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|  Your Worst Nightmare | Not Riddikulus at All
SPOILER!!: Maria Quote:
Originally Posted by Nordic Witch  Maria blinked and swallowed, they clearly were going to be facing a boggart in the next couple of minutes. What was her worst fear? How did one know what they feared the most? She wondered thoughtfully. She disliked some creatures more than others Maria admitted to herself like seagulls, but if she feared them more than say losing a family member she didn't know.
Maria kept trying to figure out what her worst fear was as they moved on to practicing the wand movement and incantation for the boggart banishing charm. "Ridik-kull-us, Riddi-kul-lis, Rid-di-kull-lis!" she kept repeating to herself over and over. Then she unholstered her wand to practice the wand movement. Maria did her best to imitate the non-pointed cursive v symbol with two short lines on both sides like she had seen professor Khanna demostrate. She practiced it over and over until she felt she had a hang on it.
Taking her place in the line behind professor Khanna, Maria nervously licked her lips as she awaited her turn to face the boggart. "Maria!" Hearing her name, the fifth year badgerette stepped up to face the boggart gripping her wand tightly as she did so. In a matter of seconds she feared she'd be face to face with an enormus seagull.
The first human to face it and it sensed her fear. All the onlookers would see in this moment was the tip of a feathery wing poking out of this homey hidey-place. The full wing emerged at the same time as a foot. The beak and torso squeezed its way grotesquely out. The gigantic seagull now emerged and began advancing on the girl. Its eyes were fixated on her. It flared its wings to its magnificent length, each a span of eight feet. Without warning Boggart-Seagull lunged forward in an attempt to peck at the human with its beak. SPOILER!!: Kion Quote:
Originally Posted by Charely Potter
Thinking about his fear, Kion had a few up there. Mixed with his insecurities that he sometimes relied on friends and family for support. But his worst fear? It was hard to think as other than the Professor being intimidating for once he felt fairly comfortable where he resided and now had to feel uncomfortable. Though that was the point of the class to learn how to handle situations.
Quiet as ever to where he neglected the previous question, Kion imagined one of the few nightmares he had since his childhood years. During a magical history lesson, the Professor at his primary school introduced them to moving images of dangerous creatures and one of them settled into his dreams ever since. Though extremely rare, the thought of encountering this creature had goosebumps forming under his cloaked self. Erm.... But how to make a Nundu funny? Kion considered some thoughts, the spikes falling off, giving them a breath freshing pill, something... but the thoughts were interrupted as he had to practice the spell now.
Riddikulus.. okay, that sounded easy. Others mentioned it before. Kion first drew with his finger to trace out the shape. It sort of resembled a shrug but without the head and body to match it. Which made it easy for him to trace it out with his wand after while pronouncing it aloud. Though the Professor shouting at the students for mispronouncing it.... Hopefully, some boggarts didn't appear as him.
Now it was time to face the boggart. Kion blinked rapidly as he heard his girlfriend get called first. Where they had to unlink hands now. Maybe the Professor did notice how close they were for his name, "Kion Ingebretson" to be shouted next. So he gripped his wand trying to think about what he would do in the situation before stepping forward for his turn.
It changed immediately into a Giant Nundu the moment the boy approached. The great beast snarled ferociously and loudly enough for anyone to go weak in the knees. It’s eyes surveyed its prey with such cunning that it became quite clear the beast was deciding how best to scare the living daylights out of the boy. The Nundu took two steps forward. It basked liberally in the fear it absorbed from the human and from the sheer power it wielded. Without warning, the Nundu lunged. While it did so, it raised a front paw. The thing was ready to strike and to maul. SPOILER!!: Desiree Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Although Desiree wasn’t keen to see herself as a hideous beast or a dead relative, she had to admit she was rather eager to learn the Boggart Banishing Charm. Of course she’d read about the spell before but had never had a reason to use it. She listened intently, copying down the spell information in her notes. “Ri-di-KULL-lis, Ri-di-KULL-lis,” she practiced, trying to copy Professor Khanna’s pronunciation exactly. “Riddikulus…”
Then came the wand movement: the cursive V sort of shape. She thought it also looked a bit like an upside down shield or like a pair of arms about to give the boggart a hug. She wondered if either of those designs were intentional; some spells had wand movements that hinted at what the spell did. She might’ve asked Professor Khanna about it, had they seemed in a better mood, but she could always research it on her own later.
Desiree filed into the spare office with the rest of the group, her bright blue eyes darting toward the nook Professor Khanna pointed out. She gripped her wand tightly, mentally repeating the professor’s instructions as she awaited her turn. Face your fears, incantation and wand movement, make the fear amusing…
“Desiree Marchand!” She stepped forward at the sound of her name, mentally preparing to face herself as a monster or a family member’s corpse. What she saw instead was like a terrifying combination of the two! Her boggart took a gaunt, skeletal form with pale skin and telltale cloudy white eyes. An Inferius. It was tall and dark-haired with scars across one side of its face, and Desiree noticed a familiar chain tattoo on its arm. If an Inferius wasn’t scary enough, her blood ran cold as she realized who it was: her dad, Gaston Marchand, in Inferius form!
It felt your fear, human. It saw your fear, even if that fear was not one you expected to see. The Boggart-Inferius form of your beloved father stood before her. The Boggart twisted its sunk, gaunt face in an unpleasant manner: a leer of pure evil. Never in a million years did you think your father would look at you in such a manner, did you? Much like a Muggle zombie, the Boggart-Inferius stuck its arms out. It inched towards the human, quite intent on grabbing her. SPOILER!!: Vera Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelliephone 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.
The human may have thought the therapist her father ensured she chatted with often was scary during a one-on-one session but now? The Boggart transformed smoothly into the lady therapist who the young witch feared so much. Why though? Wasn’t her father only trying to help her overcome her discomforts? This wasn’t the Boggart’s problem. All that mattered was the fear it sensed. So. Much. Fear. The Boggart-Therapist’s mouth twisted into an unpleasant smile. “Now that Renner has found Raju, he doesn’t need you. Say goodbye to the family you know.” The voice seemed to echo eerily throughout the spare office in a very menacing manner.
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