Boggart

Kaitlin ReinaKata02 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 9 23:51:47 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 1245

My boggart would be CHRISTINA AGUILERA singing "What a Girl Wants"!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!  <runs away screaming>
~Kaitlin

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<linsenma at h...> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I'll give the same answer I gave when Sister Mary brought up this 
topic
> on HogwartsAdultSchool --
> 
> The boggart question is easy for me: it would turn into a palmetto 
bug,
> which is a large (2-3 inches) flying cockroach common to the Gulf 
States
> in southeastern U.S.  They honestly have a wing span that would 
remind
> you of a small bird, and they are the foulest creatures on this 
earth as
> far as I'm concerned.  They are *huge* and very erratic &
> unpredictable.  My husband swears that my "I've just seen a roach"
> scream is very similar to someone's "I'm about to be murdered" 
scream.
> It's a lifelong fear, and interestingly, my sister had the same
> immediate response when I posed the "what would a boggart turn into 
if
> it saw you" question to her.
> 
> I agree with Margaret -- anyone who thought SS wasn't sophisticated
> didn't read very closely.  The Mirror of Erised question is tougher 
(and
> perhaps more personal to many).  I'll give it some thought.
> 
> Penny





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