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Hermione led Kaneki to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom and found Ron and Harry standing just inside the doorway. The room looked different from the night before. The desks and chairs were cleared out and at the front of the classroom there was a large wardrobe.
After all of the students arrived, Professor Lupin came down from his office and stood before the students.
"Intriguing, isn't it? Would anyone like to take a guess as to what is inside?" the Professor said.
"That's a boggart that is," a boy in the back said.
"Yes, that's very true. Now can anyone tell me what a boggart looks like?"
"No one knows," Hermione started, "Boggarts are shape shifters. They take the shape of whatever a particular person fears most. That's what makes them so-"
"So terrifying," Lupin finished, "Luckily a simple spell exists to repel a boggart and we are going to be practicing that today.
Kaneki was not sure why he was placed in this class. They were obviously going to be practicing magic and Kaneki could definitely not do that. Also, he didn't know what would appear before him if he went near the boggart. Would it be Jason? Rize? Or something worse?
The students formed a line in front of the wardrobe and Kaneki made sure to be as far back as possible. However, he could not be at the very back because some students seemed more afraid than others.
As the line was moving forward Kaneki was able to see what most of his classmates feared, snakes, some professors, spiders, and Harry feared a strange flying black figure that Kaneki had no clue what it was.
Kaneki was about five people from the front when he felt a shove that pushed him in front of the boggart. It instantly started taking shape and Kaneki found himself staring at an exact replica of himself, except this version had his eyes covered by some kind of mask and his kagune looked much different. Almost like the centipede that Jason used to torture him.
The figure moved closer and started yelling numbers at Kaneki,
"993!...986!...979!"
Before any more could happen, Professor Lupin jumped in front of the figure and it instantly changed to a full moon. Lupin performed the spell to repel it and the moon turned into a balloon and was sent back into the wardrobe.
The room was uncomfortably silent. Kaneki was frozen in place trying to comprehend what just happened.
"What the bloody hell was that?" Ron whispered to Harry. Harry just shook his head, staring at Kaneki.
Not sure what else to do, Kaneki ran from the classroom and headed to the forbidden forest to be alone.
As Kaneki was running he nearly ran into a tree. He steadied himself and looked up and saw that it wasn't a tree at all but a man of gigantic proportions. He had curly, messy brown hair, an untamed beard, and was holding some strange creature by a rope.
"Students are not permitted to be in the forest," the giant man said. Kaneki took steps back and was ready to run, but the man said something that made Kaneki stop.
"I told Dumbledore that bringing a ghoul to Hogwarts was not a good idea."
"What?" Kaneki said, puzzled.
"He thought I meant you would be dangerous, but that's not at all what it was. He doesn't understand that ghouls have emotions like humans do. That much I learned from you. I knew that this would be too much for you. And I guess I was right, seeing as you're here, running amok through the forest."
"Who are you?" So many emotions were running through Kaneki right now. He felt scared of what he saw in the classroom, alarmed at what the students were going to do, and nervous around this new, giant person.
"Oh, sorry 'bout that, my name is Rubeus Hagrid. Keeper of Keys and Grounds here at Hogwarts and this semester I am teaching Care of Magical Creatures. I'm also the one who you are to be meetin' with during your free period."
"So you're one of the ones who found me? And you want to do research on me?" Kaneki felt reluctant to tell the man everything about himself and his ghoul nature. He barely knew Kaneki. But, then again, this man already knew more about him than anyone else. Maybe he could actually become friends with this huge man.
"Yes. I'm quite excited 'bout that. Never met a ghoul like you before. Why don't we get started now so you have some time to relax before you gotta get back to the school?"
Kaneki nodded and allowed Hagrid to get some insight on how he became who he was today.
I apologize for this update being so late. I have been having trouble thinking of how I want to lead events to the ending I have imagined. So, if you have anything you would like to see happen, please feel free to leave it in a review or send me a message. I really appreciate those who have continued reading, so thank you!