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“Oh well, lucky we’ve got such a large supply of basilisk fangs, then,” said Ron. “I was wondering what we were going to do with them.”

“My fault!” said Fudge, coloring up. “Are you saying you would have caved in to blackmail like that?”

“Never.”

“Look at that, you lot…Potter fought! He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We'll try that again, Potter, and the rest of you, pay attention - watch his eyes, that's where you see it - very good, Potter, very good indeed! They'll have trouble controlling you!”

“No,” he said, smiting the table with his fist, “I do not. The boy

“Professor!” Harry bellowed. “Do something!”

“Nothing,” said Harry quickly, flattening his hair over his scar. If the Ministry of Magic was looking for him, he didn't want to make it too easy for them.

“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.

“Oh — right — here you are, then, Potter,” said Madam Hooch. “I'll sit over here with Weasley…”