FW: Your Boggart

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 1103

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> 
wrote:
> 
> In Prisoner of Azkaban, the boggart turns into whatever each 
student fears
> most.   [snip] What if you're afraid of something
> without physical form?  Suppose that Fear of Poverty was your 
biggest
> concern.  Would the boggart simply turn into an image of yourself 
starving
> in rags?  Would that actually strike FEAR into your heart at the 
sight, or
> would you rush forward in pity to help yourself?  Weird.  I never 
could come
> up with a satisfactory image that would succeed in frightening me, 
as the
> boggart would mean to do.


During the final exams in PoA, Hermiones boggart (IIRC) turns into 
Prof. McGonagal telling her that she has failed everything.  This, 
IMO, presents a solution to the above question, since Hermione is not 
afraid of McGonagal, rather of failing.  The boggart takes a form 
that communicates your fear directly or indirectly.  So if your 
greatest fear was of poverty, your boggart might turn into yourself 
in rags, as Sister M. suggested, or it might be a bill collector 
banging down your turn, or your landlord turning you out, or your 
children hungry and in rags, etc.
> 
> What would YOUR boggart look like?

Thats easy.  Like most PhD students, my greatest fear is that I will 
be working on this !@#)*&% dissertation until I die.  My boggart 
would be myself, age 90, in a wheelchair, working on the 317th draft 
of my dissertation at a desk in the old age home.