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((OOC: Okay so we’re listening to the Harry Potter audio books on this trip and we just started Order of the Phoenix and came to the part where Molly tries to get rid of the boggart that keeps turning into her family members but dead. And something really sad hit me.

Imagine that this is what a boggart turns into in front of you. And at some point you accept that you might randomly see your loved ones sprawled on the floor in places where a boggart would move in, but as soon as you say “riddikulus” it turns into something hilarious and the sad image is gone.

Then one day you come home and there, in the middle of the living room, is your SO laying on the floor starring wide eyed at the ceiling and you sigh and shout through the house; ‘when did a boggart move in?’. You take out your wand, picture the hilarious image, but when you say “ridikkulus” – nothing happens.))