Boggarts, was Re: Susan Cooper (OT)

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 6334

In reference to the discussion below, does anyone know if boggarts 
appear in literature other than in the HP books and the Cooper book?  
If so, what characteristics do they generally have?  Are they more 
like JKRs boggarts or more like Coopers?  Clearly, they are not well-
defined mythological beasts like dragons and ghosts and unicorns.

--Joywitch

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Blaise " <blaise_writer at h...> 
wrote:
> Peg wrote:  
> 
> > This is somewhat OT: I took my girls to the library today and 
> > while there picked a copy of Susan Cooper's _The Boggart_.  What 
> I've 
> > gathered from the jacket flap is that it's about a family who 
picks
> > up a boggart (by which Cooper seems to mean a prankster spririt, 
a 
> > sort of Robin Good character) but the family has mistakenly taken 
> it 
> > back across the Atlantic.  So now the boggart is in the States 
and 
> > trying to figure out (and use for its pranks) electricity and 
> > computers.
> > 
> > Anybody read this?  I have not read Cooper's work although I 
> > understand her to be well respected--She's won the Newbery Award.
> > 
> > Peg
> 
> Yes, I certainly have read this and loved it.  The Boggart is, as 
you 
> noted, not at all like the Boggart Lupin teaches the 3rd years to 
> fight (see, this is on topic really!), but is a Puck-like figure 
> which gradually learns to deal with modern technology.  She manages 
> the clash between magic and technology very well.  It's a good 
book, 
> and I do recommend it strongly, as I do Cooper's other books, 
> esp. 'The Dark Is Rising' sequence.  I hope you enjoy it!    
> 
> -Blaise, pleased that the Christmas holidays have begun.