Most of the fifth-year students were very focused on their O.W.L.s and took the Boggart practice extremely seriously. Regardless of whether banishing a Boggart would appear on the practical exam again, they were not going to gamble with their grades.
After all, the precedent set by the previous two years was enough to prove the importance of mastering the Boggart-banishing spell, and goodness knows if their own year would be tested on it as well.
With the experience gained from the previous meeting in dealing with Boggarts, most of the fifth-years came fully prepared and easily repelled the Boggart in the box with a "Riddikulus."
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