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Later in the day back at the common room Heidi thought about best to punish Draco and decided that embarrassing him in front of the whole house would be the best way to do it. "Professor Snape please see if we have any boggarts in the school presently. I wish for Mr Malfoy to face his own boggart in front of the whole house. We shall see how brave he is then" she snapped as he paled slightly.
"Actually we have but I have been reliably informed that Headmaster Dumbledore has asked Professor Lupin to use it with the first years tomorrow as you all lessons with him then. I shall still retrieve it however as Mr Malfoy deserves to be punished!" he said as she bristled. What the fuck was Dumbledore playing at? Was he looking to terrify the whole of the first years? More than likely the Slytherins would have fears way worse than the other houses would but then again that was likely what he was hoping for.
"Actually I change my mind. Bring the boggart here and I want the entire house to face it tonight. It can be back before he needs it and we can just make Mr Malfoy go first. After all he is so outspoken I'm sure he will be delighted to go first!" she said as he giggled slightly at getting one over on Lupin. If anyone asked they would be saying there was one lurking in a dark corner of the common room which they all faced as it was there. As Severus had been the one to initially find the thing in the first place it would fit anyway. Besides which no one would know if they didn't tell them. He came back enlarging a wardrobe which started wriggling around as everyone gasped.
"Attention everyone. This here is a boggart and it shows us our greatest fear. The counter curse is Ridikulus. Humour is the thing which conquers our fears the most. We shall all be facing this now and we shall not be telling anyone we are facing it either outside these walls. Mr Draco Malfoy shall be going first considering he just can't take orders seriously. I realise mummy and daddy never told you no but that ends here and now. You have two choices. Choice one you continue as you are and leave this house in disgrace or choice two you apologise, do as you are told to do and remain here that choice is yours. Choose wisely!" Heidi snapped as he rounded her looking furious before deflating when he saw how serious the whole house was. This was one battle he wouldn't be winning. Why was school so damn hard? Usually at home when he sulked or complained his parents gave into him but that wasn't working here at all. Everyone seemed to become more annoyed the more he tried to whine or sulk. He approached the wardrobe as it opened and the boggart took the form of his father stepping out and looking at him in anger.
Draconis you have failed me for the last time. I have no choice but to your magic from you and marry you off to a muggle woman of ill repute. You disgust me. You have abandoned the name of Malfoy and ruined my life you insolent swine. You are nothing but an embarrassment to me. You have been since you were born and now I get to finally get rid of you. I may actually die of happiness without you ruining my life!
A horrified Draco who had tears spilling from his eyes managed to shriek out a firm Ridikulus somehow as Lucius turned into a pauper looking man who had filthy hair and had shit his pants several times over. He actually looked triumphant at that and Heidi realised he'd suffered enough for now. He looked truly mortified especially if the pee leaking down his leg was anything to go by. Snape waved his wand cleaning Draco up and vanishing the pee. Suffice it to say he was thoroughly traumatised over this and it would be quite the while before he ever actually did anything wrong despite what he said but that was just his pride lashing out.
"Do you now understand why you must do as you are told and shut up?" she asked him firmly without shouting at him as he nodded yes.
"Yes fine you win! I don't like it and I do still feel that those in other houses are below me because I was raised like that. I can't change my opinion that fast you know. This is so difficult for me!" he protested mildly as she approached the boggart next all eyes on her. It emerged as the dementor which she quickly dismissed its robes turning neon pink and attempting to strangle it which in fairness made many people laugh. On and one it went the students each tackling the boggart. As she had guessed some had truly harrowing fears such as rape or being forced to become a death eater whilst under the imperious. Those things were very hard indeed to see but at least they could say that had gotten through it. They did feel better afterwards.
It was a highly subdued humbled Slytherin who came to dinner that night. Quite frankly they all looked a bit scarred. Dumbledore wondered what in the hell had happened but delighted in seeing Heidi looking the same way a huge genuine smile appearing on his face. She'd be asking him for a resorting soon no doubt. Tomorrow's class on boggarts with Remus would be the straw that broke the camel's back and he'd be only too happy to grant her a resorting. Heidi saw him smiling at her and resisted the urge to curse the old goat right there. Now was seriously not the time for his games. He was further stunned when many of the older Slytherins glared at him. If looks could kill he'd be dead. The Slytherin Prefects decided to help out the other houses by claiming to have overheard their head of house telling someone they couldn't see about the boggart for the lesson with the first years.
The Gryffindor prefects outright refused to believe them. The Ravenclaw prefects said they would warn their house and the Hufflepuff prefects said they'd simply wait and see instead of outright refusing to believe them. The Gryffindors in particular were very furious that the prefects of Slytherin would ever even try and tell them something none more so then Percy Weasley who thought it was a very clever plan to try and trick them. Well he wasn't falling for it and neither would his fellow lions be falling for it. He'd regret that tomorrow when he learned what happened during their DADA class. What he did now was up to him and indeed on him. It was his own fault for always thinking he knew best and the first years would needlessly suffer for his actions. The Weasley twins had heard about it though and thoroughly researched them on their own just to be sure. They didn't trust Percy and weren't willing to put their fate in his hands thank you very much. Ron had told them all about the house being redesigned earlier that day and Percy was relieved. He might have a sensible looking room now.
Minerva eyed the Slytherins in fear. Whatever the hell had happened to them had clearly shaken the snakes and that was saying something as they usually always looked so well put together and collected. I mean they all looked disturbed to say the least and what's more Dumbledore seemed genuinely thrilled about something although she doubted it had anything to do with the Slytherins and how they felt but somehow it still felt unwarranted and a bit rude. Then she looked further down the table at Severus who looked equally thrilled and frowned at him. What in the hell had made him that happy? She glanced at Remus quickly to check if he was alright stunned as it looked like nothing was physically wrong with the man. Maybe Severus had gotten a new Potioneers Digest which had made his day or something. That did happen from time to time. Hermione was confused why did Slytherin house look like the house that had gotten in trouble when that pig Ronald Weasley had been the one to be an idiot to her? Shouldn't Hufflepuff have been the angry or out of it looking house. In fact the more she looked at them the more freaked out they seemed to be. Something had obviously scared them and she was happy it wasn't her who had been scared. How unbearable that would be. She would regret that thought tomorrow though. Remus was about to see the ire of the other houses in full play and the casual nonchalance of Slytherin house. He would be furious. What a day it would be.