[HPforGrownups] Re: Question about Boggarts (WAS: About Werewolves)

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> Sherry Garfio wrote:
> My question, then, is this: If Harry is affected as though the 
> Boggart were a real Dementor, why isn't Lupin affected as though the 
> Boggart were the real moon?
> 

 Snuffles:
Perhaps, the Bogart does affect people as thier greatest fear would.. 

Me:
This is exactly the point, a Boggart transform into something that scares
you out of your wits, in front of the Boggart you should panic because you
see what you fear most ( I wonder if one is frightened by something abstract
like 'pain' or 'heights', like I am, what the Boggart would turn into).
Lupin is not affected by Moon!Boggart because it's not fear that make him
transform but the real influence of the moon, the same influence that works
on the tide. 
The kids in the DADA class react with fear to the Boggart, Ron in clearly
panicking but then regains control and casts the Riddikulus, when Hermione
finally faces the Boggart she goes all irrational and runs away crying
because that's what fear does, not what McGonagall dos.
 So Harry should *not* be affected by Dementor!Boggart as by a real Dementor
BUT if you remember,  just  thinking about his first encounter with D gives
him the chilling sensation that caused him to faint on the train, whatsmore
when he tells Lupin that his Boggart would have turned into a D Lupin said
that that meant that his greatest fear is fear itself, meaning ( well,
actually it's probably better to say 'implying') that D e B are somewhat
related as both kind of 'represent ' fear but in different degrees, D being
some dozens time worse than B. I guess this explains why Harry experience
the real sensation given by a D.

R.