Your Boggart and Our Man Snape

[Ken Waghorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 1156

Flying-Ford-Anglia wrote:
> 
> I realise that with Boggarts the whole point is to distil a fear of the
> unknown, death or failure into a physical object or situation, but my waking
> brain cannot come up with something that represents and elicits such
> feelings. If I chose, say, fear of public speaking (which might be a fear of
> failure), how on earth would that manifest itself as a Boggart?  It's really
> difficult to encapsulate a phobia like that. 

That one's easy -- a podium with a microphone on it!  That used to 
be one of my most dreaded things. Currently, my boggart would 
probably be a policeman showing up at my door to deliver some 
devastating news about the kids. I'll have to think up a good 
ridikulus (sp?) charm to use on that one. 

As far as the Mirror, I'd probably see a clutter free house -- ahh, 
that would be wonderful to have, just can't see getting there 
anytime soon! 

A quick change of subject, in order to reduce some of the volume 
of posts (it took over a week for me to catch up on the group after 
taking a three day holiday last week!):

Scott wrote:

> Everyone will probably hate me for this but it really is possible 
> that Snape is NOT on our team.  I mean Quirell could easily lie, 
and 
> Dumbledore has trusted those, like Quirell, who he probably 
shouldn't 
> have.  He might be our "moral compass", but he's not perfect.  
> Another thing is if Snape is working as a spy for Dumble and 
Voldy 
> suspects  nothing isn't it possible that the opposite could be 
true...
> 
> I know that none of the above is likely but hey we are talking 
about 
> JKR here and ANYTHING is possible...

I could see that as well.  I've read quite a few spy novels, and 
there's nothing quite as frustrating as a double agent, since you 
can never figure out exactly where their loyalties lie. Snape could 
be "ours" or he could be "V's", but my guess is he's probably 
somewhere in between.  It will definitely be exciting to watch the 
development of this character in the remaining books. 

Hound (as in grey) Fan
aka
Boston...
aka
Ken