FEAR
Laughing slightly, Proffessor Limpett started to pass out books titled, A Defense Against The Dark Arts Year Three. When James got his book he read the title calculatingly then raised his hand.
"Yes mister Potter?" he asked, giving James a look that said plainly,they don't pay me enough for this,"Sir? This is a third years book."James said looking at the teacher with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes it is mister Potter.Would you please read aloud what I have written on the black-board for us?" he asked, rolling his eyes. James stood up and looked at the board. It read...
TODAY WE WILL BE USING THIRD YEARS BOOKS DUE TO THE INTERUPTION IN THE FOURTH TERM OF LAST YEAR WHICH PREVENTED YOUR YEAR FROM LEARNING ABOUT A FEW TOPICS OF MUCH IMPORTANCE, WHICH ARE THE FOLLOWING...
x BOGGARTS
x VAMPIRES
x WEREWOLVES
& DEFENSE AGAINST...
x JAMES POTTER'S, AND SIRIUS BLACK'S PRANKS
James laughed along with everyone else than did a few mock bows while Sirius said,"We do try Proffessor." Not finding it amusing at all, Lily grabbed James's shirt sleeve and yanked it down, intending for him to sit down and shut up. But apparantly she had yanked a little too hard because instead of landing in his chair he tripped over the leg of his chair and fell on her desk with an audible,"Oomph". All of the Slytherins "oooohed" and cackled without mercy. Some of them even went as far as whistling and hooting.
Lily just stared at him not knowing what to do. All she wanted was to eventually learn something in this lesson. And he falls on her desk.
James' glasses had fallen off one ear and were sliding down his face, "Ow." he thought, he had the wind knocked out of him. Still in shock that a girl could be that strong he straightened his glasses. He looked up slowly through intense, hazel eyes that were really wide, looking like his fate was being decided and he was loosing.
Lucky for Lily, Stephanie saved her from oncoming doom,"Proffessor."she called,"I'd say it looks like we only need to cover three things in this class, and those are boggarts, werewolves, and vampires. See? We can handle them." She jerked her head towards Sirius, who shrugged modestly. Everybody laughed as James quickly pushed himself off her desk coughing a little, even so, he couldn't help looking at Lily's face as he did so. What he saw there made him feel like he wanted to disapear, Lily was laughing at him, not because of something he'd said but for him embarrassing himself in front of everyone. He had never laughed at her, even when she had come up with some incredibly foolish reson not to be in the same room as him,"This,"he tought, " is the the worst day of my life." He turned back in his seat and looked at the floor, ears burning. Sirius gave him a concerned look but he was too embarrassed to meet his eyes.He was too embarrassed to do anything but disapear.
Proffessor Limpett stood up and said,"Alright now enough playing around, everyone.Please follow me. Oh, and if you would be so kind as to leave your books here, I think it would make things a lot easier for you." Everyone slowly got out of their seats, still talking about what happened. Remus and Peter immediatly made their way to towards James and Sirius. "Hey guys long time, no see." said Remus, looking happier than he had all summer. They all talked about their summers, or at least Remus and Peter did, Sirius was busy scheming up new pranks. And James didn't say much really, but the others just figured he was staring at Lily again.
Proffessor Limpet led them through a stone corridor cluttered with portraits of all shapes and sizes, and stopped them at a blank wall. The students buzzed expectantly but he just stood there, with his eyes closed muttering to himself. This went on for so long that Laura went right up to him and asked if he needed to go to the Hospital Wing.
Suddenly, a few Slytherins that were standing near the front of the line gasped as there was a large thud and a door apeared where he was pacing. "Sorry about that, they have put a few charms on it to make sure only teachers can use it." he said as if this explained everything. When he saw that none of them had followed him through, he sighed and said," Well I'm not going to teach you out there, come on in."
Inside was a fairly large room that had a slight slant to the floor and was pretty dark, considering the fact that it's windows were boarded up. Katie screamed as the floor pitched dangerously sideways, sending them all tumbling deep within the room. James soon found out( he had gotten knocked over by a large flood of students) that the floor was indeed wooden and had quite a lot of wood shavings on it.
"Uh...Proffessor?"Peter said as the floor rocked again, causing him to trip backwards over James,"Where are we?Oomph!"
"We are, young Peter, in the Room Of Requirement. I simply envisioned my lab at home, since this is where I think it's most suitable for our lesson this morning." he answered as the floor rocked again, "I see that you aren't used to being at sea.Yes miss Parkinson I do live at sea." he said smartly to a Slytherin girl who looked disgusted and unbelieving, "But that is not why I brought you here today.Today, we shall be dealing with a boggart. Can anyone tell me what a boggart is? Oh, don't just stand there have a seat." he said with a flick of his wand. The class looked about them and noticed that chairs had appeared out of nowhere, and that they had been nailed to the floor. The maraudarers all sat together in big, comfy armchairs. Lily and her friends seated themselves right next to them." Oh, and I suppose that we'll be needing some light, and tables, pity I couldn't remember the furniture." he said in a very bussiness like manner as he swished his wand all around the room. All types of jars containing fire of all colors and sizes( it depended on the jar I suppose) littered the dusty floor. Bookshelves lined the walls, and tables appeared in the midst ofeach group of students." Alright now, will someone tell me, what is a boggart?" he asked again as he floated a cupboard towards the center of the room,that had been in the far corner all along.
"Nobody really knows what a boggart looks like, it just turns into his or her worst fear." said a Slytherin that looked very pleased with himself.
"Correct mister Malfoy."said the Proffessor," And does anyone know how to defeat a boggart?Anyone?"he said looking around the rocking room.
"Laughter is what disarms a boggart." said Remus, while trying not to fall out of his seat as the floor pitched forward at a frightening degree,"You just imagine your worst fear into a state of being that you find FUNNY." he screamed the last part as he failed and was thrown off his chair onto the wildly swaying floor.
" Good, good. You simply imagine it in your mind then, clearly very clearly, state a spell. This particular spell is called Ridikulus.Everyone got that?"he said looking around the room with a stern expression on his withered face,"Ok good. I'll let you all have a go, and don't worry if you can't do it at first, I won't let you get hurt."he stated this with such a serious expression on his face that a similar thought ran through everyone's heads, Just how dangerous is this thing?.
"Alright, may I have a volunteer, come now don't be shy."said Mr.Limpett. A greasy haired Slytherin with a long hooked nose hid his wand under his desk and stated a brief incantation.
Peter's arm slowly began to rise, without him noticing. Mr. Limpett was turned around and making a chalkboard apear on the far side of the bucking room. He turned around when someone began squealing, with what he thought was excitment. Peter's arm was raised politely, but he was looking at it as if it would slap him." Way to go Wormtail." whispered Remus under his breath as he patted him on the the back, proudly.
"But...I'm n-not d-d-doing-" he started to stammer, shaking his head with humongous, glassyeyes on his small face.
"Miss Lily, excellant, could you please come up here." he said not noticing Peter's hand, and picking on Lily who was smiling sweetly. Lily got up and glared at Snape as she passed and Peter's arm fell on the desk with a loud thud. He whimpered in pain under his breath while Sirius gave him a look that said, you can't win all the time buddy.
"Alright now what do you fear most, Lily?" he asked so casually that it implied, Don't worry,I do this all the time.
" I don't really know sir." she said looking a little nervous. She looked over her shoulder, and Laura gave her the thumbs up and smiled.
"Ah, well then we'll just have to find out, won't we?" he said with a laugh, " Now, when I count to three I'm going to open the door and the boggart will come out, remember everything I told you, and please think up something very humorous.I could do with a good laugh." They both turned to face the cupboard while lightning flashed outside and the floor pitched backwards. They both held their ground and didn't fall."One..."he said looking expectantly at Lily,"Two..." he raised his wand to eye level, "Three!" the doorknob tuned slowly as he stepped back. The light flickered so suddenly a few people gasped. The door creaked open slowly and then burst openthe rest of the way, with a bang. Curiously, there was nothing inside but another door. It was a torn up door with some planks missing entirely revealing blackness on the other side.
James was watching intently with bated breath. But before the door could open Lily pointed her wand, evenly at the door within the door and said clearly, Ridikulus!" The door all of a sudden became painted a cheery green and had a large, red Christmas reef on it. She whirled around smiling as everyone clapped and complimented her. She started walking to her seat when the floor lurched backwards and she started to fall, but landed on James, who's forehead hit her's with a crack. His breath hissed out painfully, and he looked at her but all he could say was,"Oww..."
She looked down slowly. She had just knee'd him in the stomach! She quickly got off of him as everyone started laughing again. She went back to her seat laughing, it was sort of funny, and plus everyone was smiling at her not making fun of her.
"Ok, I'll just call names then...uh,ok Severes Snape come up here please." The slimy haired Slytherin came up and stood motionless in front of the cupboard. His eyes flickered nervously from the floor to the cupboard's door. The door slowly openedand out stepped a large black dog, who was drooling white foam and was snarling ferociously. It was about to leap upon him, but Severes whipped outhis wand while stating clearly," Ridikulus." the dog suddenly had all of it's fur shaven off and was reduced to a tiny, frail looking dog that began to whine. Smirking he slouched off to his seat.
"Way to go Snape." a few of the Slytherins cackled and patted him on the back, proudly.
"Sirius Black." the Proffessor called as he bent over his clipboard, studying the names.
A little surprised, Sirius got up and walked slowly to the cupboard( the floor was rocking back and forth, side to side)All of a sudden the floor lurched forward and he was thrown onto the cupboard's closed door. Unfortunately, this was the moment the boggart decided to open the door. So he hit the door with a SMACK! and fell to the floor with a CRASH! While was still lying on the floor a man stepped out of the door, looking furious. His steely, gray eyes fell on Sirius' face and, if possible, his face took on even more rage than before.
The class was silent as thunder boomed causing dust to fall from the ceiling.
Sirius raised his wand, pale faced but said nothing. The man slowly approached the fallen figure and reached into his pocket and pulled out a black wand. Then Sirius raised his shaking hand and muttered, "Ridikulus." The floor tipped forward and Sirius slid forward, under the tall man's feet, causing him to fall on his face. The man disapeared, and Sirius got up and limped over to his seat not noticing the laughing class, and the compliments being thrown his way.
Lily frowned, who was that dark man? And why was he so scary? She looked over at Sirius, he was pale and shaking a little, she touched his arm and lifted it when he jumped and turned to face her. He looked around, fear in his eyes, but when he saw Lily he blushed. Last thing he needed was people thinking he was weak. She looked at him and said kindly, "Are you alright? You have goose-bumps?"
James who was sitting next to Sirius finally spoke," Yeah, who was that?" heasked looking curious." I'm fine, it's just my leg, it hurts a lot." he said a little too quickly,"And he was...I don't know the guy!" he said looking annoyed, "It's not like I'm really scared or anything." he said wincing as he sethis footdown, gingerly,on the dusty floor.
" Will someone take Sirius up to the hospital wing, please? Uh miss Lily, Snape you two have already gone, can one of you please do it? Lily, very good. Thank you for volunteering, five points to Grffindor." he said looking at Snape reprovingly.
Remus helped Sirius out of his chair looking worriedly at his leg," What?" said Sirius catching his gaze. But he just frowned and shook his head looking confused. " Seeya guys." said Sirius to the group. Peter waved while Remus just sat down, thinking. James was looking at Lily like he was going to say something, then thought better of it and turned around in his seat.