Recent content by Charles Abberline

''Oh, yes, that's right.'' Charles couldn't blame himself for forgetting that she would soon leave the country to travel around a bit, but it made him appreciate the fact that she'd made time for this session even more. ''Good, because I've made quite a bit of progress since we last saw each...

Some of the boss fights in this game were phenomenal and way better done than in Fallen Order!

In the weeks between their sessions, Charles had practised as much as he could. It often proved to be more of a challenge than expected, having three new classes to teach was always going to have a priority over his ambition to become an animagus, but so long as he was making progress towards...

Charles was sure that Harper knew exactly what he had wanted to say. Even though she was of age, he couldn't help but want to pretend to be a responsible adult. And adults didn't necessarily encourage their former students to seek out pubs and other establishments that served alcoholic...

''For starters, it was built during the tenth century. It's a 1068-year-old building filled with ancient magic which stood its ground during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998.'' Its history still intrigued the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor to this day. And while he was very weary of...

Charles didn't know what to think of this practical portion of the Potions exam. It was bad enough that it was asking the impossible of students, but the fact that it hadn't changed in nearly ten years' time, well, he could only hope that his own Defence Against the Dark Arts exams didn't face...

Amused that Genevieve found the boggart in the drawer 'cool', Charles nodded in agreement. Whilst he did not have any trouble dealing with boggarts, he knew that not many people would describe attempting to move a boggart as 'cool' given the nature of these spiritous apparitions. And with the...

Charles smiled as June told him that she couldn't wait for her second-year classes. It was during moments like this that he wished that he was an accomplished legilimens, to be able to see into her mind and find out where she wanted to go with this conversation. Not that it would matter much...

Charles couldn't help but chuckle when June said that his teachings succeeded her expectations. It wasn't very difficult to notice what she was trying to do but it didn't matter much to him. As long as she was taking the course seriously, which she seemed to do, and didn't practice any spells...

Charles had to admit to himself that he wasn't really sure what Yuelia's boggart was supposed to be. That did not, however, stop him from understanding the underlying message as he watched how the boggart put a doll, that looked an awful lot like the Slytherin in his office, in the cage it was...

Charles smiled brightly when Harper answered his question, happy to hear that she'd gotten all O's on her final exams. ''Well done, congratulations!'' Getting all O's wasn't a particularly easy thing to accomplish but he reckoned that it didn't surprise him much, she wanted to join the very top...

Charles smiled as June explained why she had come to his office. His inclusion of the General Counter-Spell on the mid-semester test, a spell they wouldn't cover until next year, was done deliberately to see who had a knack for Defence Against the Dark Arts and who hadn't. It didn't matter...

''There's no need to thank me, I fully understand not wanting to face the boggart while others are around. It's not often that we are being confronted with our greatest fears, after all.'' Charles tried to be as reassuring as he could in the hope that it would take away some tension. ''I was...

Charles waved Harper's worried look away with a wide smile. They didn't really have something to worry about, it was just that he was going to focus solely on small transfigurations from now on. Well, that itself was something one could worry about a lot, but he didn't feel the need to do so...

Charles couldn't say that he was surprised that someone wanted to face the boggart in private. While no one had done so during his first year as the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the lower years, he reckoned that it was bound to happen eventually. No one was waiting to face off...