[HPforGrownups] RE: Boggarts, Harry, Dementors....

[S. G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 21691

Scott wrote:
>Boggarts-
>
>I think maybe someone already reponded, but one of the questions for
>the last chapter summeries was about whether Harry's boggart was
>still a dementor at the end of PoA? I'd assume yes since it was still
>a dementor and the third task in GoF. The lingering question is why.
>Why would the Dementor still be Harry's fear when he has the power of
>the patronus over it? We have to assume the Boggart can't change of
>over time, or to assume it can for that matter. So why in GoF is
>Harry still most afraid of the Dementor? Because even the patronus
>doesn't calm his fears? Because it was a fast moving section and JKR
>didn't feel like being very origninal or distracting to the plot at
>that point? Hmmm...

I assumed that this was because, as Lupin? (I think) put it, Harry's 
greatest fear was fear--which is represented by the Dementor, not the 
Dementor itself.

Sarah

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