt_pansy

oh. yeah, I didn't hear that bit.

that would be pretty awful to hear.

From:

alt_pansy

and yeah.

I'm sorry too.

From:

alt_sally_anne

None of it was your fault, Pansy.

No matter what the boggart said.

NONE of it was your fault.

From:

alt_pansy

~~It was just saying what I was thinking.~~

It's fine.

Thanks, though.

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alt_sally_anne

At least it WAS someone saying something, I know what scares me but I didn't know how a boggart would turn into it, you know?

Being sent to a mudblood camp scares me.

It could've been the Headmistress snapping my wand and expelling me, though, I don't know what I'd have done then. I figured hiccoughs would work on anyone who was saying something.

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alt_pansy

You could have made her pick her nose with the snapped bits.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I'll have to remember that if it ever comes up.

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alt_neville

Bloody hell.

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alt_neville

I can't do that.

Do you think he's going to have the Gryffindors do the same lesson on Friday?

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alt_sally_anne

Well, you can think it through first and make it change really fast. ~~My bog~~ You turn it into something funny, when you do the spell.

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alt_neville

It's....it's more than just that it's personal.

It's just that--well, I can't take that class. I can't face a boggart in front of other people.

I've got to get out of it somehow.

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alt_terry

I would have thought your boggart would be Master, too. I know you hate Transfiguration.

From:

alt_neville

It's not. I don't think it is. And if I'm right....

I can't do it. Don't ask me why.

From:

alt_terry

...

All right.

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alt_gredforge

No need to panic, Nev. If you have to skive off, that's our specialty, no questions asked. What time's your next DADA class?

From:

alt_neville

Uh, 10:00 in the morning on Friday.

From:

alt_gredforge

Perfect. Come see us that morning. We'll give you a potion that should have you spewing up your breakfast within fifteen minutes. You can nip off to the hospital wing and hang out there.

From:

alt_pansy

eww.

From:

alt_sally_anne

I'm telling you, a headache would work just as well. It's not as if Madam Pomfrey gives you veritaserum to make SURE you REALLY have one.

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alt_neville

No. I'll do it. I've got to make absolutely sure that Madam Pomfrey doesn't sent me back to class.

Trust me on this.

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alt_sally_anne

Skive off. How much attention do your prefects pay if you say you're sick? Just say you have a headache and go up to bed for an hour or two.

Or have someone hex you. Greg got hexed by some older boy in Ravenclaw yesterday, probably because he deserved it, and he was up in the hospital wing for two hours.

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alt_lee

It sort of reads your mind to find out what that is I guess. At least that's what I figured they did when we faced them our third year.

Why? What do you think it would turn into for you?

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alt_pansy

Well, that's sort of a personal question, isn't it?

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alt_sally_anne

Draco changed his clothes. Into ladies' clothes. Something really fancy. I think the dress might be something he's seen his mum wear.

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alt_terry

He--

it--

Merlin. Draco made a boggart turn into Master? And then put it into a dress!?!

Oh, I would have given anything to have been able to see that!

As long as HE didn't know, I mean.

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alt_sally_anne

Well, the boggart was already there, Draco didn't make it. But it changed into Carrow when it was trying to really frighten Draco.

And Draco made it funny by putting it in a dress.

A really pretty dress. Covered in beads and lace and nift things and it was sort of shimmery so it changed colour when Carrow moved.

I wish I could've taken a picture. I'd have it framed and keep it forever!

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alt_terry

Oh, he's sure to hear about it. The way that gossip spreads at this school?

Malfoy better watch his step in Transfiguration this term.

From:

alt_terry

But I've got to admit...that mental picture is something I'm gonna keep to pull out whenever I need it.

From:

alt_hermione

What happened? Harry won't tell me anything, just says to mind my own business.

From:

alt_sally_anne

When it was Harry's turn to face the boggart, it turned into a Dementor.

He --

Well, it was kind of like what happened on the train, only Professor Lestrange reacted a lot faster, he got in front of Harry so the boggart transformed again and then after we'd laughed it away he gave us all chocolate. Because even though it wasn't a REAL Dementor -- it basically was.

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alt_daphne

I thought it was an awfully personal experience, myself. I'm glad that Professor Lestrange warned us it would be, because then I knew I should do my best to turn my eyes away when other students went up to the wardrobe. It was hard not to look sometimes, but I wish I hadn't - some of them were just ghastly!

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