Snape and the Boggart class--Snape's fear

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

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bethg2 at yahoo.com writes:
> When I the boggart scene I felt Snape had another reason entirely for 
> leaving the room quickly. There is no way that Severus Snape would 
> want his greatest fear revealed to his students, or anyone else for 
> that matter. It doesn't really matter what Snape Theory you subscribe 
> to for this to be true. Whether his biggest fear was Voldemort, a 
> dementor, Crouch as a MOM judge, or anything else you can imagine it 
> would reveal too much about him for Snape, or JKR, to want it out in 
> the open at this point. 
> 

Good job, Beth--great minds must think alike.  I just went through all the 
follow-up posts to see if anyone else suggested that before I posted.  It was 
certainly the first thought that came to my mind as to why Snape did not want 
to be there when the boggart was released.  Has anyone considered that 
Snape's biggest fear may be Lupin as a werewolf?  I'm sure seeing the 
werewolf was quite traumatizing for young Snape, and our biggest fears do 
tend to stem from some childhood experience (e.g. Ron's fear of spiders).

But as someone pointed out, the original question is why he was in the 
staffroom, not why he left.  I don't have any great theories for this.  
Possibly Snape went in there to sit so he *could* be alone, thinking no one 
else would come in there because of the boggart.  Or, it would make sense (I 
think someone suggested this already) that they wanted one staff member at 
least to stay in there and make sure the boggart didn't escape, and as Snape 
has a free period during that time, he was asked to guard it.

Audra


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