During the next Defence association meeting, Professor Lupin and Sirius (For some reason, Sirius didn't want anyone calling him anything but by his first name only.) gave a demonstration on how to take on a boggart, and then they gave a demonstration on how to cast a Patronus.
While some of the younger kids lined up to take turns with the boggart, everyone else started trying to cast a Patronus.
Jane tried to think of a happy memory. The first one she thought of was meeting Mrs. Snake, which also reminded her of Mrs. Snake being dead, and of her mother freaking out. She tried to think of another one, meeting Neville This one seemed much better.
"Exspecto Patronum," she whispered, in parseltongue.
Light came out of her wand, and her Patronus formed into the shape of a python.
"Mrs. Snake," she exclaimed! She then turned to look toward Neville, who was looking toward her.
"My Patronus was a python," Neville said. "It makes sense for you, but I didn't expect mine to be."
"That's pretty neat, though," Jane said.
Neville looked even more shocked now.
"What?" Jane asked.
"You just spoke English!" Neville exclaimed, rather loudly.
Several people stopped what they were doing, and looked toward them. Most, possibly all of the Defense Association seemed to know about the parseltongue situation by now. She still would rather they did not stare at her, though.
"What are you looking at?" Neville said.