Hermione's Greatest Fear

[Diana]

No: HPFGUIDX 87445

Crissy,
  
    You're right, of course.  The boggart just happened to head 
toward Harry first and Lupin, in a hurry to prevent what he thought 
would be the appearance of a boggart Voldemort, disposed of the 
creature quickly.  Lupin also didn't want to draw attention to the 
fact that he didn't give Harry a turn (to prevent a possible panic) 
because he didn't want the other students to realize that he was 
preventing Harry from facing the boggart.  
    As for Hermione, I have a feeling that JK Rowling delayed the 
revelation of her boggart-style 'greatest fear' so it would make a 
bigger, more humorous impact later on and so the other students 
wouldn't make fun of Hermione, which they certainly would have if 
her boggart had appeared in front of the class.  
    If Ron's habit of seeing the future in the form of offhand jokes 
continues through the last two books, every joke he utters will be 
scrutinized to pieces by HP4Grownups!  If it is a red herring, it's 
a great one, because it makes the books enjoyably re-readable!  

Diana L.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "crisagi1" <cristina at p...> 
wrote:
> 
> > 
> > So, what is Hermione's greatest fear, and why wouldn't Lupin 
allow
> > that to materialize in the classroom?  How would he know what her
> > greatest fear is?  Does it have something to do with her having
> > figured out that Lupin is a werewolf? (But I don't think Lupin 
> knows
> > that until later in the book.)
> 
> Actually Hermione tells everyone at the Shrieking Shack that she 
> realized Lupin was a werewolf after she wrote the essay for Snape 
on 
> the creatures.
> 
> Also, during her final examination, she had to face a boggart and 
it 
> turned into Prof. Mcgonnagal telling her she failed her subjects.
> 
> I don't think that Lupin purposefully didn't want her to face the 
> boggart.  It was heading straight for Harry and he didn't want the 
> class to see Voldermort.  It was just that a coincidence that she 
> was farther from the creature than Harry.  There is also the 
theory 
> that Ron is a seer.  Ron makes lots of jokes that later on turn 
out 
> to be true.  You can research them in other posts.  This might 
have 
> been another one of JKR's red herrings.
> 
> Crissy