The Boggart dutifully played the role of a "Dementor," drifting back and forth beside Wizet and continuing to emit chilling "huh-huh" sounds.
Unaffected by the Boggart, Wizet paced slowly before the blackboard, his calm gaze sweeping over the students and guests present.
"The Boggart-Banishing Charm and the Patronus Charm are the spells used to counter these two kinds of Dark magical creatures."
"Let's begin with the Boggart-Banishing Charm. It requires us to use our imaginations—to imagine the things we fear as something ridiculous, and drive the Boggart away with happiness and laughter..."
"The Patronus Charm, meanwhile, requires us to concentrate and recall a memory that was either your happiest or most inspiring, using it as the foundation to drive away Dementors..."
As Wizet spoke, the circle of students closest to him had in fact been affected to some extent. At first, they could vaguely feel a bone-deep chill, followed by the sensation of their hairs standing on end.
Yet that piercing cold quickly took on a different quality. As Wizet continued his explanation, the "Dementor" played by the Boggart no longer seemed terrifying to those students.
To them, the cloaked figure drifting through the air now looked more like a giant black pet, eager to show off, wagging itself about in search of attention.
Once this thought surfaced in some students' minds, the corners of their mouths began to rise uncontrollably. They had to exert considerable effort to hold back their laughter.
When the Boggart changed from a balloon into a Dementor, the guests were completely certain of their earlier judgment.
Wizet truly possessed exceptionally advanced Occlumency, or he would not have been able to mislead the Boggart so easily.
They had also seen for themselves that a relatively troublesome Dark magical creature like a Boggart could be turned into