heartbreaking moment / Was: Re: Longbottoms insanity/Thestrals/etc

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 68878

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ximena Valdivia" 
<xvaldivia at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "linlou43" <linlou43 at y...> 
> wrote:
> >  Marina replied:
> >  
> > > I think that when the others ran into the room, the boggart 
got 
> > > confused and began to switch (as PoA Lupin said it would when 
> > > confronted with multiple victims).  The image of dead Harry 
was 
> > > Sirius' boggart, not Molly's.  If the boggart had remained 
> focused 
> > > on Molly, Ginny would've been next.
> 
> I didn't though of that!!! Of course it could have been Sirius's 
> boggart, although that does not mean that it could have also trun 
> into HArry as Molly's boggart. After all Molly has said that loves 
> him as a son.

True.  And in fact, I think it's likely that if there are several 
people in a room, and two or more of them share the same fear, that 
would be the fear the boggart would naturally focus on.  So the dead 
Harry image could very well have been the boggart killing two birds 
with one stone.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com