博格特

博格特是一种很有趣的魔法生物。在黑魔法防御术的课堂上，卢平教授循循善诱地教会了孩子们制服博格特的方法。并且卢平教授并没有把这堂课上成一场枯燥的理论课，而是别出心裁地把理论与实践相结合，教给孩子们非常实用的咒语和魔法知识。看了这部分内容，越来越喜欢卢平了。因为他不光有扎实的魔法知识，同时还有着高尚的师德。面对记性不好又胆小如鼠的问题学生那威·隆巴顿，卢平没有像斯内普那样冷嘲热讽，而是十分小心地呵护着他的自尊，鼓励他勇敢地迈出第一步，从而使他获得了为数不多的成功体验，自卑的心理也得到了缓解。

‘Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces,’ said Professor Lupin.‘Wardrobes, the gap beneath beds, the cupboards under sinks – I once met one that had lodged itself in a grandfather clock.This one moved in yesterday afternoon, and I asked the Headmaster if the staff would leave it to give my third-years some practice

‘So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a Boggart?’Hermione put up her hand.‘It’s a shape-shifter,’ she said.‘It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.’

‘Couldn’t have put it better myself,’ said Professor Lupin, and Hermione glowed.‘So the Boggart sitting in the darkness within has not yet assumed a form.He does not yet know what will frighten the person on the other side of the door.Nobody knows what a Boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears.

‘This means,’ said Professor Lupin, choosing to ignore Neville’s small splutter of terror, ‘that we have a huge advantage over the Boggart before we begin.Have you spotted it, Harry?’Trying to answer a question with Hermione next to him, bobbing up and down on the balls of her feet with her hand in the air, was very off-putting, but Harry had a go.

‘Er – because there are so many of us, it won’t know what shape it should be?’

‘Precisely,’ said Professor Lupin, and Hermione put her hand down looking a little disappointed.‘It’s always best to have company when you’re dealing with a Boggart.He becomes confused.Which should he become, a headless corpse or a flesh-eating slug?I once saw a Boggart make that very mistake – tried to frighten two people at once and turned himself into half a slug.Not remotely frightening.‘The charm that repels a Boggart is simple, yet it requires force of mind.You see, the thing that really finishes a Boggart is laughter.

What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing.