Oi, Gryffindors!

[alt_ron]

Thomas, Finnigan, Longbottom and I've just had a bit of a go-round upstairs with a Boggart.

It's gone now, though, so if any of you ran into it earlier, you don't have to worry you'll ever see it again, yeah? It went up in a giant puff of smoke and cream filling.

You can all thank Neville Riddikulus Longbottom for that!

(And the rest of you can stop taking the mickey out of people who've had a nasty scare. I'm looking at you, McLaggen. And some of the rest of you, too. It's no laugh meeting a Boggart. Well, unless you've got Nev there to blow it to bits for you.)

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[alt_luna]

'Cream filling'?

[alt_neville]

I threw a cream pie at it. And laughed a lot.

[alt_evelyn]

Well done!

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[alt_evelyn]

A boggart, Pete?

What was it?

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[alt_neville]

For me, it was...it was Dad. Chained in the treason chair they have at the Ministry court room. So he was captured, and going to die, or get sucked out by a Dementor, and I somehow knew it was all my fault.

I was afraid that Seamus or Dean would recognise his face from the Wanted posters, and I couldn't have that. So, well, all I could think of to cover the face quickly was to conjure a cream pie and throw it in his face.

It worked, luckily enough. I mean, when I threw the pie and yelled 'Riddikulus' I killed it; it blew up.

We had cream pie gunk all over the room before we vanished it.

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[alt_evelyn]

That was quick thinking.

Good.

And it couldn't say anything that way either.

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[alt_evelyn]

I bet it was hard seeing dad like that, though.

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[alt_neville]

It was horrible.

But yeah, I'm pretty pleased with the way I dealt with it. Probably the best of all of us.

Seamus is a wreck. He saw it as his Mum, turned into an Inferi.

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[alt_evelyn]

Oh.

That is awful.

Poor Seamus.

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[alt_evelyn]

And I know it's something you're afraid of.

But I also know with all my heart that you'd never get dad in trouble like that.

I know you. And you're too stubborn and brave and strong to ever let that sort of thing happen. You'd rather die.

[alt_ron]

Turns out that's an excellent weapon against a Boggart. Who'd've guessed?

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[alt_ginny]

A BOGGART?!? That must have been Hazel's werewolf -- but we CHECKED, I swear, we looked in the loo and turned all the lights on and we didn't find ANYTHING, the only thing that made sense was that she'd dreamed it!

Now I feel like an utter berk. Poor Hazel.

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[alt_ron]

They're slippery, y'know. I bet it was long gone from that loo by the time you got there.

[alt_sally_anne]

You lot had a boggart get in? That's a rather nasty surprise for a Saturday evening.

[alt_ron]

Er.

Yeah. It was.

Listen. Did you figure out what Acton wants on that homework essay? I was thinking of starting it, but I can't make sense of the assignment.

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[alt_sally_anne]

What, was your boggart a wrackspurt? It's a comparison of two ways to put out fires. So, Aguamenti, or a fire-suppression charm, which would you use if your house was burning down?

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[alt_ron]

Oh. I must've just misread it. My handwriting, y'know.

Cheers.

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[alt_sally_anne]

I guess all that practice paid off, Nev! Good on you.

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[alt_ron]

He was dead brilliant.

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[alt_neville]

Thanks.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Are you all okay? I saw Neville wrote to Madam P.

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[alt_ron]

Oh. Well, Finnigan came apart six ways from Tuesday when it popped out at him. We sent him off to Madam P because he was... not himself.

It was awful, his Boggart. Think it was his Mum, and she was dead, but she had a knife and she was all over blood, and she was handing it to him. The knife, I mean. Just... really.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Merlin.

Did you -- I mean, do you think Finnigan realises the rest of you guessed it was his mum? Probably not, since he didn't -- you don't 'officially' know what happened to her. Or even that she's dead.

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[alt_ron]

I'm not sure he was worried about us seeing her. He was so... He looked like he was pissing himself, honestly. And he was white as a sheet. And after, he was just shaking. Really hard.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah

I think I would be too if I were him

That's awful.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Did the rest of you -- I mean, at least you knew it was a boggart, I guess? You faced them in third year Defence, so you knew what to expect.

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[alt_ron]

Honestly, I don't know what I thought when I saw it. I mean it was just there. All of a sudden. This horrible bloody thing.

But then Seamus was backing up and kind of ran into the corner of his trunk, and Dean went to catch him, and it changed.

That's when I knew. I mean, that was horrible, too. The hand came off and dropped on the floor and started, like, shuffling towards Dean. Can hands shuffle? Whatever. That's what it did. No. It scuttled. That's it. And Dean started backwards right quickly, so I jumped in and tried to banish it.

Only I couldn't.

So Nev did it.

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[alt_sally_anne]

It turned into a hand?

That's not as bad but it's still incredibly creepy.

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[alt_sally_anne]

What did it turn into when you faced it?

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[alt_sally_anne]

I mean you don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

It's a really personal question.

But if it was still a giant spider you'd have

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[alt_ron]

Yeah.

I was rubbing my luck charm, but I figured you were going to ask. Eventually.

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[alt_ron]

Only, I think you'll... be upset, I guess.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Why would I --

I guess I can't think of anything you'd be afraid of that would make me cross? Or do you not mean that kind of upset?

It's not me or Pansy betraying the Order, is it? Only I don't know how a boggart would turn into that.

Or, wait. Something with Daph

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[alt_ron]

It's you, yeah.

But using your ring, y'know?

And the poison...

Cause you would do. If you thought you had to. And

Ugh.

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[alt_ron]

Sorry.

I shouldn't have said.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Oh.

Yeah.

I can see that.

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[alt_ron]

Argh.

And now that's going to make the dreams come back, isn't it?


That was so stupid of me.

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[alt_sally_anne]

I'm not upset.

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[alt_sally_anne]

You know I wouldn't unless I had to, right?

Any more than you would.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Do you want to sneak out and meet?

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[alt_ron]

YES.

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[alt_ron]

Say you're going to the Hospital Wing if anyone stops you.

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[alt_sally_anne]

Okay. Same place as last time, I'll see you soon.