Year 3: Chapter 23

Ddraig looked around the room; he liked this class although he knew he shouldn't favour them. Defence Against the Darks Art was a small class, as it was so important it had always been small. This class was with the Gryffindors, which numbered in nine, and ten Hufflepuff students.

He saw the way they had seated themselves; Branwen sat with Amanda and Lily in the front row, with Alice and Ginny right behind them. Then there were the Hufflepuffs taking up the rows until the very last one, which the four Gryffindor boys had taken. Sirius had pulled a chair from the row in front and sat with his friends.

Looking at his watch it was now nine o'clock so clearing his throat he called for silence. Within seconds everything was silent.

"Morning everyone I'm glad you all made it up in time for the lesson after last nights excitement. Today we will be learning about Boggarts. Now I have one in this cupboard by here and what we'll do is we'll all come up here and we'll see what our fears are and then come up with a way to make it funny."

He looked down at the register in front of him, wondering who he should start with. Looking up at them all again he decided to ask.

"Okay which house should go first, maybe we should have our brave Gryffindors?"

Funnily, they all looked down at the desks in front of them but he did catch the eye of one of the Hufflepuff boys named Jacob Jones. He pointed towards the cupboard smiling.

"Jacob why don't you come up first then since our Gryffindors are too afraid."

He made his way up as the cupboard began to shake. Ddraig gave him a nod and then suddenly right in front of the boy sat a monkey itching its head seconds before taking a step towards him. He quickly ran to his seat as the next Hufflepuff by the name of Robert Taylor took his place and where the monkey had once sat was now a Hag.

When Philip Lewis went up a bright face clown smiled down at everyone and then with Paul Pullman a Bludger flew through the room trying to attack him and with the last of the Hufflepuff boys Charles Melville, a thundercloud appeared.

When they all sat back down they discussed the best way to make these fears funny, they ended with the Monkey losing its tail and running in circles, the Hag's robes turning yellow with pink spots. The clown fell over its laces and ended up on its stomach the Bludger turned pink while the thundercloud released chocolate frogs.

Tabby Weather was the next to step forward and with her came a Banshee she was followed by Cassie Miles who screamed when a dragon locked eyes with her. Then the twins stepped forward Cat Shaw found herself facing a spider while Kim had a centipede last up was Justina Shore who was surrounded by fire.

Again they discussed what was best to make them funny and the Banshee ended with a mouthful of toffee, the dragon blew bubbles and the spider lost its legs. Then the centipede ended with a hundred pairs of shoes and the fire turned to ice.

"Branwen come on, you can be the first Gryffindor to face the Boggart."

She moved forward and came face to face with her worst fear, standing before her was a large grey wolf without waiting to have the class discussion she thought fast and laughed when its teeth turned into chocolate fangs.

Alice quickly followed her up and screamed slightly when she saw bees, but like with Branwen in seconds it had changed so that the points on the bees fell off.

Ginny smiled as she stood up and looked around, she held her breath as she looked at her greatest fear in the flesh, she held her breath as she saw a horse raise up in front of her then closing her eyes she thought hard and then she opened them and smiled as a rocking horse took its place.

Lily was next up and as she looked up into the emerald eyes streaked with grey of Dame Martina, just like that day nearly two years ago her cream hair was tied in a ponytail on top of her hair and her hawk eyes stared down her pointy nose at her.

Taking a deep breath Lily thought hard and the woman's eyes went crossed and her nose grew about three inches, she smiled happily and turned to look at Ddraig.

"Aww Dame Martina, yes very scary, good choice Lily."

Amanda stood and looked as the women changed shape she grew five inches and her nose shortened. The eyes became very dark and within seconds she was looking into her father's face. She knew she had paled as she took a step backwards.

She heard the insults that he was yelling, calling her a disgrace; she was sure she heard him say she was easy and before she knew it small tears were in her eyes. Clinching her fists she turned her head towards Ginny who was mouthing the word dress.

A sly smile spread across the witches face and within seconds the Boggart that had shaped itself like her father wore a frilly pink nightdress and from all around the room laughter rang. Ddraig quickly put it back in the cupboard as she took her seat.

"Very good girls, quick thinking on your parts to make your fears funny. So boys it's your turn. Come on up Mr. Potter."

James felt confident as he stepped forward, if the girls could do this he could easily. The door opened and he was faced with a woman dressed in the Healers uniform of St Mangos in her hand though she carried a five-inch needle. Without hesitation he watched as it turned into a large candy cane.

Remus clapped his mates back as he stood up. As the Boggart transformed puzzled noises were heard, a small orb like shape was in front of him that only few knew to be the full moon, he laughed lightly at it without even thinking of anything funny and it weakened.

"Okay Mr. Lupin well that works just as well, Mr. Black you next."

Sirius stepped forward and a collective gasp was heard. In front of him was Amanda, or at least it looked like Amanda. There was a sheet around her neck and it was easy to tell her feet weren't touching the ground.

He felt bile in his throat as the memory surfaced but he fought it back trying to think of something to help. Suddenly her eyes opened and she started doing some sort of summersault that made Sirius laugh.

Ddraig looked worried at this one and soon called to Sirius.

"Alright Mr. Black please take your seat and Mr. Pettigrew come up here please."

Peter walked up and Boggart Amanda turned to look like the professor himself. From around him there were mutters as he turned bright red. He didn't know what to do and then just looked at his professor.

At that moment the bell sounded and he sighed with relief as everybody started to get up. Ddraig moved the Boggart back into the cupboard and called out to the class.

"Five points to everyone for such good work. Read up on the Boggart for the next lesson. Dismissed."

Before Peter could move he felt a hand on his shoulder and a low voice sounded in his ear.

"You have no need to be scared of me unless you hurt my Caried."

Little did Peter know those words would one day come back to haunt him.

First of all I'd like to apologise for the long time without posting but I have been really busy, but on the bright side I finished my exams yesterday which means I'll have a bit more time to post but I start back at University on Monday so if there isn't much post its because of the workload.

Annie yes dating is now becoming a big thing but when you're around this age dating is a big thing everybody seems to be doing it, and the girls are no different and the boys will soon be making their mark as well. I must say I like Ginny but Alice is actually growing on me at the moment, but I think Amanda is still my favourite, but her impact comes later on.

Firewalker32 Okay yes Frank and Alice are now together, it is going to be rocky but I think they might be my stable couple later on once things are on track, but I like them and we know they'll end up together because of Neville, but its fun knowing the end its just trying to get the story to get there. Joseph though, well he's tough he was only suppose to be in the Quidditch tryouts and then he became Franks best mate, and now I have plans for him up to the end of the story so he's now a main one, where as some people who I thought were going to be main ones (Andi, Lucius and Snape) have kinda drifted to the back.

Lily Nicole Potter My exams are well and truly over and I think I only failed one of them so overall they went really well. I've never seen the OC I don't know why it looks good but I couldn't be bothered to watch it, I think I saw maybe twenty minutes but then I gave up. I must say I love Buffy I had the complete collection on DVD for Christmas and I'm already onto the last three episodes of season two, which is good with all the work and exams I've had. I like the different point of views because it lets you see what is happening to each person and it will happen again later on as well, I can promise you that.

Taylin well I did email you I'm not sure if you got it though. I've been really busy with exams so I haven't had time to do anything with any of my stories and I've tried emailing them before and I always forget that I'm suppose to be sending them to people, so my advice is to look under my author page I have another twenty stories uploaded and most are one shots or short stories there are only a few other main ones. And I'm still posting on Choices and Just Old Friends if you want to read them. I hope you will understand that it is hard for me to email you the stories because of the lack of time I have

Okay with that said I have some bad news for you all. Annie (who is the first person I've replied to on here) is my lovely beta. Well Annie's parents have decided its time for a family holiday. Now she's not back until next week, I think, no sorry it's the week after next. Well she's not back till February.

Well the problem is that this is the last chapter of this story she has beta read. So the story is now again on hold until she returns, I'm sorry for this but its summer over in Australia so we must let her have her holidays since we will want ours in our summer.

But if you're at a lost of what to read maybe you could try to read another one of my stories. If you like the MWPP era then take a look at Choices it's another MWPP story but telling it through choices instead of in this style.

Well have a good week and there will be more in February

Kristina