A/N: Wow, has it been forever. Forever! I would like to apologize, my life has just been terrible lately, with all the random tornadoes in Missouri (I even got out an hour early in school on Monday!), my best friend's death (R.I.P. Sammy), finals (today was my last day of school!), and babies, babies galore! My cousin's girlfriend is supposed to be induced today and—let's just say that my time from when I last updated to now was not wasted. I wrote part of this chapter when I had nothing else to do in school and now that I have no school, I'll hopefully be able to update more often, but no promises! To all of my lovely readers:

At the end of class, we all headed back to the castle for DADA. I was kind of nervous because of some unknown reason, so my heart was practically pounding out of my chest. My fingers enveloped my wand inside my robes and I casually looked behind me. I could see the Slytherins following us, Draco especially, and I rolled my eyes. Why couldn't Mad-Eye be here to turn him into a ferret?

"Why are you looking at Malfoy?" Fred asked me, apparently he and George were also in our DADA class, so he was walking right beside me.

"Oh, I was just thinking that he'd look better as a small, furry creature." He laughed and so did George, Neville, Ron, Harry, and Hermione.

"What do you think we're going to do in DADA today?" Ron asked. "Hopefully we're not facing boggarts again!" My eyes widened as I recalled what a boggart was; in the next hour, my worst fear would be revealed. I could only imagine what everyone else would say once they saw the one thing that freaked me out the most.

Fred noticed my tension. "It won't be that bad, Kristin."

"I hope not."

Once we arrived in Professor Lupin's classroom, I was almost shaking out of nervousness and I almost tripped at least a dozen times getting there, so I wasn't in the best state of mind. I saw a random box, taller than me, in the middle of the room and that was when I absolutely knew that I would probably pass out sometime during the class.

"Alright, settle down, settle down." Professor Lupin said as he walked towards the large box. "Today, we will be practicing with a creature known as a boggart once more since our last session was cut short. Please form a straight line and we'll get started right away." I tried to get to the back of the line, but, seeing my fear, Draco and his goons pushed me until I was the third one in line. Three is not one of my lucky numbers!

I honestly didn't even notice who was in front of me; I was too busy trying to think of a way to make my fear funny and it just wasn't happening.

"Come, Kristin, it's your turn. I trust you know what to do." I looked at the professor and I took a shaky deep breath. I stood in front of the boggart and it's shape turned into a large, top-heavy fungus: a giant mushroom. I screamed and tried to back as far away from it as possible.

"I can't do this! There's nothing funny about a mushroom! It's-It's, ugh! I don't understand why they exist! Please, someone so something! They're taking over, they're taking over!" I crouched on the floor in a ball. "Call the police! Call the space people and tell them to beam up their fellow citizen! Mushrooms could not have originated from Earth!"

I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Kristin, you need to calm down! The mushroom's gone now." I looked up to see Fred with a concerned look on his face. He held out a hand and I, gladly took it. After I was back on my feet, I looked around to see that everyone in the room was looking at me and the boggart was back in the box.

"Thanks, Fred." I started to breathe normally again. I could only imagine how red my face was, so I grabbed a chair and plopped myself down.

"Okay," Professor Lupin said, "we only have time for one more and Draco Malfoy was next in line, so he'll go next." The blonde Slytherin stepped in front of the box with a confident smirk on his face. He glanced at me and snorted.

"Piece of cake. I have no fears." Professor Lupin opened the box and it immediately took the shape of two people. The man with rough gray skin, two slits for a nose, and wide horizontal eyes. I gasped because not only was it Voldemort (how Draco knows what the evil man will look like once he comes back, I'll never know), but the he was standing over the other person and directing the killing curse at them. The part that shocked me was that the person was me.