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Nev, you all right, mate? You make it to the Hospital Wing?

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alt_neville

Yeah.

No.

Madam Pomfrey's ordered me to bed.

From:

alt_neville

Fred and George, thanks. I owe you.

I'm sorry I sicked up on your book bag, though, George. I didn't expect the potion to work that fast.

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alt_gredforge

That's what 'scourgify' is for.

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alt_neville

I mean, yeah, I made it to the Hospital Wing. And yeah, I'm all right, except....

'scuse me....

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alt_ron

Well.

That was something. Defence, I mean.

I got caught writing to you, so I had to go first. (Going back tonight for a detention, too, but no worries.)

It was pretty much what I expected. I mean, yeah. Giant acromantula with nasty, sticky web stuff hanging off its
y'know
and super hugomonstrous hairy legs
and giant jaws dripping poisonous drool

DEAD HORRIBLE

But then I got its legs off and it rolled all over the place. Nearly bashed into Brown. That was the funniest bit.

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alt_sally_anne

Just wait, next time she runs up against a boggart, Lav's will turn into an enormous legless hairy spider.

Any other interesting ones?

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alt_pansy

I know, right? Then again, if that takes over her biggest fear, her biggest fear was probably really lame.

Finding out she has split ends?

Or, horrors, A spot on her chin?

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alt_sally_anne

It would totally be a spot on her chin.

And then she'd make it funny by turning it into a spot on someone ELSE'S chin!

From:

alt_ron

Ha. You're not far off.

Lav's boggart turns into a mirror with her face showing, only it's been hexed all out of shape. Like a bat bogey hex only really, really worse.

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alt_sally_anne

What did she do to get rid of it?

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alt_ron

Oh.

She turned the face into Luna's--and it had the daftest expression on. I don't think even Luna can look that daft really.

It was sort of funny.

Except for the part where it was really mean.

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alt_sally_anne

Oh, ugh. Poor Luna. My foster parents don't like me much, but at least my foster siblings aren't nasty to me. Even Jeremy is, well, probably nicer to me than you are to Ginny.

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alt_sally_anne

Not that you're awful to Ginny. Much.

Jeremy's probably nicer to me because I'm not REALLY his sister so if he treated me the way you lot treat Ginny I'd probably run away in despair or something.

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alt_ron

Well, Parvati's was pretty horrible. It was a mummy with the wrapping coming unwound from its face, which must've been her brother's. The one who died, y'know? She was so upset, she had a really hard time changing it, and then all she could do was have it trip on its bandages and fall over. And then the head came off and she started screaming again, so Professor Lestrange told Bundy to step up.

And the boggart popped and turned into Bundy's cousin, Gemma, with her Prefect badge really huge, holding out a wand in front of her and snapping it. She looked really mean, too.

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alt_pansy

That does sound pretty horrid.

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alt_ron

I mean, it's good we learn what to do against a boggart, right? But it was pretty awful.

Did you hear Professor Brutka yesterday? Said the boggart population is on the rise. Said he hadn't had nearly so much trouble getting them for Professor Lestrange to use as he would've if he'd still been in France. I asked him how boggarts, y'know, reproduce. But he wanted to get started on the lesson, so he didn't answer.

Speaking of. That was dead interesting what he said about serpents and Parseltongue and how rare it is for anyone to have a serpent as a familiar. How powerful you have to be. Like the Lord Protector. And how his magic binds his snake to him.

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alt_pansy

yeah.

The snake bit was pretty nift. I like how Professor Brutka explains things. I'd never thought about how a snake isn't really made to be a familiar, like how it isn't its natural state, and what you have to do so you can control it.

But I did know that snake familiars can be used for some really ace stuff.

Salazar Slytherin came up with hexes and things that you can only do properly when you have a snake wrapped around your wand arm, or that you can only say right if you can speak Parseltongue. They had some descriptions of the hexes he created in the book I have about him, and it seems just sort of really snitch that only a few witches and wizards that ever lived could actually do that sort of magic.

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alt_sally_anne

I like snakes. But after that lesson I'm not sure I'd want one as a familiar, they're an awful lot of work. Whereas rats are actually bred to be familiars. As long as I feed Sebastian he sticks around and keeps me company, you know?

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alt_ron

Yeah. And it'd be bad if you lived with someone who had a snake familiar. Bad for Sebastian, anywiz.

The big ones eat so much. I didn't know that. I mean, when he told us the Lord Protector's snake could eat a Centaur if it wanted to bother, that's just

that means it could eat a wizard if it wanted to.

And that's

yeah

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alt_pansy

...eww.

Totally not helping me think happy thoughts, Ron.

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alt_pansy

I am going to gain a stone if I have to keep eating chocolate at the rate I've been going through it.

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alt_sally_anne

Nagini -- the Lord Protector's snake -- is ENORMOUS. Or so I've heard from Harry.

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alt_sally_anne

Although the spells you can only cast when you have a snake wrapped around your wand arm are DEAD NIFT.

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alt_pansy

But I don't think I'd ever be able to do what I'd need to. Against a boggart, I mean. I was pretty awful at it.

So I guess I should just hope I never run into one ever again. Or if I do, it's with you, so you can just make it into a legless spider.

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alt_ron

What was yours, anyway.

I mean, if you don't want to say, you don't have to, but

It was really horrible, then?

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alt_ron

I mean, I've been thinking about it

boggarts, I mean.

And I think there are sort of two different kinds. There're ones that are really scary--stuff like, y'know, GIANT HAIRY HORRIBLE SPIDERS

er

or mummies or skeletons or evil clowns or manticores, y'know--

and then there're boggarts that are really so horrible the person can't make them funny no matter what they try--like your dead baby brother or yourself gone mad or someone you really like who turns around and they're all of a sudden a vampire or have their eyes gouged out or something else horrible you'd never expect. Those kind of boggarts aren't just dead scary, they make people really sad. Like Parvati. I keep thinking about how she looked

and how she sounded

it was really horrible

I think she had to go to Madam Pomfrey's afterwards.

So, yeah.

I guess yours was one of the second kind?

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alt_sally_anne

Yes. Hers was one of the second kind.

I'd say Bundy's was too, actually. Did she come up with anything?

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alt_ron

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, she did!

She made the Prefect badge open up and poke her cousin and she exploded like a giant balloon and went flying around with the air swooshing out of her.

Everyone laughed.

I don't think anyone likes Gemma Bundy very much. I mean, she is kind of a witch, innit?

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alt_sally_anne

So I actually kind of think you should know what Pansy's was. She doesn't want to talk about it anymore but I don't think she minds you knowing.

It was a dead girl who looked just like her, saying 'it was all your fault' over and over again.

She didn't even try to cast the spell, just stood there until Professor Lestrange got Vince out in front of her.

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alt_ron

Cor--

No wonder she doesn't want to talk about it. So it's about Regulus Black again. That's bad.

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alt_pansy

I couldn't make it funny. Because there is nothing funny about it. At all. Ever.

Ugh.

I just don't want to think about it any more.

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alt_ron

I'm sorry.

We'll think up other things to think about, yeah? Fisheye.

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alt_ron

Too bad you missed out. I mean, I reckon we know what it would've been for you--and I'd've liked to see you Riddikulus him.

From:

alt_sally_anne

Did you see what Carrow's saying in his journal? About plucking peacock chicks?

THAT'S him talking about Draco. Do you have any idea what he'd do to Neville for making him ridiculous?

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alt_terry

Maybe you missed it, but Neville told me his boggart isn't Master.

Blimey, if it's something that scares him more than Master, he must be terrified of it. Don't blame him for skipping the lesson.

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alt_neville

That's--

It's--

Look, that's not why I skipped it.

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alt_terry

Oh?

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alt_neville

It's that I can't let other people see it.

That would be a disaster.

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alt_pansy

He's been calming down and I might actually have gotten through a bit with him about how serious all this is. I know you're still rubbed raw, but could you back off for just a little and give him some room?

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alt_sally_anne

~~I wasn't~~

~~I didn't mean~~

Fine.

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alt_pansy

I mean, point taken, totally.

But he won't listen if he thinks it's just you being critical.

Which is silly, because everything you've said about what he's done or might do has been perfectly reasonable, but this is Ron we're talking about. You know?

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alt_sally_anne

All I was trying to say REALLY was that it was a good idea that Neville didn't go, if his boggart would've turned into Carrow and he'd made him funny, because of how angry Carrow was at Draco and he ALREADY hates Neville.

I wasn't trying to

Oh never mind.

Neville says Carrow isn't his boggart, anyway. He'd see something else. I bet it's someone he's not supposed to have ever seen, where it would be suspicious if they turned up. Though he could always say he'd seen pictures.

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alt_pansy

Oh! I hadn't thought of that. Like his mum and dad, you mean?

Do you really think he's seen them before?

Huh.

And I know you weren't, it's just you never know what he'll get stroppy about sometimes, and I'd just got him un-stroppy. But he seems fine so it's probably just me over-thinking everything.

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alt_sally_anne

The first thing that occurred to me is that his boggart would be his mum dying -- he's supposed to WANT that, not fear it, so.

Especially in front of Professor Lestrange, that would be bad. Even if he only knows his mum from the wanted posters.

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alt_pansy

Well, that would get him into trouble, I guess.

And even if he'd only ever seen her in wanted posters, people might think otherwise.

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alt_alice

Poppy, what's happened? Is Neville all right? Was he hexed?

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alt_poppy

No, not a hex.

I'd wager it wasn't entirely natural, either, but that's just a hunch based on how entirely unperturbed he seemed for someone violently vomiting up the contents of his gut. And that not long after what I would judge to have been an extraordinarily large breakfast.

Whatever it was has passed, however, and I'm merely keeping him to observe that all is truly well.

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alt_alice

Goodness.

Please do.

Thank you, Poppy.

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alt_poppy

He's fine, Alice. I let him have supper here and waited until he'd had a chance to digest it.

Whatever it was seems to have left his system.

I offered to let him sleep here, but he said he'd rather go back to his dormitory.

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