 The REAL Sorting Hat: "Ravenclaw!" This monkey is bananas.
Ariana raised her hand, "Well, as for the Boggart, it is a classed 4 X's, which means it has to be handled by a specially trained witch/wizard. It can sense your deepest darkest fear. But I have one question about that...what if YOU yourself doesn't know what the fear is? What if you fear multiple things the same? I mean, let's say you fear death, hate, and pain at all the same mulititude, would it get confused, or would it know which one you fear more so than others?" she thought it sounded like a good question, but went on,
"As for SOAR: If you're in an area you know well, then you shouldn't have a problem with running or hiding. But if you're in an area you dont know well then you should quickly look around to see if there are any places to run or hide to. The opponent, in this case Bogggart, well it doesn't have any clothes or anything which you would easily be able to spot, just the being itself, we don't know what a Boggart really looks like when its hiding, waiting for its next victim. If you don't know what a Boggart is before encountering one, then you would have a problem but if you've been in school and know that the only way to repel a Boggart is by laughter than you should be fine if you don't freak out and scream when seeing your worst fear." she paused than gathering her thoughts,
"Abilities: Well, if you're a first year you'd be in trouble, unless someone has taught you the Riddikulus spell to repel the Boggart, the only thing you can really do is try to run as fast as possible. If you do know the spell and have been practising then you should be able to handle it. You should know your opponents abilities too; in this case its abilitiy is to show you your worst fear and make you terrified beyond belief. You should know what your fear is, how you can make it funny looking and say the spell correctly." she took another breath and finished,
"As for resources, like I said before the only resource you should really have at your disposal is a place to run if you can't fight the Boggart, your wand which should be in good shape, and your mind. Your mind is your greatest resource in this instance, as well with all instances as it has the spell and imagination you need to win. Your opponents reources are the fact it can sense your greatest fear and goes on to terrify you into submission. Oh, and make sure you have people with you; if there's a lot of people around the Boggart, it'll become confused and make it easier for you to defeat it.
"In closing I would say you should really think about what your greatest fear is now, when you don't have the chance to fight to know how you ould make it funny to beat it. I don't think any of us could beat a Boggart singlehandedly, it would take a great deal of laughter to finish it off." she finished proud of her answer. She thought it had been a good idea for her mother to show her a book about creatures before coming to school, she knew quite a bit about boggarts. Writing everything down, Ariana waited for the pracitcal part of the lesson; she only hoped it wouldn't be a Boggart.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAH ARI!!!
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