OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 67684

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katy Cartee" <rainbow at r...> 
wrote:
> 
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> 3) Looking back at POA, when Lupin introduced the DADA class to 
Bogarts -
> does anyone else find it odd that the thing that Nevil feared most 
was
> Snape? After all he's been through, it wasn't Bellatrix or his 
Gran...it was
> Snape. I wonder what horrible memories he could have of old 
Snivvelus from
> years past?
> 

I believe it's because Neville didn't know what Bellatrix looked 
like so he couldn't produce a boggart that looked like her--at the 
time.  His Gran isn't mean to Neville, not really.  It might be a 
generational thing and, given what happened to his parents, over 
protective.  Snape, on the other hand, reduced Neville to a bowl of 
jelly (he's gone thru something like 5 or 6 cauldrons).

Now that I think of it, on a rather tangential bent, the two people 
Snape is most horrible to are Harry and Neville.  Is it because of 
the prophecy?  And he is trying to "toughen" them up and get them up 
to speed with potions so they're better prepared to deal with LV 
and/or the DEs?

Claire (thinking wine is nectar of the gods, but not necessarily 
condusive to rational thought)