Hermione and the boggart

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Erin" <puddin210 at h...> wrote:
> We all know why Lupin chose not to have Harry face the boggart in 
> class, but why did he not allow Hermione to tackle it? I assumed 
that 
> her greatest fear would be the fact that she uses a Time-Turner 
> getting out, and therefore the boggart would give her away, but is 
> her use of the Time-Turner common knowledge among the staff? And if 
> that isn't the case, why does Lupid avoid her? Does anyone else 
have 
> any thoughts?
> 
> Erin, brand-spankin' new

I agree with the responses so far, but also have a follow-up 
question.  Lupin's final exam involved facing a boggart, and Hermione 
seems to have had trouble with it.  Does this suggest that Defense 
Against the Dark Arts, which requires quick response under extreme 
pressure, is not her strongest suit?  Or was the exam unfair, since 
Hermione was the only person in the class not to have faced a boggart 
previously (since harry got tutoring) and therefore unlike the others 
did not know what form it would take?  It would have been especially 
difficult for her to figure this out in advance because her greatest 
fear is failure, which unlike the things feared by the other students 
is abstract.  Back to Erin's question, one possibility is that Lupin 
was somehow aware of the fact that she would be unable to prepare her 
defense in advance.  However, as it was the first class it is 
unlikely that Lupin knew enough about her to know that.  The other 
point is that Harry and Hermione's fears (even if you assumed that 
Lupin's assumption that Harry feared Voldemort most) are much more 
real-life, or adult-like than the other students' fears.  Most of the 
other students' fears sound like they have read too many ghost 
stories.

Hermione1956 - total newbie here