Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

A cold wind on Monday morning made the quilt seal that was originally suppressing the little wizards more solid. Everyone struggled to get up and dragged their heavy legs all the way to the auditorium for breakfast.Even the interesting articles published in the school newspaper seemed to have become a lot boring to read. Newspapers such as the Daily Prophet, which were originally uninteresting, were directly used by many people to put their dinner plates on the table.

In comparison, Hufflepuff's little wizards are pretty good, because they are at least looking forward to the course - the second period this morning is the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. If the professors are true to their words, then their class The class should start with personal experience of facing the Boggart, because they had already learned all the basic theoretical knowledge in the class last Thursday afternoon.

Halfway through breakfast, everyone sitting near Munn began to turn their heads to look at Munn, as if they had discovered a new world.

It was extremely rare that Moon was not eating seriously, nor was he reading a book. He didn't even take the book out of his backpack at all, but was sitting there in a daze.

Cedric bumped Munn's arm with his elbow in confusion. After Munn came back to his senses, he said softly: "What's wrong? Didn't you wake up?"

Moon shook his head. Before he could speak, Gal quickly asked, "Did you forget to bring your homework?"

Moon shook his head again, then smiled and told everyone: "It's okay, don't worry, I just suddenly remembered something."

After saying that, he started eating on his own, and no one around him asked any more questions. Only Violet and Munn's three roommates noticed the abnormality - although Munn said so, but this He had already eaten, but he still didn't take out the book.

Things were obviously not as easy as Moon said.

Their guesses were correct, but Moon couldn't express his worries to everyone, because what he was worried about was the monster he was going to face today, the Boggart.

The Boggart will peek into the mind of the person in front of him and transform himself into that person's greatest fear.

Moon didn't know what his biggest fear was. He was afraid of many things, but fear was not an indicator that could be accurately quantified into numbers.A person is afraid of both spiders and snakes. Which one is more afraid of?He may not know it himself, because he will jump in fright when he sees a spider, and scream in fright when he sees a snake. When he is blocked by a spider on the left and a snake on the right, he may jump directly to feed the crocodile. .

That's why Moon was worried, because there was a high possibility that the Boggart would turn into something it shouldn't.

For example, if he transforms into his deceased mother in his previous life, and transforms into the scene of his mother's death that he has witnessed with his own eyes, the students will definitely be surprised after seeing it, they will definitely communicate with each other, and the news will definitely spread to many people's ears. , and when that time comes, how should he explain it?That he didn't know it himself?

Professor Dumbledore was definitely the first one not to believe it.

Or will he become his father who walked into the ward with a knife in his previous life?Become one of those sophisticated, cold machines in the ward that are always accompanied by pain that makes life worse than death?

No matter which one appears, it will be a kind of torture for Munn, and after the torture, a series of troublesome problems will follow.

Moon took a deep breath and ate the last piece of fried egg, but suddenly felt his hand being gently held by another hand.

He turned his head, and Violet smiled at him encouragingly, but there was worry in her eyes.

After three seconds of silence, Moon also showed a smile. Violet understood and gently let go of her hand, and her tense heart finally relaxed.

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Professor Sprout did not come to this Herbology class, and the teaching assistant took over. This also meant boredom, because the teaching assistant in the Herbology class was a Slytherin senior in the seventh grade this year, and he had also taught two classes before. class.Often as soon as he shows up, the class basically consists of choosing between writing a paper or reading a book on his own.

After finally getting through to the end of get out of class, the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students who had finished the Herbology class parted ways. Many Hufflepuff badgers were noisy and hurried straight to the teacher's lounge.Assistant Professor Lu Ping specifically said in the last class that they would go to the teachers' lounge for this class.

When everyone arrived, Assistant Teacher Lu Ping was already standing at the door of the teachers' lounge, with the small table he used to collect homework on his left hand side.Through the open door, you can see that no one is inside, except for an old red wardrobe placed in front of the wall at the end.

"Hand in your homework one by one in order, then go in and line up behind the white line in front of the closet." Assistant Teacher Lu Ping knocked on the closet with a smile, and the closet shook twice in response, scaring the little wizards. One jump - but then everyone became even more excited.

"Remember, I emphasized that if you don't hand in your homework, you won't have the chance to pull out the wand in this class."

Everyone shouted loudly to remember that Moon walked in front, handed in his homework, and was the first in the queue.After him, other little wizards also formed a long queue one after another.

After the last Elma Baker handed in her homework, Assistant Teacher Lupine suddenly raised her voice and said loudly: "Now, take out the wand - do you still remember the spell we taught in the last class? Read it out loud!"

"Funny funny!!"

"Very good, then, Moon, it's up to you to give everyone the first demonstration. Do you need me to repeat the key points to you?"

"No need, Assistant Lupine."

Assistant Teacher Lu Ping nodded with satisfaction, gave Moon an encouraging look, and then took out his wand and tapped on the closet.

Chapter 53 Boggart

"Remember, willpower and high happiness are key, you have to use a spell to force it to become something ridiculous!" While the wardrobe was opening, Assistant Teacher Lu Ping still said one more word without worry.

Moon looked at the closet door calmly - at this moment, the door was already open, but until five seconds later, nothing appeared in the closet.Some little wizards began to become uneasy, and some people looked into the closet, but could only see darkness. Even Assistant Lupine's expression began to look a little surprised.

Finally, a sound came from the closet, a loud cry of a baby, mixed with the sound of the clock's second hand "tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock".The next moment, the sound of the second hand spinning suddenly accelerated, so in the confused and slightly horrified eyes of everyone, a baby's little hand was placed on the edge of the closet, and then grew rapidly, even before the items in the closet could be seen. When he climbed out of his head, the hand almost looked like a young man's.

Someone with a quick mind told the truth straight away, "Is this... uh, time?"

When his head and chest stuck out of the closet, the man who looked exactly like Moon had turned into a young man - although his facial features were still handsome, he was obviously much more mature than Moon himself.By the time he crawled out of his upper body, the Moon that the Boggart had transformed into was already approaching old age, his face was full of wrinkles, and his black hair was starting to turn gray.

The second hand was still spinning faster and faster. Moon pursed his lips, raised his wand, and said loudly: "Funny!"

The sound of the second hand stopped suddenly, and the middle-aged Moon that the boggart had turned into suddenly swayed, put on the theater costume, then jumped out of the closet, knelt on the ground and confessed loudly to Moon himself. stand up.

The originally depressing atmosphere instantly warmed up, and everyone burst into laughter at the outrageous "I confess myself" narcissism.Assistant Lupine finally smiled and waved vigorously, "Next! Next! Cedric!"

Moon also laughed and walked backwards to the back of the team.After facing Cedric, the old man in costume Moon immediately turned into a huge five-legged monster [Note 1]. Cedric waved his wand and said "funny", and the five-legged monster suddenly transformed into a giant five-legged monster. It became a giant knitted woolen doll, and the threads woven into its body were constantly being pulled out.What’s even more outrageous is that the woolly five-legged monster opened its mouth and shouted, “No! No! I don’t want to lose weight!”

"Next person!"

Cedric followed Munn's footsteps, and together they watched the Boggart turn into a clown with a mouth full of blood in front of Gal, and then turned into a dry mummy in front of Arlin.

The fifth place was Violet, but the Boggart was stuck again—fortunately, it was only for one second. After one second, the Boggart turned into several cold graves, and several people lined up behind Violet. With a keen eye, I noticed that except for the three tombs with the same surname as Violet, the one on the edge clearly had Munn's name written on it, but the handwriting was not very clear, but rather blurry.

Violet's first spell cast failed. She shouted the spell successfully, but nothing happened.Just when Assistant Teacher Lupine couldn't help but want to wave the wand to help, Violet waved the wand again, and the four tombs suddenly exploded with a burst of smoke, and turned into a huge jelly, where duang, Duang, duang bounces like hair washed with Bawang shampoo.

Then, Demi turned the Boggart into a ghoul, and Artman turned the Boggart into a giant fire crab with its butt constantly breathing fire. When it was Alma's turn, the Boggart became a completely A monster made of springs...

Milton in the middle of the team became the most outrageous person in the audience - because his Boggart turned out to be the mother who gave him snacks every day, but this time his mother was holding a bottle of poison in her hand and wanted to feed him. give him.Milton's solution was to turn the poison in his mother's hand into a huge basket of snacks. Everyone looked up and saw that all the snacks were actually given to him by Milton's mother.

Later, the boggart changed faster and faster, and became weirder and weirder. Perhaps it made him dizzy, and he started to make some obvious mistakes. For example, when he turned into a scary giant lion, he opened his mouth and screamed " "Woof woof woof" dog barking.

A group of young wizards quickly played with Boggarts one by one, and the classroom was full of joy. Finally, it was Moon's turn again.

"Finish him! Moon!" Assistant Lupine snapped his fingers. Moon nodded and "looked at each other" with the Boggart who had been turned into a huge Gobstone by Kelly.The Boggart suddenly transformed into the classic image of the Grim Reaper wearing a long black cloak and holding a sharp blade.

The little badgers of Hufflepuff were confused again. Why did this person have two of the things he was most afraid of?Is Moon so timid?

Only Assistant Teacher Lupine glanced at Munn thoughtfully, and then quickly came back to his senses. Munn used a funny joke to make the God of Death trip over his cloak and fall to the ground. He was forced to explode into blue by the long laughter. After the smoke dissipated, he said loudly: "It's great! It was a great success!"

Applause rang out, and all the little wizards applauded together, not only for Assistant Lupine, but also for themselves and each of their classmates.

"Ten points added to Hufflepuff for everyone's outstanding performance. Everyone succeeded. It's amazing!"

After the applause completely subsided, Assistant Professor Lu Ping closed the closet door and said with a smile: "Okay, each student, go back and write an article about your thoughts and insights about dealing with Boggarts. There is no length requirement, just feel free to use it. Hand it in next Monday—get out of class is over!”

After leaving the classroom, the little wizards had a blast. Everyone was chatting about the strange things they had turned the Boggart into, and everyone was very excited.Some people are also wondering what Munn is afraid of, and what the thing that the Boggart conjured when he faced Munn for the first time meant. But when they asked Munn, they all laughed and said, "I I don’t know either.” He was prevaricated.

In the end, everyone had no choice but to come to the same conclusion: growing old and facing death, Moon's biggest fear must be death.

Moon praised the students for this.

"So, how did you do it?" In the evening, Violet pulled Moon, who was sitting next to her, and asked like a curious baby.

"How did you do that?" Moon was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses, "You mean Boggart?"

Violet nodded, "Yes, that time later, you must have deliberately created a Death God because I was afraid of seeing you die, right?"

Moon didn't intend to fool Violet, and readily admitted, "Indeed, as for how to do it..."

"A rough explanation is that I deceived the Boggart."

Chapter 54 A pack of dried meat

Question, how many steps does it take to trick a Boggart?

Answer, one step is to learn and master Occlumency.

Of course, this step seems simple, but in fact it is not easy, because Occlumency is an unpopular and unfamiliar thing, and its practical applications are not many.Even if many people learn Occlumency, they only have a taste of it. As long as they can close their brains, weaken the influence of Veritaserum, and isolate Legilimency as much as possible.It takes hard work to really master it, and the effort and reward are often not directly proportional.

The Boggart's attack method is to transform into the image that its target fears the most. To understand this image, the Boggart must first pry into a person's thoughts, memories, and past events.The actual meaning of the spell to deal with Boggarts is to use willpower to forcibly suppress fear, force oneself to think of funny and interesting images, and use the spell to confuse the Boggart's prying eyes, making it mistakenly think that the target is most afraid of other people behind it. Recall that image and change its form.

And after mastering Occlumency, you can directly block your emotions and memories from the source, so that the Boggart cannot read the correct content, and can only read what the target wants it to read. In this way , the Boggart is equivalent to completely falling into the trap, no longer able to fight back, and allowing the target to take whatever it wants.

Although Moon does not know Occlumency, he does not need to know it. As a natural Legilimency, his mental defense is far better than ordinary people.Because he must isolate his mind, avoid being subjected to the many powerful interferences he receives from the outside world, force himself to maintain stability, calmness, and even completely empty himself at all times, and then he can gradually exercise his understanding of his own talents. control ability.In other words, although he has not specifically learned Occlumency, in the process of training his talent, he has been practicing something almost identical to Occlumency all the time.

"It's all thanks to you." Moon said softly, watching the firelight reflected in the fireplace dance on Violet's face, "Actually, I didn't think of this at first."

"There are some things in my heart... that are not easy to reveal, but if I face the Boggart, there is a risk that these things will be discovered by the Boggart. Previously, I entered a misunderstanding. I didn't know my own... Whether guarding can prevent Boggarts from snooping? I'm not sure whether Boggarts' snooping is similar to Legilimency. I'm worried that if I don't succeed by then, there are really some things I don't want to reveal. If what comes out is transformed by a Boggart, everything will become very troublesome."

"When you held my hand later to comfort me, I suddenly realized that there was actually no need to worry like this."

Moon rubbed his hair, and then pinched his neck. "Because if a Boggart can expose me, then I think that even if these things that are not easy to reveal are not exposed today, they will always be there." One day it will be revealed in other ways. If it is exposed today, I still have room for explanation and the possibility of mediation [Note 1]. But if it is exposed again in the future, the situation is unknown, the timing is unknown, and even what I am like His identity and status are unknown.”

"Instead of pinning the unknown fate in the future and avoiding today's risks, it is better to try it now. Even if it fails, it is just a little difficult to explain and a little troublesome, but it can still be solved, and I can still try Try to find a solution from the failure. If you can't find it and know it, you will have to hide away from the Boggart when you see it."

"So, thank you, Weier."

Violet's cheeks were a little red, and she looked like she was warmed by the warmth of the fireplace, but both of them obviously knew that was not the case.She unconsciously crossed the index fingers of her hands together and said with a smile, "My hands are so powerful, they can make you think of so many things."

"Actually, it's more like you provided me with an... opportunity?" Moon shrugged. "I was in over my head, but when you comforted me, I suddenly figured it out."

Violet suddenly turned her head and looked at Munn. After a few seconds, she suddenly lowered her head and laughed again. Her shoulders started to shake wildly as she laughed, making Munn as confused as if she was in a Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The same classmates who saw his "second Boggart".

He didn't know what to say, he didn't know what to do, he could only stand there confused.

After waiting for a while, Violet took a deep breath, then raised her head and looked directly at Moon, with a bit of anger in her eyes, but also a bit of clear affection.

"It's good if I can help you."

"Moon! Do you want to eat jerky? Milton's jerky was sent by his mother! He dare not eat it!" Gal's head poked out from the door between the dormitory area and the common room, and his voice was loud. Almost everyone in the common room looked at him.

Therefore, immediately after, the few third-year wizards in the common room all laughed, including Moon and Violet. Obviously, although Milton used funny tricks at the time, he lifted the The Boggart threatened him.But he was still a little scared afterwards - otherwise he wouldn't even dare to eat dried meat.

Moon took out his wand and waved it lightly at the paper bag in Gal's hand hanging under his head, "Accio! (Summoning Curse) [Note 2]"

The paper bag flew out of Gal's hand with a whoosh, drew an arc in the air, and accurately landed on Moon's outstretched palm.

"Here, leave some for me! That's a bag full of -" Gal was just halfway through his words when someone suddenly pulled him hard from behind. He exclaimed and disappeared at the door. .

Just when the little wizards in the common room were full of curiosity, the sound of Milton's gnashing of teeth came from behind the door.

"Gal Fuller! I'm not afraid to eat! I just asked you to get more because I couldn't eat it! If you dare to yell again! I will stuff you into my crucible! Moon can't stop me !”

Accompanied by Milton's gnashing of teeth, and Gal's begging for mercy, the little wizards in the common room burst into laughter.

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[Note 1] The four sounds of 斡wo, mediate, mean to reverse, redeem, mediate, and deal with.

[Note 2] Accio is the summoning curse. In the Simplified Chinese version of the Harry Potter series of novels, the spell was once translated as the "Flying Curse", but in the subsequent revision process, the spell was determined to be unified and revised. , all translated as "summoning spell".There is still some controversy about this spell. JK Rowling once said that the spell can only be used on inanimate objects, but in fact, in the original novel and its derivative movies, the Flying Curse has indeed been used on animals and magical animals and was successful. About This book will clearly fix this bug in the future through communication and discussion between characters and the use of summoning spells, and give a reasonable explanation. However, this is a second setting, and the original setting does exist. If it is controversial, readers should pay attention to the distinction.

Chapter 55 The Lost Society of Dark Wizards

"How are you, Moon? Are you okay?" Professor Dumbledore asked with concern, while raising his hand, he brought the trash can in the office to Moon.

Moon didn't answer, because he really didn't have much room to answer now. He raised his hand and grabbed the trash can, quickly pulled it in front of him, then leaned over and vomited violently.

Fox on the shelf watched Munn vomiting with interest, then tilted his head and looked at Professor Dumbledore. Professor Dumbledore waved his hand, indicating that Munn was fine, and then knocked again. He moved the teapot to float on the table and added some cold tea to Moon's cup.

After a while, Moon, who finally emptied his stomach, sat upright in pain, picked up the tea cup and rinsed his mouth, then waved his wand and cleaned the trash can.

"Oh my God, what on earth is that thing? It's so...disgusting." Thinking of what he just saw in Professor Dumbledore's memories, Moon's stomach began to churn again, but he could no longer vomit. Vomiting, I had to reach out and rub my abdomen, hoping to relieve the uncomfortable feeling.

"A monster cultivated by the dark wizards of the Crow Party. In order to cultivate the monster they called the 'Tide of Flesh', the dark wizards of the Crow Party killed thousands of Muggles with extremely cruel methods. And non-pure-blood wizards, as well as countless various animals and magical animals, finally created this...disgusting thing through large-scale magic rituals." Professor Dumbledore's face was not very good-looking, obviously. , that kind of monster would feel very uncomfortable even with his extensive knowledge.

"I..." Moon took several deep breaths and finally felt a little more comfortable. "I don't know how to evaluate this group of people. I can only say that their aesthetics are really... too strange."

"I very much agree with your assessment, Moon, but they are not only unique in their aesthetics, they are a bunch of pure and complete lunatics. Even among dark wizards, their level of cruelty and madness is rare." Denb. Professor Lido sighed, and then straightened his expression, "Now, Moon, I have taught you about the more representative ones of the dark wizard secret societies that I have dealt with, although I am not about them. all the knowledge and memories, but these memories are undoubtedly the more representative of the entanglements that occurred between me and them."

"So, I think, with your level of intelligence, this is obviously enough for you to establish some preliminary understanding of them. So now, the question is, do you have an opinion? Any opinion will do."

Moon took another sip of tea, then pondered for a moment, and then said: "I think you obviously don't want to ask me what I think of these dark wizards. There is nothing to say about their characteristics. I think you can basically throw those bad words at them casually. Come on, eight times out of ten you can’t go wrong. So… my opinion is… they’re weird.”

"Oh?" Professor Dumbledore looked at Moon with interest, waiting for his next words.

"In the memories you showed me, there is no doubt that each of these secret societies of dark wizards is more cruel and terrifying than the last. Some of them are domineering and domineering, acting without scruples, while some are low-key and tolerant, like Venomous snakes lurking in the darkness. But without exception, they are all powerful and intricately connected, and the best of them can even be said to have minions all over the world."

"So..." Moon raised his head and looked at the old man. "The strange thing is, where are they now?"

"Excellent, Moon. This is exactly the thing I want you to think about most in all the courses I have taken recently." Professor Dumbledore nodded slightly, with approval on his face, "The fighting skills, the different types of enemies, These are just incidental contents, but this question is the one I want you to touch on the most. That’s right, Moon, where are they now?”

The old man obviously wanted to let Munn figure it out for himself, because he stopped abruptly when he said this, so Munn had no choice but to figure it out for himself. He tapped the water glass in his hand gently with his fingertips. Three seconds later, He said slightly hesitantly: "Is it related to Voldemort?"

"Yes, Moon, it has something to do with Voldemort." Professor Dumbledore tapped his wand in the air, and an image of a dark wizard wearing a black robe and a terrifying face, as if he had been burned by fire, appeared, and before him Behind him, there were countless shadowy black figures "Voldemort and his Death Eaters."

"To talk about this, we must first talk about Voldemort's experience - when he graduated from Hogwarts, he once wanted to stay in the school and serve as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. I sensed that his motives were impure. So I suggested to the then principal, Mr. Dippet, that he reject Voldemort's application for employment. As a result, Voldemort completely left Hogwarts and entered society."

"However, he refused the olive branch offered to him as an outstanding student by the Ministry of Magic at the time, and instead went to work in Borgin's and Burkes, a store with a good reputation, but mostly a bad reputation. So far we still don't know who he is. For something, but obviously, he definitely had his own ideas and purposes."

"For some time after that, Voldemort had been working for Borgin-Bock's boss at the time, Caractacus Bork of the Bork family. After he left there, he never looked for a stable job again. He has been wandering around the world. Also from this stage, I believe he has joined several different secret societies of dark wizards to explore their secrets and unique powers. At the same time, he began to abandon his real name of Tom Riddle, Use Voldemort as your name instead."

"It wasn't until ten years later that he returned to Hogwarts to apply for a job. After being rejected by me, who had become the principal at the time, he left angrily and began to recruit party members and build power. Relying on his strong strength, he made the Death Eaters a group. It has become one of the largest and most terrifying dark wizard forces."

"However, although some small secret societies of dark wizards were quietly annexed by Voldemort at this stage of his rise, most of the remaining secret societies of dark wizards are still well preserved, and judging from their heritage, the best among them are definitely No weaker than Voldemort and his Death Eaters."

"However, since the rise of Voldemort, the secret societies of dark wizards have begun to disappear one after another. Even the ones that were arrogant and domineering in the past have begun to keep a low profile and only carry out small-scale killings and destruction - until today."