Vera wasn't all that looking forward to potentially making a fool of herself in yet another one of her favorite Professor's lessons, but she also really really did not want to face a Boggart. Especially not a Boggart with current Professor Khanna instead of the usual kind, encouraging soul she was used to encountering with them. And as they were released to think about what their fears would be, she was left pretty blank.

Not because she didn't know what her fears were... she was more self aware than she generally led people to believe. But she didn't know HOW her fears would manifest into a Boggart so then she also didn't know how she could picture that... thing and turn it into something funnier - less scary. She wished for a brief moment she was scared of snakes instead of such a big fan - at least that would be easy to KNOW. She didn't love spiders, but she also knew they weren't her greatest fear and she doubted if she concentrated a ton on those that that was what the Boggart would transform into. Or did even a Boggart have limitations and it couldn't represent concepts? Because it was the concepts of loneliness or change (definitely change being the biggest) that really scared her. She was comfortable with the way life was, and as much as she fantasized about wanting changes in this form or that... they scared her a lot by being something new.

She supposed in addition to that, she was also scared that if she walked up to a Boggart it would change into Raju as a representation of changes. Considering he and Papa had just gotten back together, she wasn't really looking forward to having that particular image show up and cause misunderstandings that could potentially get to her siblings and then her father. She wasn't scared of Raju - he was nice as far as she could tell from the limited time they'd had thus far, and Papa was happy. But the change to the family dynamic was still... new and she was getting used to it and there were a lot of internalized insecurities that came with that.

... She was so lost on considering the things and having her own internal crisis, she entirely missed the spell direction process. In fact, she didn't pay attention again until she heard "Thanatos, Vera" called out which meant it was - unfortunately - her time. And she still had NO idea what to expect, and NO plan on how to get rid of it.

Lovely.

She considered telling Khanna no, she refused to participate. But then she was pretty sure she wouldn't know if the disappointment from them would be reality or Boggart because she didn't really like genuinely disappointing people either. So... instead she just stalled for a minute, taking a few deeeep breathes before starting towards where they were instructed to be. Standing as tall as she could, her shoulders squared back in an effort to look as brave as the Sorting Hat had seemed to think she could be, she waited.

What she definitely hadn't been expecting to see as her fear: was her therapist But then again, she supposed that was the room she was the most vulnerable and she did HATE that so... maybe that wasn't so far fetched. She quickly tried to scramble to find an image she could use to make this funny while anxiously awaiting to see what the Boggart would do. Or say.