Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 191 Half a bug is even scarier!

After expelling Peeves, Professor Lupine took the little lions to the professor's common room.

The professor's common room is long and spacious, and the walls are well decorated, but the corners of the room are filled with broken chairs, tables with one leg missing, and other junk items.

After all, professors are not very popular here.

Professors other than deans actually don’t have that much work.

So when they stayed at Hogwarts, they were always on the line between the classroom and the office, and three meals a day were delivered directly to the office by the house elves.

Professors like Professor Trelawney who are stuck in the outside world are the most typical example.

Of course, other professors will not do anything like Professor Trelawney. They all have their own research projects.

As for the deans, they don't like it here even more.

After Professor Snape became the head of Slytherin, it took only two years for Slytherin to win the House Cup and start their journey to win the championship again.

And every time Professor Snape always likes to show off when the dean meets privately, lamenting how impressive the students in his college are.

At this time, even the best-tempered Professor Sprout secretly regretted why he didn't confine Snape a few more times.

Do we really think we don’t know how Slytherin won the championship? It’s just that we want to save face and not blatantly increase points!

After hearing the show off twice, the other deans used the excuse that they had research and rarely came here anymore.

Last year and the year before last, after Gryffindor won the second consecutive championship, Professor McGonagall's research on transfiguration suddenly ended, and Professor Snape suddenly had an inspiration and thought of a new potion topic.

However, at this time, Professor Snape was rarely working on his own potion, but appeared in the professor's common room.

When his classmates filed in, he was lazily flipping through an issue of "Potion Master" and reading the paper on invisibility potions with satisfaction.

After seeing Professor Lupine coming in with the Gryffindors, Professor Snape closed the journal and stood up from the armchair:

"Don't close the door, Lupin, I think it's best if I leave."

"After all these years, we all know what you have been through. Being a teacher is still too difficult for people like you!"

"Our relationship is so 'good' that it can be said to be a life-and-death friendship, so I won't watch you make a fool of yourself!"

Professor Snape's tone was serious, revealing a strange emotion.

However, Professor Luping didn't seem to hear it at all and remained polite.

"Thank you for your concern, Snape." Professor Lupine responded calmly,

"However, I am grateful to Professor Dumbledore for believing in me and giving me this position. And I will do my best to teach every Defense Against the Dark Arts class well."

Professor Snape snorted coldly and strode out of the professor's common room.

After watching Professor Snape leave, Professor Lupine waved his wand and closed the door to the lounge.

At the same time, a shabby wardrobe levitated, flew from the other end of the room to the center of the classroom, and fell heavily.

The wardrobe suddenly shook and bounced up and down.

There seemed to be something struggling inside, trying to break out.

The Gryffindors recalled the scene a year ago and the elves in the sky, and they immediately took a few steps back in fear.

"Don't worry." Professor Lupine pointed to the cabinet to make it quiet. "There's just a Boggart in here."

"Now the first question we have to ask is, what is a Boggart?"

Although she was a little tired, Hermione was the first to raise her hand and easily recited the standard explanation in the book:

"A boggart is a spiritual magical creature that can shapeshift."

"Boggarts live in narrow and dark places and become the most feared thing by those who meet them. This is why no one can observe the true form of boggarts."

"Very good." Professor Lupine nodded and continued to ask other basic questions about Boggarts.

After completing all the theoretical explanations, Professor Lu Ping asked: "Do students still have any questions?"

"Professor!" Harley raised her hand, "I have a question. Is the Boggart's true form really unobservable?"

Professor Lupine smiled: "This is a good question. I can tell you with certainty that the true form of the Boggart can actually be observed."

"Of course, I remember someone proposed using perspective magic to observe it through the wooden board, but it failed in the end."

"It is impossible to observe the true form of Boggart simply by using perspective magic through a wooden board, because when using this magic, Boggart will also know that he is being observed."

"But there is a very advanced but obscure magic that can be used here. Unfortunately, that kind of magic is so advanced that we won't learn about it until graduation."

"But Professor," Harley raised her hand again, "why don't we use inanimate objects for our observations?"

"For example, use a camera to face the Boggart and cast a small spell on it to achieve the camera function without human operation."

"An inanimate camera has nothing to fear, so the Boggart theoretically cannot transform."

Professor Lupine was stunned for a moment, then nodded approvingly: "This is a very good idea, Harry."

"I'm sorry to say that, when I reach middle age, my thinking has become rigid, and I didn't think of such a simple method."

As he said that, Professor Lupine looked at Harry:

"Harry, if you don't mind, you can choose a free time to discuss this experimental design with me."

"Okay, Professor." Harley responded obediently.

After confirming that there were no problems with other students, Professor Lu Ping clapped his hands:

"Then next, we will enter the most important practical stage."

"I think you have remembered before that we have an advantage when facing Boggarts."

"After all, there are a lot of people here, and the boggart doesn't know what to turn into."

"But if we encounter a Boggart alone in the wild, we still have to overcome our fear."

"So please remember that the first priority when dealing with Boggarts is always to maintain a strong will, overcome your deepest fears, and maintain a happy mood."

"The spell is funny and there are no gestures or other requirements, but you have to imagine an image that you find funny in the back of your mind."

"I will call the names soon, and the students whose names are called will face the Boggart."

"Don't be afraid. I'm here and you'll be fine."

"As for the other students, I hope you can spread out, lest this poor Boggart gets confused and turns into half a carnivorous slug."

I don’t know who shouted: “Professor, it’s even more terrifying to meet half a slug while eating!”

The students immediately burst into laughter and dispersed around the classroom.

Amidst the laughter of the little wizards and the uneasy struggling of the poor Boggart, Professor Lupine called the first name:

"Neville Longbottom!"

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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu and Cui Maimai for the reward!)

(ps. Legilimency and Occlumency are not black magic, but like the Unforgivable Curse, it is impossible to spread on a large scale.)

(ps. The camera was invented in 1839. It is reasonable to infer that it will not take long for the wizarding world to use it in daily life.)