| Defense Against the Dark Arts |
| Hello, students. I am Professor Lita, your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and it is very nice to meet you! I hope you'll have a fantastic time in this class. However, any foolishness will get points taken away or a detention. Well, let's get on to the lesson. Please put your wands away and turn to page 3 in, The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection. Please read the passage, Kappas and Boggarts. It is four paragraphs, not very long, please read it quietly to yourself while I read it out loud. |
| The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection |
| Chapter 1: Dark Creatures A boggart is a shape shifter that prefers to live in dark, confined spaces, taking the form of the thing most feared by the person it encounters; nobody knows what a boggart looks like in its natural state. A boggart appears to feed on the emotion of fear rather than simply deploying this ability as a defense mechanism, hence its classification as a Dark Creature. Many Muggle children may have encountered boggarts as "the monster under the bed." A kappa is a water-dweller resembling a scaly monkey with webbed hands, a kappa will grab and strangle waders in its pond. The kappa is commonly found in Mongolia, but the Care of Magical Creatures textbook states that the kappa is a Japanese creature. |
| Chapter 1: Dark Creatures A boggart is a shape shifter that prefers to live in dark, confined spaces, taking the form of the thing most feared by the person it encounters; nobody knows what a boggart looks like in its natural state. A boggart appears to feed on the emotion of fear rather than simply deploying this ability as a defense mechanism, hence its classification as a Dark Creature. Many Muggle children may have encountered boggarts as "the monster under the bed." A kappa is a water-dweller resembling a scaly monkey with webbed hands, a kappa will grab and strangle waders in its pond. The kappa is commonly found in Mongolia, but the Care of Magical Creatures textbook states that the kappa is a Japanese creature. |