The Boggart Game

[Upside Down Eagle]

I propose a new game that was inspired by the "Wish Game with a Twist" thread. I imagine most of you have read Harry Potter books or seen the movies. Even if you didn't though, you could understand and participate in this one. I'll explain the idea:

Neville Longbottom is scared to death of Snape. At one point, they have an Defense Against the Dark Arts class. There's some rattling in the cabinet and loud noises as they all enter the classroom, and professor Remus Lupin explains that there's a Boggart hiding in the cabinet. A Boggart is a creature that will take the shape of the thing you fear most, when it is confronted with you personally.

Remus decides to use the Boggart for practice and releases it against it students, one by one. He tells them to picture something ridiculous in their heads when they are confronted by this thing. Neville imagines his grandmother's clothing: and after some effort, he sees Snape dressed in women's clothing, with a giant vulture hat on his head!

I'd like to practice this idea. We all have things that we are terrified of, and with good reason. Making them silly will help us take them a little bit less seriously and have a laugh! So the idea is to share something that scares you, but are comfortable enough with to share here. The next person will unleash their fantasy upon it and make it into something less threathening. And so on.

I'll start: I am frequently scared of people who walk behind me. Go! ;)

 

[digger]

Riddikulus! All the people walking behind you are forced to moonwalk and so the closer they try to come to you the further away they actually get. :)

Okay, I have lots of very (seemingly) random things I am scared of, or things that I go to lengths to avoid at least....decisions, decisions!

The boggart turns into.....maggots....

 

[Julesnaz]

Riddikulus! The maggots turn into dancing spaghetti doing the tango.

Hmm...I don't know if you can turn one into something so ill do 2. I get really uncomfortable when strangers get too close to me or touch me and spiders haha.

 

[Moony]

hmmm how could I not take part in this..

Ok,everytime a stranger is too close for comfort, they suddenly find themselves naked and have to run off and find clothes. Maybe while being chased off by spiders :P

Well I'm scared of losing the person I love...

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

Your replies are really creative!! I couldn't have come up with the moonwalkers. Now everytime somebody's behind me, I'm just going to picture that and I'll bet I'll be too busy giggling for my mind to be apprehensive.

Moony, the boggart takes shape of your loved one walking away. You raise your wand... now the whole ground is covered with fart cushions. Your loved one starts to laugh, remembering why he/she wanted to be with you in the first place :)

My next boggart features me in the future: still not graduated from university :eek:

 

[Moony]

Haha I know that feeling. I'm in my final year and terrified I'll just fail everything.

Ok, you see yourself in the future, with a PhD...and a distinction at that! You've already graduated twice over :)

My other boggart could be me having graduated and never being able to find a job. Pretty scared of that at the minute too :P

 

[Storm-ridden]

Riddikulus! You've graduated at the top of your class and have 3 companies trying to get you to sign right out of school, all fighting over which company gets to hire you. :tup:

Hmmm, I've got a lot of boggarts.. One that keeps bothering me is seeing one of my ex's come up and start accusing me of making all my PTSD up and acting like they never did anything wrong.

 

[digger]

Riddikulus! Everytime your ex comes up, everything they ever did wrong is written all over their face. Literally. With a Sharpie, and they have to run away to go scrub it off! ;)

The boggart turns into... a room stacked floor to ceiling full of paperwork...

 

[Abstract]

Riddikulus! One of the stacks turns into ... a giant size shredder in a bowler hat :cp: that chases and then gulps down the stacks...leaving your room empty and peaceful...except for the shredder in the bowler hat who now has a stomach ache!

The boggart appears before me and turns into... an angry red face.

 

[Tei-Saji]

Riddikulus! The angry red face turns into a balloon featured in the Airheads candy commercials and floats away.

The boggart appears before me as a short-haired Asian man who likes torturing special kids.

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

Riddikulus! The Asian man becomes a mole, the ones that live underground. Except he is a special mole so he has trouble getting around without help from good moles. He digs deeper and deeper into the earth, becomes a fossil, and is extracted much (much) later as fossil fuel. xD

The boggart now appears before me (after having floated around pretty long) and takes the shape of.... being stuck, always being on disability and never getting anywhere in life.

 

[Anarchy]

Riddikulus! you ground, not all the time but more and more often, you get that Cv/ resume out to possible employers, again, not every day, perhaps not every week, but often enough.

sure, you don't hear back from most of them, and Poof! the boggart reappears as letters and emails saying "your details will be kept on file (the small round basket one beside the door)" or the "we have had some very high quality applicants (but we're not calling you in for interview)"...

Riddikulus! the boggart turns from a hurtful rejection letter into a bicycle, and it's a clear sunny day, so you ride the bugger around looking for places you might want to work.

Riddikulus! you keep the bugger as a bicycle, you're not finished with it yet, however much it resents you riding it.
a bribe consisting of a packet of chocolate buscuits at morning or afternoon coffee time gets you through the doors of some of those places, and charms the dragons on the reception desks, you get fifteen or 20 minutes to chat with the people working there and find out how well they like their jobs and the bosses, and how well you like the people you are meeting. Some of them promise to ask their boss if they are looking for someone to take on. You leave a card with the dragon on reception, and ring her back a few days later.

Poof! the boggart appears in your email inbox as an invitation for an "informal chat" that you know is anything but "informal".