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That does sound pretty horrid.

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.

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.

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?

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

...eww.

Totally not helping me think happy thoughts, Ron.

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

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

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

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.

What was yours, anyway.

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

It was really horrible, then?

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?

Yes. Hers was one of the second kind.

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

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?

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.

Cor--

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

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.

I'm sorry.

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

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